Zeno Colò

Zeno Colò
nation	Italy
birthday	June 30, 1920
place of birth	Abetone
date of death	May 12, 1993
Place of death	San Marcello Pistoiese
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 3 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Oslo 1952 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Aspen 1950 Departure gold Aspen 1950 Giant slalom silver Aspen 1950 slalom gold Oslo 1952 Departure

Zeno Colò (born June 30, 1920 in Abetone ; † May 12, 1993 in San Marcello Pistoiese , Pistoia Province ) was an Italian ski racer .

In 1950 Colò became world champion in downhill and in the newly introduced giant slalom at the World Championships in Aspen , plus the silver medal in slalom . At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , he won the gold medal in the downhill, making him the only (double) world champion and Olympic champion in Italy to date (May 2017) in this discipline. In 1950 he won the downhill and slalom of the 3-tre races, which were held for the first time .

From 1941 to 1955 Colò won a total of 19 Italian championship titles - more than any other:

• Slalom (7): 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1954, 1955
• Giant Slalom (2): 1952, 1954
• Departure (5): 1941, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955
• Combination (5): 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948

Other important placements

• 13./14. January 1951: 3rd place in the downhill, 12th place in the slalom and 4th place in the combination on the Lauberhorn

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Arlbergers win on the Lauberhorn" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 14, 1951, p. 14 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ "Schneider also won the combination" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 16, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).