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Alessandro Fancellu

Alessandro Fancellu
Fancellu (left) in the junior men's road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships
Personal information
Born (2000-04-24) 24 April 2000 (age 24)
Como, Italy
Height1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight62 kg (137 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamQ36.5 Pro Cycling Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur team
2019Kometa U23
Professional teams
2020–2023Kometa Xstra Cycling Team[2][3]
2020Trek–Segafredo (stagiaire)[4]
2024–Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

Alessandro Fancellu (born 24 April 2000) is an Italian cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team.[5] Fancellu previously rode for Kometa Xstra Cycling Team, where he was promoted to the senior team in 2020 after a year with their under-23 development side.[2]

In the junior men's road race at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships, Fancellu finished over a minute and a half behind runaway winner Remco Evenepoel but managed to outsprint Alexandre Balmer to take the bronze medal.[6] In 2020, from 1 August until the end of the year, Fancellu joined UCI WorldTeam Trek–Segafredo as a stagiaire.[4]

Early life

Fancellu started his sport career in association football, playing for local amateur side Oratorio Solbiate as an attacker before taking up cycling at the age of 12.[1]

Major results

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alessandro Fancellu". Eolo–Kometa. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "The Kometa Cycling Team is reinforced with the Italian Alessandro Fancellu, the second signing for next season". Kometa Cycling Team. 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Eolo–Kometa". UCI. Archived from the original on 7 January 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Trek-Segafredo adds four stagiaires". Trek–Segafredo. Trek. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. ^ Benson, Daniel (27 September 2018). "UCI Road World Championships: Evenepoel wins Junior Men's road race". CyclingNews. Retrieved 25 March 2021.