Letizia Paternoster (born 22 July 1999) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
In October 2017, she won gold in the team pursuit at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berlin. In April 2018, she won the Gran Premio della Liberazione in Rome, her first professional road race victory. Two days later, she started in the Festival Elsy Jacobs, a three-day stage event in Luxembourg, and claimed the final stage and the general classification. Actor Peter Facinelli is her uncle.Un mondo di Letizia: medaglie, pizza e la solitudine della montagna gnewsonline.it
Major results Road
2016 1st Stage 1 (ITT) Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen 2nd Road race, National Junior Championships 3rd Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda 4th Road race, UEC European Junior Championships 5th Road race, UCI World Junior Championships 2017 National Junior Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial UEC European Junior Championships 2nd Time trial 3rd Road race 3rd Road race, UCI World Junior Championships 3rd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli 4th GP della Liberazione 4th Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2018 1st Overall GP Elsy Jacobs 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 2 1st GP della Liberazione 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2019 1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under 3rd Gent–Wevelgem 5th RideLondon Classique 7th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour 7th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Championships 8th Road race, European Games 8th Overall Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta 8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli 2023 6th Omloop van het Hageland 9th Ronde van Drenthe 10th Nokere Koerse 10th Scheldeprijs 2024 1st Tour de Gatineau 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen 4th Ronde van Drenthe 4th Overall RideLondon Classique 4th Chrono Gatineau 5th Overall Tour of Britain 9th Tour of Flanders 2025 5th Trofeo Alfredo Binda 9th Le Samyn 2026 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Track
2016 UCI Junior World Championships 1st Points race 1st Team pursuit UEC European Junior Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Points race 1st Scratch race
2017 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships UEC European Junior Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Individual pursuit 1st Elimination race 1st Omnium 1st Madison Track Cycling Challenge 2nd Madison (with Maria Giulia Confalonieri) 2nd Omnium
2018 UEC European Track Championships 2nd Team pursuit 3rd Omnium UCI World Championships 3rd Madison 3rd Team pursuit International Belgian Track Meeting 2nd Points Race 3rd Madison (with Marta Cavalli)
2019 UEC European U23 Championships 1st Team pursuit 1st Madison 1st Team pursuit, 2019 European Games 2nd Omnium, UCI World Championships 2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup 1st Team pursuit (Round 6, Hong Kong) 2nd Madison (Round 5, Cambridge) 3rd Team pursuit (Round 5, Cambridge) 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup 2nd Omnium (Round 1, Minsk) 3rd Team pursuit (Round 1, Minsk) UEC European Track Championships 3rd Team pursuit
2020 UCI World Championships 2nd Omnium 3rd Madison 2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup 2nd Omnium (Round 6, Milton)
2021 UCI World Championships 1st Elimination 2nd Team pursuit UEC European Track Championships 2nd Elimination 2nd Team pursuit 3rd Madison, National Track Championships
2022 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
2023 2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
2024 1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
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