Team USA cyclist Chloe Dygert wins bronze medal in individual time trial

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Team USA cyclist Chloe Dygert wins bronze medal in individual time trial

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PARIS − Team USA cyclist Chloe Dygert earned a bronze medal Saturday in the individual time trial of the road cycling event with a time of 41:10.70. Other medalists were Australian Grace Brown (gold, 39:38:24) and Great Britain’s Anna Henderson (silver, 41:09.83).

Dygert crashed on a left turn on a cobblestone stretch just before the second time check, but recovered well enough for the third-place finish. The medal marked Dygert’s third in Olympic competition, but her first in the individual time trial. She has also won a silver (2016, Rio de Janeiro) and a bronze (2021, Tokyo) in the women’s team pursuit.

For Dygert, medaling in Paris marked a remarkable comeback from assorted injuries and health-related issues that includes a gruesome crash in 2020 that required multiple surgeries to her left leg, knee and Achilles injuries, heart surgery, a bout with Epstein-Barr virus, and most recently, a bout with COVID during her Olympic training.

Chloe Dygert of Team USA won bronze in the women’s individual time trial at the Paris Olympics.

The women’s time trial included 35 riders and were held at the Pont Alexandre III venue on a 32.4km course. Dygert’s attention now turns to the women’s road race, which will be held Sunday, Aug. 4, on a much longer track of 130-160km, against a much deeper field of 90 riders.

Reach Tuscaloosa News columnist Chase Goodbread at cgoodbread@gannett.com. Follow on X @chasegoodbread.

This article originally appeared on The Tuscaloosa News: Team USA cyclist Chloe Dygert wins bronze in time trial

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