Paola Pezzo
Personal information | |
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Full name | Paola Pezzo |
Born | Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy | 8 January 1969
Team information | |
Discipline | Mountain bike racing |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Cross-country |
Professional team | |
Gary Fisher, Specialized Factory Team | |
Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969, in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. In 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.
Biography[]
Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1997, she won the Grundig World Cup crown.
Achievement[]
She won two gold medals. One in Atlanta '96 and the other in Sydney '00. She also won the mountain-bike championships in 1993 and 1997.
See also[]
- Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships
External links[]
- Media related to Paola Pezzo at Wikimedia Commons
- Her bio on the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
- Paola Pezzo at Cycling Archives
- Paola Pezzo at the International Olympic Committee
- Paola Pezzo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Italian female cyclists
- Italian mountain bikers
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Olympic cyclists of Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- People from the Province of Verona
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women)
- Sportspeople from Veneto