Alberto Schieppati
Alberto Schieppati 
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| birthday | 7th June 1981 (age 39) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Milan , Italy | ||||||||
| size | 184 cm | ||||||||
| Weight | 88 kg | ||||||||
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| discipline | Giant slalom | ||||||||
| society | CS Carabinieri | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | November 8, 2011 | ||||||||
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Alberto Schieppati (born June 7, 1981 in Milan ) is a former Italian ski racer . His specialty was the giant slalom . He achieved a podium and a further seven top 10 placements in the World Cup, as well as two top 10 placements at world championships and a 15th place at the 2006 Winter Olympics .
biography
Alberto Schieppati drove the first FIS races in the winter of 1996/1997. After several podium places and his first victory in March 1999, he was used for the first time in the European Cup in December 1999 . He scored points for the first time in this racing series in February 2001, top 10 placings followed from 2002. Schieppati, whose strongest discipline was the giant slalom, took part in the Junior World Championships twice. He reached seventh place in 2000 and sixth place in 2001 in his specialty.
In the World Cup , Schieppati only started in the giant slalom. He made his debut on December 9, 2001 in Val-d'Isère and a week later he won World Cup points for the first time with 15th place on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia - which was his best World Cup result for two years. At the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , he reached eighth place. Schieppati achieved his first top 10 result in the World Cup on December 21, 2003 with eighth place in Alta Badia. Finally, he reached in the last giant slalom of the 2003/04 season on February 28, 2004 in Kranjska Gora with the second place behind the American Bode Miller his first and only World Cup podium, which he was twelfth in the giant slalom World Cup. In the next winter he could not follow these results. He did not finish in the top ten in any race and fell back to 31st place in the discipline world cup. He was able to improve again in the 2005/06 season , in which he was three times tenth, and in the 2006/07 season , in which he achieved the 14th place in the Giant Slalom World Cup with a seventh place in Hinterstoder as the best result.
After Schieppati had not participated in the World Championships in Bormio in 2005, but had won the giant slalom of the Military World Ski Championships in Predeal that year, he started in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , where he was 15th in the giant slalom. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , he reached the fifth rank. The next two years were again less successful. At the beginning of the 2007/08 season he achieved his last top 10 result in the World Cup with ninth place in Sölden , otherwise he was only once among the fastest 20 this winter. In the 2008/09 season , which he won early in January had to finish, he could only score once.
In the winter of 2009/10 Schieppati regularly placed among the fastest 20. With an eleventh place in Val-d'Isère as the best result, he finished 15th in the Giant Slalom World Cup. However, he was not nominated for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the 2010/11 season Schieppati only started in the opening race in Sölden, which was canceled after the first round. In November he ended the season due to illness. He had been suffering from the Epstein-Barr virus , the cause of Pfeiffer glandular fever, for a long time . At the beginning of the 2011/12 season he took part in a World Cup race again in Sölden, but two weeks later he announced his retirement due to his viral illness, which no longer allowed him to train normally.
successes
winter Olympics
- Turin 2006 : 15th giant slalom
World championships
- St. Moritz 2003 : 8th giant slalom
- Åre 2007 : 5th giant slalom
World cup
- 1 podium and a further seven top 10 placements
European Cup
- 3 placements among the top five, including 1 victory:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| February 18, 2005 | Oberjoch | Germany | Giant slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Québec 2000 : 7th giant slalom, 55th downhill
- Verbier 2001 : 6th giant slalom
More Achievements
- Military world champion in giant slalom 2005
- Italian junior champion in slalom 1998 and giant slalom 2001
- Italian runner-up in giant slalom 2005
- 1 podium in the Nor-Am Cup
- 4 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Alberto Schieppati in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Alberto Schieppati in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Alberto Schieppati in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schieppati si ferma tutta la stagione. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. raceskimagazine.it, November 23, 2010, accessed October 24, 2011 (Italian).
- ^ Illness forces Schieppati to resign. laola1.at, November 10, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2011.
- ^ Sci alpino, Schieppati: "Mi ritiro". ( Memento of July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Italian Winter Sports Association, November 8, 2011, accessed on November 11, 2011 (Italian).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schieppati, Alberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7th 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan , Italy |