Daniela Atehortua

Daniela Atehortúa
Personal information
Full nameDaniela Atehortúa Hoyos
Born (1999-04-16) 16 April 1999
El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur team
2020–2021Colnago CM Team
Professional teams
2021Colnago CM Team
2022Team Illuminate

Daniela Atehortúa Hoyos (born 30 March 1999) is a Colombian professional racing cyclist. As a junior, she was the 2017 Pan-American Junior Road Cycling champion,[1] and the overall winner in the 2019 Vuelta a Colombia Femenina.[2] In 2020 she was the under-23 bronze medal-winner at the Colombian National Road Race Championships and the Best Young Rider (Under 23) at the Dubai Women's Tour.[1][3]

Professionally, she rode for UCI Women's Continental Team Colnago CM Team until 2021, when the team was dissolved,[4][5] then for Team Illuminate.[1] She rode in the women's road race event in the 2020 UCI Road World Championships.[6]

Atehortúa was born in Carmen de Viboral, Colombia.[7] She also skated competetively before deciding to focus on cycling.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Laura Toconás y Daniela Atehortúa salen a conquistar el ciclismo estadounidense". Revista Mundo Ciclístico (in Spanish). 1 January 2022.
  2. ↑ "Daniela Atehortua se quedó con el título de las damas en la Vuelta al Valle". Federación Colombiana de Ciclismo (in Spanish). 16 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Lucy Van der Haar crowned first ever Dubai Women's Tour champion". Gulf News. 20 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Colnago CM Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Mitchell, Mathew (7 February 2023). "Looking back at the last time the women's peloton raced in the Middle East - the Dubai Women's Tour 2020". ProCyclingUK.
  6. ↑ "87th World Championships WE – Road Race". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Daniela Atehortúa sigue con su racha victoriosa: etapa y liderato de la Vuelta del Futuro". Federación Colombiana de Ciclismo (in Spanish). 23 November 2017.
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