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Italian cyclist
Vera Carrara
Full name Vera Carrara Born (1980-04-06 ) April 6, 1980 (age 44)
Alzano Lombardo ,
Italy Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
[1] Weight 62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)
[1] Discipline Road & Track Role Rider 1987–1996 G.S. Valoti Arredamenti 1997 Selene Rama-Valoti 1998 Equipe 1999 Selene Rama-Valoti 2000 Bata Moser
2001–2002 Team Itera 2003 Road Runner Guerciotti 2004 G.S. Fiamme Azzurre 2006 USC Chirio Forno d'Asolo 2007 Safi - Pasta Zara - Manhattan 2008– Cmax Dila
Multiple World Champion
Vera Carrara (born 6 April 1980) is an Italian professional
racing cyclist .
Carrara was born in
Alzano Lombardo and joined the G.S. Valoti Arredamenti at the age of seven. Since then she has become a multiple world champion in the
points race , but despite her track cycling success she also races on the road, winning a stage of the
Holland Ladies Tour in 2006 and finishing second in the prologue of the
2008 Giro d'Italia Femminile .
Palmarès
1998
1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Juniors
2000
3rd European Road Race Championships, U23, Kielce (POL)
2001
3rd
European Track Championships , Omnium
2002
1st Pursuit,
European Track Championships , U23
3rd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Kopenhagen
2nd European Time Trial Championships, U23, Grassobbio (ITA)
2003
2nd Pursuit,
Italian National Track Championships
1st Points race,
2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney (AUS)
2nd Points race,
2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Cape Town (RSA)
2004
2nd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Melbourne
1st Giro del Lago Maggiore - GP Knorr (SUI)
5th
Points race ,
2004 Summer Olympics
2005
2nd Points race,
2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Manchester (GBR)
1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Los Angeles
2006
1st Points race,
2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics , Sydney (AUS)
1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships , Bordeaux
1st Stage 5,
Holland Ladies Tour , Oirschot (NED)
2007
1st Points race,
Italian National Track Championships , Dalmine
2nd Scratch,
Italian National Track Championships , Dalmine
1st
Italian National Time Trial Championships , Novi Ligure
1st Omnium,
European Track Championships , Cottbus (GER)
2008
3rd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
1st GP Rund um Visp (SUI)
2nd Prologue,
Giro d'Italia Femminile , Mantova
14th
Points race ,
2008 Summer Olympics
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