Rasa Leleivytė

Rasa Leleivytė (born 22 July 1988) is a Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team .

Career She had a top-ten finish in the women's road race at the 2019 European Games, placing ninth overall at the finish in Minsk, Belarus, credited with the same time as the race winner, Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands.

She finished third at the 2021 European Road Championships. She competed at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021, placing 35th overall in the women's road race, where she competed with broken ribs sustained competing in Italy prior to the race. In 2021 Leleivytė won the Lithuanian Female Cyclist of the Year award.

She finished in twentieth place overall in the women's road race at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.

In April 2025, she had a top-ten finish at the Volta Limburg Classic in the Netherlands, finishing three seconds behind the race winner, Dutch cyclist Femke Gerritse, in tenth place.

Doping On July 18, 2012, it was announced that she failed a doping test on June 12 of the same year and that her A sample was consistent with the use of EPO. Leilevytė had to pay a 5040 Euro fine and was suspended for two years until 13 July 2014.

Personal life She is from Vilnius. She later based herself in Italy. Her husband Paolo Baldi works as the sports director of the Lithuanian-based Aromitalia 3T Vaiano team.

Major results

2005

3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2006

2007

4th Grand Prix de Dottignies 2008

1st Giro del Valdarno 2nd Classica Citta di Padova 3rd GP Carnevale d'Europa 5th Overall La Route de France 7th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin 1st Young rider classification 2009

4th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 8th GP de Plouay – Bretagne 2010 1st GP Comune di Cornaredo 1st Stage 3 Trophée d'Or Féminin 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Ladies Tour of Qatar 1st Stage 1 4th GP Liberazione 8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 8th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 10th GP de Plouay – Bretagne 2011

1st GP Comune di Cornaredo 3rd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 4th GP Liberazione 5th Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol 5th Grand Prix de Dottignies 5th Tour of Chongming Island World Cup 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 9th GP de Plouay – Bretagne 2012 5th Grand Prix de Dottignies 9th GP Comune di Cornaredo 2015 3rd SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn 8th Overall Auensteiner–Radsporttage 10th GP de Plouay 2016 4th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 5th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 6th Gooik–Geraardsbergen–Gooik 6th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 7th La Classique Morbihan 2017 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2nd Gran Premio della Liberazione 2nd Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 7th Tour of Flanders for Women 7th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 2018

1st Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 2nd La Classique Morbihan 3rd Gran Premio della Liberazione 5th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 6th Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik 9th Flanders Ladies Classic 10th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite 2019 3rd Overall Giro delle Marche in Rosa 4th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 4th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 9th Road race, European Games 10th Road race, UEC European Road Championships 2020 2nd Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 6th Brabantse Pijl Dames Gooik 2021 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini

4th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 2022

4th Gran Premio della Liberazione 5th Ladies Tour of Estonia 6th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 8th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite 9th Memorial Monica Bandini 2023 2nd Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini 1st Stage 2 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2024 8th Gran Premio della Liberazione