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Alessandra Keller (born 27 January 1996) is a Swiss mountain biker competing in cross country.
Keller was born in 1996.[1] She lives in the municipality of Ennetbürgen in the canton of Nidwalden.[2]
Alongside Jolanda Neff, she won the 2016 Swiss Epic, a mountain bike stage race.[3] 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.[4] In the cross country, she won the 2018 World Championship in the U23.[2]
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.[5][6] She won silver at the 2022 MTB short track world championships in Les Gets, France, behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.[7]
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
 
References
- ↑ "Alessandra Keller". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
 - 1 2 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.
 
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