Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera (born 29 August 1976) is a Mexican professional road cyclist. She won a silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later represented her nation Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Grassi qualified for the Mexican squad, as a lone female cyclist, in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a single berth from the UCI World Cup. She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-fifth-place effort in 3:36:35, recording the same time with, but finishing behind Belgium's Lieselot Decroix by an inch.

Giuseppina Grassi

Career highlights

2007

2nd Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 2nd Pan American Championships (ITT) 2008 1st Mexican Championships (Road), Sonora (MEX) 1st Mexican Championships (ITT), Sonora (MEX) 2nd Pan American Championships (ITT) 45th Olympic Games, Beijing (CHN) 2009 1st Pan American Championships (ITT) 5th Pan American Championships (Road) 8th Stage 3, Route de France Féminine, France 2010 6th Pan American Championships (ITT) 10th Pan American Championships (Road) 2011 2nd Mexican Championships (ITT) 2012 2nd Mexican Championships (Road)

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References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile

1976 births

Living people

Mexican female cyclists

Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Cyclists at the 2007 Pan American Games

Olympic cyclists for Mexico

Sportspeople from Mexico City

Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico

Pan American Games medalists in cycling

Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games

20th-century Mexican women

21st-century Mexican women

Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games

Giuseppina Grassi