Sari Saarelainen

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Sari Saarelainen
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Saarelainen riding in the 2012 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
Personal information
Full nameSari Saarelainen
Born (1981-03-01) 1 March 1981 (age 42)
Finland
Team information
Current team Roland Cycling
DisciplineRoad
Role
Amateur teams
2000Team Stuttgart [1]
2017–2018Maaslandster Veris CCN
Professional teams
1998Acca Due O–Lorena Camicie
1999Swam Hooch
2004Team Let's Go Finland [1]
2010 ACS Chirio–Forno d'Asolo [2]
2012 Forno d'Asolo Colavita [1]
2013 Faren–Let's Go Finland [1]
2013 MCipollini–Giordana
2014–2015 Servetto Footon [3]
2016 S.C. Michela Fanini Rox
2019–2021 Cogeas–Mettler–Look [4] [5]
Managerial team
2022– Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad

Sari Saarelainen (born 1 March 1981) is a Finnish former racing cyclist, [6] who now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's WorldTeam Roland Cycling. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. [7]

Contents

Saarelainen originally stopped competing in cycling at the end of 2004. However, she returned to competition in 2010 after becoming a mother.

Personal life

Outside of cycling she works as a cycling coach and physical training and she is an entrepreneur of a gym and a bike distribution, and she is also a singer and songwriter. [8]

Major results

Source: [9]

1998
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
2000
4th Tour de Berne
2001
1st MaillotFinlandia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
2002
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2003
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
2010
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2013
1st MaillotFinlandia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
2014
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
6th Overall 4Tour of Zhoushan Island
9th Grand Prix el Salvador
9th GP du Canton d'Argovie
2015
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
2016
National Road Championships
2nd Time trial
3rd Road race
4th VR Women ITT
7th Horizon Park Women Challenge
2017
National Road Championships
2nd Time trial
3rd Road race
2018
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
2019
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

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