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Full name | Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera | ||||||||||||||
Born | Mexico City, Mexico | 29 August 1976||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider, time-trialist | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera (born 29 August 1976) is a Mexican professional road cyclist. [1] She won a silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later represented her nation Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [2]
Grassi qualified for the Mexican squad, as a lone female cyclist, in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a single berth from the UCI World Cup. [3] She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-fifth-place effort in 3:36:35, recording the same time but finishing behind Belgium's Lieselot Decroix by an inch. [4] [5] [6]