Flávia Oliveira
Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella (born 27 October 1981) is a Brazilian racing cyclist, who currently rides for amateur team Fearless Femme. She competed in the 2013 UCI Women's World Championship Road Race in Florence,[2] as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro[3] where she finished in seventh place. Her Olympic achievement was particularly notable because of the small number of Brazilian riders in the event. She was the highest placed rider of any nation that had two or fewer cyclists in the event. Additionally, her seventh-place finish in the Women's Olympic Cycling Road Race was the highest place finish for any Brazilian rider in any cycling event in the history of Olympic cycling.
Oliveira at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella |
Born | Brazil | 27 October 1981
Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 43 kg (95 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Fearless Femme |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber |
Amateur teams | |
2007 | Team Tibco |
2008 | Vanderkitten Racing |
2008 | Fenixs-Kutoa |
2008 | Metromint Cycling (Guest rider) |
2008 | Touchstone Climbing (Guest rider) |
2011 | Team PCW |
2013 | Swaboladies.nl |
2014 | DNA Cycling p/b K4Racing |
2014 | FCS Cycling Team (Guest rider) |
2014 | Louis Garneau Factory Team (Guest rider) |
2014 | Team Newton (Guest rider) |
2015 | Visit Dallas Cycling (Guest rider) |
2016 | Aprire Bicycles–HSS Hire (Guest rider) |
2017 | Fearless Femme (Guest rider) |
2019– | Fearless Femme |
Professional teams | |
2009 | SC Michela Fanini Record Rox |
2010 | Gauss Rdz Ormu |
2011 | Vaiano Solaristech |
2012 | Forno d'Asolo – Colavita |
2013 | GSD Gestion-Kallisto |
2014 | Firefighters Upsala CK |
2014 | Servetto Footon |
2015 | Alé–Cipollini |
2015 | Optum–KBS (Guest rider) |
2016 | Lensworld–Zannata |
2016 | BTC City Ljubljana (Guest rider) |
2016–2017 | Lares–Waowdeals |
2018 | Health Mate–Cyclelive Team |
2019 | Swapit–Agolico[1] |
Medal record
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Oliveira is a past winner of the Mountains Competition in the Giro d'Italia Feminine (Giro Rosa, 2015), Brazilian National Road Champion,[4] and she was the Overall winner and Mountains Competition winner of the 2016 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche.[5]
During a coaching session early in Oliveira's career, she recorded one of the highest VO2 Max scores ever across all athletics for females.[6]
Controls
In June 2009, in her first year as a professional, Oliveira tested positive for oxilofrine, an illegal stimulant, while racing with the Italian professional team SC Michela Fanini at the Giro del Trentino Donne.[7] The adverse finding came from a supplement purchased in the United States that did not include oxilofine on the ingredients label. In fact, several supplement companies were making products that contained oxilofrine without indicating the substance on the label. [8] Oliveira later sued the supplement manufacturer.[9] In December 2009 the ban was reduced through an appeal to CAS after the panel found that she had not intentionally ingested the banned substance and there was no way that she could have known that the supplement would have contained a banned substance.[10] This would see her resume competition on 1 March 2011.
A second positive occurred nine years later on 26 June 2018 at the Brazilian Road Championships.[11] Oliveira won the race and was allowed to maintain the title of champion of Brasil after the hearing. In a unanimous decision, the arbitration panel ruled that Oliveira did not ingest the contaminant intentionally and in fact, the contaminant entered her system after the race had completed.[12] Oliveira returned to racing shortly after, recording her best ever finish in a World Cup Event at GP Plouay, where she finished 8th.[13]
2020 Olympic Bid
While preparing for the 2020 Olympics, Oliveira was struck by a car and suffered a broken pelvis.[14] After rehabilitation, Oliveira collected enough Olympic qualification points to provisionally qualify her for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[15] However, three weeks before the World Championships in Yorkshire, England,[16] Oliveira suffered a crash that effectively ended her season in the GP Fourmies in France.[17]
Major results
- 2007
- 1st Mount Diablo Hill Climb
- 4th Vacaville Gran Prix
- 5th Giro di San Francisco
- 7th Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb
- 7th Wente Vineyards Road Race
- 8th Berkeley Hills Road Race
- 9th Overall Mt. Hood Cycling Classic
- 2008
- 1st
Overall California Cup - 1st Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb
- 1st Stinson Beach Mt Tamalpais Hill Climb
- 1st Dunnigan Hills Road Race
- 1st San Ardo Road Race
- 1st Patterson Pass Road Race
- 2nd Santa Cruz University Road Race
- 2nd Suisun Harbor Criterium
- 2nd Berkeley Bicycle Club Criterium
- 3rd Mount Hamilton Classic
