Paola Pezzo
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Gold | Sydney 2000 | Mountainbike |
Paola Pezzo (born January 8, 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy.
Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.