Elena Fanchini

Elena Fanchini ( born April 30, 1985 in Lovere ) is an Italian alpine skier. She specializes in the speed disciplines Downhill and Super- G and in 2005 Vice World Champion in downhill. Her younger sisters Nadia and Sabrina are also ski racers.

Biography

Fanchini won in 1998 in the slalom and giant slalom at the Whistler Cup. Your first FIS races she contested in April 2001, the first use in the European Cup followed in January 2003. Starting with the 2003/04 season started regularly in the European Cup and reached in the first race, the departure of Ponte di Legno / Tonale on 18 December fifth. The next day she came in second departure even third place. In the 2004/05 season they also reached the podium in downhill from Altenmarkt on 16 December.

Fanchinis first race in the World Cup were the two slopes of Santa Caterina on 6 and 7 January 2005, when it reached both times the 17th Place. A month later, she took part in the World Cup, in which the women's race was also held in Santa Caterina. In combination, they reached only the 20th place (out of 21 evaluated runners ), two days later, the 19 -year-olds so far succeeded then but completely surprising her biggest success: Behind the Croatian Janica Kostelic and before the Austrian Renate Götschl she became vice world champion in the departure. End of February, they also took part in the Junior World Cup in Bardonecchia and won the silver medal in the downhill and bronze in the Super -G. The conclusion of this successful season made ​​the downhill victory at the Italian Championships in March.

Your good shape could Fanchini maintained until the next winter: In the season 2005/ 06 she took in the first downhill race on December 2nd in Lake Louise her first World Cup victory. The next day she took the second exit seventh. However, from then their results deteriorated significantly. At the 2006 Olympics in Turin they only came on the 29th rank downhill, Super-G, she fell out. At the end of the season they reached in the departure of Åre again a ninth place.

In the season 2006/ 07 Fanchini reached while in the second departure from Lake Louise on December 2, seventh place, but was in all other races do not have rank 25 out. Also at the 2007 World Championships in Åre, Sweden could not repeat their success of the last World Cup and finished only 27th place in the downhill and super-G Rank 31. In March 2007, she celebrated again with her second downhill victory at the Italian Championships a success. In the World Cup season 2007/ 08 she was able to ride on the downhill in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Sestriere and twice in the top 15.

In October 2008, Fanchini a serious injury while training drew on the Hintertux Glacier in the left knee and fell for the entire 2008/09 season from. In the 2009/10 season she drove in seven World Cup races in the top 20 and achieved tenth place in the Super G in St. Moritz her first top-10 result in more than three years. At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 she reached No. 14 in the Super -G. On the descent, she fell out. In the World Cup season 2010/11 Fanchini drove in three runs and two Super -G into the top ten, making it especially in the downhill World Cup made ​​a big step forward and twelfth its best ever overall results from the 2005/06 season equaled. At the World Championships 2011 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, she was 16th in the downhill and 18th in super -G. At the end of the season it was like in the previous year Italian descent champion.

In the World Cup season 2011/12 Fanchini get two top-10 results. In March 2012, the first time they won a European Cup Super -G.

Achievements

Olympic Winter Games

  • Turin 2006: 29 Departure
  • Vancouver 2010: 14 Super -G
  • Sochi 2014: 12 Departure

World Championships

  • Bormio 2005: 2nd exit, 20 combination
  • Åre 2007: 27 Downhill, 31 Super -G
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2011: 16 Downhill, 18 Super -G
  • Schladming 2013: 9 exit 15 Super Combined

World Cup

  • 2013/14: 10 Downhill World Cup
  • 3 podiums, including 1 win ( downhill in Lake Louise on December 2, 2005)

European Cup

  • 5th place in the exit summary 2006/ 07
  • 5 podiums and 1 win:

Junior World Championships

  • Bardonecchia 2005: 2nd exit, third Super -G, Giant Slalom 6

Other successes

  • Five times Italian champion in downhill (2005, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012 )
  • 1 victory in the South American Cup
  • 3 wins in FIS races
Italy Alpine skiing combined FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2012 Alpine Skiing World Cup Nadia Fanchini Santa Caterina di Valfurva 2006 Alpine Skiing World Cup Lake Louise (Alberta) 2007 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2011 Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2013 Gressan Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali
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