Bruno Carrara

Bruno Carrara
nation	Italy
birthday	1st February 1977 (age 43)
place of birth	San Giovanni Bianco , Italy
size	177 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
National squad	since 1996
status	resigned
End of career	2015
Medal table
JWM medals 3 × 1 × 1 × Military World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × National medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Nordic Junior Ski World Championships gold 1995 Gällivare Season silver 1996 Asiago Season bronze 1996 Asiago 10 km C gold 1997 Canmore 10 km C gold 1997 Canmore Season  Military World Ski Championships silver 2003 Folgaria 10 km C silver 2003 Folgaria persecution  Italian championships bronze 2010 50 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup December 12, 1998  Overall World Cup 41st ( 1999/00 )  Sprint World Cup 42nd ( 2000/01 )  Distance World Cup 48th ( 2003/04 )  Long distance world cup 36th ( 1999/00 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Season 0 1 0
Placements in the marathon or Worldloppet Cup
Debut in the Cup January 27, 2002  Overall rating 7th ( 2008/09 , 2009/10 2010/11 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single race 0 0 1

Bruno Carrara (born February 1, 1977 in San Giovanni Bianco ) is a former Italian cross-country skier .

Career

Carrara began his international career by winning the gold medal at the 1995 World Junior Championships in Gällivare with the relay. At the Junior World Championships in Asiago in 1996 , he won the bronze medal over 10 km and the silver medal with the relay. Over the 30 km distance he finished 19th. The following year at the Junior World Championships in Canmore in 1997 , he won the gold medal over the 10 km classic distance and with the relay. In the 30 km freestyle race, he finished eighth.

From December 1997 Carrara started in the Continental Cup and secured good top 10 positions from the first race. On February 21, 1998, he won his first Continental Cup race in Primiero . At the end of the season he was once again on the podium in third place in Champagny. At the beginning of winter 1998/99 he got a starting place in the cross-country skiing world cup in Toblach , but could not keep up with the world's best as 88th. He then stayed in the Continental Cup and convinced again with top 10 and podium placements. In March Carrara moved again to the World Cup squad and started in Lahti , Falun and Oslo . In this he succeeded in Swedish Falun with 30th place for the first time gain of World Cup points. For the 1999/2000 season he was a permanent member of the Italian World Cup squad. However, at the beginning he could not prove his performance improvement from the previous season. It wasn't until the end of the season that he managed to win points again with a surprising tenth place in Lahti. He was also able to convince in 16th place in the Oslo sprint.

In the winter of 2000/01 he started in Beitostølen and was able to finish in the top 20 in the second World Cup race. With 15th place in Asiago he got a starting place for the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti. There he ran in the 15 km individual race in 27th place. Over the 30 km he reached 12th place. In the 2001/02 season he did not start at the beginning. It wasn't until February that it was used again in the Continental Cup. Before that, on January 27, 2002, he started in the Cross-Country Marathon Cup for the first time and ran in Predazzo in 25th place and was able to collect the first points in this series. In the Continental Cup he did not score any points until the end of the season.

At the beginning of the 2002/03 season , Carrara in Kiruna was part of the Italian relay and was ninth with this. At the following individual World Cup in Kuusamo , he was 57th far below his possibilities. He was also unsuccessful at the following World Cups in Clusone and Cogne. Back in the Continental Cup he achieved a good sixth place in Val Formazza. At the following Military World Ski Championships in 2003 , which was held in Folgaria , Carrara won silver over 10 km in the classic style and in the pursuit.

From November 2003 he was back in the World Cup line-up and immediately secured World Cup points in his first individual World Cup of the season as 15th in Kuusamo. In Otepää he was second with the relay for the first and only time in his career on a World Cup podium. In winter 2004/05 he had to do without a start in the World Cup and started in January 2005 in the Alpine Cup. In February he secured his first win in this series over the 15 km in Kranj . From March Carrara started at FIS races and secured two victories in Formazza and Pontresina . After another Alpine Cup victory in Campra , he started three World Cup races in January 2006, but remained without points.

At La Sgambeda in Livigno in December 2006, Carrara came in 12th. He also took part in the Marcialonga in Val di Fiemme and secured 22nd place. From January 2008, Carrara was part of the Italian Marathon Cup squad. At the Dolomitenlauf in Lienz , he secured a top 10 result for the first time with sixth place. His start at the Transjurassienne in Lamoura , which he finished fifth, went even better . He repeated this placement at the Engadin Skimarathon . The following year he just missed the podium in the same place and finished fourth. In March 2011 he secured his only podium finish of his career in this series with third place in this ski run. Carrara remained a member of the Italian national marathon team after this success.

In March 2012 Carrara started again in three Alpine Cup races in Toblach , but could not run to the top places. In December 2012 he ran his last ski marathon in Livigno for the time being. After more than two years without a start, Carrara started again internationally at the Marcialonga in January 2015 and turned 55. It was his last international start. In the meantime he only started in small regional ski runs, such as the 37th Pustertal Ski Marathon Classic 2013. In 2014 he was part of the Futura team at the Ski Classics.

successes

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	February 21, 1998	Primiero	15 km classic mass start	Continental Cup
2.	February 12, 2005	Kranj	15 km classic mass start	Alpine Cup
3.	December 18, 2005	Campra	15 km classic mass start	Alpine Cup

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place											1
3rd place
Top 10				1					1		5
Scoring		1	3	2	2	1	4th	1	14th		6th
Starts		8th	15th	8th	3	3	9	1	47		6th
Status: end of career

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1998/99	1	108.	1	74.
1999/2000	41	70.	26th	36	15th	53.
2000/01	44	69.			31	42.
2003/04	56	72.	55	48.	1	73.

Web links

• Bruno Carrara in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Bruno Carrara on ski-nordik.it (ital.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result of the JWM 1995 season
2. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1996 - Men's 10km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
3. ^ Result of the season JWM 1996
4. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1996 - Men's 30km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
5. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's 10km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
6. ^ Result of the season JWM 1997
7. ↑ FIS Junior World Ski Championships 1997 - Men's 30km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
8. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
9. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on September 22, 2015
10. ↑ View: Nordic skiing: Seraina Mischol wins the. In: blick.ch. March 8, 2009, accessed September 22, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Gsieser-Tal-Lauf: Moriggl wins the short distance. In: sportnews.bz. February 18, 2012, accessed September 22, 2015 . 
12. ↑ King Bruno. (No longer available online.) In: tageszeitung.it. January 13, 2013, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Pro Team Presentation 2014/2015 - PART 2 - www.skiclassics.com. (No longer available online.) In: skiclassics.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 22, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.