Celina Seghi

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Celina Seghi Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday March 6, 1920
place of birth Abetone
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Aspen 1950 slalom
 

Celina Seghi (born March 6, 1920 in Abetone ) is a former Italian ski racer . Seghi was her country's dominant runner in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1937 and 1954 she won 25 Italian championship titles in all disciplines. It is still considered an icon of Italian ski racing today.

biography

Seghi was born in Tuscany and learned to ski in the mountains of Abetone . At the age of 15 she won the title of Italian junior champion in the downhill. The following year she took part in qualifying for the 1936 Winter Olympics. While she stayed far behind the top in the descent, she drove the second best time in the slalom behind Paula Wiesinger . Nevertheless, Seghi was not allowed to go to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . Their age was given as the official reason.

Seghi then demonstrated her exceptional talent for the first time at the Italian championship in Selva in 1937 . All three titles in downhill, slalom and combined went to her. She won her first international title in 1941 at the World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the slalom, she managed to leave the German serial winner Christl Cranz behind, and she became world champion. In addition, she won the silver medal in the downhill and in the combination. After the end of the Second World War , however, she lost titles and medals because the International Ski Federation (FIS) decided not to evaluate the results of the 1941 World Championship because many nations could not take part due to political circumstances.

At the first ski races, which took place again after the end of the war, Seghi was back in front. She celebrated two victories at the Arlberg-Kandahar races in 1947 and 1948 and four victories at the prestigious SDS races in Grindelwald , Switzerland , from 1947 to 1949. In 1948 she traveled as the favorite to the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . There it did not quite live up to expectations. In the downhill and in the combination, she narrowly missed the bronze medal and finished fourth. In her favorite discipline, slalom, she only came in 14th.

At the 1950 World Ski Championships in Aspen , Seghi won the first medal. In the slalom she drove the second best time in the first run, but was overtaken by the Austrian Erika Mahringer in the second run and had to be satisfied with bronze. In 1952 she took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo for the second time and was fourth in slalom, at the 1954 World Ski Championships in Åre, Sweden, then ninth again in slalom. Slowly, however, she had to bow to the younger competition. In the run-up to the 1956 Winter Olympics , she once again took part in the team's internal qualification and also secured an Olympic ticket. Nevertheless, she decided not to do so and at the age of 35, she resigned from the national team.

Seghi remained very popular in her homeland throughout her life. In 2006 she took part in Pisa as a guest of honor in the torch relay for the Winter Olympics in Turin .

statistics

winter Olympics

World championships

  • Aspen 1950 : 3rd slalom, 12th giant slalom, 16th descent
  • Åre 1954 : 9th slalom, 16th combination, 21st giant slalom, 23rd descent

Italian championships

Celina Seghi won a total of 25 Italian championship titles - more than any other ski racer:

  • Slalom (10): 1937, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954
  • Giant Slalom (1): 1952
  • Departure (7): 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1948, 1949
  • Combination (7): 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the AK races 1928–1955. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ( PDF file, 23 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kandahar.org.uk
  2. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 6 (without page number).
personal data
SURNAME Seghi, Celina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Abetone