Alessandra Keller

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Alessandra Keller
Keller in 2016
Personal information
Born (1996-01-27) 27 January 1996 (age 28)
Switzerland
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
DisciplinesCross-country
RoleRider
Medal record
Women's Mountain bike racing
Representing  Switzerland
World Under-23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lenzerheide Cross-country

Alessandra Keller (born 27 January 1996) is a Swiss mountain biker competing in cross country.

Keller was born in 1996.[1] She lives in the municipality of Ennetbürgen in the canton of Nidwalden.[2]

Alongside Jolanda Neff, she won the 2016 Swiss Epic, a mountain bike stage race.[3] Aged 22 and still eligible to compete in the U23 category, she won the world cup race in Vallnord, Andorra, Short Track Cross-Country race in the elite class.[4] In the cross country, she won the 2018 World Championship in the U23.[2]

Keller has been Swiss cross-country champion four times: 2012 in the U17 category, 2013 in the U19 category, 2018 in the U23 category, and in 2022 in the elite class.[5][6] She won silver at the 2022 MTB short track world championships in Les Gets, behind winner Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Alessandra Keller". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b Platter, Martin (8 September 2018). "Alessandra Keller trotzt dem Druck: Nidwaldnerin ist U23-Weltmeisterin" [Alessandra Keller defies the pressure: Nidwaldnerin is U23 world champion]. Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  3. ^ "3. Perskindol Swiss Epic". race|result. 8 January 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Bikerin Keller schreibt mit Weltcup-Sieg Geschichte" [Biker Keller writes history with World Cup victory]. Blick (in German). 13 July 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  5. ^ "Schweizermeisterschaften MTB Cross Country" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Cycling. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Keller zum Ersten, Flückiger zum Dritten" [Keller for the first, Flückiger for the third]. Swiss Cycling (in Swiss German). 5 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Gwendalyn Gibson scores breakout bronze for USA at MTB short track world championships". Velo News.