Paola Pezzo
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Paola Pezzo |
| Born | 8 January 1969 Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy |
| 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 an Italian cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona. 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
[edit]Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1997, she won the Grundig World Cup crown.
Achievement
[edit]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
[edit]External links
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Media related to Paola Pezzo at Wikimedia Commons- Her bio on the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
- Paola Pezzo at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Paola Pezzo at Olympics.com
- Paola Pezzo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Categories:
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Italian female cyclists
- Italian mountain bikers
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Olympic cyclists for Italy
- Olympic gold medalists for Italy
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- People from Bosco Chiesanuova
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (women)
- Cyclists from the Province of Verona