Martina Fidanza
Martina Fidanza (2019) | |
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Date of birth | November 5, 1999 |
nation | Italy |
discipline | Railway (short term / endurance) / road |
Last updated: November 3, 2019 |
Martina Fidanza (born November 5, 1999 in Bergamo ) is an Italian racing cyclist who is active on track and road .
Athletic career
Martina Fidanza comes from a cycling family: Her father Giovanni Fidanza was a professional from 1989 to 1997, and her mother Nadia Baldi was also a cyclist. Her older sister Arianna has been a successful cyclist since 2014, and her younger sister Eleonora is also active as a cyclist. Giovanni Fidanza also acts as the sporting director of the Eurotarget-Bianchi-Vittoria team , for which his two older daughters drive (as of 2019). Martina Fidanza, unusually, competes in both short-term and endurance races on the track and also competes in races on the road. The Italian cycling website Cicloweb headlined: “Fidanza, talento in abbondanza” (“Fidanza, talent in abundance”).
In 2016 Martina Fidanza became Italian junior champion in the team sprint together with Gloria Manzoni . The following year she was both junior world champion and junior European champion in scratch and team pursuit . At the European Championships, she also won the silver medal in the Keirin . In 2018 and 2019 she became the Italian Keirin elite champion.
In 2019 Fidanza started at the Track World Cup in Hong Kong and won the scratch; at the following World Railroad Championships in Pruszków , Poland , she fell hard. At the European Games in Minsk , she won the silver medal in this discipline. In November of that year, Fidanza started the first run of the Track World Cup in Minsk and took second place in the scratch.
successes
- 2016
- Italian Junior Champion - Team Sprint (with Gloria Manzoni )
- 2017
- Junior World Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Letizia Paternoster , Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini )
- Junior European Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Letizia Paternoster , Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini )
- Junior European Championship - Keirin
- 2018
- U23 European Championship - Team Sprint (with Miriam Vece )
- Italian champion - Keirin
- 2019
- Track World Cup in Hong Kong - Scratch
- European Games - Scratch
- Italian champion - Keirin
Teams
Web links
- Martina Fidanza in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Martina Fidanza in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ^ Fidanza, una famiglia di ciclisti. tuttobiciweb.it, January 4, 2013, accessed November 3, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Vivian Ghianni: Fidanza, talento in abbondanza. Cicloweb, October 1, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 (Italian).
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SURNAME | Fidanza, Martina |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1999 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergamo |