Valeria Cappellotto

Valeria Cappellotto

To person
Date of birth	January 28, 1970
date of death	17th September 2015
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Most important successes
Italian road championships 1999 - road racing
Last updated: January 23, 2016

Valeria Cappellotto (born January 28, 1970 in Noventa Vicentina , † September 17, 2015 in Marano Vicentino ) was an Italian cyclist.

Athletic career

Valeria Cappellotto was the younger sister of the road world champion from 1997, Alessandra Cappellotto . In 1995 and 1996 she won the Trofeo Alfredo Binda , two years later the Giro della Toscana Femminile . In 1999 she was Italian champion in the road race after it was already 1990 and 1991 runner-and in the same year Fifth of world championship road race .

Twice Cappellotto launched at the Olympic Games in the road race: 1992 in Barcelona she was ranked No. 17 and in 2000 in Sydney rank 31. In the 2000 UCI Road World Championships was 13th in the road race. After this season, she ended her cycling career.

Valeria Cappellotto died of serious illness in September 2015 at the age of 45.

successes

1995

• Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio

1996

• Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio

1998

• Giro della Toscana Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini

1999

• Italian champion - road race

Teams

• 1998 Mimosa
• 1999–2000 Gas Sports Team

Web links

• Valeria Cappellotto in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Valeria Cappellotto in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Valeria Cappellotto in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Di Fabrizio Bocca: Ciclismo: morta Valeria Cappellotto, fu tricolore nel '99. In: repubblica.it. September 17, 2015, accessed January 23, 2016 (Italian).