Yader Zoli

Yader Zoli

Personal information
Full name	Yader Zoli
Born	1 October 1975 Faenza, Italy
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current team	Torpado Surfing Shop
Discipline	Mountain biking
Role	Rider
Rider type	Cross-country
Professional team(s)
2000	Diamontback
2006–2007	KTM International
2008	Giant Italia
2009–	Torpado Surfing Shop
Infobox last updated on 26 October 2013

Yader Zoli (born 1 October 1975 in Faenza) is an Italian professional mountain biker.^[1] He has claimed three Italian national championship titles in men's mountain biking, and later represented his nation Italy in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Zoli currently trains and races for the 2013 season on the Torpado Surfing Shop pro cycling team, along with Belgian rider and four-time Olympian Roel Paulissen.^[2][3]

Zoli made his official debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he scored a thirty-fifth place in the men's cross-country race with a time of 2:31:39, finishing farther off the podium by seventeen minutes.^[4][5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Zoli qualified again for his second Italian squad, along with his teammate Marco Aurelio Fontana, in the men's cross-country race by receiving one of the nation's two available berths from the Italian Cycling Federation (Italian: Federazione Ciclistica Italiana, FCI) and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), based on his best performance at the World Cup series, World and European Championships, and Mountain Biking World Series.^[6][7] Zoli could not upgrade a much stellar ride from Athens, as he decided to pull himself off from a 4.8-km cross-country race course with only a single lap left to complete and a thirtieth-place effort because of bike problems.^[8][9][10]

Career achievements

2002

2nd Italian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Trentino (ITA)

2004

35th Olympic Games (Cross-country), Athens (2004)

2005

Stage 7, UCI World Cup (Marathon), Sankt Wendel (GER)

2006

1st Italian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Italy

UCI World Championships (Cross-country, Team relay), Rotorua (NZL)

UCI World Cup (Marathon), Villabassa ITA)

2007

1st Italian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Treviso (ITA)

1st Stage 3, Afxentia Stage Race, Cyprus

2nd Overall, Race Under The Sun, Yermasoyia (CYP)

3rd Stage 1, Afxentia Stage Race, Cyprus

2008

1st Italian MTB Championships (Cross-country), Grotte di Castro (ITA)

30th Olympic Games (Cross-country), Beijing (CHN)

References

1. "Yader Zoli". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
2. "CONI Profile – Yader Zoli" (in Italian). Italian National Olympic Committee. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
3. "Team Torpado Surfing shop, stagione al via" [Team Torpado Surfing Shop for this season] (in Italian). Ciclismo.it. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
4. "Cycling: Men's Cross-Country Race". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
5. Jones, Rob (26 August 2004). "Absalon perfect as France defends gold". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
6. Meda, Federico (15 June 2008). "Scelti gli azzurri della Mountain bike per Pechino" [Italian mountain bikers are chosen for Beijing]. SportLive.it (in Italian) (Liquida). Retrieved 30 October 2013.
7. "Eva Lechner vince gli Internazionali e strappa il biglietto per Pechino" [Eva Lechner wins the International and rips the ticket to Beijing] (in Italian). Corriere del Trentino. 26 May 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
8. "Men's Cross-Country Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
9. ""Unbeatable" Absalon wins his second gold". Agence France-Presse (Velo News). 22 August 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
10. "Di Martino eliminata nel salto in alto" [Di Martino eliminated in the high jump] (in Italian). Sky Sport (Italy). 23 August 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile
• Yader Zoli profile at Cycling Archives
• Yader Zoli on Twitter