Aaron March

Aaron March ( born May 14, 1986 in Brixen ) is an Italian snowboarder.

March began his career at the age of 15 years in lower class FIS races in which he continuously improved its results, and in January 2004 for the first time on the podium. Shortly after, his first of three appearances at the Junior World Championships. There, he placed as 19th in the top quarter of the grid and was also the third best Italians. Already in March 2004 the South Tyrolean debuted in Bardonecchia in the World Cup, missed as 57 Although clearly a front placement, but received his first World Cup points. In the years following March came to regular inserts in the competition series of adults, but by early 2008 reached no result among the best managed 20 For the 20 -year-olds at the 2006 Junior World Championships in the parallel giant slalom, an eighth rank.

Despite the success at junior level and his by then 29 World Cup starts Aaron March to October 2009 was " virtually unknown ". However, early in the season 2009/10 he won the parallel slalom in Landgraaf fourth. With this result, the South Tyrolean qualified at the same time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, for which he was nominated as one of eleven Italian snowboarders. At the Olympics March 15 cut as in the parallel giant slalom from good; he drew the only athlete in his country a first knockout round and lost there the duel against the eventual silver medalist Benjamin Karl of Austria. A month later came March and Karl once more against each other in the finals of the World Cup in Moscow. This time, the Italians decided the race itself, where he benefited from a mistake of his opponent. At the age of 23 years thus reached on the 37th March World Cup races his first victory. Due to this success, he finished at the end of the season the good seventh place in the overall standings of the parallel competitions.

In October 2010, Aaron March drove in the season opener for the winter 2010/11 again on the podium. Behind the Austrian Andreas Prommegger and his teammate Roland Fischnaller he was third in the parallel slalom in Landgraaf, where he had a year earlier scored his first World Cup top ten result.

March studied economics at the University of Innsbruck.