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Emma Johansson

Johansson at the 2016 Swedish National Road Race Championships
Personal information
Full name	Emma Karolina Johansson
Nickname	Silver Emma
Born	(1983-09-23) 23 September 1983 (age 41) Sollefteå, Sweden
Height	1.67 m
Weight	58 kg
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Major wins
Stage races Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen (2011, 2013, 2015) Emakumeen Euskal Bira (2013, 2016) Belgium Tour (2015) One day races National Road Race Championships (2010–2012, 2014–2016) National Time Trial Championships (2005, 2007–2008, 2012–2016) Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio (2014) Ronde van Drenthe (2009) Other UCI World Ranking (2013)

Emma Karolina Johansson (born 23 September 1983) is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist. Nicknamed Silver Emma, Johansson accumulated many second and third places at major championships and one-day classics. In 2013 she finished the year as number one on the UCI Women's World Ranking.

She won the silver medal in the women's road race at both the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as one silver and two bronze medals at the Road World championships. She also holds a record four podium finishes at the Tour of Flanders for Women, with one second and three third places. Despite her amassing of podium places, she won several one-day races, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ronde van Drenthe, Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio, Omloop van het Hageland, Le Samyn and the Holland Hills Classic.

Johansson was also successful in stage races. She won the Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen three times, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira twice and the Belgium Tour once. In addition, she won one stage in the 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile and finished in the top ten in all three of her Giro d'Italia Femminile participations.

Biography

Emma Johansson in 2005

Early life and amateur career

Emma Johansson was born in Sollefteå, in northern Sweden. She engaged in cross-country skiing with the Sollefteå Ski Club at an early age, before taking an interest in mountainbiking through her older brother. She trained on military training fields, close to her house, which offered dirt roads and illuminated trails. She won her first silver medal in 1996, at the age of 12, at the Swedish national mountainbike championships in Uddevalla.

2008

Johansson's breakthrough year was 2008. She signed with AA-Drink Cycling Team and had a successful spring classics campaign, claiming third place at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, 7th at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and 9th in the Tour of Flanders. On 10 August, Johansson won the silver medal in the women's road race at the Beijing Olympics. She followed an attack by Tatiana Guderzo, at 13 kilometres (8.1 miles) from the finish, which brought her in the lead group with Nicole Cooke, Christiane Soeder and Linda Villumsen. Cooke won the event in the five-woman sprint, Johansson claimed the silver ahead of Guderzo. Three day later, she placed 21st in the women's time trial.

After the Summer Olympics, she claimed the general classification of the Trophée d'Or Féminin after she won the fifth stage in a six-woman breakaway. At the World Championships Road Race in Florence, Johansson was again in a winning five-woman breakaway after she followed an attack of Marianne Vos. The race, like the Olympic road race, was won by Nicole Cooke, who beat Vos in the sprint. Johansson finished fourth.

2009

After finishing second in the 2009 Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and third in Ronde van Vlaanderen, she won the Ronde van Drenthe and took the overall lead of the UCI Women's Road World Cup, a lead which she kept after another second place in La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. Johansson was the second Swedish cyclist to wear the UCI World Cup leader jersey after Susanne Ljungskog.

Post-2009

At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the women's road race finishing 6th and in the women's time trial finishing 14th.

In August 2015, it was announced that Johansson would join Wiggle High5 on a two-year deal.

Personal life

On 8 January 2011, she married the former Norwegian cyclist Martin Vestby [sv], who is also her personal manager. They live in Zingem, Belgium, and have two children.

Major results

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General classification timelines

Johansson at the 2015 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen; she won the race for the third time in five years, equalling Judith Arndt's record of overall race victories.

Classics results timelines

Major championships timelines

Major championships timeline
Event		2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Olympic Games	Time trial	Not held		—	Not held			21	Not held			14	Not held			—
	Road race			—				2				6				2
World Championships	Time trial	—	—	—	—	—	26	14	—	11	14	12	10	—	17	—
	Road race	—	—	—	100	63	6	4	11	3	14	9	2	3	5	49
National Championships	Time trial	5	—	6	1	4	1	1	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1
	Road race	—	—	4	7	4	6	2	5	1	1	1	2	1	1	1

See also

In Spanish: Emma Johansson para niños