Elisa Longo Borghini

Elisa Longo Borghini
	Elisa Longo Borghini (2018)
To person
Date of birth	December 10, 1991
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Trek-Segafredo
function	driver
Most important successes
	Olympic games 2016 - road racing UCI Road World Championships 2012 - road racing UEC European Road Championships 2019 - Mixed relay
	Last updated: August 13, 2020

Elisa Longo Borghini (born December 10, 1991 in Ornavasso ) is an Italian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2006 Elisa Longo Borghini was third in the Italian youth road championship. In 2011 she turned professional . In the same year she finished sixth in the road race and eighth in the individual time trial at the European road championships in the U23 class . In 2012 she was seventh in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , fifth in the Tour de Free State and ninth in the overall ranking of the Giro d'Italia Femminile . At the International Tour of Thuringia , she won the fifth stage and finished fifth in the overall ranking. At the Italian road championship she was runner-up and at the European championship (U23) third, each in the individual time trial.

At the UCI Road World Championships 2012 in Valkenburg aan de Geul , Elisa Longo Borghini came third in the women's road race. In 2013 she won the race for the Trofeo Alfredo Binda . In 2014 and 2016 she became Italian champion in the individual time trial, in 2014 she also won the Tour de Bretagne Féminin and the Trophée d'Or Féminin , in 2015 the Tour of Flanders , the Route de France Féminine and the Giro dell'Emilia . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she won bronze in the road race. In 2017 she won the Strade Bianche race and became Italian double champion in road races and individual time trials.