Polona Batagelj

Polona Batagelj
Personal information
Full namePolona Batagelj
Born (1989-06-07) 7 June 1989
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
Role
Professional teams
2010–2011Bizkaia–Durango
2012Diadora–Pasta Zara
2013Bizkaia–Durango
2014–2018BTC City Ljubljana
Managerial team
2019BTC City Ljubljana (directeur sportif)

Polona Batagelj (born 7 June 1989) is a Slovenian former road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2018 for the Diadora–Pasta Zara, Bizkaia–Durango (two spells) and BTC City Ljubljana squads. She most recently worked as a directeur sportif for her final professional team, UCI Women's Team BTC City Ljubljana. She won the Slovenian National Road Race Championships nine times, successively between 2010 and 2018.

She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's road race, finishing 22nd. At the 2016 Olympics, she finished in 32nd in the women's road race. She was on the start list for 2018 European Road Cycling Championships and finished 27th.