Daniela Ceccarelli

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Daniela Ceccarelli Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 25th September 1975 (age 44)
place of birth Frascati , Italy
size 168 cm
Weight 59 kg
Career
discipline Downhill, Super-G, combination
society GS Fiamme Oro
status resigned
End of career 2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Salt Lake City 2002 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut March 7, 1996
 Overall World Cup 16. (2002/03)
 Downhill World Cup 11. (2001/02)
 Super G World Cup 6th (2002/03)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 44th (2002/03)
 Combination World Cup 8. (2001/02)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 0 1
 Super G 0 2 0
 

Daniela Ceccarelli (born September 25, 1975 in Frascati ) is a former Italian ski racer . She specialized in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines and became Olympic champion in super-G in 2002.

biography

After several good results in FIS races , Ceccarelli was also able to finish in the top five several times in the European Cup from the 1995/96 season and took third place in the final Super G ranking. In the following season she achieved a total of five podiums in Downhill and Super-G. She finished second in the overall standings behind Austrian Marianna Salchinger and came third in the Super-G and downhill rankings.

The Italian made her World Cup debut in the Super-G in Kvitfjell on March 7, 1996, where she finished 26th. Another start followed in February 1997. Due to her success in the European Cup, she started regularly in the World Cup from the 1997/98 season . In the first few years she mostly only placed in the back of the fastest 30 or did not make it into the points. The only exception was the eleventh place in the Super-G of Mammoth Mountain on December 4, 1998. At her first World Cup participation in Vail in 1999 , she finished 18th in the Super-G.

Towards the end of the 1999/2000 season , Ceccarelli was able to regularly place in the top 20 and achieved her first top ten result in the Super-G in Innsbruck on February 27th. In 2000/01 she was twice in the top ten and at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton she took 15th place in the Super-G and in the combination as well as 16th place in the downhill.

In the 2001/02 season Ceccarelli for the first time reached the podium: On December 22, 2001, she ran in the Super G in St. Moritz in second place, on 26 January 2002. followed by a third place in the departure of Cortina d'Ampezzo . The highlight of this season was the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . After she finished 20th in the downhill and 15th in the combination, she surprisingly achieved her greatest triumph in the third competition: Before the Croatian Janica Kostelić and the Italian Karen Putzer , Ceccarelli was Olympic champion in the Super-G. In March 2002 she became Italian Super-G champion.

In the 2002/03 season she took second place in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère, her third podium and came sixth in the Super-G World Cup with three further top ten results. At the 2003 World Championships in St. Moritz , she finished 13th in the downhill, but could not finish the Super-G. At the Italian championships in 2003 she won the downhill title.

In the years that followed, their performance continued to decline. While she came in the top ten four times in the 2003/04 season , reaching two fifth places, she managed to do so only twice in the 2004/05 season , several times she even stayed outside the points. At the World Championships in Bormio , she finished 14th in the downhill. Also in the 2005/06 season she was only once in the top ten.

In November 2006 Daniela Ceccarelli became a mother. She returned to the World Cup just two months later. In her second race after her baby break, the Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo on January 19, 2007, she was already 17th again. On December 21, 2007, she finished seventh in the downhill from St. Anton for the first time in two Years back in the top ten, but was not able to repeat this result afterwards. In the 2008/09 season her best result was the 16th place in the downhill from Bansko .

On January 23, 2010 Daniela Ceccarelli contested her last race in the World Cup with the descent from Cortina d'Ampezzo .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 3 podium places

European Cup

Italian championships

  • Italian champion in Super-G 2002 and Downhill 2003

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personal data
SURNAME Ceccarelli, Daniela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Frascati