Yuliya Viktorovna Martisova (also ''Julia Martisova'', russian: Юлия Викторовна Мартисова; born 15 June 1976 in

Velikiye Luki Velikiye Luki ( rus, Вели́кие Лу́ки, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪjə ˈlukʲɪ; lit. ''great meanders''. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-П ...

, Pskov Oblast) is a Russian professional road cyclist. She has awarded two

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championship titles (2005 and 2008) in the women's road race, and later represented her nation

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at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Martisova currently races for Italy's pro cycling team during the 2013 annual season.

Racing career

Since her professional debut in 2000, Martisova made the worldwide headlines in her sporting career, following her tremendous success in the women's road race at the 2005 Russian Championships. Strong results landed her spot on the P.M.B. Fenix Cycling Team in

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under an exclusive three-year contract, and eventually added another title in her career hardware from the seventh stage of Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin in

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. When her contract with Fenix expired shortly, Martisova transferred to Gauss RDZ-Ormu pro cycling team in 2008, and stayed for four consecutive seasons. Furthermore, she recaptured her title in the same category at the Russian Championships on the same year. Martisova qualified for the Russian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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by receiving one of the nation's three available berths from the UCI World Cup. She scored a career-high, twelfth place as the top Russian cyclist on a grueling race against sixty-five other riders in 3:32:45, finishing more than twenty-one seconds behind Olympic champion

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of Great Britain. At the

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, Martisova could not chase four other riders from the leading group on the final lap, as she sprinted towards the finish line with a fifth-place effort in 3:21:28, narrowly missing out the podium by a short distance. In 2012, Martisova renounced her membership in Gauss, and instead signed a one-year exclusive contract with Italy's BePink ladies' cycling team.

Career highlights

;2000 : 2nd Stage 3,

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, France : 3rd Russian Championships (Road), Russia ;2001 : 2nd Overall, Trophée d'Or Féminin, France :: 1st Stage 1 ;2002 : 2nd Stage 5,

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, Italy : 3rd Stage 3,

, Italy ;2005 : 1st MaillotRusia

Russian Championships (Road), Russia : 1st Stage 7, Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin,

(FRA) : 2nd Stage 2, Tour de l'Ardèche,

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(FRA) : 2nd Stage 3, Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin,

(FRA) : 3rd Stage 1b, Tour de l'Ardèche,

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(FRA) : 3rd Stage 3b Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini,

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(ITA) : 3rd Stage 4, Tour de l'Ardèche,

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(FRA) ;2008 : 1st MaillotRusia

Russian Championships (Road), Russia : 3rd Overall,

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, France :: 1st Stage 3, Lauriere : 10th

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(Road),

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(ITA) : 59th

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(Road),

(CHN) ;2009 : 3rd Stage 6, Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile,

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(ITA) : 4th Stage 2, Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile,

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(ITA) : 6th Prologue, Route de France Féminine, Chaix (FRA) :: 3rd Stage 5, Châtelguyon :: 4th Stage 1,

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:: 4th Stage 2,

:: 6th Stage 3,

Vierzon Vierzon () is a commune in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. Geography A medium-sized town by the banks of the river Cher with some light industry and an area of forestry and farming to the north. It is situated some northwe ...

: 7th Stage 9, Giro d'Italia Donne,

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(ITA) ;2010 : 2nd Russian Championships (Road),

Cheboksary Cheboksary (; russian: Чебокса́ры, r=Cheboksáry, p=tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ; cv, Шупашкар, ''Şupaşkar'') is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River. Geography The city is located in the Volga Upland reg ...

(RUS) : 2nd Stage 6, Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin,

(FRA) : 3rd Stage 1, Trophée d'Or Féminin,

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(FRA) : 3rd Stage 3, Trophée d'Or Féminin,

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(FRA) : 5th Stage 3,

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(GER) : 5th Stage 8, Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin,

Limoux Limoux (; oc, Limós ) is a commune and subprefecture in the Aude department, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Occitanie region in southern France. Its vineyards are famous for being first to produce sparkling w ...

(FRA) : 5th Stage 9, Tour De L'Aude Cycliste Féminin,

(FRA) : 8th Stage 2, Giro d'Italia Donne,

Riese Pio X Riese may refer to: *Project Riese, a German Nazi World War II economic project *Riese Pio X, a municipality in Italy * Adam Ries (1492–1559), German mathematician *'' Riese: Kingdom Falling'' (originally named ''Riese''), an American science fic ...

(ITA) : 8th Stage 5, Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen,

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(GER) : 9th Stage 2, Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen,

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(GER) : 10th Stage 2, Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile,

(ITA) ;2011 : 3rd Stage 1, Tour de l'Ardèche,

(FRA) : 3rd Stage 3, Tour de l'Ardèche,

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(FRA) : 5th

(Road),

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(DEN) : 5th Stage 2, Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile,

(ITA) : 5th Stage 5, Giro d'Italia Donne,

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...

(ITA) : 7th Stage 6, Giro d'Italia Donne,

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(ITA) ;2012 : 5th Stage 4, Trophée d'Or Féminin,

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(FRA) : 8th Overall, Tour of Adygeya, Russia :: 1st Stage 1,

Maykop Maykop (russian: Майкоп, p=mɐjˈkop mɐj'kop); ady, Мыекъуапэ, Mıéquapə ) is the capital city of the Republic of Adygea in Russia, located on the right bank of the Belaya River (a tributary of the Kuban River). It borders Ma ...

:: 4th Stage 3,

: 10th Stage 1, Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile,

Viareggio Viareggio () is a city and ''comune'' in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. With a population of over 62,000, it is the second largest city within the province of Lucca, after Lucca. It is known as a seaside resort as ...

(ITA) ;2013 : 10th Overall,

Tour of Chongming Island The Tour of Chongming Island International Cycling Race is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Shanghai, China, named after Chongming Island. The Tour previously consisted of two races: a stage race and a one-day rac ...

World Cup, China

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Martisova, Yuliya 1976 births Living people People from Velikiye Luki Russian female cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Russia Sportspeople from Pskov Oblast