Marta Bastianelli

Marta Bastianelli

Personal information
Full name	Marta Bastianelli
Born	30 April 1987 (1987-04-30) (age 24) Velletri, Italy
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2006-2007	Safi - Pasta Zara Manhattan
Medal record Competitor for  Italy Road bicycle racing UCI Road World Championships Gold 2007 Stuttgart Women's Road Race
Infobox last updated on 12 October 2007

Marta Bastianelli (born 30 April 1987^[1] in Velletri) is an Italian professional racing cyclist. She was born in Velletri, near Rome.

Professional career

Her most prolific win to date is taking gold at the women's road race during the UCI Road World Championships in the southern German city of Stuttgart in September 2007. Bastianelli won ahead of the Netherlands' rider Marianne Vos and her Italian team mate Giorgia Bronzini.^[2]

Bastianelli rides for the Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan team.

On 5 July 2008, Bastianelli tested positive for a banned substance, the stimulant flenfluramine which can be found in dietary aids. It was found in her urine A sample during a routine doping control at the under 23 European championships held in Verbania, Italy. Results of the B sample are pending and may affect her participation in the 2008 Summer Olympic games.^[3][4]

Palmarès

2004

2nd Junior Road World Championships

2007

1st UCI Road World Championships

3rd GP de Plouay

2nd U23 European Road Championships

2008

3rd U23 European Road Championships

6th Italian National Road Race Championships

References

1. ^ Profile on cyclebase.nl
2. ^ 'Bastianelli on the podium', Yahoo Sports
3. ^ Stephen Farrand (28 July 2008). "WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPION BASTIANELLI TESTS POSITIVE". Cycling Weekly. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/womens_world_champion_Bastianelli_tests_positive_article_264450.html. 
4. ^ "Cooke road rival fails drugs test". BBC Sport. 28 July 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/cycling/7529836.stm. 

Sporting positions
Preceded by Marianne Vos	World Road Race Champion 2007	Succeeded by Nicole Cooke

Persondata
Name	Bastianelli, Marta
Alternative names
Short description	Italian racing cyclist
Date of birth	30 April 1987
Place of birth	Velletri, Italy
Date of death
Place of death