Lotta Henttala calls it a career
Lotta Henttala (EF Education-Oatly) has announced that she is expecting her second child and has thus decided to hang up the proverbial wheels.
"The decision was quite easy," said in EF's press release announcing the news. "Even before this pregnancy, retiring was in the back of my mind."
With wins at big races like Gent-Wevelgem and Dwars door Vlaanderen already on her career palmares, Henttala took the 2022 season off amid the birth of her first child, and then returned to race for the past three years. Along the way, she added a stage win at the Vuelta a Burgos and a one-day win at the Trofeo Marratxi-Felanitx to her list of accomplishments.
"I'm from Finland and we’re not a very common cycling country so I hope I was a good example for all Finnish people that you can also jump from our country to being one of the best riders in the world," she said. "I hope I gave that inspiration."
