Dario Cologna
Dario Cologna Alonzo ( born March 11, 1986 in Santa Maria Val Müstair, now the town Val Müstair, canton of Grisons ) is a Swiss cross-country skier. He won in the 2008 / 09 season, the first Swiss at all the World Cup in the long run. At Olympic Games he has so far won three gold medals at the World Championships a. The three times he won the Tour de Ski and the overall ranking of cross-country skiing World Cup itself.
Life and career
At the age of five years Cologna started with the alpine skiing. Until he joined the cross-country skiing in 1999, he was further in cycling and active in football. During his youth Cologna won numerous medals at the national level.
His Matura Cologna made in 2010 as a member of Sport class at the high Alpine Institute Ftan.
In 2004, he first participated in Nordic Junior World Championships. In Norway Stryn he finished the victory of the German Franz Göring about 10 km the 24th Place. A year later he was in Rovaniemi over the same distance to 23rd place and win the 29th place in the pursuit. His first international medal winning Cologna at the Nordic Junior World Championships in 2006 in Kranj. When victory of defending champion Petter Northug, he won the bronze medal behind Martin Jaks 10-kilometer classic. In pursuit competition, he finished 22nd place.
In the 2006/07 season Cologna get four podiums in cross-country skiing Alpine Cup Continental Cup (OPA Cup). Including a win in the Austrian Obertilliach 10-kilometer freestyle. At the end of the season he won the overall title of the Alpine Cup with a clear lead. These good results enabled him to start in the Cross Country World Cup. So he managed to win in the season finale in Falun, Sweden in pursuit competition as the 25th his first World Cup points. In the U23 Junior World Championships in Tarvisio Cologna won the pursuit competition ahead of his compatriot Curdin Perl. Also on the 15-kilometer freestyle, he was unbeatable and won his second gold medal. This season, he was able to further win the Engadin Ski Marathon and was with a win over 50 km classic for the first time Swiss champions at senior level.
After a moderate start to the 2007/ 08 season Cologna succeeded in establishing itself at senior level. In the Russian Rybinsk him for eighth place on the 30 km free style first jump succeeded among the top ten in a World Cup competition. This he succeeded in Otepaeae and Liberec. At the World Cup finals in Bormio, he fought his way to fourth place in the prologue about 3.3 km freestyle his best result of the season. In the U23 Junior World Championships in Malles Cologna won his third U23 gold medal with a win over the 30 km freestyle.
In the first six scores of the World Cup season 2008/09 Cologna always classified as the only runners in the points, including three times in the top ten. On 14 December 2008, he took over as the first Swiss cross-country skiers at all the lead in the overall World Cup. This was followed, in turn, the first Swiss cross-country skiers, the overall victory of the Tour de Ski.
On March 22, 2009 Cologna was the first Swiss cross-country skiers and recent cross-country skiers for 25 years overall World Cup winner. He also decided the overall rating for the four races of the World Cup finals for itself. On 15 February 2010 he was in Vancouver Olympic champion in the 15 km freestyle. Since the bronze medal in Calgary in 1988 by Andi Green Fields 50 km this was the first Swiss cross-country medal at the Olympics. He is so far the only Swiss cross-country skiers, the very top stood in the Olympic Games on the podium.
On February 28, 2010 Cologna was 50 km on the way to secure his second Olympic medal. However, the Swiss crashed in the last corner 200 meters from the finish because of a treacherous patch of ice and fell thereby back to tenth. Two weeks later, he decided for the second time after 2007, the Engadin Ski Marathon for themselves. In the overall World Cup, he finished in the victory of the Norwegian Petter Northug a fourth place. The same position he reached in the distance World Cup.
In the post-Olympic season 2010/11 succeeded Cologna to build on previous successes. On 9 January 2011 he won after three stage successes for the second time the Tour de Ski ahead of Petter Northug and the Czech last year's winner Lukas Bauer. At the World Cup 2011, he did not come via a ninth square. Also in the 2011/12 season won the Tour de Ski Cologna, Hellner and Petter Northug before Marcus. A summary score he decided for the third time and with a clear lead for themselves. In January 2013 he was elected to the Swiss of the Year in 2012.
At the Tour de Ski 2012/2013, the first time in his home country, Val Müstair, halted, Cologna finished behind Alexander Legkow second place. At the season's peak, the World Championship in 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he secured on 23 February 2013, winning the 30 -kilometer pursuit race for the first time a world title. On March 3, the silver medal was added over 50 km. In December, he was elected to the Swiss Sportsman of the Year 2013.
Cologna suffered in preparing for the Olympic season 2013/14 a severe setback when he suffered while jogging several torn ligaments in right ankle on 11 November 2013. He was operated on immediately and stood after five weeks already back on skis. Cologna renounced the start of the Tour de Ski and devoted himself to the targeted building workout. The first competition- moderate employment after the injury he had on January 10 at the Continental Cup in Chamonix. After winning two Swiss league titles, he returned on February 1 in Dobbiaco in the World Cup back and binned to 15 km classic at once as runner-up. At the first race of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the pursuit race over 30 km, Cologna won for the second time an Olympic gold medal. His third Olympic victory he celebrated afterwards at the race over 15 km in the classical style. In the team sprint, which he played with his younger brother Gian -Luca, he reached the final and binned on the fifth final rank.
Achievements
1 with Toni Livers, Remo Fischer and Curdin Perl
- 2010 Vancouver: gold over 15 km freestyle
- Sochi 2014: Gold over 30 km Skiathlon
- Sochi 2014: Gold over 15 km classic
- 2013 Val di Fiemme: 2x15 km Skiathlon
- 2007 and 2010: Engadin Ski Marathon
Others
Since 2010, carrying a train of the Rhaetian Railway RhB ABe 8/12 3504, the name Dario Cologna.