The young cyclist Sara Piffer (19 years old) died this Friday in Mezzocorona (Italy) after being run over while she was training in Italy with her brother Christian.
According to the ‘Corriere dello Sport’, the Team Mendelspeck rider lost her life when a car driven by a 70-year-old man who was coming in the opposite direction, overtaking another car, took them by.
The worst stop of the accident was Sara, who despite the work of the emergency services who had arrived at the scene of the incident, lost her life on the asphalt. Her brother Christian, who was training with her, was slightly injured.
The X ‘Ciclismo Femenino’ account reports that this is the ninth cyclist to die on Italian roads since the beginning of the year.
Originally from Trento, Sara Piffer debuted in 2022 in the ranks of Team Lady Zuliani. He made the jump in category in 2024 to Team Mendelspeck, with which in 2024 he obtained outstanding results, such as victory in the Giornata Nazionale Rosa-GP Città di Corridonia, fifth place as best young person in the Tour Féminin International des Pyrénées, the second in the Cronoescalada Festa dell’Uva or the fourth, together with his team, in the team time trial of the National Championship of Italy.
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