Flávia Oliveira
Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella (born 27 October 1981) is a Brazilian racing cyclist. She competed in the 2013 UCI Women's World Championship Road Race in Florence, as well as the 2014 UCI Women's Road World Championships in Ponferrada. She competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro where she finished in seventh place, the highest placed finish for a Brazilian rider in any Olympic cycling event.
Oliveira at the 2016 Summer Olympics | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
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| Full name | Flávia Maria de Oliveira Paparella | ||||||||
| Born | 27 October 1981 Brazil | ||||||||
| Height | 157 cm (5 ft 2 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 43 kg (95 lb) | ||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||
| Current team | Força Aérea Brasileira | ||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||
| Rider type | Climber | ||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||
| 2007 | Team Tibco | ||||||||
| 2008 | Vanderkitten Racing | ||||||||
| 2008 | Fenixs-Kutoa | ||||||||
| 2008 | Metromint Cycling (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2008 | Touchstone Climbing (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2011 | Team PCW | ||||||||
| 2013 | Swaboladies.nl | ||||||||
| 2014 | DNA Cycling p/b K4Racing | ||||||||
| 2014 | FCS Cycling Team (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2014 | Louis Garneau Factory Team (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2014 | Team Newton (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2015 | Visit Dallas Cycling (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2016 | Aprire Bicycles–HSS Hire (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Fearless Femme (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2020 | ATX–Wolfpack p/b Jakroo | ||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||
| 2009 | SC Michela Fanini Record Rox | ||||||||
| 2010 | Gauss Rdz Ormu | ||||||||
| 2011 | Vaiano Solaristech | ||||||||
| 2012 | Forno d'Asolo – Colavita | ||||||||
| 2013 | GSD Gestion-Kallisto | ||||||||
| 2014 | Firefighters Upsala CK | ||||||||
| 2014 | Servetto Footon | ||||||||
| 2015 | Alé–Cipollini | ||||||||
| 2015 | Optum–KBS (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2016 | Lensworld–Zannata | ||||||||
| 2016 | BTC City Ljubljana (Guest rider) | ||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Lares–Waowdeals | ||||||||
| 2018 | Health Mate–Cyclelive Team | ||||||||
| 2019 | Swapit–Agolíco | ||||||||
| 2019 | Memorial–Santos | ||||||||
Medal record
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Oliveira is a past winner of the mountains classification at the Giro d'Italia Femminile in 2015, the Brazilian National Road Race Championships, and she was the winner of the general and mountain classifications at the 2016 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche.
During a coaching session early in Oliveira's career, she recorded one of the highest V̇O2 max scores ever across all athletics for females.