Elisa Longo Borghini

Elisa Longo Borghini

Longo Borghini in 2022
Personal information
Full name	Elisa Longo Borghini
Born	(1991-12-10) 10 December 1991 (age 32) Verbania, Italy
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lidl–Trek
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2011	Top Girls–Fassa Bortolo
2012–2014	Hitec Products–Mistral Home
2015–2018	Wiggle–Honda
2019–2023	Trek–Segafredo[1][2]
2023–	Lidl–Trek
Major wins
Major Tours Giro Donne General classification (2024) 3 individual stages (2020, 2023, 2024) Stage races La Route de France (2015) Tour de Bretagne (2014) Trophée d'Or Féminin (2014) Emakumeen Euskal Bira (2019) The Women's Tour (2022) UAE Tour Women (2023) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2017, 2020, 2021, 2023) National Time Trial Championships (2014, 2016, 2017, 2020–2023) Trofeo Alfredo Binda (2013, 2021) Tour of Flanders (2015, 2024) Paris–Roubaix (2022) Strade Bianche (2017) Brabantse Pijl (2024) GP de Plouay (2021)
Medal record Women's road bicycle racing Representing  Italy Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Road race 2020 Tokyo Road race World Championships 2022 Wollongong Mixed team relay 2012 Valkenburg Road race 2020 Imola Road race 2021 Flanders Mixed team relay 2024 Zurich Road race 2024 Zurich Mixed team relay European Championships 2021 Trentino Mixed team relay 2020 Plouay Road race 2016 Plumelec Road race

Elisa Longo Borghini (born 10 December 1991) is an Italian professional road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.^[3]

During her career, Longo Borghini has won the Giro d'Italia Women in 2024, as well as two bronze medals in the road race at the Summer Olympic Games, taking third-place finishes in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.^[4][5] She has also won two bronze medals in the equivalent event at the UCI Road World Championships, doing so in 2012 and 2020.^[6][7] She has won three cycling monuments: Tour of Flanders in 2015 and 2024, and Paris–Roubaix Femmes in 2022.^[8][9]

Longo Borghini turned professional in 2011, joining the Top Girls Fassa Bortolo team. In 2012, she rode in the road race at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships in Valkenburg, where she won the bronze medal.^[10][11]

In 2013, she won her first major title at the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio.^[12] In 2014, she won her first national championship by winning the time trial.

On 30 September 2014 it was announced she would ride for Wiggle–Honda in the 2015 season.^[13]

In 2015, she won her first cycling monument, winning the Tour of Flanders.^[8] In 2016, she won a bronze medal at the individual road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.^[4] She won the national time trial championship for the second time.

In 2017, she won Strade Bianche Women and finished 2nd at the Giro Rosa, as well as winning the Italian rider classification for the third time.^[14][15] She also became national time trial champion for the third time, winning the road race as well.

In August 2018 Longo Borghini confirmed that she would be joining the new Trek–Segafredo team for 2019, after the Wiggle team had announced their demise.^[16]

In 2020, she became the Italian national champion after winning both the road race and time trial at the national championships. She finished 3rd at the Giro Rosa, winning the Italian rider classification for the sixth time.^[17] She also rode in the road race at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships in Imola, where she won the bronze medal.^[18]

In 2021, she won Trofeo Alfredo Binda for the second time,^[19] with two 3rd places at Paris–Roubaix Femmes and Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes.^[20][21] In July 2021, she competed in the 137-kilometre (85-mile)-long women's Olympic road race in Tokyo, and won the bronze medal.^[22] She followed an attack by Annemiek van Vleuten with 2.1 kilometres (1.3 miles) to go, with Van Vleuten securing second place and Longo Borghini securing third place.^[22] She also won the road race and time trial at the national championships for the second year in a row. She also rode in the mixed team relay at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships in Flanders, where she won the bronze medal.

In 2022, she won her second cycling monument, winning Paris–Roubaix Femmes.^[9] In July 2022, she was named as one of the pre-race favourites for the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes.^[23] She ultimately finished the race in sixth place overall.^[24] She then won The Women's Tour by just one second,^[25] as well as winning the time trial at the national championships for the third year in a row. She rode in the mixed team relay at the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, where she won the silver medal.

In 2023, Longo Borghini won the UAE Tour Women at the start of the year.^[26] In the Giro Donne, she was considered a favourite prior to the race.^[27] However, she crashed out of the race on stage 5 while 2nd overall.^[28] The Trek–Segafredo team rebranded as Lidl–Trek prior to the Tour de France Femmes, where once again she was considered a favourite. However she withdrew from the race before stage 7 due to illness while 4th overall.^[29]

In July 2024, Longo Borghini become the first home winner of the Women's Giro d'Italia since 2008. ^[30][31] In August, she skipped Tour de France Femmes due to the lingering effects of a training crash.^[32]

She is the daughter of cross country skier Guidina Dal Sasso. Her older brother Paolo Longo Borghini also competed professionally as a cyclist,^[11] between 2004 and 2014. In 2023 she married ^[33] fellow cyclist Jacopo Mosca, who rides for the men's Lidl–Trek team.^[34] Elisa is known for her humorous, friendly and lively personality commenting on her favorite win, (2013 Trofeo Alfredo Binda), Elisa recalled "After such a foul day on the bike in bleak condition, I remember that we went to a restaurant and we ate two pizzas. I mean, I ate two pizzas,” she says with a laugh. "It was because I was so hungry and my parents were so happy and they were like 'okay, we just eat whatever we want'.^[35]

Source: ^[36]

Event		2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Olympic Games	Time trial	NH	—	Not held			5	Not held				10	Not held		8
	Road race		—				3					3			9
World Championships	Time trial	32	15	13	15	—	—	18	9	17	—	—	—
	Road race	57	3	8	14	4	89	DNF	13	5	3	17	10	—	3
	Team time trial	NH	8	13	—	4	—	—	—	Did not exist
	Team relay	Did not exist								4	NH	3	2
European Championships	Road race	Elite races did not exist					3	20	15	17	2	32	—
	Time trial						7	17	6	—	—	—	—
	Team relay	Did not exist								1	—	3	NH
National Championships	Time trial	—	2	2	1	—	1	1	9	3	1	1	1	1
	Road race	9	13	DNF	6	2	2	1	12	11	1	1	19	1

• Elisa Longo Borghini at UCI
• Elisa Longo Borghini at Cycling Archives
• Elisa Longo Borghini at ProCyclingStats
• Elisa Longo Borghini at Cycling Quotient
• Elisa Longo Borghini at CycleBase
• Elisa Longo Borghini at Olympics.com
• Elisa Longo Borghini at Olympedia
• Elisa Longo Borghini at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)