Elena Cecchini (born 25 May 1992) is an Italian
racing cyclist
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...
, who currently rides for
UCI Women's WorldTeam . She competed in the
2013 UCI women's team time trial in
Florence
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Florence ...
.
Career
In 2013 and 2014, she rode for the team. In November 2015 she was announced as part of the team's inaugural squad for the 2016 season. She remained with the team until the end of the 2020 season; in August 2020, she signed a two-year contract with the team, from the 2021 season.
Personal life
Cecchini is married to fellow cyclist
Elia Viviani
Elia Viviani (born 7 February 1989) is an Italian professional Cycle sport, cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . On 10 May 2015, Viviani won his first Grand Tour stage victory at the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia, win ...
. Cecchini is an athlete of
Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Azzurre.
Major results
Track
;2009
: 2nd

Points race,
UCI Juniors Track World Championships
;2010
:
UEC European Junior Track Championships
::1st

Points race
::2nd

Team pursuit
: 3rd

Scratch,
UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships
;2011
: National Track Championships
::2nd Team sprint
::3rd Keirin
::3rd Scratch
;2012
: 2nd

Points race,
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
: 3rd Team pursuit, National Track Championships
;2013
: National Track Championships
::1st

Points race
::1st

Team pursuit
: 3 Jours d'Aigle
::1st Points race
::2nd Scratch
: 3rd

Team pursuit,
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships (with
Beatrice Bartelloni,
Maria Giulia Confalonieri and
Chiara Vannucci)
;2014
:
UEC European Under-23 Track Championships
::1st

Points race
::3rd

Team pursuit (with
Beatrice Bartelloni,
Maria Giulia Confalonieri and
Francesca Pattaro)
::3rd

Scratch
: 1st

Team pursuit, National Track Championships
: International Track Women & Men (Under-23)
::2nd Scratch
::2nd Points race
:
UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
::3rd
Points race
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::3rd
Scratch
Road
Source:
;2009
: 1st

Road race,
UEC European Junior Road Championships
: 5th Road race,
UCI Junior World Championships
;2010
: 6th Road race,
UEC European Junior Road Championships
;2011
: 5th
GP Comune di Cornaredo
: 10th Overall
Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
;2012
: 1st Overall
Trophée d'Or Féminin
::1st Stage 1
: 10th Overall
Ladies Tour of Qatar
;2013
: 5th
Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo
: 10th
Classica Citta di Padova
;2014
: 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
: 2nd
Road race,
UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
: 2nd
Tour of Chongming Island World Cup
: 4th
Grand Prix de Dottignies
: 5th
Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
: 6th Overall
Tour of Chongming Island
: 8th Overall
Ladies Tour of Qatar
: 10th Overall
The Women's Tour
: 10th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
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;2015
: 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
: 1st Stage 1
Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs
: 1st

Sprints classification
Tour Femenino de San Luis
: 3rd Overall
BeNe Ladies Tour
: 3rd
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
: 4th Overall
Belgium Tour
: 5th
Tour of Flanders for Women
: 5th
Dwars door de Westhoek
: 5th
Sparkassen Giro
: 6th
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
: 6th
Grand Prix de Dottignies
: 7th
Gran Prix San Luis Femenino
: 7th
GP de Plouay
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: 7th
La Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
: 9th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy i ...
: 10th
Le Samyn des Dames
: 10th
Strade Bianche Women
;2016
: 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
: 1st

Overall
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
: 2nd
Team time trial
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The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
,
UCI Road World Championships
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: 2nd
GP de Plouay – Bretagne
: 2nd Dwars door de Westhoek
: 4th Overall
Energiewacht Tour
: 8th
Omloop van Borsele
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: 8th
Philadelphia Cycling Classic
: 9th
Chrono Champenois
: 10th Overall
Gracia–Orlová
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Honours
Jerseys
As of the 2013 edition: ...
;2017
: 2nd
Road race, National Road Championships
: 2nd
Ronde van Drenthe
Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing
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: 3rd
Crescent Vårgårda TTT
: 5th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy i ...
: 5th
GP de Plouay – Bretagne
: 6th
Tour of Flanders for Women
: 9th
Gent–Wevelgem
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: 10th
Road race,
UCI Road World Championships
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: 10th Overall
Holland Ladies Tour
: 10th
Strade Bianche Women
;2018
: 1st
Team time trial
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The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...
,
UCI Road World Championships
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:
Mediterranean Games
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::1st
Time trial
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::9th
Road race
: 1st
Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 4th Road race,
UEC European Road Championships
: 4th
Open de Suède Vårgårda
: 4th
GP de Plouay – Bretagne
: 5th Overall
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
::1st Stage 2
: 10th Overall
Holland Ladies Tour
;2019
: 1st
Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 2nd

Road race,
UEC European Road Championships
: 2nd
Postnord Vårgårda West Sweden TTT
: 4th
Dwars door Vlaanderen for Women
: 5th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a one day women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the ''comune'' (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy i ...
: 8th Overall
Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen
::1st Stage 6
: 8th
Gent–Wevelgem
Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...
: 9th
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
: 10th
GP de Plouay – Bretagne
;2020
:
UEC European Road Championships
::3rd

Mixed team relay
::9th Road race
: 5th
GP de Plouay
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: 8th
Clasica Femenina Navarra
;2021
: 1st
Mixed team relay,
UEC European Road Championships
: 2nd
Ronde van Drenthe
Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing
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: 3rd
Mixed team relay,
UCI Road World Championships
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;2022
: 2nd
Mixed team relay,
UCI Road World Championships
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: 2nd
Postnord Vårgårda WestSweden TTT
: 4th
Omloop van het Hageland
: 5th
Trofeo Alfredo Binda
: 9th
Drentse Acht van Westerveld
;2023
: 2nd

Team relay,
UEC European Road Championships
;2024
: 1st Team relay,
UEC European Road Championships
References
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1992 births
Living people
Italian female cyclists
Sportspeople from Udine
Cyclists from the Province of Udine
Cyclists at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Italy
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Italy
Italian track cyclists
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in cycling
Cyclists at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
Cyclists of Fiamme Azzurre
21st-century Italian sportswomen
Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics