Silvana Valente

Silvana Valente is an Italian paralympic cyclist who has represented Italy at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in the open tandem track events with her guide Fabrizio Di Somma. She also competed at the 1998 World Championships in Colorado Springs. She joined the Italian Paralympic committee in 2009 after other successes at mountain biking.

Silvana Valente
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born1963
Sport
CountryItaly
SportCycling
Medal record
Cycling
Paralympic Games
2000 SydneyPursuit
2000 SydneyRoad Tandem
2000 SydneyOne km standing start

Life

Valente was born blind and she is a physiotherapist. She was able to take up competitive track cycling due to an initiative in the city of Vicenza. She competed at the world paralympic event in 1998 and travelled to Sydney in 2000 to attend the Paralympic Games. She and her tandem partner, Fabrizio Di Somma. took the silver medal in the pursuit as well to other bronze medals.[1]

Valente won numerous Italian national competitions before taking up mountain biking where she was again successful. In 2009 she joined the Italian Paralympic committee. She has published two books of poetry.[2]

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References
  1. IPC Historical results, paralympic.org, retrieved 28 September 2014
  2. Poetry
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