Dumeng Giovanoli

Dumeng Giovanoli
nation	Switzerland
birthday	23rd January 1941 (age 79)
place of birth	Sils in the Engadine , Switzerland
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1970
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships silver Grenoble 1968 combination bronze Val Gardena 1970 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 5th January 1967  Individual world cup victories 5  Overall World Cup 2. ( 1968 )  Downhill World Cup 16. (1968)  Giant Slalom World Cup 2. ( 1969/70 )  Slalom World Cup 1. (1968)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 3 3 3  slalom 2 2 3

Dumeng Giovanoli (born January 23, 1941 in Sils in the Engadine ) is a former Swiss ski racer.

biography

Giovanoli had its most successful period in the late 1960s. The first victory in World Cup Skiing succeeded on 14 January 1968 at the slalom of Wengen . A week later, at the slalom in Kitzbühel , he won again and traveled to Grenoble as one of the favorites for the Winter Olympics . Here he was fourth in slalom and seventh in giant slalom . In the non-Olympic alpine combination he was runner- up behind the French Jean-Claude Killy .

In the two following seasons he won three more World Cup races. Finally, at the end of his career, he won the bronze medal in the giant slalom at the World Ski Championships in Val Gardena in 1970 .

successes

Olympic Games (also World Cup)

• Innsbruck 1964 : 13th departure
• Grenoble 1968 : 4th slalom, 7th giant slalom, 16th descent

World championships

• Grenoble 1968 : 2nd combination
• Val Gardena 1970 : 3rd giant slalom, 6th slalom

World Cup ratings

Dumeng Giovanoli once won the discipline classification in slalom.

season	total		Departure		Giant slalom		slalom
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1967	10.	46	-	-	7th	23	10.	23
1968	2.	119	16.	6th	5.	43	1.	70
1968/69	9.	79	-	-	5.	48	11.	31
1969/70	6th	116	-	-	2.	70	6th	46

World Cup victories

Giovanoli achieved a total of 17 podiums, including 5 victories:

date	place	country	discipline
January 14, 1968	Wengen	Switzerland	slalom
January 21, 1968	Kitzbühel	Austria	slalom
March 21, 1969	Waterville Valley	United States	Giant slalom
17th January 1970	Kitzbühel	Austria	Giant slalom
20th January 1970	Kranjska Gora	Yugoslavia	Giant slalom

Web links

• Dumeng Giovanoli in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Dumeng Giovanoli in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Dumeng Giovanoli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )