Vera Carrara (born 6 April 1980) is an Italian professional
racing cyclist
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.
Carrara was born in
Alzano Lombardo
Alzano Lombardo (Bergamasque: ) is a in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, northern Italy.
Alzano received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree of 11 March 1991. It is home to the San Martino Museum of Religious Art and the Basi ...
and joined the G.S. Valoti Arredamenti at the age of seven. Since then she has become a multiple world champion in the
points race
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, but despite her track cycling success she also races on the road, winning a stage of the
Holland Ladies Tour
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in 2006 and finishing second in the prologue of the 2008
Giro d'Italia Femminile
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.
Palmarès
;1998
:1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Juniors
;2000
:3rd European Road Race Championships, U23, Kielce (POL)
;2001
:3rd
European Track Championships
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, Omnium
;2002
:1st Pursuit,
European Track Championships
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, U23
:3rd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Kopenhagen
:2nd European Time Trial Championships, U23, Grassobbio (ITA)
;2003
:2nd Pursuit,
Italian National Track Championships
:1st Points race,
2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
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H ...
, Sydney (AUS)
:2nd Points race,
2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics
The 2003 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics is a multi race tournament over a season of track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles.
H ...
, Cape Town (RSA)
;2004
:2nd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Melbourne
:1st Giro del Lago Maggiore - GP Knorr (SUI)
:5th
Points race
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,
2004 Summer Olympics
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;2005
:2nd Points race,
2004–2005 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester (GBR)
:1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Los Angeles
;2006
:1st Points race,
2005–2006 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney (AUS)
:1st Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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, Bordeaux
:1st Stage 5,
Holland Ladies Tour
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, Oirschot (NED)
;2007
:1st Points race,
Italian National Track Championships, Dalmine
:2nd Scratch,
Italian National Track Championships, Dalmine
:1st
Italian National Time Trial Championships
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, Novi Ligure
:1st Omnium,
European Track Championships
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, Cottbus (GER)
;2008
:3rd Points race,
UCI Track Cycling World Championships
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:1st GP Rund um Visp (SUI)
:2nd Prologue,
Giro d'Italia Femminile
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, Mantova
:14th
Points race
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,
2008 Summer Olympics
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1980 births
Living people
People from Alzano Lombardo
Italian female cyclists
Olympic cyclists of Italy
Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (women)
Cyclists from the Province of Bergamo
Italian track cyclists
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