Mara Abbott

Mara Katherine Abbott is an American professional womens bicycle racer who rides on the Wiggle High5 team. In 2010, Abbott became the first American ever to win the Giro Donne, one of the Grand Tours of womens bicycle racing.

Abbott was born and, as of 2011, still lives in Boulder, Colorado. She was a competitive swimmer, primarily specializing in distance freestyle races, at Whitman College, which is where she took up road bicycle racing as a springtime activity. After competing for Whitman in two straight National College Cycling Association Division II championships, where the team won backtoback championships in both the team time trial and the team omnium, and Abbott won backtoback championships in the road race and also won the criterium and the individual omnium in 2006, Abbott placed fifth in the USA National Championship Womens Road Race. She also won backtoback championships in the Mount Evans Hill Climb in 2005 and 2006.

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