Cédric Tamani lives in Düdingen . He started skeleton in 1997 and drove his first international race in November 1999 at the Skeleton World Cup in Calgary , where he was 29th as well as a month later in Nagano . Two years later, in eleventh place in Lake Placid, he just missed his first top ten finish, but showed his opportunities for the first time. A year later he achieved a single-digit result for the first time in eighth place. Shortly afterwards Tamani, in fourth place at the European Skeleton Championships in St. Moritz in 2003 , missed a medal by just 0.11 seconds against Florian Grassl . In the simultaneous World Cup he finished eighth. It should remain his best international results. The Skeleton World Championship in Nagano in 2003 brought the Swiss player to 13th place, a year later in Königssee he was 18th. In 2005 he took part again in the European Championships and World Championships and was 16 in Altenberg . and in Calgary 20. After the 2004/05 season , Tamani ended his international career, in which he competed in 25 World Cup races.
Nationally, Tamani was one of the most successful athletes in the first half of the 2000s, but he was mostly overshadowed by Gregor Stähli and mainly competed with Felix Poletti and Pascal Oswald for second position in the Swiss national team. At the Swiss championships in 2000 he finished seventh and in 2002 fifth. In 2003 he won his first bronze medal behind Stähli and Poletti. In 2004 he won the title ahead of Poletti and Oswald, but benefited from the absence of record champion Stähli. Behind this he was runner-up in 2005, in 2006 Oswald was still between them. In 2003 Tamani won the Engadin Grand Prix.
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