Cyclist Arlenis Sierra

Havana, October 2 (RHC)-- Cuban cyclist Arlenis Sierra will take part this Saturday in her fourth participation in the Giro a Emilia International, to be held on the roads of the Italian provinces of Bologna and Ferrera at a distance of 87.2 kilometers and with a finish line at the famous San Lucas Hill.

Sierra, fifth in the recent world road race in Belgium, made her debut in 2018 in this event that gathers every year more than a hundred riders from teams of the women's elite of the International Cycling Union (UCI), as well as continental, national and club squads from Italy.

The 28-year-old Manzanillo rider won the subtitle in her first foray, in 2019 she placed tenth and in 2020 she had to settle for 47th place after five months without competing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on all three occasions with the Kazakh-Italian club Astana.

For the 2021 edition, she will defend the colors of A.R. Monex alongside France's Jade Teolis and Italy's Maria Victoria Sperotto, Maria Pia Chiatto and Katia Ragusa, the latter last year in 18th place on a day that resulted in victory for the renowned Danish Cecilie Uttup Ludwing.

Of the 87.2 km to be covered, almost all the time is on flat terrain until the altitude begins to change in the last sections towards the line of sentence, which before crossing it the riders must pedal uphill without respite 2 200 m to the mythical hill of Bolonia.