Alessandra Merlin

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Alessandra Merlin Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 22nd September 1975 (age 44)
place of birth Turin , Italy
Career
discipline Downhill, super-G
status resigned
End of career 2001
Medal table
Junior World Championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World ChampionshipTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze Monte Campione 1993 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1993
 Overall World Cup 42nd (1999/2000)
 Downhill World Cup 18th (1997/98)
 Super G World Cup 12. (1999/2000)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 0 1 0
 

Alessandra Merlin (born September 22, 1975 in Turin ) is an Italian ski racer . Until 2001 she specialized in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines in the World Cup , since then she has almost exclusively competed in carving races and established herself as a serial winner in the FIS Carving Cup .

biography

Barbara Merlin's sister, who is three years younger than her, began her career with participation in FIS races and in the European Cup . On January 9, 1993, she took part in a World Cup race in Cortina d'Ampezzo for the first time . At the Junior World Championship in 1993 , she won the bronze medal in the Super-G. She got her first World Cup points on December 10, 1994 when she was 18th on the downhill in Lake Louise .

Merlin's performances were subsequently rather inconsistent, which is why the coaches often relegated her to the European Cup. It was not until December 1997 that she made it into the top ten in a World Cup race. The only podium was achieved on December 19, 1999 at the Super-G in St. Moritz , where she was second behind Karen Putzer .

She competed in the last World Cup race in December 2001. Two years later she took part in the Winter Universiade in Tarvisio and won the Super G gold medal. Merlin has been competing almost exclusively in carving races since 2002 . In the FIS Carving Cup she established herself as a serial winner: She won more than 25 races and won the overall standings in the winters 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07 and 2008/09.

successes

Olympic games

World Championship

Junior World Championship

World cup

  • 1 podium, 1 further placement among the top ten

European Cup

  • Season 1992/93 : 2nd exit Score
  • Season 1993/94 : 5. Super-G standings
  • Season 1994/95 : 9 Super-G standings
  • 3 podium places (individual results only available from 1995)

More Achievements

  • 1 victory in FIS races (results only available from 1995)
  • Universiade Tarvisio 2003: 1st Super-G

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIS Carving Cup - Overview of the overall ranking ( Memento from December 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ FIS Carving Cup - Race Report March 2009 ( Memento from February 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Merlin, Alessandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd September 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin