Rasa Leleivytė
Rasa Leleivytė is a Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team.
Career
She had a top-ten finish in the women's road race at the 2019 European Games, placing ninth overall at the finish in Minsk, Belarus, credited with the same time as the race winner, Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands.She finished third at the 2021 European Road Championships. She competed at the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021, placing 35th overall in the women's road race, where she competed with broken ribs sustained competing in Italy prior to the race. In 2021 Leleivytė won the Lithuanian Female Cyclist of the Year award.
She finished in twentieth place overall in the women's road race at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
In April 2025, she had a top-ten finish at the Volta Limburg Classic in the Netherlands, finishing three seconds behind the race winner, Dutch cyclist Femke Gerritse, in tenth place.
Doping
On July 18, 2012, it was announced that she failed a doping test on June 12 of the same year and that her A sample was consistent with the use of EPO. Leilevytė had to pay a 5040 Euro fine and was suspended for two years until 13 July 2014.Personal life
She is from Vilnius. She attended Barbora Radvilaitė Secondary School, where she was a contemporary of fellow future-Olympic cyclist for Lithuania Evaldas Šiškevičius. She later based herself in Italy. Her husband Paolo Baldi works as the sports director of the Lithuanian-based Aromitalia 3T Vaiano team.Major results
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