Francesca Marsaglia

Francesca Marsaglia ( born January 27, 1990 in Rome) is an Italian alpine skier. It starts in all disciplines and achieved their best results in the Super- G and Downhill. Her brother Matteo is also skier.

Biography

Marsaglia started from December 2005 in Junior and FIS races. In September 2006, she has succeeded the first victories in the South American Cup. In February 2007, she played her first European race started a little later at the European Youth Olympic Festival 2007 in Jaca, where she finished sixth in the giant slalom and 16th in slalom, and took in March of the same year for the first time participated in a Junior World Championship. In Altenmarkt their best result was the seventh place in the Super -G. A year later she came at the Junior World Championship 2008 in Formigal only as 40th in the Super G to the finish and fell in all other competitions from. In March 2008, she was Italian junior champion in the downhill and second in the Super -G.

Since the 2007/ 08 season Marsaglia starts regularly in the European Cup. This winter she went twice in the top 20 in the 2008/ 09 season, she scored her first top-10 results and also their first podium. On February 24, 2009, she was in second departure from Tarvisio first time on the podium. Shortly after, she reached the fifth rank in the downhill at the World Junior Championships 2009 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen.

In the World Cup Marsaglia took in February 2008 and January 2009 participated in four races in Italy, but never reached the points. Also in the 2009/10 season, in which they in all disciplines, except for the slalom, denied a total of nine World Cup races, she did not come on a 40th rank out. Better results achieved in the Italian European Cup. She ran in the 2009/10 season a total of seven times in the top five and celebrated on 21 January 2010 at the Super G in St. Moritz their first victory. So she reached sixth place in the overall and downhill rating and third place in the super-G standings. At the Junior World Championship 2010 in the region of Mont Blanc, however, was only a 13th place in the giant slalom their best result. In Downhill and Super- G they came just short of the best 30

On 3 December 2010 Marsaglia won her first World Cup points, as they surprisingly went in the departure of Lake Louise with number 46 on the 13th Place. This result could not outdo until today, although it has since repeatedly scored in the World Cup, and reached several top -20 finishes. In their first major event, the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, they came in the super combined for use at which it was eliminated in the slalom run. On 15 December 2013, it scored in the World Cup for the first time a top- 10 finish as she drove in the giant slalom in St. Moritz on the 9th Place.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 16 Giant Slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Altenmarkt 2007: 7 Super -G, downhill 22
  • Formigal 2008: 40 Super -G
  • Garmisch -Partenkirchen 2009: 5 Downhill, Giant Slalom 12
  • Mont Blanc 2010: 13 Giant Slalom, Super -G 27 29 Departure

World Cup

European Cup

  • Season 2008/ 09: 10 Departure rating
  • Season 2009/ 10: 6th overall, 3rd Super-G standings, 6 departure rating
  • 2 podiums, including one victory:

Other successes

  • Italian junior champion in downhill in 2008
  • 2 victories in the South American Cup
  • 3 wins in FIS races
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