One day races Mara Katherine Abbott (born November 14, 1985) is an American former women's bicycle racer.

In 2010, Abbott became the first US cyclist ever to win the Giro d'Italia Femminile, one of the Grand Tours of women's bicycle racing.

[1][7] Abbott joined the HTC-Columbia Women's Team in 2008 and began to excel in European races, winning a mountain stage in the Giro della Toscana.

[1] In 2010, Abbott joined the Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 team and repeated her victories at the Tour of the Gila and the USA National Championship Women's Road Race.

[20] She is a freelance writer published in the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado as well as the Wall Street Journal and espnW.