THOMAS Leah

United States of America

Date of Birth: 30 May 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.65/5'4''

Place of birth: CUPERTINO, CA

Birth Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Cycling Road	Women's Road Race	29

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Fuji International Speedway	Women's Road Race	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

UCI Road World Championships

Year	Location	Road Race	Individual Time Trial	Team Time Trial
2019	Harrogate, GBR	38	7	-
2018	Innsbruck, AUT	DNF	5	-
2016	Doha, QAT	-	-	5
2015	Richmond, VA, USA	-	-	5

Ten best performances in major races in career

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
3	2020	Road Race	Strade Bianche	Siena, ITA
5	2016	Women's Individual	Tour of California	Sacramento, CA, USA
8	2019	Women's Individual	The Women's Tour	Pembrey, GBR
8	2018	Women's Individual	Tour of California	Sacramento, CA, USA
9	2018	Women's Individual	Boels Ladies Tour	Roosendaal, NED
10	2019	Women's Individual	Boels Ladies Tour	Arnhem, NED
10	2017	Women's Individual	Tour of California	Sacramento, CA, USA
11	2021	Road Race	La Course by Le Tour	Landerneau, FRA
11	2021	Road Race	Ronde van Vlaanderen	Oudenaarde, BEL
16	2021	Women's Individual	Giro d'Italia Donne	Cormons, ITA
16	2021	Road Race	Fleche Wallonne	Huy, BEL

Pan American Championships

Year	Location	Individual Time Trial
2019	Ciudad Hidalgo, MEX	1

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, OTL - Outside the Time Limit

Darth (Instagram profile, 26 Mar 2020)

Spending time with family, reading, travel, cooking, hiking. (teamtwenty20.com, 01 Jan 2017)

Occupation:

International Studies, Language Studies - Spanish - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Languages spoken:

bigla - Katusha [Switzerland] since 2019

Turned professional in 2015

She carried an injury into the 2019 World Championships in Yorkshire, England. (velonews.com, 04 Dec 2019; cyclingpub.com, 21 Oct 2019)

She developed severe plantar fasciitis, inflammation around the heel and arch of the foot, while competing in running at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, United States of America. (teamtwenty20.com, 01 Jan 2017)

She took up the sort while she was studying at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, United States of America. She competed in her first race in 2013. (teamtwenty20.com, 01 Jan 2017)

She began cycling as she had to give up distance running after developing plantar fasciitis. (teamtwenty20.com, 01 Jan 2017)

To win a medal in the individual time trial at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bpct.ch, 16 Nov 2019)

US alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin. (bpct.ch, 23 Mar 2019)

Philosophy:

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." [Harold Whitman] (teamtwenty20.com, 01 Jan 2017)

General Interest

General
NEW TEAM
In 2019 she moved to Cervelo Bigla, a Swiss cycling team. "Pretty much every piece of stability I had going into the 2019 season was uprooted from under me, and while I felt like I was scrambling, I know that all the changes and challenges and hurdles thrown at me last year made me stronger and more resilient." (velonews.com, 04 Dec 2019; cyclingnews.com, 10 Sep 2018)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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