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Alessandra Keller (born 27 January 1996) is a Swiss mountain biker competing in cross country. She competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Life
Keller was born in 1996. She lives in the municipality of Ennetbürgen in the canton of Nidwalden.
Alongside Jolanda Neff, she won the 2016 Swiss Epic, a mountain bike stage race. Aged 22 and still eligible to compete in the U23 category, she won the world cup race in Vallnord, Andorra, Short Track Cross-Country race in the elite class. In the cross country, she won the 2018 World Championship in the U23.
Keller has been Swiss cross-country champion four times: 2012 in the U17 category, 2013 in the U19 category, 2018 in the U23 category, and in 2022 in the elite class. She won silver at the 2022 MTB short track world championships in Les Gets, France, behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
In 2024 she was in Les Gets in Switzerland where she won the short track mountain bike World Cup race there. She was at the time the leader of the series.
Major results
Cyclo-cross
- 2021–2022
- 1st
National Championships - 1st Meilen
- 2022–2023
- 1st National Championships
- Swiss Cup
- 2nd Hittnau
- 2023–2024
- 1st National Championships
Mountain bike
- 2013
- 1st
Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships - 1st Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- UCI Junior XCO World Cup
- 1st Vallnord
- 3rd
Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships - 2014
- 1st
Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships - 2015
- 2nd Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- UCI Under-23 XCO World Cup
- 2nd Albstadt
- 2nd Val di Sole
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Swiss Epic (with Jolanda Neff) - 3rd
Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships - 2017
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 2nd
Cross-country, UEC European Under-23 Championships - 2018
- 1st Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 1st Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Vallnord
- 3rd Val di Sole
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Monte Tamaro
- 1st Schaan
- 2nd Solothurn
- 2nd Gränichen
- 2nd Lugano
- 3rd Overall Swiss Epic (with Kathrin Stirnemann)
- 2019
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Monte Tamaro
- 2nd Basel
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 2nd Vallnord
- 2020
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 2nd Gstaad
- 2021
- 2nd Cross-country, National Championships
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 2nd Savognin
- 2022
- 1st Cross-country, National Championships
- 1st
Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 1st Snowshoe
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 5th Albstadt
- 5th Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 1st Overall UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Vallnord
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Mont-Sainte-Anne
- 3rd Val di Sole
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Gstaad
- 2nd
Short track, UCI World Championships - Copa Catalana Internacional
- 2nd Banyoles
- 5th Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 2023
- National Championships
- 1st Cross-country
- 1st Short track
- 1st
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- Swiss Bike Cup
- 1st Basel
- 2nd Overall UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Vallnord
- 2nd Nové Město
- 2nd Lenzerheide
- 3rd Les Gets
- 5th Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Vallnord
- 3rd Lenzerheide
- 5th Cross-country, UCI World Championships
- 2024
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 1st Nové Město
- 1st Les Gets
- 2nd Crans-Montana
- 3rd Mairiporã
- Ökk Bike Revolution
- Swiss Bike Cup
- UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Crans-Montana
- 3rd Nové Město
- 3rd Les Gets
- 4th Araxá
References
- "Alessandra Keller". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ^ Platter, Martin (8 September 2018). "Alessandra Keller trotzt dem Druck: Nidwaldnerin ist U23-Weltmeisterin" [Alessandra Keller defies the pressure: Nidwaldnerin is U23 world champion]. Luzerner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- "3. Perskindol Swiss Epic". race|result. 8 January 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- "Bikerin Keller schreibt mit Weltcup-Sieg Geschichte" [Biker Keller writes history with World Cup victory]. Blick (in German). 13 July 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- "Schweizermeisterschaften MTB Cross Country" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Cycling. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- "Keller zum Ersten, Flückiger zum Dritten" [Keller for the first, Flückiger for the third]. Swiss Cycling (in Swiss German). 5 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- "Gwendalyn Gibson scores breakout bronze for USA at MTB short track world championships". Velo News. 27 August 2022.
- Simonovich, Ryan (5 July 2024). "Alessandra Keller and Alan Hatherly take short track wins in Les Gets". Escape Collective. Retrieved 28 July 2024.