Maria Canins

Maria Canins

Maria Canins at Col d'Izoard , 1986
To person
Date of birth	4th June 1949 (age 71)
nation	Italy
discipline	Street
Most important successes
Italian road racing champion (1984–1989) World champion in team time trial 1988 World Champion Winter Triathlon (1997, 1999)
Last updated: November 23, 2019

Maria Canins (born June 4, 1949 in Stern , Abtei ) is a former Italian cyclist , cross-country skier , mountain biker and world cycling champion.

Career

With her successes and versatility, Maria Canins is a sporting exception.

Cross-country skiing since 1969

From 1969 to 1981 she successfully cross-country skiing, so she won a. a. 15 national titles and in 1985 the first Italian to win the Swedish Vasa race . Ten times in a row, from 1979 to 1988, she won the Italian cross-country skiing marathon Marcialonga .

Professional cycling since 1981

In 1981, at the age of 32, Maria Canins decided to take up professional cycling. Since she already had a child at that time, she was called "La mammina volante" (Italian: "the flying mother"). Just a year later, she finished second at the Road World Championships in Goodwood , UK , and third the following year . In 1985 she was runner- up again , and at the 1988 Road World Championships in Seoul, she was finally world champion in the team time trial .

Her great strengths were stage tours: in 1988 she won the first edition of the Giro d'Italia Femminile ; In 1987 the Tour de l'Aude Féminin and in 1985 and 1986 the Grande Boucle Féminine (known as Tour de France Féminin ). Several times she also took second and third places in the overall ranking of tours. She has been the Italian road race champion six times, making her the record holder.

1984 Summer Olympics

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Maria Canins was fifth in the road race; four years later at the Games in Seoul , she finished 32nd.

Winter triathlon since 1995

In 1995 Maria Canins retired from professional cycling and turned to mountain biking and the winter triathlon . In these disciplines, too, she achieved numerous successes such as winning the world title in the winter triathlon in 1997 and 1999.

For many years Maria Canins has been the representative of the Maratona dles Dolomites , one of the most important sporting events in her home region.

Maria Canins was married to the Italian cross-country skier Bruno Bonaldi until his death in July 2016 . She lives in her home in the Dolomites .

Sporting successes

Awards

• Italy's Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 1985, 1986

Web links

Commons : Maria Canins  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Maria Canins in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Maria Canins in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Procyclingwomen.com: "Maria Canins" ( Memento from February 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kai Baumgartner: Triple fascination in white: 7th Winter Triathlon World Championships in Oberstaufen. . In: 3athlon.de . September 27, 2002. Archived from the original on November 7, 2004. Retrieved on February 16, 2010.
2. ↑ Schianto in bici in Val Badia, muore Bruno Bonaldi ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.