Elisa Balsamo (cyclist)

Elisa Balsamo
	Elisa Balsamo (2017)
To person
Date of birth	February 27, 1998
nation	Italy
discipline	Road / rail (endurance)
To the team
Current team	Valcar Travel & Service
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2018 - team pursuit UEC European Rail Championships 2016, 2017 - team pursuit UEC European Rail Championships (U23) 2019 - team pursuit, two-man team driving UEC European Road Championships (U23) 2020 - road race European Games 2019 - Team Pursuit
	Last updated: August 25, 2020

Elisa Balsamo ([eˈli: sa ˈbalsamo] - * February 27, 1998 in Cuneo ) is an Italian cyclist who is active and successful on the track as well as on the road .

Athletic career

At the UCI Track World Championships for Juniors , Balsamo won a total of three times the title holder: 2015 in the scratch and 2016 in the omnium as well as in the team pursuit . At the 2016 UCI Road World Championships , Balsamo won the junior road race title in the mass sprint. Less than a week later, she started at the UEC European Rail Championships in 2016 , where she won the gold medal in the team pursuit with the Italian team and thus her first international championship in the elite area.

In 2017, Balsamo achieved further successes on the track: At the U23 European Railway Championships she won gold in the team pursuit with the Italian four-man ( Martina Alzini , Marta Cavalli and Francesca Pattaro ) and bronze in the two-man team driving with Rachele Barbieri . In Berlin she was again European champion of the elite in the team pursuit, together with Tatiana Guderzo , Letizia Paternoster and Silvia Valsecchi , in the Omnium she was third. The Italian team with Balsamo, Guderzo, Pattaro and Valsecchi was also successful at the Track Cycling World Cup in Pruszków .

At the UCI Track World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn , the Italian women's foursome won the bronze medal with Balsamo, Letizia Paternoster, Tatiana Guderzo and Silvia Valsecchi. In the following year, Balsamo was particularly successful with the four-man: With Balsamo in his ranks, he won the track cycling World Cup in Hong Kong , the European Games in Minsk and the U23 European Championships , where she also won the two -man championship with Paternoster. Team driving won.

In 2020 Elisa Balsamo became the U23 European road race champion.