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CYCLING –ROAD
Finnish cyclists were first seen at the Olympic Games in Stockholm 1912, where Antti Raita finished sixth and the Finnish team
fifth in the 320-kilometre road race. A hundred years later these still remain the best results of Finnish Olympic cycling. Tea
Vikstedt-Nyman finished sixth in women’s road time trial in Atlanta 1996. In track cycling the best Finnish Olympic achieve-
ments are Vikstedt-Nyman’s seventh places in pursuit in 1992 and in points race in 1996.
WOMEN
Lotta Lepistö
* 28 June 1989 Noormarkku
Present residence: Girona (Spain)
164 cm, 58 kg
Team: Cervélo-Bigla Pro Cycling
Coach: Tommi Martiskainen
Events: Road race, time trial
Lotta Lepistö joined the Swiss professional cycling team Bigla in 2014 and in August of that year scored her best
international result so far, third place at Sparkassen Giro in Bochum, Germany. She finished fourth in the same race
in 2015, and the year 2016 has already seen her win a stage in the Aviva Womens Tour in England. Lotta will make
her Olympic debut after qualifying comfortably through the UCI ranking, even if the steep profile of the road race
in Rio does not favour natural sprinters like her. Lotta used to compete in athletics, swimming and triathlon in her
junior years before concentrating on cycling.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
2013 WCh dnf road race.
2014 WCh dnf road race, 28th time trial.
2015 WCh 40th road race, 32nd time trial.
Tommi Martikainen
Coach
Kimmo Kananen
Mechanic
Team Management