Emma Pooley

Emma Pooley
Pooley on the podium after winning the 2017 Ventouxman triathlon
Personal information
Full nameEmma Jane Pooley
Born (1982-10-03) 3 October 1982 (age 42)
Wandsworth, England, United Kingdom
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Team information
DisciplineRoad
Rider typeClimber, time trialist
Amateur team
2005Cambridge University CC
Professional teams
2006Team FBUK
2007–2008Team Specialized Designs for Women
2009–2010Cervélo TestTeam
2011Garmin–Cervélo
2012AA Drink–leontien.nl
2013Bigla Cycling Team
2014Lotto–Belisol Ladies
2016Lotto–Soudal Ladies
Major wins
Stage Races
Tour de l'Aude (2010)
Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale (2009)
Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol (2010)
Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche (2011, 2012)
Tour languedoc roussillon feminin (2013)
Tour de Bretagne Féminin (2008)

Single-Day Races

World Time Trial Championships (2010)
UCI Women's Road World Cup
Trofeo Alfredo Binda (2008, 2011)
Coupe du Monde de Montréal (2009)
GP de Plouay (2009, 2010)
La Flèche Wallonne Féminine (2010)
UCI Single Day Races
Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs (2010)
Grand Prix De Suisse (2010)
Gp Costa Etrusca – Giro Dei Comuni Rosignano-livorno (2009)
National Road Race Champion
(2010)
National Time Trial Champion
(2009, 2010, 2014)
Medal record
Women's road bicycle racing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Time trial
UCI Road World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Melbourne Time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Copenhagen Time trial
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Time trial
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow Road race
Representing AA Drink–leontien.nl
UCI Road World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Limburg Team Time trial
Women's duathlon
Representing  Great Britain
ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships[2]
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zofingen Individual
Gold medal – first place 2015 Zofingen Individual
Gold medal – first place 2016 Zofingen Individual
Gold medal – first place 2017 Zofingen Individual
ETU Middle Distance Duathlon European Championships[2]
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sankt Wendel Individual

Emma Jane Pooley (born 3 October 1982)[3] is a British-Swiss athlete in multiple sports. A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races, she later transferred to endurance running, duathlon and triathlon, and was four-times world champion in long-distance duathlon. She competes in long-distance and uphill mountain running and has represented Switzerland at the world trailrunning championships.

She won an Olympic silver medal in the time trial in 2008 and was world time trial champion in 2010. She has won six UCI Women's Road World Cup one-day races, as well as several stage races including the ten-day Tour de l'Aude. She is three-times a British time trial champion and in 2010 also won the British road race championships.

Pooley retired from professional cycling after the 2014 Commonwealth Games to concentrate on triathlon, duathlon and long-distance running, having won the Lausanne Marathon and the Swissman triathlon the previous year. She went on to win the ITU Powerman Duathlon World Championships at Powerman Zofingen in September 2014[4] and again in 2015. On 16 December 2015,[5] Pooley announced that she would be returning temporarily to cycling, seeking to qualify to represent Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, as she felt the unusually mountainous time trial course on offer played to her strengths.[6][7]

In June 2016, Pooley came out of retirement and re-signed for her former team, Lotto–Soudal Ladies, in time for the 2016 Giro Rosa.[8] After racing in the Olympic time trial and road race she returned to duathlon with two further world championship titles at ITU Powerman Duathlon World Championships at Powerman Zofingen in September 2016 and 2017 as well as a European middle-distance duathlon title in 2017.

Pooley was a founding member of Le Tour Entier, which campaigned for a Women's Tour de France and improvements to women's cycling generally.

  1. ^ "Athletes: Emma Pooley". london2012.com. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Athlete Profile: Emma Pooley". Triathlon.org. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Emma Pooley". Cycling Website. Archived from the original on 20 October 2008.
  4. ^ Thompson, Anna (9 September 2014). "Emma Pooley wins the world duathlon title at first attempt". Switzerland: BBC News. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  5. ^ Pooley announces return for Rio from bbc.co.uk/sport
  6. ^ Charles, Andy (17 December 2015). "Emma Pooley interested in road racing return for 2016 Olympic Games". Sky Sports. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  7. ^ Dickinson, Matt (16 December 2015). "Shot at Olympic glory tempts Emma Pooley out of retirement". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Pooley signs with Lotto Soudal Ladies". 22 June 2016.