Chloe Dygert-Owen, a seven-time world champion on the road and track, burst back onto the road scene this week at the Colorado Classic after nearly 18 months of fighting through multiple injuries. Dygert-Owen swept all four stages at the Colorado race, including winning the stage that climbed up and over Bachelor`s Gulch at more than 2,750 metres. She won all four stages with late solo moves and relied on her power and time-trialling ability to hold off the peloton. The Sho-Air Twenty20 rider won the overall by 2:37 over Brodie Chapman (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) and by 2:57 over third-placed Omer Shapira (Canyon-SRAM). ADVERTISEMENT The past 18 months have been a difficult path for Dygert-Owen following a hard crash at the 2018 Tour of California women`s race that left her with a serious concussion. A knee injury followed, knocking the five-time track world champion - three in the team pursuit and two in the individual pursuit - off her track calendar for the season. Dygert-Owen won the Joe Martin Stage Race in April and was second at the Tour of the Gila in May. She suffered through the Tour of California, then had a series of podium finishes in time trials, culminating with a win in the individual time trial at the Pan-Am Games earlier this month. `Last year after the concussion there was a point where my training had kind of come together again, and then I had another injury that sat me out all winter,` Dygert-Owen said. `Back then, I was able to climb pretty well, so that was a pretty big milestone. So I kind of thought that I was able to climb, but I didn`t think that I would be able to climb with these ladies here. Getting her confidence back
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