Valentina Scandolara


Valentina Scandolara is an Italian road bicycle racer, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Women's Continental Team.

Career

Scandolara was born in Soave. She showed great talent in sports from a very early age, winning three National Champion titles in Cross Country running and one in Futsal, before committing full time to Cycling.
During the early stages of her professional career, she raced for Italian teams and was active on the Track and in Cyclocross, before being signed in 2014 from UCI number 1 ranked and fully commit to Road Cycling.
In November 2015 she was announced as part of the inaugural squad for the team for the 2016 season.
In September 2016 she was announced as part of the squad for 2017.
She took a break from professional racing at the start of 2018 due to physical health problems, but she would return to racing at the end of February with the Maaslandster International Women's Cycling Team at the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, before signing with Australian amateur team Roxsolt Attaquer to start a summer season of racing in the USA at the end of April. In between the 2017 and 2018 racing seasons, Scandolara completed the UCI Sport Directors Diploma and the UCI Coaching Diploma.
After winning the overall classification in the Lexus of Blackburn Bay Classic Series in January 2019, she directed Sarah Gigante to a double title in the Australian National Road Race Championships and the Australian National Time Trial Championships in Ballarat.
She also worked as Sport Director for the Sydney University–Staminade Cycling Team during UCI competitions "Race Melbourne", "Cadel Evans Road Race" and "Herald Sun Tour" in January 2019.

Personal life

In February 2019 she graduated in Psychology at the University of Padua, with a thesis on women's cycling titled "Mind over matter: Emotional Intelligence as an Important Predictor of Success in Professional Women's Cycling".

Major results

Sources:

Cycling

;2004
;2005
;2006
;2007
;2008
;2009
;2010
;2011
;2012
;2013
;2014
;2015
;2016
;2017
;2018
;2019

Other sports

Cross Country Running

;2000
;2001
;2002
;2003

Futsal

;2006