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class='container'> <ol class='breadcrumb'> <li> <a href='/'>Home</a> </li> <li><a href="/athletes">Athletes</a></li><li class="active">Paola Pezzo</li> </ol> <div class='athlete_header'> <div> <h1> Paola Pezzo </h1> <form action='/athlete_merges/13198/edit' class='form-inline' method='get'> </form> </div> </div> <div class='athlete_bio'> <div class='athlete_photo_bio'> <a href='https://d2a3o6pzho379u.cloudfront.net/13198.jpg' rel='lightbox' title='Photo of Paola Pezzo'> <img class='photo' src='https://d2a3o6pzho379u.cloudfront.net/13198.jpg'> </a> <div> <h2> Biographical information </h2> <table class='biodata'> <tr><th>Roles</th><td>Competed in Olympic Games</td></tr> <tr><th>Sex</th><td>Female</td></tr> <tr><th>Full name</th><td>Paola•Pezzo (-Rosola)</td></tr> <tr><th>Used name</th><td>Paola•Pezzo</td></tr> <tr><th>Born</th><td>8 January 1969 in <a href="/place_names/10124">Bosco Chiesanuova, Verona (ITA)</a></td></tr> <tr><th>Measurements</th><td>178 cm / 58 kg</td></tr> <tr><th>Affiliations</th><td>Team Gatorade</td></tr> <tr><th>NOC</th><td><img style="padding-right: 2px; vertical-align: middle" src="https://olympedia-flags.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ITA.png" /> <a href="/countries/ITA">Italy</a></td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <table class='athlete_sidebar'> <tbody> <tr> <td> <b>Medals</b> </td> <td>OG</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="Gold">Gold</span></td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="Silver">Silver</span></td> <td>0</td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="Bronze">Bronze</span></td> <td>0</td> </tr> <tr> <td class='border-top'>Total</td> <td class='border-top'>2</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <h2> Biography </h2> <div class='description'> <p>Together with Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjå, Paola Pezzo is the only woman to have won World, Olympic and World Cup Championships in cross-country mountain biking. She won her World Championship gold medals in 1993 and 1997, adding bronzes in 1999 and 2000, and claimed the inaugural Olympic title at the Atlanta Olympics, retaining her title at the Sydney Games in 2000. She won the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 1997, winning no less than eight of the ten World Cup races. She retired after the Sydney Olympics, but returned in 2004, with much less success.</p> </div> <h2>Results</h2> <table class='table'> <thead> <tr> <th>Games</th> <th>Discipline (Sport) / Event</th> <th>NOC / Team</th> <th>Pos</th> <th>Medal</th> <th>As</th> <th></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class='active'> <td> <a href="/editions/24">1996 Summer Olympics</a> </td> <td><a href="/sports/MTB">Cycling Mountain Bike</a> (<a href="/sport_groups/CY">Cycling</a>)</td> <td><a href="/countries/ITA"><img style="padding-right: 2px; vertical-align: middle" src="https://olympedia-flags.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ITA.png" />ITA</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>Paola Pezzo</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> <a href="/results/154920">Cross-Country, Women</a> <small>(Olympic)</small> </td> <td></td> <td>1</td> <td><span class="Gold">Gold</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr class='active'> <td> <a href="/editions/25">2000 Summer Olympics</a> </td> <td><a href="/sports/MTB">Cycling Mountain Bike</a> (<a href="/sport_groups/CY">Cycling</a>)</td> <td><a href="/countries/ITA"><img style="padding-right: 2px; vertical-align: middle" src="https://olympedia-flags.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ITA.png" />ITA</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>Paola Pezzo</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> <a href="/results/155047">Cross-Country, Women</a> <small>(Olympic)</small> </td> <td></td> <td>1</td> <td><span class="Gold">Gold</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr class='active'> <td> <a href="/editions/26">2004 Summer Olympics</a> </td> <td><a href="/sports/MTB">Cycling Mountain Bike</a> (<a href="/sport_groups/CY">Cycling</a>)</td> <td><a href="/countries/ITA"><img style="padding-right: 2px; vertical-align: middle" src="https://olympedia-flags.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/ITA.png" />ITA</a></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td>Paola Pezzo</td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> <a href="/results/155177">Cross-Country, Women</a> <small>(Olympic)</small> </td> <td></td> <td><span class="label label-primary"><abbrev title="Did Not Finish">DNF</abbrev></span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2>Special Notes</h2> <ul> <li> Listed in <a href="/lists/232/manual">Olympians Who Received the Italian Olympic Association (CONI) Gold Medal</a> () </li> </ul> </div> </body> <footer class='footer'> <br> <div class='panel panel-info'> <div class='panel-heading'> <h3 class='panel-title'> <span class='glyphicon glyphicon-info-sign'></span> Did you know? </h3> </div> <div class='panel-body'> <p>Modern pentathlon débuted at the 1912 Olympics. 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