Alessandra Keller (born 27 January 1996) is a Swiss mountain biker competing in cross country. She competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Alessandra Keller
Keller in 2016
Personal information
Born (1996-01-27) 27 January 1996 (age 28)
Switzerland
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
DisciplinesCross-country
RoleRider
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
National Championships (2022, 2023, 2024)
Mountain bike
National XC Championships (2022, 2023)
World Cup (2022)
1 individual win (2022)
Medal record
Women's Mountain bike racing
Representing  Switzerland
World Under-23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Lenzerheide Cross-country
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2022 Lenzerheide XC short track

Life

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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]

In 2024 she was in Les Gets in Switzerland where she won the short track mountain bike World Cup race there. She was at the time the leader of the series.[8]

Major results

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Cyclo-cross

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2021–2022
1st   National Championships
1st Meilen
2022–2023
1st   National Championships
Swiss Cup
2nd Hittnau
2023–2024
1st   National Championships

Mountain bike

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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
1st Lugano
3rd Gränichen
3rd Basel
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
1st Chur
2nd Huttwil
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
Ökk Bike Revolution
1st Davos
2nd Engelberg
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
2024
UCI XCC World Cup
1st Nové Město
1st Les Gets
2nd Crans-Montana
3rd Mairiporã
Ökk Bike Revolution
1st Engelberg
1st Davos
Swiss Bike Cup
1st Gränichen
3rd Rivera
UCI XCO World Cup
2nd Crans-Montana
3rd Nové Město
3rd Les Gets
4th Araxá

References

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  1. ^ "Alessandra Keller". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ "3. Perskindol Swiss Epic". race|result. 8 January 2019. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Schweizermeisterschaften MTB Cross Country" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Cycling. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Gwendalyn Gibson scores breakout bronze for USA at MTB short track world championships". Velo News. 27 August 2022.
  8. ^ Simonovich, Ryan (5 July 2024). "Alessandra Keller and Alan Hatherly take short track wins in Les Gets". Escape Collective. Retrieved 28 July 2024.