She starts for the club Bormio Ghiaccio and has been training under the new national coach Éric Bédard at the performance center in Bormio since 2010 . It belongs to the Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle , a sports promotion group of the Guardia di Finanza . Viviani has been part of the Italian national team since the 2008/09 season and made her debut in the Dresden World Cup in February 2009 . Over 500 m she achieved a good tenth place. At the Junior World Championships in Sherbrooke , she played her first international championship and won the gold medal in the relay. In the 2009/10 season Viviani started at four World Cups, but was always eliminated in the run-up. Her biggest success of the season was winning the bronze medal with the team at the home world championship in Bormio. The 2010/11 season was successful . In the World Cup she reached a semi-finals once in individual races, with the relay she came third twice and reached her first podium places. She started at the European Championships in Heerenveen , where she finished 14th in the all- around event and sixth in the 500 m. In the relay she was able to win the silver medal. At the team world championships in Warsaw she finished fifth with her teammates. She also competed in the Junior World Championship in Courmayeur . There she narrowly missed a medal in fourth in the 500 m, in the all-around event she was eighth and in the relay she was able to win the gold medal again. Viviani also won silver in the relay at the 2012 European Championship in Mladá Boleslav . But it was only used in the semifinals. She won bronze in the 3,000-meter relay at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi . Shortly afterwards, she won the same medal at the 2014 World Cup in Montreal .
Web links
Elena Viviani in the database of ShorttrackOnLine.info (English)