Paola Pezzo
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| Full name | Paola Pezzo | |||||||||||||||
| Born |
January 8, 1969 Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy | |||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Mountain bike racing | |||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||
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| Gary Fisher, Specialized Factory Team | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.
Biography
Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.
See also
External links
- Her bio on the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
- Paola Pezzo profile at Cycling Archives
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Media related to Paola Pezzo at Wikimedia Commons
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