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Elisa Balsamo (cyclist)

Elisa Balsamo (born 27 February 1998) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's World Team Lidl–Trek,[3] and represents Italy at international competitions.

Elisa Balsamo
Balsamo in 2024
Personal information
Born (1998-02-27) 27 February 1998 (age 26)
Cuneo, Italy
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Team information
Current teamLidl–Trek
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
2017–2021Valcar–PBM[1][2]
2022-Trek–Segafredo
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
World Road Race Championships (2021)
National Road Race Championships (2022)
Trofeo Alfredo Binda (2022, 2024)
Classic Brugge–De Panne (2022, 2024)
Gent–Wevelgem (2022)
Medal record
Representing  Italy
Women's track cycling
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Berlin Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Omnium
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Minsk Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Minsk Omnium
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Yvelines Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2017 Berlin Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Madison
Gold medal – first place 2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Berlin Omnium
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Grenchen Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Apeldoorn Madison
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Astana Scratch
Gold medal – first place 2016 Aigle Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Aigle Omnium
U23 & Junior European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Athens Junior Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Montichiari Junior Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2016 Montichiari Junior Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sangalhos U23 Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2017 Sangalhos U23 Omnium
Gold medal – first place 2018 Aigle U23 Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Ghent U23 Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2019 Ghent U23 Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Sangalhos U23 Madison
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Aigle U23 Madison
Women's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Doha Junior Road race
Gold medal – first place 2021 Flanders Road race
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plouay U23 Road race
Silver medal – second place 2016 Plumelec Junior Road race
Silver medal – second place 2022 Munich Road race
Silver medal – second place 2024 Limburg Road race

After competing at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships in the women's junior road race she became junior world champion at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in the junior's road race. She won the gold medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the team pursuit.[4]

Early life

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Balsamo was born in Cuneo in 1998. Her father was an amateur cyclist. Before taking up cycling, she had competed in a number of skiing disciplines, as well as biathlon and swimming.[5]

Career

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Balsamo's first major win came at the 2016 UCI Road World Championships in Doha, where she won the Junior Road Race in a bunch sprint ahead of Skylar Schneider.[6] She signed for Valcar–PBM for the 2017 season.[7] Her first professional win came at the Omloop van Borsele in April 2018,[8] followed by a win at the GP Bruno Beghelli later in the year.[9]

In 2019, Balsamo finished first in a bunch sprint at the Dwars door de Westhoek,[10] as well as stages at the Tour of California[11] and the Giro delle Marche in Rosa. In 2020, Balsamo won the final stage of the Madrid Challenge, overtaking Lorena Wiebes in the final 50 metres.[12]

Balsamo began the 2021 season with a win at the GP Oetingen.[13] She competed for Italy at the 2020 Summer Olympics; whilst she broke the Italian record as part of the team pursuit, she finished in 8th position in the madison and outside the Top 10 in the omnium.[14] After a period of stage racing in Spain and The Netherlands, during which she finished second in the Grand Prix d'Isbergues,[5] she was selected as part of the Italian team for the UCI Road World Championships. After a number of attempts by the Dutch team to break away from the group, Balsamo won the bunch sprint from the remaining group of around 25 riders, ahead of Marianne Vos.[15] Her first win as World Champion came at The Women's Tour, in which she won the final stage.[16]

Major results

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Road

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2015
3rd Road race, National Junior Championships
5th Trofeo Avis Suvereto
6th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
6th Giro della Provincia di Pordenone
2016
1st   Road race, UCI World Junior Championships
1st   Road race, National Junior Championships
2nd   Road race, UEC European Junior Championships
2nd Gent–Wevelgem Juniors
3rd Trofeo Mendelspeck
4th Gran Premio Hotel Fiera Bolzano
7th Trofeo Oro
8th Memorial Diego e Stefano Trovó
2017
1st Giro Dei Due Comuni
1st Grand Prix Crevoisier
1st   Sprints classification, Giro della Toscana
2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2nd Sparkassen Giro
2nd Memorial F. Basso
7th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
2018
1st Omloop van Borsele
1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies
5th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships
2019
1st Trofee Maarten Wynants
1st Dwars door de Westhoek
2nd Omloop van Borsele
2020
1st   Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st Stage 3 Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
2021
1st   Road race, UCI World Championships
1st Stage 6 The Women's Tour
3rd Scheldeprijs
3rd Brabantse Pijl
4th Gent–Wevelgem
7th Trofeo Alfredo Binda
7th Dwars door de Westhoek
10th Road race, UEC European Championships
2022
1st   Road race, National Championships
1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
1st Gent–Wevelgem
Giro Donne
1st Stages 1 & 4
Challenge by La Vuelta
1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 5
1st Stage 1 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
1st Stage 3 Tour de Suisse
2nd   Road race, UEC European Championships
2nd Ronde van Drenthe
4th Tre Valli Varesine
8th Amstel Gold Race
2023
Setmana Ciclista Valenciana
1st Stages 1 & 2
2nd Trofeo Alfredo Binda
2nd Classic Brugge–De Panne
4th Ronde van Drenthe
4th Nokere Koerse
2024
1st Trofeo Alfredo Binda
1st Classic Brugge–De Panne
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stages 1 & 3
Tour de Romandie Féminin
1st   Points classification
1st Stage 1
2nd   Road race, UEC European Championships
2nd Paris–Roubaix
2nd Ronde van Drenthe
2nd Gent–Wevelgem
4th Classic Lorient Agglomération
7th Scheldeprijs
10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Classics results timeline

