Kristian Ghedina
Kristian Ghedina 
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| birthday | 20th November 1969 (age 50) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Pieve di Cadore , Italy | ||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg | ||||||||||||
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| discipline | Downhill , super-G | ||||||||||||
| society | GS Fiamme Gialle | ||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 2006 | ||||||||||||
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Kristian Ghedina (born November 20, 1969 in Pieve di Cadore ) is a former Italian ski racer and motor sportsman.
biography
Ghedina, who lives in Cortina d'Ampezzo , won 12 World Cup runs and one Super-G in his career and was able to achieve a total of 33 podium places (29 runs, 4 Super-Gs). At the 1991 World Ski Championships in Saalbach he came second in the combination, and in 1996 he came second in the downhill at the World Ski Championships in Sierra Nevada . In 1997 in Sestriere he took bronze in the downhill again. He also holds the track record of 2: 24.23 min on the Lauberhorn descent , which is still valid today, when he won in 1997, with which he achieved an average speed of 106.33 km / h.
In the 1994/95 season Ghedina missed victory in the downhill discipline classification (this would have been the first success of this kind for the Italian Association; Isolde Kostner was successful for the first time in 2000/01 and 2001/02, with the men it lasted until March 16, 2016, before Peter Fill ended the dry spell at the final in St. Moritz ). Lying in the lead before the final in Bormio , he only finished 6th there, while Luc Alphand took the lead in the overall standings with his win of the day.
He achieved his last World Cup victory on December 14, 2001 in Val Gardena . After that, however, in five seasons he achieved 15 top ten positions, including two podium places. During his run at the Hahnenkamm race from Kitzbühel on 24 January 2004 stunned and delighted he audience and TV commentators with an opponent while jumping in the target shot, he drove it to sixth place.
On April 26, 2006, he announced the end of his alpine skiing career at a press conference. Supported by his friend Alessandro Zanardi , he then strived for a career as a racing car driver and at the end of April 2006 he contested his first Formula 3000 race of the International Masters in the Scuderia Bigazzi team. In 2006 he competed in the Italian touring car racing series “Campionato Italiano Superstars” in a BMW M3 belonging to Roberto Ravaglia's ROAL team , finishing in seventh place with 32 points. In 2008 he finished 5th in the final ranking with 56 points.
In March 2009 Ghedina started at the Italian Ski Championships in the downhill and in the Super-G. In the downhill he took sixth place. In 2010 he started for the last time in the Italian Downhill Championship and finished 23rd.
Private
Kristian Ghedina is the son of Angelo and the ski instructor Adriana, who died in a skiing accident in her home country in 1984. He has two sisters and a brother.
successes
Olympic games
- Albertville 1992 : 6th combination, 11th descent
- Lillehammer 1994 : 20th departure
- Nagano 1998 : 6th downhill, 16th super-G
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 35th departure
- Turin 2006 : 23rd departure
World championships
- Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 : 2nd combination, 9th Super-G
- Morioka-Shizukuishi 1993 : 13th departure
- Sierra Nevada 1996 : 2nd Downhill, 14th Super-G
- Sestriere 1997 : 3rd Downhill, 7th Super-G
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 9th downhill, 10th Super-G, 12th combination
- St. Anton 2001 : 23rd Super-G
- St. Moritz 2003 : 11th descent
- Bormio 2005 : 15th Downhill, 46th Super-G
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Departure | Super G | Giant slalom | combination | |||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1989/90 | 15th | 97 | 6th | 87 | - | - | - | - | 7th | 10 |
| 1990/91 | 22nd | 63 | 11. | 40 | 19th | 10 | 32. | 3 | 6th | 10 |
| 1991/92 | 43. | 206 | 15th | 147 | 39. | 33 | - | - | 29 | 26th |
| 1992/93 | 57. | 139 | 27. | 110 | - | - | - | - | 20th | 29 |
| 1993/94 | 40. | 207 | 19th | 146 | 39. | 9 | - | - | 7th | 52 |
| 1994/95 | 7th | 628 | 2. | 473 | 7th | 126 | 32. | 29 | - | - |
| 1995/96 | 15th | 492 | 8th. | 237 | 10. | 170 | 46. | 9 | 5. | 76 |
| 1996/97 | 4th | 990 | 2. | 700 | 5. | 218 | - | - | 6th | 72 |
| 1997/98 | 11. | 544 | 6th | 412 | 10. | 114 | - | - | - | - |
| 1998/99 | 20th | 355 | 8th. | 296 | 36. | 14th | - | - | 9. | 45 |
| 1999/00 | 4th | 958 | 2. | 677 | 8th. | 216 | - | - | 8th. | 65 |
| 2000/01 | 60. | 95 | 21st | 95 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2001/02 | 10. | 505 | 3. | 381 | 15th | 88 | - | - | 12. | 36 |
| 2002/03 | 98 | 38 | 36. | 35 | 57. | 3 | - | - | - | - |
| 2003/04 | 49. | 169 | 20th | 169 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004/05 | 32. | 257 | 12. | 225 | 34. | 32 | - | - | - | - |
| 2005/06 | 35. | 235 | 10. | 235 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
Ghedina reached 33 podiums, including 13 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| 3rd February 1990 | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | Departure |
| March 15, 1990 | Are | Sweden | Departure |
| January 20, 1995 | Wengen | Switzerland | Departure |
| February 25, 1995 | Whistler | Canada | Departure |
| December 21, 1996 | Val Gardena | Italy | Departure |
| January 11, 1997 | Chamonix | France | Departure |
| January 18, 1997 | Wengen | Switzerland | Departure |
| 4th December 1997 | Beaver Creek | United States | Departure |
| January 24, 1998 | Kitzbühel | Austria | Departure |
| December 19, 1998 | Val Gardena | Italy | Departure |
| December 17, 1999 | Val Gardena | Italy | Departure |
| March 5, 2000 | Kvitfjell | Norway | Super G |
| December 14, 2001 | Val Gardena | Italy | Departure |
European Cup
- Victory in the downhill classification in 1988/89
Italian championships
Kristian Ghedina won a total of 12 Italian championship titles :
- Departure (6): 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000
- Super-G (3): 1990, 2000, 2002
- Combination (3): 1995, 1997, 1998
Web links
- Kristian Ghedina's website
- Kristian Ghedina in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Kristian Ghedina in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Kristian Ghedina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nice to see and hear on two YouTube videos - one : in German with a subsequent interview, the other - with the better picture quality - : in French
- ↑ SID: Alpine skiing - World Cup: No comeback for Kristian Ghedina. In: Focus Online . December 13, 2006, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.ski2b.com/230-kristian-ghedina-tritt-zurueck.html on skiinfo.de u. http://www.handelsblatt.com/journal/motorsport/ghedina-wechselelt-vom-schnee-auf-den-asphalt;1095228 , http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabrinigreen/2751812820/
- ↑ http://www.automobilsport.com/bmw-m3-misano-kristian-ghedina-roal-motorsport-roberto-ravaglia-team---44326.html
- ↑ http://www.autosieger.de/article13371.html
- ↑ http://www.ten-tenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=104952&page=5 u. http://www.eurosuperstars.com/eng/news01.asp?codice=422 , http://www.eurosuperstars.com/eng/classifica_piloti.asp
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ghedina, Kristian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer and motor sportsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th November 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pieve di Cadore , Italy |