Emma Karolina Johansson was born on 23 September 1983 and is a Swedish retired professional racing cyclist.
12 Facts About Emma Johansson
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Emma Johansson won the silver medal in the women's road race at both the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as one silver and two bronze medals at the Road World championships.
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Emma Johansson holds a record four podium finishes at the Tour of Flanders for Women, with one second and three third places.
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Emma Johansson won the Thuringen Rundfahrt der Frauen three times, the Emakumeen Euskal Bira twice and the Belgium Tour once.
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Emma Johansson engaged in cross-country skiing with the Solleftea Ski Club at an early age, before taking an interest in mountainbiking through her older brother.
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Emma Johansson trained on military training fields, close to her house, which offered dirt roads and illuminated trails.
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Emma Johansson won her first silver medal in 1996, at the age of 12, at the Swedish national mountainbike championships in Uddevalla.
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Emma Johansson signed with AA-Drink Cycling Team and had a successful spring classics campaign, claiming third place at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, 7th at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio and 9th in the Tour of Flanders.
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Emma Johansson followed an attack by Tatiana Guderzo, at 13 kilometres from the finish, which brought her in the lead group with Nicole Cooke, Christiane Soeder and Linda Villumsen.
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Cooke won the event in the five-woman sprint, Emma Johansson claimed the silver ahead of Guderzo.
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At the World Championships Road Race in Florence, Emma Johansson was again in a winning five-woman breakaway after she followed an attack of Marianne Vos.
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Emma Johansson was the second Swedish cyclist to wear the UCI World Cup leader jersey after Susanne Ljungskog.