Alessandra Cappellotto
Italian cyclist
Personal information | |
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Full name | Alessandra Cappellotto |
Born | (1968-08-28) August 28, 1968 (age 56) Sarcedo, Italy |
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) |
Professional teams | |
1999–2001 | Gas Sport Team |
2002 | Power Plate-Bik |
2004 | USC Chirio Forno d'Asolo |
Major wins | |
Road World Champion (1997) National Road Champion (2003) | |
Alessandra Cappellotto (born August 27, 1968) is a retired racing cyclist from Italy. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics: 1996, and 2000. She won the world title in the women's individual road race at the 1997 UCI Road World Championships in San Sebastian, Spain. Valeria Cappellotto, who died in 2015, was her sister.
She helped five Afghan cyclists to escape their country and settle in Italy, following the 2021 Taliban offensive.[1]
References
- ^ "The Afghan cyclists who fled to pursue their Olympic dreams". BBC. 13 August 2022.
External links
- Alessandra Cappellotto at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Alessandra Cappellotto at Cycling Archives
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UCI Road World Champions – Women's road race
- 1958: Elsy Jacobs
- 1959: Yvonne Reynders
- 1960: Beryl Burton
- 1961: Yvonne Reynders
- 1962: Marie-Rose Gaillard
- 1963: Yvonne Reynders
- 1964: Emīlija Sonka
- 1965: Elisabeth Eicholz
- 1966: Yvonne Reynders
- 1967: Beryl Burton
- 1968: Keetie van Oosten-Hage
- 1969: Audrey McElmury
- 1970–71: Anna Konkina
- 1972: Geneviève Gambillon
- 1973: Nicolle Van Den Broeck
- 1974: Geneviève Gambillon
- 1975: Tineke Fopma
- 1976: Keetie van Oosten-Hage
- 1977: Josiane Bost
- 1978: Petra de Bruin
- 1979: Beate Habetz
- 1980: Beth Heiden
- 1981: Ute Enzenauer
- 1982: Mandy Jones
- 1983: Marianne Berglund
- 1985–87, 89: Jeannie Longo
- 1990: Catherine Marsal
- 1991, 1993: Leontien van Moorsel
- 1994: Monica Valvik
- 1995: Jeannie Longo
- 1996: Barbara Heeb
- 1997: Alessandra Cappellotto
- 1998: Diana Žiliūtė
- 1999: Edita Pučinskaitė
- 2000: Zinaida Stahurskaya
- 2001: Rasa Polikevičiūtė
- 2002–03: Susanne Ljungskog
- 2004: Judith Arndt
- 2005: Regina Schleicher
- 2006: Marianne Vos
- 2007: Marta Bastianelli
- 2008: Nicole Cooke
- 2009: Tatiana Guderzo
- 2010–11: Giorgia Bronzini
- 2012–13: Marianne Vos
- 2014: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
- 2015: Lizzie Armitstead
- 2016: Amalie Dideriksen
- 2017: Chantal Blaak
- 2018: Anna van der Breggen
- 2019: Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2020: Anna van der Breggen
- 2021: Elisa Balsamo
- 2022: Annemiek van Vleuten
- 2023: Lotte Kopecky
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