# Alessandra Keller

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

## Life

Keller was born in 1996. She lives in the municipality of Ennetbürgen in the canton of Nidwalden.
Alongside Jolanda Neff, she won the 2016 Swiss Epic, a mountain bike stage race. 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. In the cross country, she won the 2018 World Championship in the U23.
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. She won silver at the 2022 MTB short track world championships in Les Gets, France, behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
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.

## 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
       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