Rider Profile
Elisa Longo Borghini
Lidl-Trek Women
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Lidl-Trek Women
- 2023 - Lidl-Trek Women
- 2022 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2021 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2020 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2019 - Trek-Segafredo Women
- 2018 - Wiggle High5
- 2017 - Wiggle High5
- 2016 - Wiggle High5
- 2015 - Wiggle Honda
- 2014 - Team Hitec Products
- 2012 - Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team
- 2011 - Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
Biography:
Four times a double road national champion for Italy (2017, 2020, 2021, 2023), Elisa Longo Borghini is a veteran who excels at almost any challenge, but especially as a climber on one-day races. Born on December 10, 1991 in Ornavasso in the Piedmont region, Longo Borghini made her professional debut at the age of 18, riding for the Top Girls Fasso Bortolo regional team. Her first pro victory came a year later in 2012, when she won a stage and the mountains classification at the 2.1-ranked Internationale Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen and followed that with a bronze medal in the elite women’s road race at the World Championships.
Top 10s sprinkled with major victories became normal for her results across eight seasons with two different Continental teams. She became the first Italian to win Tour of Flanders, which she accomplished in 2015 with Wiggle Honda. Before she landed at Trek-Segafredo in 2019, Longo Borghini earned a bronze medal in the individual time trial at the Rio Olympic Games, won Strade Bianche (2017) and won three nationals titles, twice in the ITT (2016, 2017).
Once at the Trek team, which moved to the Women’s WorldTour level in 2020, Longo Borghini seemed to ride even better, taking victories at GP de Plouay, Paris-Roubaix Femmes, the overall GC at UAE Tour Women and seven more national titles. She also won a second Olympic Games bronze medal, this time in the mixed relay TTT.
Key Results
2023
🥇 Italian National Championships road race
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥇 One stage and GC at UAE Tour Women
🥇 One stage at Giro d’Italia Donne
🥈 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes
🥉 Tour of Flanders
🥉 One stage and GC Tour de Suisse Women
2022
🥇 Paris-Roubaix Femmes
🥇 Giro dell’Emilia Internazionale Donne
🥇 Tre Valli Varesine Women’s Race
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥇 One stage and GC at Women’s Tour
🥈 One stage and GC at Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
🥉 Two stages at Women’s Tour
🥉 One stage and GC at Tour de Romandie Féminin
2021
🥇 Italian National Championships road race
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥇 Trofeo Alfredo Binda
🥇 GP de Plouay
🥈 One stage of Giro d’Italia Donne
🥈 Strade Bianche Donne
🥉 Paris-Roubaix Femmes
🥉 Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes
🥉 La Flèche Wallone Féminine
🥉 World Championships mixed relay TTT
2020
🥇 Italian National Championships road race
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥇 Two stages Giro d’Italia Donne
🥈 One stage and GC t Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta
🥈 European Championships elite women’s road race
🥉 World Championships elite women’s road race
2019
🥇 One stage, mountains classification, GC at Emakumeen Bira
🥈 Giro dell’Emilia Internazionale Donne
🥉 Two stages Giro d’Italia Donne
🥉 Italian National Championships ITT
2018
🥇 Mediterranean Games road race
🥇 Mountains classification Women’s Tour
🥉 Strade Bianche
2017
🥇 Strade Bianche Women
🥇 Italian National Championships road race
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥈 GC at Giro Rosa
2016
🥇 Italian National Championships ITT
🥉 Olympic Games road race
2015
🥇 La Route de France
🥇 Tour of Flanders
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