Alessandro Fancellu

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Alessandro Fancellu
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Fancellu (left) in the junior men's road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships
Personal information
Born (2000-04-24) 24 April 2000 (age 23)
Como, Italy
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) [1]
Weight62 kg (137 lb) [1]
Team information
Current team Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur team
2019Kometa U23
Professional teams
2020–2023 Kometa Xstra Cycling Team [2] [3]
2020 Trek–Segafredo (stagiaire) [4]
2024– Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

Alessandro Fancellu (born 24 April 2000) is an Italian cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. [5] Fancellu previously rode for Kometa Xstra Cycling Team, where he was promoted to the senior team in 2020 after a year with their under-23 development side. [2]

Contents

In the junior men's road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, Fancellu finished over a minute and a half behind runaway winner Remco Evenepoel but managed to outsprint Alexandre Balmer to take the bronze medal. [6] In 2020, from 1 August until the end of the year, Fancellu joined UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo as a stagiaire. [4]

Early life

Fancellu started his sport career in association football, playing for local amateur side Oratorio Solbiate as an attacker before taking up cycling at the age of 12. [1]

Major results

2017
6th Trofeo Città di Loano
2018
3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
5th Trofeo Città di Loano
6th Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
2019
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
2020
3rd Overall Tour of Antalya
2022
6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2024
10th Overall Tour of Antalya

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References

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  2. 1 2 "The Kometa Cycling Team is reinforced with the Italian Alessandro Fancellu, the second signing for next season". Kometa Cycling Team. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  3. "Eolo–Kometa". UCI. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Trek-Segafredo adds four stagiaires". Trek–Segafredo . Trek. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  5. "Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. Benson, Daniel (27 September 2018). "UCI Road World Championships: Evenepoel wins Junior Men's road race". CyclingNews. Retrieved 25 March 2021.