Giorgia Bronzini

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Giorgia Bronzini Road cycling
Giorgia Bronzini (2018)
Giorgia Bronzini (2018)
To person
Date of birth 3rd August 1983
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Road / train
Driver type Sprinter / endurance
To the team
Current team Trek-Segafredo
function Sports director
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2010, 2011 World Champion - road racing
UCI track world championships
2009 World Champion - points race
Last updated: September 16, 2018

Giorgia Bronzini (born August 3, 1983 in Piacenza ) is a former Italian cyclist and three-time world champion. She was active on track and road and the most successful cyclist in her country from the beginning of the 2000s. At the end of her active career, she became a sports director

Athletic career

In 2001 Bronzini was junior world champion in the points race in Trexlertown and in the same year junior European champion in this discipline on the Velodrome of Fiorenzuola d'Arda . In 2009 Giorgia Bronzini was world champion in points race at the World Track Championships in Pruszków . She finished the 2008/09 and 2009/10 World Cups as first in the overall ranking in the points race and in 2009/2010 also as second in the scratch . At the UCI-Bahn World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , she won bronze in the points race.

After success on the track, Giorgia Bronzini increasingly drove road races ( Giro d'Italia Femminile , Giro del Trentino Alto Adige , Holland Ladies Tour , Giro della Toscana , Tour of New Zealand and others), in which she won numerous stages. In October 2010 she became world champion in road racing in Geelong ; the following year she repeated this success at the Road World Championships in Copenhagen .

In 2012 Bronzini started at the Olympic Games in London and finished fifth in the road race. In 2015 she won the Tour of Chongming Island . At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she finished 42nd in the road race.

Bronzini ended her active sporting career after the end of the 2018 season and then became sporting director of the newly founded UCI Women's Team Trek-Segafredo alongside Ina-Yoko Teutenberg . On September 16, 2018, Giorgia Bronzini contested the last race of her career with the final stage of the Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta and won.

successes

Street

2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018

train

; 2001
  • World Champion Junior World Champion - points race
  • European champion Junior European Champion - points race
2002
  • silver European Championship (U23) - points race
2003
  • European champion European Champion (U23) - points race
  • bronze European Championship (U23) - Scratch
2005
  • silver European Championship (U23) - points race
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2013
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian champion - Keirin

Teams

Bronzini winning the sixth stage of the 2015 Route de France Féminine

Web links

Commons : Giorgia Bronzini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bronzini becomes the second sporting director for the new Trek team. In: rad-net.de. August 16, 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bronzini, Giorgia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Piacenza