Daniela Merighetti

Daniela Merighetti
Daniela Merighetti in January 2011
nation	Italy
birthday	5th July 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Brescia , Italy
size	168 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
status	resigned
End of career	March 16, 2016
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 9, 2000  Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 15th ( 2011/12 )  Downhill World Cup 7th (2011/12, 2012/13 )  Super G World Cup 12. (2011/12)  Giant Slalom World Cup 24th ( 2002/03 )  Slalom World Cup 42nd (2002/03, 2006/07 )  Combination World Cup 10. ( 2008/09 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 1 1 2  Super G 0 0 1  Giant slalom 0 1 0  team 1 0 2

Daniela ("Dada") Merighetti (born July 5, 1981 in Brescia ) is a former Italian ski racer . She was a member of the Italian national ski team from 2000 to 2016. She was most successful in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines .

biography

Merighetti started skiing at the insistence of her father at the age of six. At first she was not very enthusiastic about the sport. That changed when she won some youth races as a member of the OS Noi di Brescia ski club. Her sporting career experienced a setback in 1996 when she broke her left shin while training. She recovered well from the forced break and at the beginning of 1998 she was first in the Super-G and runner-up in the downhill at the Italian junior championship . In December 1998 she had to take another break due to an injury when she tore the cruciate ligament in her left knee in an FIS slalom in Presena . After six months of regeneration, she resumed training in the summer of 1999 and finally made it to the Italian national ski team in 2000.

In December 2000 Merighetti made her debut in the World Cup , where she initially could not gain a foothold. In late January 2001 she suffered a second cruciate ligament tear. Only two years after her debut did she get her first World Cup points. She then hit the bang at the end of the 2002/03 season in Åre, Sweden . In her first World Cup giant slalom , which she finished with two valid runs, she surprisingly finished second with start number 38 (although she was only 29th after the first run). This was her only World Cup podium finish until her victory in Cortina in January 2012. Constant performances in the World Cup were rare. Finally, she pulled herself in November 2003 during the World Cup slalom of Park City for the third time the cruciate ligament.

After her recovery, she struggled to reconnect with her teammates, but remained in the World Cup in the 2004/05 season without a valid result. Only since the 2005/06 season has she regularly taken part in World Cup races again. With a ninth place in the downhill from Bad Kleinkirchheim and a tenth place in the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo , she qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics . There she reached rank 32 in the downhill, in the combination and in the slalom she was eliminated.

In the following years Merighetti achieved some top 10 results in downhill and super combined and was able to improve steadily in the World Cup rankings until she was among the top 15 in downhill and the best at the end of the 2008/09 season for the first time 10 was in the combination. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre she achieved 15th place in the super combined and 17th in the downhill, in 2009 she finished 16th in the downhill in Val-d'Isère , but failed in the super G and in the super combined . Once again at a season finale in Åre there was another success for her, when she won the "team competition" with the Italian team on March 15, 2009, which is only part of the Nations Cup.

In the 2009/10 season Merighetti was able to improve further in the downhill and came in eighth place in the Downhill World Cup with five top 10 placements. She had bad luck at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada . In all three competitions she contested (Downhill, Combined, Super-G) on the ski slope in Whistler , she was eliminated after driving errors. In the 2010/11 season Merighetti achieved four top 10 placements in World Cup downhill runs, making her among the top ten in the Downhill World Cup for the second time in a row. In addition, she also achieved a top 10 result in a super combination and for the first time in the Super G , and came fourth in the City Event , which was held for the first time as part of the World Cup . For the first time, Merighetti was among the top ten in a major event: At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, she was seventh in the downhill and ninth in the Super-G, but failed in the super combination.

On January 14th, 2012 Merighetti celebrated her only World Cup victory when she won the downhill from Cortina d'Ampezzo despite a broken thumb. At the end of the 2011/12 season, she achieved seventh place in the Downhill World Cup, her best result in a discipline classification. In the Super G World Cup, she improved from 29th place in the previous year to 12th place. In the 2012/13 season she achieved another podium with second place in the downhill from St. Anton am Arlberg . While she did not get on the podium the following winter, she finished third in the downhill on January 18, 2015 in Cortina. The following day, she fell in the Super-G and injured her jaw in the process. Another fall occurred on March 6, 2015 during training for the World Cup descent in Garmisch-Partenkirchen : Merighetti broke his fibula and had to break off the season.

After a total of 228 World Cup races, Merighetti ended her sports career on March 16, 2016.

successes

Olympic games

• Turin 2006 : 32nd departure
• Sochi 2014 : 4th departure

World championships

• Åre 2007 : 15th super combination, 17th descent
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 16th departure
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 7th Downhill, 9th Super-G
• Schladming 2013 : 7th Super-G
• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 8th departure

World cup

• 6 podium places in individual races, including 1 victory:

date	place	country	discipline
January 14, 2012	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Italy	Departure

• 3 podium places in team competitions , including 1 victory

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination		City event
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2002/03	59.	98	-	-	-	-	24.	80	42.	18th	-	-	-	-
2003/04	91.	30th	-	-	-	-	33.	30th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	53.	103	27.	57	43.	16	48.	8th	42.	15th	19th	22nd	-	-
2006/07	48.	158	22nd	118	48.	10	-	-	-	-	32.	15th	-	-
2007/08	44.	131	21st	112	45.	5	-	-	-	-	31.	14th	-	-
2008/09	32.	237	14th	143	41.	20th	-	-	-	-	10.	74	-	-
2009/10	36.	197	8th.	179	43.	10	-	-	-	-	34.	8th	-	-
2010/11	20th	327	10.	179	29	40	-	-	-	-	12.	58	4th	50
2011/12	15th	407	7th	243	12.	135	-	-	-	-	27.	14th	9.	15th
2012/13	30th	266	7th	216	29	136	-	-	-	-	29	14th	-	-
2013/14	41.	171	20th	133	29	38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	35.	198	19th	133	23.	65	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	58.	138	22nd	105	31.	33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

More Achievements

• 7 Italian championship titles (combination 2005, 2008 and 2009; Super-G 2009 and 2012; departure 2009 and 2013)
• Gold medal in giant slalom at the 2005 Military World Ski Championships
• 3 podium places in the European Cup
• 10 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : Daniela Merighetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Daniela Merighetti in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Daniela Merighetti in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Daniela Merighetti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Your last race - Daniela Merighetti says ciao on Wednesday. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, March 15, 2016, archived from the original on March 20, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . 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.