Antonella Manzoni

Antonella Manzoni
Antonella Manzoni in September 2009
nation	Italy
birthday	July 9, 1980
place of birth	Bellano
size	165 cm
Weight	57 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	Valsassina Ski Team
National squad	since 1994
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 2 × 2 × Junior World Championship 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Grass ski world championships silver Dizin 2005 Giant slalom bronze Olešnice 2007 Super G silver Rettenbach 2009 Super G bronze Rettenbach 2009 Giant slalom  Grass ski junior world championships bronze Müstair 1997 Super G silver Nakoyama 2000 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 6. ( 2006 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 0 0 1  Giant slalom 1 0 4th  Super G 1 1 0  Super combination 0 1 0
last change: October 22, 2012

Antonella Manzoni (born July 9, 1980 in Bellano ) is an Italian grass skier . The nine-time Italian champion belongs to the national team of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI). So far she has won two world cup races and four medals at world championships .

Career

Manzoni achieved her first international success at the Junior World Championships in 1997 in Müstair , where she won the bronze medal in the Super-G. In the same year, also in Müstair, she took part in a world championship in the general class for the first time, finishing twelfth in the Super-G and 13th in the giant slalom. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Nakoyama , Japan , she won the silver medal in the Super-G. In 2001 she just missed the medal ranks at the World Championships in Forni di Sopra with fourth place in the slalom. At the Italian championships in 2003 in Lanzo d'Intelvi , she won all four competitions. In the following three years she was able to win another five Italian championship titles.

In the World Cup , Manzoni came third in the giant slalom in Nové Město na Moravě and another two top 10 results in the 2003 season for the first time among the top ten in the overall standings. In the next two years she was also among the top ten in the overall World Cup with several podium places. At the 2005 World Championships in Dizin , Iran , she won the silver medal in giant slalom behind the Austrian Ingrid Hirschhofer . She was fourth in the Super-G, tenth in the slalom and ninth in the combination.

Antonella Manzoni in the slalom of the FIS super combination from Rettenbach in July 2011

In the 2006 World Cup season, the Italian was not on the podium, but with fourth place in the giant slalom in České Petrovice and another three top 10 results, she reached sixth place in the final ranking and thus her best result in the overall World Cup. In the 2007 season Manzoni celebrated two victories in the giant slalom and in the Super-G in Dizin and in the overall standings she finished seventh. At the 2007 World Cup she won the bronze medal in the Super-G; in the super combination she took eighth place at the same time as the German Anna-Lena Büdenbender . She only achieved two results (ninth place in the super combination of Rettenbach and fifth place in the giant slalom in Čenkovice ) in the 2008 World Cup season , which is why she dropped to eleventh place in the overall ranking. In the 2009 season , Manzoni came ninth in the overall World Cup with two podium places in the super combined from Wilhelmsburg and in the giant slalom from Dizin . At the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach, she won the silver medal in the Super-G and bronze in the giant slalom. She came fourth in the super combination.

In the 2010 season Manzoni reached a podium in the World Cup, second place in Dizin's Super-G, and was tenth in the overall standings. She also achieved a podium position (third place in the first giant slalom in San Sicario ) and again tenth place overall in the 2011 season . She stayed without a podium at the 2011 World Championships in Goldingen . With fourth place in the Super-G and in the Super Combined, she narrowly missed the medal ranks twice. In the slalom, she was eighth, while she was eliminated in the giant slalom in the second round. In 2012 Manzoni did not contest any competitions.

From 1996 to 2002 Manzoni also took part in FIS races and the Italian championships in alpine skiing , but only made it into the top 30 three times.

successes

World championships

• Müstair 1997 : 12th Super-G, 13th giant slalom
• Forni di Sopra 2001 : 4th slalom
• Dizin 2005 : 2nd giant slalom, 4th super-G, 9th combination, 10th slalom
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 3rd super-G, 9th super combination
• Rettenbach 2009 : 2nd super G, 3rd giant slalom, 4th super combination
• Goldingen 2011 : 4th super G, 4th super combination, 8th slalom

Junior World Championships

(only podium places)

• Müstair 1997 : 3rd Super-G
• Nakoyama 2000 : 2nd Super-G

World cup

• 6th overall: 2006
• 7th overall: 2005 and 2007
• 8th overall: 2004
• 9th overall: 2003 and 2009
• 10th overall: 2010 and 2011
• Two wins and another seven podiums

Italian championships

• Manzoni is nine times Italian champion: 2 × slalom, 2 × giant slalom, 3 × super-G and 2 × combination

Web links

Commons : Antonella Manzoni  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Antonella Manzoni ( Memento from June 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Italian Winter Sports Association (Italian)
• Antonella Manzoni in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004