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Full name | Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
29 August 1976 ||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
Role | Rider, time-trialist | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alessandra Giuseppina Grassi Herrera (born 29 August 1976) is a Mexican professional road cyclist. She won a silver medal in the women's time trial at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later represented her nation Mexico at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Grassi qualified for the Mexican squad, as a lone female cyclist, in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a single berth from the UCI World Cup. She successfully completed a grueling race with a forty-fifth-place effort in 3:36:35, recording the same time with, but finishing behind Belgium's Lieselot Decroix by an inch.