Emma Pooley

Emma Pooley

Pooley on the podium after winning the 2017 Ventouxman triathlon
Personal information
Full name	Emma Jane Pooley
Born	(1982-10-03) 3 October 1982 (age 41) Wandsworth, England, United Kingdom
Height	1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)[1]
Team information
Discipline	Road
Rider type	Climber, time trialist
Amateur team
2005	Cambridge University CC
Professional teams
2006	Team FBUK
2007–2008	Team Specialized Designs for Women
2009–2010	Cervélo TestTeam
2011	Garmin–Cervélo
2012	AA Drink–leontien.nl
2013	Bigla Cycling Team
2014	Lotto–Belisol Ladies
2016	Lotto–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 2008 Beijing Time trial UCI Road World Championships 2010 Melbourne Time trial 2011 Copenhagen Time trial Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Time trial 2014 Glasgow Road race Representing AA Drink–leontien.nl UCI Road World Championships 2012 Limburg Team Time trial Women's duathlon Representing  Great Britain ITU Long Distance Duathlon World Championships[2] 2014 Zofingen Individual 2015 Zofingen Individual 2016 Zofingen Individual 2017 Zofingen Individual ETU Middle Distance Duathlon European Championships[2] 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.