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Born | [1] | 5 February 2006||||||||||||||
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Current team | Work Service–Vitalcare–Dynatek | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2023– | Work Service–Vitalcare–Dynatek | ||||||||||||||
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2024 Men’s junior Cyclo Cross World Championships | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stefano Viezzi (born 5 February 2006) is an Italian cyclist. He rides for Work Service–Vitalcare–Dynatek. In 2024, he became the Junior Cyclo-Cross World Champion.[2]
He started bike racing at seven years-old. He studies agriculture at the Istituto d'Istruzione Superiore Il Tagliamento in Spilimbergo.[3]
A keen road racer, cyclocross rider and also mountain biking rider, he has described his road racing skills as best suited to one-day classics riding.[4] He raced for Work Service–Vitalcare–Dynatek in 2023 and finished in the top 10 at the Italian junior time trial championship.[5] He won seven of the first eight cyclo cross races he took part in 2023, and finished fourth in the junior event at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Pontchâteau.[6]
He won the Junior race at the 2024 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tábor.[7] The win came despite the fact he suffered a puncture in the closing stages.[8] He became the first Italian winner in the race since Davide Malacarne in 2005.[9] Prior to that win, he had also become the Italian junior champion.[10]
From Majano, his parents are called Luigi and Michela. His father runs a marble company. He has two sisters, Elisa and Alice.[11]