Gessica Turato

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Gessica Turato
Personal information
Born (1984-05-30) 30 May 1984 (age 33)
Cittadella, Italy
Team information
Discipline Road cycling, Track cycling
Professional team(s)
2004-2005 Safi-Pasta Zara-Manhattan
2006 USC Chirio Forno d'Asolo

Gessica Turato (born 30 July 1984) is a track and road cyclist from Italy. As a junior, she won the individual pursuit at the 2001 UEC European Track Championships. She won the under-23 road race at the 2005 European Road Championships and represented her nation later that year at the 2005 UCI Road World Championships. [1]

Track cycling type of sport

Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles.

Road bicycle racing bicycle racing sport

Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.

Italy republic in Southern Europe

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.

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References

  1. "Gessica Turato". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 7 February 2015.