Polona Batagelj
Batagelj at the 2018 European Road Cycling Championships. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Polona Batagelj |
Born |
| 7 June 1989
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
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Professional teams | |
2010–2011 | Bizkaia–Durango |
2012 | Diadora–Pasta Zara |
2013 | Bizkaia–Durango |
2014–2018 | BTC City Ljubljana |
Managerial team | |
2019 | BTC City Ljubljana (directeur sportif) |
Polona Batagelj (born 7 June 1989) is a Slovenian former road bicycle racer,[1] who rode professionally between 2010 and 2018 for the Diadora–Pasta Zara, Bizkaia–Durango (two spells) and BTC City Ljubljana squads. She most recently worked as a directeur sportif for her final professional team, UCI Women's Team BTC City Ljubljana. She won the Slovenian National Road Race Championships nine times,[2] successively between 2010 and 2018.
She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race,[3][4] finishing 22nd.[4] At the 2016 Olympics, she finished in 32nd in the women's road race.[4] She was on the start list for 2018 European Road Cycling Championships and finished 27th.
Personal life
[edit]In 2020, Batagelj completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD) in Law at the Nova univerza , having previously completed Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees at the European Faculty of Law.[5]
Major results
[edit]- 2009
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2010
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 2011
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 7th Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
- 8th Overall Iurreta-Emakumeen Bira
- 8th Overall Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol
- 8th Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria
- 2012
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 2013
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- 2015
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 1st
Time trial
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Auensteiner–Radsporttage
- 6th Overall La Route de France
- 7th Overall Gracia–Orlová
- 2016
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th SwissEver GP Cham-Hagendorn
- 9th La Classique Morbihan
- 2017
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 4th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite
- 10th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
- 10th GP de Plouay – Bretagne
- 2018
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 9th Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite
- 10th Overall Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta
References
[edit]- ^ "Which women cyclists are retiring in 2018?". The Women's Tour. SweetSpot. 11 December 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ^ Teran Košir, Alenka (7 June 2020). "Takih je malo: slovenska kolesarka z doktoratom iz prava, ki ceni vsako minuto #video" [There are few of them: a Slovenian cyclist with a doctorate in law, who values every minute #video]. Siol (in Slovenian). TSmedia. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Polona Batagelj". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 4 January 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ a b c "Polona Batagelj". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Polona Batagelj". Novi Univerza (in Slovenian). Evropska pravna fakulteta Nove univerze. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
External links
[edit]- Polona Batagelj at UCI
- Polona Batagelj at Cycling Archives
- Polona Batagelj at ProCyclingStats
- Polona Batagelj at Cycling Quotient
- Polona Batagelj at Olympedia