Marta Bastianelli

Marta Bastianelli (born 30 April 1987 ) is an Italian former professional racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023. Bastianelli won the women's road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships ahead of Marianne Vos and Giorgia Bronzini, and also won the equivalent race at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships, again beating Vos.

Professional career Born in Velletri, near Rome, Bastianelli rode for the team from 2006 to 2008. On 5 July 2008, Bastianelli tested positive for a banned substance, the stimulant fenfluramine which can be found in dietary aids. It was found in her urine A sample during a routine doping control at the under 23 European championships held in Verbania, Italy. She was subsequently dropped from the Italian team for the 2008 Summer Olympics and handed a one-year ban by the Italian National Olympic Committee. Bastianelli appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn the ban, however the CAS instead extended her ban to two years after the Union Cycliste Internationale appealed, arguing that the initial ban was too lenient.

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the road race.

Personal life Bastianelli is married and has a daughter, born in 2014.

Major results

2004

2006 1st Young rider classification Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 2007

3rd Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria 3rd GP de Plouay – Bretagne 8th Overall Emakumeen Bira 8th Tour of Flanders for Women 8th Overall 2008 2nd La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

3rd Giro del Lago Maggiore 6th Road race, National Road Championships 8th Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio 8th Tour of Flanders for Women 8th Tour de Berne 9th Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile 10th Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira 2010 7th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 2011 5th Ronde van Gelderland 2012 2nd Novilon Euregio Cup 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2013 Tour Languedoc Roussillon 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 5th Time trial, National Road Championships Tour of Chongming Island 6th Overall Stage race 7th World Cup 2015 1st Stage 1 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 4th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 7th Sparkassen Giro 2016

1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 1st Omloop van het Hageland 1st Gran Premio della Liberazione Trophée d'Or Féminin

1st Stages 2 & 4 2nd Grand Prix de Dottignies 3rd Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 5th Ronde van Drenthe 5th Women's Tour de Yorkshire 8th Overall Belgium Tour 2017 1st Gran Premio della Liberazione 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 1st Stage 1 Emakumeen Euskal Bira 1st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia Femminile 4th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Crescent Vårgårda Road Race 9th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 2018

1st Gent–Wevelgem 1st Grand Prix de Dottignies 1st Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik 1st Trofee Maarten Wynants 1st Gold Trophy in Euro-Women's Bike Race 1st Stage 3 BeNe Ladies Tour 1st Stage 1 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 2nd Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 4th Road race, National Road Championships 4th Women's WorldTour Ronde van Drenthe 10th Overall Setmana Ciclista Valenciana 1st Stage 2 2019

1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Omloop van het Hageland 1st Ronde van Drenthe 1st Tour of Flanders for Women 1st Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 1st Stage 2 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen 1st Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2nd Dwars door Vlaanderen for Women 3rd Drentse Acht van Westerveld 4th Strade Bianche Women 4th Gent–Wevelgem 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 7th Overall Ladies Tour of Norway 7th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne 8th Le Samyn des Dames 8th Amstel Gold Race 2020 1st Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana Feminas 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2nd Omloop van het Hageland 4th GP de Plouay 7th Clasica Femenina Navarra 10th Strade Bianche Women 2021 1st La Périgord Ladies 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche 1st Stage 1 The Women's Tour 2nd La Picto–Charentaise 5th Gent–Wevelgem 5th Paris–Roubaix 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 8th Diamond Tour 9th Overall Holland Ladies Tour 9th Nokere Koerse 2022

1st Stage 1 1st Vuelta a la Comunitat Valenciana Feminas 1st Omloop van het Hageland 1st Stage 4 Setmana Ciclista Valenciana Bretagne Ladies Tour

1st Stages 1 & 2 3rd Nokere Koerse 3rd Classic Brugge–De Panne 5th Ronde van Drenthe 5th Dwars door Vlaanderen 6th Gent–Wevelgem 6th Overall RideLondon Classique 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 10th Tour of Flanders 2023 1st Stage 1 Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs 1st Le Samyn des Dames 2nd Overall Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs 2nd Omloop van het Hageland 3rd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 3rd Nokere Koerse 4th Diamond Tour 6th Gent–Wevelgem

Classics results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish OTL Outside time limit NH Not held