Robin Farina | |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1977 |
Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.[1] |
Height: | 5feet |
Weight: | 130lb |
Currentteam: | Retired |
Discipline: | Road cycling, Mountain bike racing, Tandem Para-cycling |
Amateuryears1: | 2006 |
Amateurteam1: | DeFeet Women's Elite Team |
Amateuryears2: | 2007 |
Amateurteam2: | Target Training Women's Elite |
Proyears1: | 2008 |
Proteam1: | Cheerwine Women's Professional Cycling Team |
Proyears2: | 2009 |
Proteam2: | ValueAct Capital Women's Pro Cycling |
Proyears3: | 2010 |
Proteam3: | Team Vera Bradley Professional Cycling |
Proyears4: | 2011-2013 |
Proteam4: | NOW and Novartis for MS[2] [3] |
Proyears5: | 2015- |
Proteam5: | BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental[4] [5] |
Majorwins: | 2011 National Road Race Champion, Overall GC win 2008 Joe Martin Stage Race and multiple other stages and criteriums, In 2017 she won a national championship in Para Cycling by piloting a tandem on the track (with stoker Shawn Cheshire). |
Robin Farina (born September 3, 1977) is a road cyclist from the United States. She made her road racing debut in 2006, transitioning from a mountain biking background.[6] She won in 2011 the United States National Road Race Championships. She represented her country at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships and 2011 Pan American Games.[7] With her team BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental she participated in the team time trial at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships.
In 2013, Farina and Janel Holcomb co-founded the Women's Cycling Association, a United States-based lobby group of professional cyclists and other supporters, established to create a unified voice that could raise the profile and financial viability of women's professional cycling.[8] [9] Farina served as Team Director of the Happy Tooth Dental Professional Racing team during the 2016 season.[10]
2011 United States National Road Race Championships (Georgia, USA)
1st, Women's Elite Road Race[11]
2017 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
5th, Women's Tandem Individual Pursuit. Shawn Cheshire (stoker), Robin Farina (pilot)[12]
11th, Women's Tandem 1 km Time Trial. Shawn Cheshire (stoker), Robin Farina (pilot)
2016 Lost & Found Gravel Road Race
1st, Women's Elite[13] 2015 Lost & Found Gravel Road Race
1st, Women's Elite[14]