{"id":124936,"date":"2026-10-04T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/?p=124936"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:58:16","slug":"azzurra-ballan-campionessa-europea-juniores-della-prova-in-linea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/azzurra-ballan-campionessa-europea-juniores-della-prova-in-linea\/","title":{"rendered":"Azzurra Ballan, European Junior Road Race Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">LJUBLJANA \u2013\u00a0<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">Azzurra Ballan<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> She is the new European champion in the Junior Women&#039;s Road Race. On the 66-kilometer course in \u0160en\u010dur, the Italian rider won Italy&#039;s first gold medal at the European Road Cycling Championships, after a race she led from the outset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Ballan joined the action, which began after the first descent from Mo\u017ejanca, with a group of five riders leading the way. As the kilometers passed, the lead grew, reaching over two minutes. At the finish, after Spaniard Naxara Odriozola&#039;s gap, four remained in contention for the title: Ballan, France&#039;s Morgane Lestrade, and Germany&#039;s Klara Dworatzek and Leni Burger. <\/span><span class=\"s2\">The chasing pack couldn&#039;t catch up, and the title was decided in a sprint. Ballan took the right position and launched the sprint at the decisive moment, edging out Lestrade and Dworatzek. Burger finished fourth, five seconds behind. Behind them, Elisa Bianchi led the pack and finished fifth, 1&#039;34&quot; behind the winner. Also in the same group were Matilde Rossignoli, eleventh, and Giorgia Pellizotti, seventeenth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Elisa Bianchi also performed well, finishing fifth, 1&#039;34&quot; behind the winner, while Matilde Rossignoli finished 11th. Giorgia Pellizotti finished 17th and Alessia Orsi 20th, completing the Italian team&#039;s results. Rachele Cafueri, however, did not finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Ballan thus earned his first European title in the Junior category, while the Italian national team won its first gold medal at the continental tournament in Slovenia.<\/span><span class=\"s3\"> \u201c&quot;I wasn&#039;t expecting it; it was really tough because I was in the breakaway for most of the race. When I started, I wasn&#039;t feeling great, so I tried to get ahead of the pack along with some other girls on the first descent. In the end, it went well: we built up a big lead and managed to keep it until the finish.&quot;.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUBIANA &#8211;\u00a0 Azzurra Ballan \u00e8 la nuova campionessa europea della prova in linea Donne Juniores. Sui 66 chilometri del percorso di \u0160en\u010dur, l&#8217;azzurra conquista il primo oro dell&#8217;Italia ai Campionati Europei di ciclismo su strada, al termine di una gara condotta da protagonista fin dalle prime fasi. Ballan entra nell&#8217;azione che prende forma dopo la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sb_editor_width":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[1627,1579,1577,2552,1578,4481],"ppma_author":[801],"class_list":["post-124936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciclismo","tag-alessia-orsi","tag-azzurra-ballan","tag-elisa-bianchi","tag-giorgia-pellizotti","tag-matilde-rossignoli","tag-rachele-cafueri"],"relative_dates":{"created":"2 weeks ago","modified":"2 weeks ago"},"authors":[{"term_id":801,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"bonanni","display_name":"Red Com","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","author_category":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124940,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124936\/revisions\/124940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primasport.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=124936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}