SCREEN CAPTUREU.S. cyclist Coryn RIvera in an earlier race.
It’s been 37 years since U.S. women’s cycling won an Olympic medal in the road race. Now they will have to wait another three years to try again in Paris 2024. Expect Filipino American Coryn Rivera to be battling for a spot on Team USA.
On another hot day in Japan, the United States' top sprinter, Rivera battled to seventh place behind surprise winner Anna Kiesenhofer from Austria in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 women’s cycling road race. Rivera rode a savvy race, but the heat and humidity got to her in the end. |
| CORYN RIVERA |
She turned professional at age 16 and has amassed a total of 72 US National Championships in four different cycling disciplines; road, track, cyclocross, and mountain bike. An astonishing 72 US National titles from the beginning of her career starting in the junior category, to collegiate, to U23, and now the professional category.
Rivera's latest and most prestigious title was wining the 2018 US Pro Road Race National Championships in National, Tennessee. She has competed at the highest levels of the sport such as Elite and Junior World Championships, UCI Women's World Tour, Track World Cups, UCI Road World Cups, and Pan American Championships. And is the first ever American, Male or Female, to win the Tour of Flanders, also known as De Ronde Van Vlaanderen.
She races professionally for UCI Women's World Tour: Team Sunweb and is part of the 2017 UCI Team Time Trial World Champion Team, winning the Gold Medal with her teammates in Bergen, Norway. Off the Bike, she is an alumni of Marian University where she graduated in 2015 with a bachelors degree in business marketing with a concentration in entrepreneurship.
Rivera's latest and most prestigious title was wining the 2018 US Pro Road Race National Championships in National, Tennessee. She has competed at the highest levels of the sport such as Elite and Junior World Championships, UCI Women's World Tour, Track World Cups, UCI Road World Cups, and Pan American Championships. And is the first ever American, Male or Female, to win the Tour of Flanders, also known as De Ronde Van Vlaanderen.
She races professionally for UCI Women's World Tour: Team Sunweb and is part of the 2017 UCI Team Time Trial World Champion Team, winning the Gold Medal with her teammates in Bergen, Norway. Off the Bike, she is an alumni of Marian University where she graduated in 2015 with a bachelors degree in business marketing with a concentration in entrepreneurship.
“I’m pretty happy with it for my first Olympics,” added the racer, a resident of Newport Beach, CA. “After everything, I can be pretty satisfied.”
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