Claudia Giordani

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Claudia Giordani Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 27th October 1955 (age 64)
place of birth Milan , Italy
size 165 cm
Weight 59 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
status resigned
End of career 1981
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Innsbruck 1976 slalom
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
gold Ruhpolding 1973 Giant slalom
bronze Ruhpolding 1973 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 3
 Overall World Cup 8. ( 1976/77 , 1979/80 )
 Downhill World Cup 9. ( 1973/74 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 6. (1973/74)
 Slalom World Cup 3. (1976/77)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 1 1 1
 slalom 2 6th 5
 Parallel races 0 1 0
 

Claudia Giordani (born October 27, 1955 in Milan ) is a former Italian ski racer . The 14-time Italian champion won three world cup races and the silver medal in slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics .

biography

Giordani was one of the best Italian slalom and giant slalom runners in the 1970s . She was first in giant slalom and third in slalom at the European Junior Championships 1973 in Ruhpolding . Two weeks later she won her first points in the World Cup with a fifth place in the downhill from St. Moritz . During the next eight years she celebrated 3 World Cup victories in slalom and giant slalom and reached the podium a total of 17 times. In downhill and combined , she achieved fourth place as the best result. In the slalom classification she placed in the top ten in six seasons, and in 1976/77 she was third. In the overall World Cup, she reached eighth place twice. In the World Series of Skiing held before the start of the season , which were only part of the Nations Cup, she won the giant slalom in Bormio on December 2, 1976, and came second in the parallel slalom in St. Moritz on December 4, 1976.

Giordani celebrated the greatest success of her career at the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck , when she won the silver medal in slalom behind the German Rosi Mittermaier . Four years later , she finished fifth at Lake Placid . At world championships she finished fifth in 1974 and eighth in slalom in 1978 . From 1973 to 1980 Giordani won a total of 14 Italian championship titles in all disciplines.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 3rd place in the Slalom World Cup 1976/77
  • 5th place in the Slalom World Cup 1975/76 , 1978/79 and 1979/80
  • A total of 17 podium places, including 3 wins:
date place country discipline
January 9, 1974 Les Gets France Giant slalom
1st February 1977 Maribor Yugoslavia slalom
March 11, 1980 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria slalom

Junior European Championships

Italian championships

Claudia Giordani won a total of 14 Italian championship titles :

  • Slalom (5): 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979
  • Giant slalom (6): 1973, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980
  • Departure (1): 1974
  • Combination (2): 1973, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giordani's lead was enough. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 3, 1976, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Sölkner up to the semifinals. Arbeiter-Zeitung, December 5, 1976, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Giordani, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy