Alessandra Cappellotto

Alessandra Cappellotto

To person
Date of birth	27th August 1968 (age 52)
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
End of career	2004
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships 1997 - road racing
Last updated: September 30, 2018

Alessandra Cappellotto (born August 27, 1968 in Sarcedo , Vizenca) is a former Italian cyclist and world champion in road racing (1997).

Career

Internationally, Alessandra Cappellotto first attracted attention in 1992 when she came second in a stage of the Grande Boucle Féminine . In the following years, however, Alessandra Cappellotto had to be content with second and third places in national and world championships, such as the UCI Road World Championships in Lugano in 1996 when she was third in the individual time trial or in the same year at the Giro d'Italia Femminile . At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she finished seventh in the road race.

At the 1997 road world championships in San Sebastian , northern Spain , Alessandra Cappellotto was world champion in road races ; in the same year she won the Thuringia Tour of Women and the Chrono Champenois - Trophée Européen .

In 2000 Cappellotto was second in the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia. In 2003 she became the Italian road champion for the only time. The following year she retired from active cycling. Her younger sister was the Italian road champion from 1999, Valeria Cappellotto (1970-2015).

In 2016, Cappellotto became chair of the newly formed women's cycling section of the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés .

Web links

• Alessandra Cappellotto in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ CPA adds women's section. cyclingnews.com, July 27, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017 .