Lotta Lepistö

Lotta Pauliina Henttala (née Lepistö; born 28 June 1989) is a Finnish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She has won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times, consecutively between 2012 and 2018.

Career She competed in swimming and triathlon alongside cycling in her youth, before focusing on cycling after becoming Finnish Under-16 road racing champion. She qualified to represent Finland at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but did not compete due to pregnancy. After not competing professionally during the 2022 season, Henttala will return to the professional peloton in 2023 with UCI Women's Continental Team .

At the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, Henttala was disqualified after holding onto her team car; the directeur sportif of the team was also asked to leave the race. Henttala and AG Insurance–Soudal–Quick-Step later refuted the claims of the commissaires, stating that she "held onto a water bottle for a few seconds but did not hang onto the team car".

Personal life In October 2019, she married fellow professional cyclist Joonas Henttala, and their first child – a son – was born in January 2022.

Major results Source:

2008 National Road Championships 2nd Road race 2nd Time trial 2009 National Road Championships 2nd Time trial 4th Road race 8th GP Stad Roeselare 2011 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2012

1st Tour de Helsinki 2013 National Road Championships

2nd Time trial 1st De Pinte 1st Lebbeke 1st Festival Cycliste Preizerdaul ITT 5th Overall Naisten etappiajo 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 5 2014 National Road Championships

2nd Frauen Prolog Grand Prix Gippingen 2nd Kriterium Meilen 2nd Kriterium Riehen 3rd Sparkassen Giro 3rd GP Osterhas 4th Trofee Maarten Wynants 4th Para+Cycling 6th Rund um Schönaich [LBS-Cup] 8th GP Comune di Cornaredo 9th Berner Rundfahrt 10th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn 2015 National Road Championships

1st Points classification Auensteiner–Radsporttage 3rd Berner Rundfahrt 3rd GP Oberbaselbiet 4th Grand Prix de Dottignies 4th Frauen Grand Prix Gippingen 4th Sparkassen Giro 5th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup 5th La Course by Le Tour de France 7th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 1st Stage 4 9th Novilon Eurocup 2016 National Road Championships

1st SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn 1st Prologue Emakumeen Euskal Bira 1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour 2nd La Course by Le Tour de France Open de Suède Vårgårda 2nd Road race 2nd Team time trial UCI Road World Championships

3rd Omloop van het Hageland 3rd Chrono des Nations 3rd Pajot Hills Classic 8th Overall Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs 1st Stage 1 2017 National Road Championships

1st Gent–Wevelgem 1st Crescent Vårgårda Road Race 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen 1st Stage 6 Giro Rosa 2nd Crescent Vårgårda Team Time Trial 2nd Prudential RideLondon Classique

4th Omloop van het Hageland 5th Drentse Acht van Westerveld 6th Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs 8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 8th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 8th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway 2018 National Road Championships

1st Stage 5 The Women's Tour 1st Prologue Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini Crescent Vårgårda 3rd Road race 3rd Team time trial 4th Overall Festival Elsy Jacobs 5th Prudential RideLondon Classique 8th Amstel Gold Race 10th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships 2019 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 1st Stages 2 & 4 2nd Omloop van het Hageland 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 7th Overall Healthy Ageing Tour 1st Stage 1 2020 7th Omloop van het Hageland 8th Race Torquay 2024 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos Feminas 5th Dwars door de Westhoek 2025 1st Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx