Valentina Scandolara

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Valentina Scandolara Road cycling
Valentina Scandolara (2016)
Valentina Scandolara (2016)
To person
Date of birth May 1, 1990
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Road / train
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2014 silver - team time trial
Last updated: April 10, 2020

Valentina Scandolara (born May 1, 1990 in Soave ) is an Italian cyclist who competes in races on the road and track .

Athletic career

In 2005 and 2006 Valentina Scandolara was Italian youth champion in road racing. In 2007 she finished third at the junior road world championships and was junior European champion, both in road races, the following year she again won the title of junior European champion and for the first time the national title as junior road champion. In addition, she won silver in the points run on the track at the Junior World Championships and was also successful with two medals at the Junior European Railway Championships.

In 2009 Scandolara received her first contract with a UCI women's team . In 2011 she became the U23 European champion in the points race. In 2013 she won a stage of the Giro del Trentino Alto Adige . The following year she achieved the greatest success of her cycling career to date, when she won the silver medal in the team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 2014 with her Orica-AIS team . In 2015 she won a stage of the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche and in 2017 the one-day race Dwars door de Westhoek .

After the La Course by Le Tour de France , Valentina Scandolara did not contest any more races in the 2017 season due to health problems that had worsened within two years. Her body is no longer "the same", and in the last few months she has consulted more doctors than in previous years together, she wrote on social networks. She separated from her previous team WM3 in order to train alone at first. She started working for the TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank team in August 2018 and for Cogeas-Mettler from April 1, 2019 .

Professional

In January 2018, Valentina Scandolara completed a training course to become a sports director at the UCI World Cycling Federation in Aigle, Switzerland .

successes

Street

2005
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian youth champion - road racing
2006
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian youth champion - road racing
2007
2008
  • European champion Junior European Champion - Road Race
  • MaillotItalia.svg Italian junior champion - road race
2013
2014
2015
2017

train

2008
  • silver Junior World Championship - points race
  • silver Junior European Championship - Scratch
  • bronze Junior European Championship - Team Pursuit (with Giada Balzan and Rossella Callovi)
2011

Teams

Web links

Commons : Valentina Scandolara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ L'incubo di Valentina Scandolara: problemi di salute ed un rientro incerto. In: Cicloweb. January 5, 2018, accessed March 24, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Sport Directors Get Specialized Training at UCI World Cycling Center. In: capovelo.com. January 30, 2018, accessed March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scandolara, Valentina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Soave