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.
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 GentâÂÂWevelgem
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
2018âÂÂ19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
:1st Team pursuit (Round 6, Hong Kong)
:2nd Madison (Round 5, Cambridge)
:3rd Team pursuit (Round 5, Cambridge)
2019âÂÂ20 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
2019âÂÂ20 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
References
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