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Monuments 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Paris–Roubaix Race did not exist NH 57 DSQ 58 2
Tour of Flanders — 74 DNF — 15 28 38 47
Liège–Bastogne–Liège — DNF 83 38 — — —
Classic 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad — — — — 19 4 61 10
Strade Bianche 76 — — 33 55 45 31 —
Ronde van Drenthe — 25 DNF NH — 2 4 2
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 35 11 42 7 1 2 1
Classic Brugge–De Panne — 11 5 15 5 1 2 1
Gent–Wevelgem — 54 9 — DNF 1 68 2
Amstel Gold Race — 38 10 NH 49 8 76
La Flèche Wallonne — 38 54 46 — — —
GP de Plouay — — 15 — — 15 15
Open de Suède Vårgårda — 19 — Not held — Not held

Track

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2015
1st   Scratch, UCI World Junior Championships
1st   Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships
1st   Team pursuit, National Junior Championships
2016
1st   Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
UCI World Junior Championships
1st   Omnium
1st   Team pursuit
UEC European Junior Championships
1st   Omnium
1st   Team pursuit
1st   Scratch, National Junior Championships
1st Individual pursuit, 3 Jours d'Aigle
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Glasgow
2017
UEC European Championships
1st   Team pursuit
3rd   Omnium
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st   Omnium
1st   Team pursuit
3rd   Madison
UCI World Cup, Pruszków
1st Team pursuit
3rd Individual pursuit
3rd Madison (with Maria Giulia Confalonieri)
6 Giorni di Torino internazionale
1st Omnium
1st Points
Belgian International Meeting
2nd Omnium
3rd Madison (with Rachele Barbieri)
2nd Omnium, Prilba Moravy
2018
UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st   Team pursuit
3rd   Madison
1st   Madison, National Championships
2nd   Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
3rd   Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
2022
1st   Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

References

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  1. ^ Malach, Pat (8 January 2019). "Cylance signs on with Italian team Valcar for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Valcar – Travel & Service". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 11 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  3. ^ Frattini, Kirsten (30 August 2021). "Trek-Segafredo sign sprinter Elisa Balsamo through 2024". CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  4. ^ "European Track Championships 2016 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines" (PDF). europeantrack2016.veloresults.com. 1 October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  5. ^ a b Herbie Sykes (December 2021). "Elisa Balsamo - A World Apart". ProCycling. Future PLC. pp. 94–101.
  6. ^ Wynn, Nigel (14 October 2016). "Cycling Weekly". Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Elisa Balsamo". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Elisa Balsamo wint Omloop van Borsele" (in Dutch). 21 April 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Balsamo wins GP Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne". Cyclingnews. 7 October 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Italiaanse Elisa Balsamo wint Dwars door de Westhoek". 9 June 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  11. ^ Marshall-Bell, Chris (18 May 2019). "Elisa Balsamo wins frantic stage three as Anna van der Breggen wraps up Tour of California GC". Cycling Weekly (in Dutch). Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  12. ^ "Madrid Challenge: Elisa Balsamo takes final stage sprint, Lisa Brennauer secures title". VeloNews. 8 November 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  13. ^ "Elisa Balsamo wins first GP Oetingen". Cyclingnews. 14 March 2021. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Elisa BALSAMO". Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  15. ^ Fotheringham, William (25 September 2021). "Elisa Balsamo beats tearful Marianne Vos to world road race title". The Observer. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  16. ^ Whittle, Jeremy (9 October 2021). "Women's Tour of Britain: Demi Vollering takes crown as Balsamo wins final stage". The Observer. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
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