![]() Battistella at the 2020 La Flèche Wallonne | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Samuele Battistella | ||||||||||||||
Born | Castelfranco Veneto, Italy | 14 November 1998||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | EF Education–EasyPost | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
2011–2014 | UC Giorgione | ||||||||||||||
2015 | VC Breganze | ||||||||||||||
2016 | Cyber Breganze Group | ||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Zalf–Euromobil–Désirée–Fior | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2019 | Dimension Data for Qhubeka | ||||||||||||||
2020 | NTT Pro Cycling[1] | ||||||||||||||
2021–2024 | Astana–Premier Tech[2][3] | ||||||||||||||
2025– | EF Education–EasyPost | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samuele Battistella (born 14 November 1998) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[4] Battistella's first professional win was at the 2021 Veneto Classic.[5] He was initially named to the Astana team for the 2022 Tour de France, but was diagnosed with COVID-19 right before the race.[6][7] He instead rode at the 2022 Vuelta a España.