# Letizia Paternoster

Letizia Paternoster (born 22 July 1999) is an Italian road and track cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Liv AlUla Jayco.
In October 2017, she won gold in the team pursuit at the 2017 UEC European Track Championships in Berlin. In April 2018, she won the Gran Premio della Liberazione in Rome, her first professional road race victory. Two days later, she started in the Festival Elsy Jacobs, a three-day stage event in Luxembourg, and claimed the final stage and the general classification. Actor Peter Facinelli is her uncle.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2016

    1st Stage 1 (ITT) Albstadt-Frauen-Etappenrennen
    2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships
    3rd Trofeo Da Moreno–Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda
    4th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships
    5th Road race, UCI Junior World Road Championships

#### 2017

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    UEC European Junior Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race
    3rd Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
    3rd Gran Premio Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite
    4th GP della Liberazione PINK
    4th Trofeo Da Moreno–Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda

#### 2018

    1st Overall GP Elsy Jacobs
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st GP della Liberazione PINK
    3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

#### 2019

    1st Road race, European Under-23 Championships
    1st Stage 1 Women's Tour Down Under
    3rd Gent–Wevelgem
    5th RideLondon Classique
    7th Overall BeNe Ladies Tour
    7th Time trial, European Under-23 Championships
    8th Road race, European Games
    8th Overall Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta
    8th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli Internazionale Donne Elite

#### 2021

    10th Time trial, National Championships

#### 2023

    6th Omloop van het Hageland
    National Championships
       6th Time trial
       7th Road race
    9th Ronde van Drenthe
    10th Nokere Koerse
    10th Scheldeprijs

#### 2024

    1st Tour de Gatineau
    3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
    4th Ronde van Drenthe
    4th Overall RideLondon Classique
    4th Chrono Gatineau
    5th Overall Tour of Britain
    7th Time trial
    9th Tour of Flanders

#### 2025

    9th Le Samyn

#### Classics results timeline

| classic | 2018 | 2019 |
| Trofeo Alfredo Binda | 72 | — |
| Gent–Wevelgem | 10 | 3 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | |
| Gran Premio della Liberazione | 1 | |

### Track
#### 2016

    UCI Junior World Championships
       1st Points race
       1st Team pursuit
    UEC European Junior Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Points race
       1st Scratch race

#### 2017

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
    UEC European Junior Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Elimination race
       1st Omnium
       1st Madison
    Track Cycling Challenge
       2nd Madison (with Maria Giulia Confalonieri)
       2nd Omnium

#### 2018

    UEC European Track Championships
       2nd Team pursuit
       3rd Omnium
    UCI World Championships
       3rd Madison
       3rd Team pursuit
    International Belgian Track Meeting
       2nd Points Race
       3rd Madison (with Marta Cavalli)

#### 2019

    UEC European U23 Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Madison
    1st Team pursuit, 2019 European Games
    2nd Omnium, UCI World Championships
    2018–19 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
       1st Team pursuit (Round 6, Hong Kong)
       2nd Madison (Round 5, Cambridge)
       3rd Team pursuit (Round 5, Cambridge)
    2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
       2nd Omnium (Round 1, Minsk)
       3rd Team pursuit (Round 1, Minsk)
    UEC European Track Championships
       3rd Team pursuit

#### 2020

    UCI World Championships
       2nd Omnium
       3rd Madison
    2019–20 UCI Track Cycling World Cup
       2nd Omnium (Round 6, Milton)

#### 2021

    UCI World Championships
       1st Elimination
       2nd Team pursuit
    UEC European Track Championships
       2nd Elimination
       2nd Team pursuit
    3rd Madison, National Track Championships

#### 2022

    2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships

#### 2023

    2nd Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships

#### 2024

    1st Team pursuit, UEC European Track Championships
    3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Championships