- 3rd Mount Diablo Hill Climb
- 4th Vacaville Gran Prix
- 5th Wente Vineyards Road Race
- 5th Giro di San Francisco
- 6th Norlund Construction, Inc. Corporate Criterium
- 6th Memorial Day Criterium
- 7th Merco Credit Union – Downtown Grand Prix
- 7th Davis 4th of July Criterium
- 2009
- 4th Overall Tour Féminin en Limousin
- 8th Giro del Friuli
- 9th Overall Route de France Féminine
- 2011
- 2nd Mike's Bikes Cat's Hill Classic
- 3rd Overall Sea Otter Classic
- National Road Championships
- 6th Time trial
- 7th Road race
- 7th Road race, Pan American Championships
- 9th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile - Memorial Michela Fanini
- 2012
- 2nd Nevada City Classic
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Madera Stage Race
- 4th Snelling Road Race
- 4th Memorial Cesare Del Cancia
- 5th Berkeley Bicycle Club Criterium
- 7th Overall Merco Classic
- 7th Cherry Pie Criterium
- 7th Muri Fermani – Forza Marina – Gianmarco Lorenzi
- 7th San Rafael Twilight Criterium
- 2013
- 1st Wente Vineyards Road Race
- 1st Pescadero Coastal Classic
- 1st Mount Diablo Hill Climb
- 2nd Overall Sea Otter Classic
- 2nd Overall Volta do México Copa Governador
- 2nd Mount Hamilton Classic
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 4th Berkeley Hills Road Race
- 5th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 6th San Rafael Twilight Criterium
- 7th Overall Cascade Classic
- 7th Road race, Pan American Championships
- 2014
- 2nd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Gila
- 2nd Grand Prix de Oriente
- 2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Gatineau
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race[N 1]
- 9th Time trial
- 4th Overall Vuelta Ciclista Femenina a El Salvador
- 1st Stage 3
- 4th Road race, Pan American Championships
- 5th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 5th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 5th The Philadelphia Cycling Classic
- 2015
- Military World Games
- 1st Team road race
- 7th Road race
- 1st
Mountains classification Giro d'Italia Femminile - 2nd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 6th Overall Tour of California Women's Race
- 7th Overall Tour Femenino de San Luis
- 7th Overall Giro d'Italia Internazionale Femminile
- 7th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 8th Overall San Dimas Stage Race
- 10th Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 10th Overall Tour of the Gila
- 2016
- 1st
Overall classification Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche - 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 1st
Mountains classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska - 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne Féminin
- 1st Stage 2 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Giro Toscana Int. Femminile
- 3rd Overall Vuelta Internacional Femenina a Costa Rica
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 3rd Road race, Pan American Championships
- 7th Road Race, Olympic Games
- 9th Overall 4. NEA
- 2017
- 7th Overall Tour of Colorado
- 10th Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche
- 10th La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
Notes
- First place would later be disqualified from the race meaning that the National Championship was awarded to Oliveira
References
- "Oliveira firma con la Swapit Agolico" [Oliveira signs with Swapit Agolico]. Cicloweb.it (in Italian). Cicloweb. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
- "Final Results / Résultats finaux: Road Race Women Elite / Course en ligne femmes élite" (PDF). Sport Result. Tissot Timing. 28 September 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- "Brasil define equipe do ciclismo de estrada para os Jogos do Rio 2016" (in Portuguese). Globoesporte.com. 9 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
- "Oliveira trades Giro Rosa start for Olympic support | Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
- "Flavia Oliveira". www.procyclingstats.com.
- "World Best VO2max Scores". topendsports.com.
- News 2010-04-15T11:41:00Z, Cycling. "Oliveira suspended for illegal supplement". cyclingnews.com.
- "Banned Stimulant Oxilofrine Hiding in at Least 14 Supplements". thedailybeast.com.
- "Pro Cyclist Sues Supplement Maker". courthousenews.com.
- "US-licenced rider Flavia Oliveira shortens doping suspension via appeal". www.velonation.com.
- Figueiredo, Gustavo (22 December 2018). "Flavia Oliveira, campeã brasileira de ciclismo, é suspensa por doping". Pedal.com.br.
- "CQ Ranking - National Championships Brazil (Maringa) R.R." cqranking.com.
- "Van der Breggen wins GP de Plouay". cyclingnews.com.
- "Campeã brasileira de ciclismo é atropelada durante treino na estrada". bicycling.com.br.
- "Rankings". uci.org.
- "2019 Road World Championships". worlds.yorkshire.com.
- "Grand Prix De Fourmies". grandprixdefourmies.com.
External links
- Flávia Oliveira at Cycling Archives
- Flávia Oliveira at ProCyclingStats