Vera Carrara

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Vera Carrara
Personal information
Full name	Vera Carrara
Born	(1980-04-06) April 6, 1980 Alzano Lombardo, Italy
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)^[1]
Weight	62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)^[1]
Team information
Discipline	Road & Track
Role	Rider
Amateur team(s)
1987–1996 1997 1998 1999 2000	G.S. Valoti Arredamenti Selene Rama-Valoti Equipe Selene Rama-Valoti Bata Moser
Professional team(s)
2001–2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008–	Team Itera Road Runnner Guerciotti G.S. Fiamme Azzurre USC Chirio Forno d'Asolo Safi - Pasta Zara - Manhattan Cmax Dila
Major wins
Multiple World Champion
Infobox last updated on 4 September 2008

Vera Carrara (born 6 April 1980) is an Italian professional racing cyclist.

Carrara was born in Alzano Lombardo and joined the G.S. Valoti Arredamenti at the age of seven. Since then she has become a multiple world champion in the points race, but despite her track cycling success she also races on the road, winning a stage of the Holland Ladies Tour in 2006 and finishing second in the prologue of the 2008 Giro d'Italia Femminile.

Palmarès

1998: 1st Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Juniors

2000: 3rd European Road Race Championships, U23, Kielce (POL)

2001: 3rd European Track Championships, Omnium

2002: 1st Pursuit, European Track Championships, U23; 3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Kopenhagen; 2nd European Time Trial Championships, U23, Grassobbio (ITA)

2003: 2nd Pursuit, Italian National Track Championships; 1st Points race, 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney (AUS); 2nd Points race, 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Cape Town (RSA)

2004: 2nd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Melbourne; 1st Giro del Lago Maggiore - GP Knorr (SUI); 5th Points race, 2004 Summer Olympics

2005: 2nd Points race, 2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester (GBR); 1st Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Los Angeles

2006: 1st Points race, 2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney (AUS); 1st Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Bordeaux; 1st Stage 5, Holland Ladies Tour, Oirschot (NED)
2007: 1st Points race, Italian National Track Championships, Dalmine; 2nd Scratch, Italian National Track Championships, Dalmine; 1st Italian National Time Trial Championships, Novi Ligure; 1st Omnium, European Track Championships, Cottbus (GER)

2008: 3rd Points race, UCI Track Cycling World Championships; 1st GP Rund um Visp (SUI); 2nd Prologue, Giro d'Italia Femminile, Mantova; 14th Points race, 2008 Summer Olympics

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Champions : Vera Carrara". Bianchi.

External links

Official website
Vera Carrara profile at Cycling Archives

Persondata
Name	Carrara, Vera
Alternative names
Short description	Italian racing cyclist
Date of birth	6 April 1980
Place of birth	Alzano Lombardo, Italy
Date of death
Place of death

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