Maria Giulia Confalonieri

Maria Giulia Confalonieri
	Maria Giulia Confalonieri (2017)
To person
Date of birth	March 30, 1993
nation	Italy
discipline	Track (endurance) / road / ; cyclo-cross racing
To the team
Current team	Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
function	driver
Most important successes
	UCI track world championships 2018 - two-man team driving Track cycling world cup 2018 Minsk - two-man team driving UCI Track World Championships for Juniors 2011 - points race UEC European Rail Championships 2018, 2019 - points race
	Last updated: February 8, 2020

Maria Giulia Confalonieri (born March 30, 1993 in Giussano ) is an Italian cyclist who competes in races on track and road .

Athletic career

Maria Giulia Confalonieri was initially an enthusiastic swimmer , she practiced this sport for nine years. In the mid-2000s, a physiotherapist suggested that she try another sport, namely cycling. As a teenager she won several national titles, on the track, on the road and in cyclo-cross races .

In 2011 Confalonieri became junior world champion in the points race , together with Beatrice Bartelloni and Chiara Vannucci she won bronze in the team pursuit . In the same year she was two-time junior European champion in points race and team pursuit. In 2012 she won the team pursuit at the first round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Cali together with Giulia Donato and Chiara Vannucci . In 2013 she became the U23 European champion in scratch .

Since 2013 Confalonieri has also competed in numerous UCI road races, but there she has so far failed to achieve an outstanding success. In 2015 she won the junior classification of the Giro della Toscana Femminile . In the road race of the UCI Road World Championships 2016 in Doha , she finished 36th.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2018 in Apeldoorn , Maria Giulia Confalonieri and Letizia Paternoster won the bronze medal in the two-man team and thus her first World Championship medal in the elite. Later that year, she became European championship points race. In two races of the Track Cycling World Cup, she won the two-man team driving with a paternoster.