Alberto Schieppati
Alberto Schieppati ( born June 7, 1981 in Milan ) is an Italian former Alpine skier. His special discipline was the giant slalom. He reached the podium and seven top- 10 finishes in the World Cup as well as two top - 10 finishes at World Championships and a 15th place at the Olympic Winter Games 2006.
Career
Alberto Schieppati drove the first FIS races in the winter 1996/1997. After several podium finishes and his first victory in March 1999, he joined in December 1999 for the first time in the European Cup for use. He was able to score the first time in this series in February 2001, top - 10 finishes followed in 2002. Twice took Schieppati, whose strongest discipline was already from the start of the giant slalom at World Junior championships. He reached the seventh in 2000 and 2001, the sixth in his specialist discipline.
In the World Cup Schieppati launched exclusively in the giant slalom. He made his debut on December 9, 2001 in Val d'Isere and won a week later the first World Cup points with 15th place on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia - what was his best World Cup result for two years. In the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz, he reached the eighth place. The first top- 10 finish in the World Cup scored Schieppati on 21 December 2003 with eighth place in Alta Badia. He finally reached the last giant slalom of the season 2003/2004 on 28 February 2004 in Kranjska Gora with the second rank behind the American Bode Miller his first and only World Cup podium, which he was twelfth in the giant slalom World Cup. The next winter he could not connect to these results. He was driving in any race into the top ten and fell back to rank 31 in the World Cup discipline. Increase he could back in the 2005/2006 season in which he finished tenth three times, and in the 2006/2007 season in which he scored on the 14th place in the giant slalom World Cup with a seventh place in Hinterstoder best result.
After Schieppati had not participated in the World Championships in Bormio in 2005, but had won that year the giant slalom military Skiweltmeisterchaft in Predeal, he started in 2006 at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, where he was in the Giant Slalom 15. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre, he reached the fifth rank. The next two years were again less successful. At the beginning of the 2007/2008 season he scored ninth place in Sölden his last top- 10 finish in the World Cup, or he came in this winter only once among the fastest 20 in the 2008/2009 season, which he prematurely in January had to end, he could only score once.
In winter 2009/2010 Schieppati return regularly finishes among the fastest 20 with an eleventh place in Val d'Isere for the best result, he finished 15th place in the giant slalom World Cup. For the 2010 Winter Olympics but was not nominated. In the season 2010/2011 Schieppati started only in the aborted after the first passage opening race in Soelden. In November, he finished the season due to illness. He suffered for a long time at the Epstein -Barr virus, the cause of glandular fever. At the beginning of the season 2011/2012 he took in Sölden again at a World Cup race part, but two weeks later he was due to its viral disease that allowed him no more normal training, announced his retirement.
Achievements
Olympic Winter Games
- Turin 2006: 15 Giant Slalom
World Championships
- St. Moritz 2003: 8 Giant Slalom
- Åre 2007: 5 Giant Slalom
Junior World Championships
- Quebec 2000: 7 giant slalom, downhill 55th
- Verbier 2001: 6 Giant Slalom
World Cup
European Cup
- 3 places in the top five, including 1 win:
Other successes
- Military world champion in giant slalom in 2005
- Italian Junior Champion in slalom and giant slalom in 1998 2001
- Italian vice-champion in the giant slalom in 2005
- 1 podium in Nor- Am Cup
- 4 wins in FIS giant slalom