Marella Salamat

Marella Vania Salamat (born 24 April 1994) is a Filipina road cycling racer and former bowler.

Education Salamat attended the University of the East where she pursued a course on dentistry. She decided to halt her studies on her second year to give more focus on her cycling career. She later resumed her bid to obtain a degree and began taking an online marketing course by the Southville International Colleges.

Career Salamat is a former bowling athlete who shifted to competitive cycling in 2013. She was scouted by national cycling coach Cesar Lobramonte in 2013 when she was biking with Edward Coo and Orlyn Batistin, her bowling coaches, at the Mall of Asia grounds as part of her cross training. Lobramonte encouraged her to shift to the sport.

She then won a gold medal at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games at the women's individual time trial event.

At the 2016 World University Cycling Championship, Salamat won a bronze medal at the women's road race event.

Salamat placed eighth at the nine-legged 2017 Biwase Cup Tour of Vietnam while in the team classification event she led the Philippines to a seventh-place finish.

Major results

2015 Southeast Asian Games

8th Road race 2016

8th Overall Tour of Thailand 9th Time trial, Asian Road Championships 2017 5th Road race, Southeast Asian Games 6th Overall Tour of Thailand 8th Time trial, Asian Road Championships 2019 Southeast Asian Games 7th Time trial 7th Road race 2022 6th Time trial, Southeast Asian Games