Stefania Belmondo

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Stefania Belmondo
Stefania Belmondo
nation	Italy
birthday	13th January 1969 (age 51)
place of birth	Vinadio , Italy
size	158 cm
Weight	45 kg
Career
society	GS Forestale
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 2 × 6 × World Cup medals 4 × 7 × 2 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Albertville 1992 30 km silver Albertville 1992 persecution bronze Albertville 1992 Season bronze Lillehammer 1994 persecution bronze Lillehammer 1994 Season bronze Nagano 1998 30 km bronze Nagano 1998 Season gold Salt Lake City 2002 15 km silver Salt Lake City 2002 30 km bronze Salt Lake City 2002 10 km  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze Val di Fiemme 1991 15 km silver Val di Fiemme 1991 Season gold Falun 1993 persecution gold Falun 1993 30 km silver Falun 1993 Season silver Trondheim 1997 persecution silver Trondheim 1997 5 km silver Trondheim 1997 15 km silver Trondheim 1997 30 km gold Ramsau 1999 persecution gold Ramsau 1999 15 km silver Ramsau 1999 Season bronze Lahti 2001 Season  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships bronze 1988 Saalfelden 5 km bronze 1988 Saalfelden Season gold 1989 Vang 5 km gold 1989 Vang 15 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
World Cup victories in individual 23 ( details )  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1998/99 )  Sprint World Cup 1. (1996/97)  Distance World Cup 2. (1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99)
last change: February 23, 2014

Stefania Belmondo (born January 13, 1969 in Vinadio ) is a former Italian cross-country skier . She is one of the most successful athletes of the 1990s and was one of the first to break the dominance of the Russians and Scandinavians. She won a total of 23 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships. With 10 Olympic medals, she holds the record at the Winter Games (women) with Raissa Smetanina and Marit Bjørgen .

biography

Belmondo first took part in world championships in 1987 and started in 1988 for the first time at the Olympic Games. At the Junior World Championships in 1988 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria, she won bronze over 5 kilometers and with the Italian relay. The following year she was junior world champion over five and 15 kilometers at the 1990 Junior World Championships in Vang, Norway . In 1989 she won her first world cup race . She won her first two medals at the 1991 World Championships. At the 1992 Winter Olympics , she was Olympic champion over 30 km. She celebrated two more victories, in the pursuit race and over 30 kilometers, at the 1993 World Championships. A broken toe that had to be operated on forced her to take a four-month break from competition.

After a second operation, Belmondo took part in the 1994 Olympic Games, but failed to meet expectations with two bronze medals. Contrary to the advice of her doctors, she decided to continue her sports career. At the 1997 World Cup she came second four times, always behind her Russian competitor Jelena Välbe . Belmondo won a silver and a bronze medal at the Olympics. The third place with the relay is remarkable because last runner Belmondo started the track in ninth place and still overtook runners. Also in 1997 Belmondo was honored with the Holmenkollen Medal .

At the 1999 World Championships, Belmondo won two more gold medals, in the pursuit race and over 15 km. In addition, in the 1998/99 season she was the first female runner from an Alpine country to win the overall ranking of the cross-country skiing world cup. In 2002, at her fifth Olympic Games, she won the 15 km race. After the 2001/2002 season, she ended her cross-country skiing career.

On 10 February 2006 ignited Belmondo during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin , the Olympic flame .

successes

winter Olympics

• 1992 in Albertville : Gold over 30 km, silver in the pursuit race, bronze with the relay
• 1994 in Lillehammer : bronze in the pursuit race, bronze with the relay
• 1998 in Nagano : silver over 30 km, bronze with the relay
• 2002 in Salt Lake City : Gold over 15 km, silver over 30 km, bronze over 10 km

World championships

• 1991 in Val di Fiemme : silver with the relay, bronze over 15 km
• 1993 in Falun : Gold in the pursuit race, gold over 30 km, silver with the relay
• 1997 in Trondheim : silver in the pursuit race, silver over 5 km, silver over 15 km, silver over 30 km
• 1999 in Ramsau : Gold in the pursuit race, gold over 15 km, silver with the relay
• 2001 in Lahti : bronze with the relay

Victories in world cup races

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 10, 1989	Salt Lake City	15 km freestyle
2.	December 8, 1990	Tauplitzalm	10 km classic + 15 km freestyle
3.	December 8, 1991	Silver Star	15 km classic
4th	January 11, 1992	Cogne	30 km freestyle
5.	February 21, 1992	Albertville	30 km freestyle 1
6th	February 29, 1992	Lahti	30 km classic
7th	January 16, 1993	Cogne	10 km freestyle
8th.	February 23, 1993	Falun	15 km pursuit 2
9.	February 27, 1993	Falun	30 km freestyle 2
10.	November 29, 1995	Gällivare	10 km freestyle
11.	December 7, 1996	Davos	10 km classic
12.	December 14, 1996	Brusson	15 km freestyle
13.	January 11, 1997	Hakuba	5 km classic
14th	January 12, 1997	Hakuba	10 km freestyle
15th	March 15, 1997	Oslo	30 km freestyle
16.	January 11, 1998	Ramsau am Dachstein	10 km freestyle
17th	March 7, 1998	Lahti	15 km freestyle
18th	February 19, 1999	Ramsau am Dachstein	15 km freestyle 3
19th	February 23, 1999	Ramsau am Dachstein	15 km pursuit 3
20th	February 2, 2000	Trondheim	5 km freestyle
21st	February 20, 2000	Lamoura Mouthe	44 km freestyle Mst. 4
22nd	March 9, 2002	Falun	10 km skiathlon
23.	March 16, 2002	Oslo	30 km freestyle

¹ 1992 Winter Olympics.

² Nordic World Ski Championships 1993.

³ Nordic World Ski Championships 1999.

^4thAlso part of the Marathon Cup .

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	January 13, 2001	Soldier Hollow	4 × 5 km relay 2
2.	March 10, 2002	Falun	4 × 5 km relay 2

²With Sabina Valbusa , Gabriella Paruzzi and Cristina Paluselli .

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	5th February 1994	Brusson	10 km freestyle	Continental Cup
2.	March 25, 1999	Oslo	10 km freestyle	Continental Cup

Victories in Worldloppet Cup races

Note: Before the 2015/16 season, the Worldloppet Cup was still called the Marathon Cup .

No.	date	place	run	discipline
1.	February 20, 2000	Lamoura	Transjurassienne	44 km freestyle mass start 3

³At the same time part of the cross-country skiing world cup .

World Cup overall placements

season	total		Long distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1988/89	37	13.	-	-	-	-
1989/90	66	8th.	-	-	-	-
1990/91	128	2.	-	-	-	-
1991/92	156	2.	-	-	-	-
1992/93	596	3.	-	-	-	-
1993/94	481	4th	-	-	-	-
1994/95	377	7th	-	-	-	-
1995/96	675	6th	-	-	-	-
1996/97	909	2.	280	2.	489	1.
1997/98	544	3.	208	3.	355	3.
1998/99	768	1.	345	2.	356	5.
1999/2000	820	6th	211 585	7. 2. 4	24	37.
2000/01	785	4th	-	-	164	7th
2001/02	760	3.	-	-	-	-

^4th Middle distance world cup.

Awards

• Italy's Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport ): 1993, 1999, 2002

Web links

• Official website of Stefania Belmondo
• Stefania Belmondo in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Stefania Belmondo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )