Ana Maria Vitelaru
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| Born | 30 March 1983 Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ana Maria Vitelaru (born 30 March 1983) is an Italian cyclist who competes in handcycle events. Vitelaru has appeared in two Summer Paralympics, 2020 in Tokyo and 2024 in Paris, winning a bronze medal in the latter.
Early life
[edit]Vitelaru was born in Romania on 30 March 1983. In 2000, when she was 17, she emigrated to Italy, and in the same year, she was involved in an accident at a train station that caused her to have both of her legs amputated.[1][2]
Cycling career
[edit]At the 2018 Road World Championships, Vitelaru won the bronze medal in the road race and time trial.[3] She also competed in these two events in the 2021 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, where she won the silver medal in both of these events behind Chantal Haenen.[4] At the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Vitelaru won the silver medal in the road race and time trial events.[5][6] At the 2023 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, she won the bronze medal in the time trial. In the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Vitelaru won the bronze medal in the road race.
References
[edit]- ^ "Ana Maria Vitelaru". paralympic.org. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
- ^ Giannetta, Eugenio (3 September 2024). "Ciclismo. Ana Maria Vitelaru: «Ho perso mio fratello, vorrei il podio per lui»" (in Italian). Avvenire.
- ^ "OFFICIAL BOOK OF RESULTS" (PDF). UCI. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- ^ "Chantal Haenen pakt goud op WK Handbike". 1Limburg | Nieuws en sport uit Limburg (in Dutch). 11 June 2021. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ "OFFICIAL RESULTS WOMEN'S H5 TIME TRIAL" (PDF).
- ^ "OFFICIAL RESULTS WOMEN'S H5 ROAD RACE" (PDF).
External links
[edit]- 1983 births
- Living people
- Paralympic cyclists for Italy
- Italian female cyclists
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Romanian emigrants to Italy
- Paralympic medalists in cycling
- 21st-century Italian sportswomen