Sara Ferrara (born 24 July 1995) is a

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

from

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. She was born in

Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

to a Mexican father and a Finnish mother. Sara Ferrara began her cycling career representing Mexico as a Junior. She won three gold medals, in the Omnium, Individual Pursuit, and Team Pursuit at the 2012 junior Panamerican championships in Guatemala. She holds the Junior Individual pursuit national record in Finland with a time of 2:26.5 as well as the U16 with a time of 2:30.1. She represented Mexico at the 2012 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Invercargill Championships as well as at the 2013 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships Glasgow. She represented Mexico at the 2013 UCI World Cup Aguascalientes in the Team Pursuit. In 2014 she changed nationalities with the UCI to represent Finland. She represented her nation at the

2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18–22 ...

. She was born in

to a Mexican father and a Finnish mother. In 2018 she was selected for the European Championship Games in Glasgow.

Major results

;2012 :1st Individual Pursuit, Junior Panamerican championships :1st Team Pursuit, Junior Panamerican championships :1st Omnium, Junior Panamerican championships ;2015 :17th Scratch Race, UCI World Championships ;2016 :10th Scratch Race, U23 European Championships ;2016 :10th Scratch Race, UCI world cup Glasgow ;2017 :1st Scratch Race, TROFEU CIUTAT DE BARCELONA-Memorial Miquel Poblet

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* 1995 births Finnish female cyclists Living people Finnish people of Mexican descent Sportspeople from Monterrey {{Finland-cycling-bio-stub