Elia Favilli

{{short description|Italian professional road bicycle racer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Elia Favilli

| image = Leuven - Brabantse Pijl, 15 april 2015, vertrek (B078).JPG

| caption =

| fullname = Elia Favilli

| nickname = Faina

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|1|31}}

| birth_place = Cecina, Italy

| height = 1.72 m

| weight = 63 kg

| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

| ridertype = Sprinter

| amateuryears1 = 2009

| amateurteam1 = Neri Sottoli–Promociclo

| amateuryears2 = 2009

| amateurteam2 = → {{UCI team code|ISD|2009a}} (stagiaire)

| amateuryears3 = 2010

| amateurteam3 = Petroli Firenze

| amateuryears4 = 2010

| amateurteam4 = → {{UCI team code|ISD|2010}} (stagiaire)

| proyears1 = 2011–2012

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|FAR|2011}}{{cite web|url=http://62.50.72.82/ucinet/default.asp?page=UCITeamsdetail&discipline=ROA&continent=ALL&teamscategory=PCT&teamstype=PCT&year=2012&teamnameid=3546&npage=&search=&l=ENG|title=Farnese Vini (FAR) – GBR|accessdate=11 May 2012|work=UCI Continental Circuits|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103063026/http://62.50.72.82/ucinet/default.asp?page=UCITeamsdetail&discipline=ROA&continent=ALL&teamscategory=PCT&teamstype=PCT&year=2012&teamnameid=3546&npage=&search=&l=ENG|archive-date=3 January 2014|url-status=dead}}

| proyears2 = 2013–2014

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|LAM|2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uciworldtour.com/Modules/SUCI/TEAMS/TeamDetails.asp?id=MTU&RefDate=06.01.2013&MenuId=MTY2Njk&LangId=1&BackLink=%2Ftemplates%2FUCI%2FUCI2%2Flayout%2Easp%3FMenuId%3DMTY2Njk%26LangId%3D1|title=Lampre-Merida (LAM) – ITA|accessdate=6 January 2013|work=UCI World Tour|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|archive-date=28 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928040152/http://www.uciworldtour.com/Modules/SUCI/TEAMS/TeamDetails.asp?id=MTU&RefDate=06.01.2013&MenuId=MTY2Njk&LangId=1&BackLink=%2Ftemplates%2FUCI%2FUCI2%2Flayout%2Easp%3FMenuId%3DMTY2Njk%26LangId%3D1|url-status=dead}}

| proyears3 = 2015

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|STH|2015}}

| proyears4 = 2016

| proteam4 = {{UCI team code|MKT|2016}}

| majorwins =

}}

Elia Favilli (born 31 January 1989) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2011 and 2016.

Born in Cecina, Tuscany, Favilli was also a member of the Arianna Rimor and AGI Neri Lucchini Sprint teams as a junior, finishing second in the Italian junior championships,{{cite news|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road.php?id=road/2007/jun07/italy07/italy074|title=Studious Palini conquests tricolore|work=Cycling News|publisher=Future Publishing Limited|date=29 June 2007|accessdate=11 May 2012|first=Gregor|last=Brown}} as well as winning a bronze medal in the world championships – as part of an all-Italian podium alongside Diego Ulissi and Daniele Ratto – in Aguascalientes, Mexico.{{cite news|url=http://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=3114|title=Five U.S. riders finish in top 20 of Junior Worlds road race|work=USA Cycling|publisher=USA Cycling Inc.|date=12 August 2007|accessdate=11 May 2012|first=Andrea|last=Smith}} After moving out of the junior ranks, Favilli competed for the Neri Sottoli-Promociclo and Petroli Firenze teams as an amateur, and also had two stagiaire spells with {{UCI team code|FAR|2012|nolink=yes}}, when it was known as {{UCI team code|ISD|2009a|nolink=yes}} and {{UCI team code|ISD|2010|nolink=yes}} in 2009 and 2010 respectively.