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Personal information | |
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Full name | Paola Pezzo |
Born | Bosco Chiesanuova, Italy | 8 January 1969
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Discipline | Mountain bike racing |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Cross-country |
Professional team | |
Gary Fisher, Specialized Factory Team | |
Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969, in Bosco Chiesanuova) is an Italian cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona. In 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S., she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut.
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Biography
Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1997, she won the Grundig World Cup crown.
Achievement
She won two gold medals. One in Atlanta '96 and the other in Sydney '00. She also won the mountain-bike championships in 1993 and 1997.
See also
External links
Media related to Paola Pezzo at Wikimedia Commons
- Her bio on the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
- Paola Pezzo at Cycling Archives
- Paola Pezzo at Olympics.com
- Paola Pezzo at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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