Sigrid Corneo
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Lecco, Italy
 Sigrid Corneo at the 2009 UCI World Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sigrid Teresa Corneo |
| Born | 27 April 1971 Lecco, Italy |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1999 | SC Masters Automazione Moltene Record |
| 2000–2001 | Carpe Diem |
| 2002 | Itera |
| 2003 | Road Runner Guerciotti |
| 2004–2006 | Nobili Rubinetterie |
| 2007–2009 | Menikini – Selle Italia |
| 2010 | Top Girls Fassa Bortolo |
Sigrid Teresa Corneo (born 27 April 1971)[1] is a retired Slovenian professional road cyclist of Italian descent.[2] Holding a dual citizenship, she represented her nation Slovenia, as a 37-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has mounted second-place finishes in both road race and time trial at the Slovenian Championships in 2010. Before her official retirement from competitive cycling in 2010, Corneo rode for Italy's Top Girls Fassa Bortolo pro cycling team in the women's elite professional events.[3]
Corneo qualified for the Slovenian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a single berth from the UCI World Cup.[4][5] She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-ninth-place effort in 3:39:29, surpassing Canadian rider Alex Wrubleski by exactly seven seconds.[6][7]
