Cycling, women’s world championship: Silvia Persico, the blue-revelation

Placed in line, one after the other, they are results that speak for themselves. And that certify that 2022 launched Silvia Persico as the new name of Italian women’s cycling. The bronze medal won in the road test in line behind the Dutch Van Vleuten and the Belgian Kopecky, complete with his fist slammed against the handlebars at the end of the sprint, is just the latest example. From Bergamo from Cene, Silvia had already attended the world podium this year: bronze in the cross in the United States, at the end of January. She then she closed the Giro d’Italia seventh, and the Tour de France fifth. You have won the prestigious GP Liberation and in September the first joy in the WorldTour circuit had already arrived, a stage won at the Vuelta.

what a Girl

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Curiously, she was born on the same day as Filippo Ganna: July 25, even if in 1997 (so she is a year younger than the Piedmontese). Persico runs in Valcar, a team that is a real forge of talents: Elisa Balsamo and Vittoria Guazzini have been there, just to mention the most recent examples. And by now it is ready to land in the WorldTour, because it is destined to land in the UAE-Emirates of Pogacar in 2023. There are five brothers in the Persico family, and all have tried the bike: Silvia started by chance, because near her home there are ‘it was a track where he always saw cyclists training and asked his parents as a birthday present for a bike. Now she loves Peter Sagan and Marianne Vos in particular, meanwhile she can enjoy a double bronze medal season. And she closes it with the feeling that the best is yet to come.