Sofia Bertizzolo

Sofia Bertizzolo
	Sofia Bertizzolo (2018)
To person
Date of birth	August 21, 1997
nation	Italy
discipline	Road / train
Societies)
	Wilier Breganze ; Fiamme Oro
Most important successes
	UCI Women's WorldTour 2018 overall junior ranking
	Last updated: March 24, 2019

Sofia Bertizzolo (born August 21, 1997 in Bassano del Grappa ) is an Italian cyclist .

Athletic career

Sofia Bertizzolo comes from a cycling enthusiast family. She first tried her hand at gymnastics and swimming . Her brother eventually brought her to cycling. She is a member of the Polizia di Stato .

2014 won Bertizzolo at the road world championships in Spain Ponferrada silver in the road race in the junior women, junior European champion in the road race as well as Italian Junior Champion in was individual pursuit on the track. In 2015 she won the junior women's edition of the Trofeo Alfredo Binda , the Trofeo Moreno , and together with Elisa Balsamo , Rachele Barbieri and Marta Cavalli, she was the European Junior Champion in the team pursuit . The Italian junior four-man set a new world record with 4: 33.463 minutes .

In 2016, Sofia Bertozzoli received a contract with the Astana Women's Team and from then on mainly competed in road races. In 2018 she won the mountain classification of the Giro della Toscana Femminile and the Festival luxembourgeois du Cyclisme Féminin Elsy Jacobs and won the junior competition of the Giro d'Italia Femminile . That same year, she won the UCI Women's WorldTour overall junior championship . In addition, she was Italian runner-up in the road race for elite women.