Daniela Zini

Daniela Zini
nation	Italy
birthday	30th May 1959 (age 61)
place of birth	Livigno , Italy
size	160 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1986
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Schladming 1982 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 9. ( 1979/80 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 10. (1979/80)  Slalom World Cup 3. ( 1980/81 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 1 0  slalom 2 3 5

Daniela Zini (born May 30, 1959 in Livigno ) is a former Italian ski racer . She won two slalom races in the World Cup and the bronze medal in this discipline at the 1982 World Cup .

biography

Zini competed in the Ski World Cup from 1979 to 1986 , celebrated two slalom victories and reached the podium eleven times. In the 1980/81 season she was third in the Slalom World Cup.

At the 1978 World Cup , her best result was eleventh place in the slalom. Four years later she won the bronze medal in slalom at the 1982 World Championships in Schladming behind Erika Hess (SUI) and Christin Cooper (USA). In Bormio 1985 she was also at the start, but was eliminated in the second slalom run.

Zini took part in the Olympic Games twice: in 1980 she was seventh in slalom in Lake Placid , in 1984 in Sarajevo she finished ninth in slalom and 25th in giant slalom. From 1980 to 1984 she won six Italian championship titles .

successes

Olympic games

• Lake Placid 1980 : 7th slalom
• Sarajevo 1984 : 9th slalom, 25th giant slalom

World championships

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 11th slalom, 34th giant slalom
• Schladming 1982 : 3rd slalom, 7th giant slalom, 8th combination

World cup

• A total of 11 podium places, including 2 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
March 9, 1980	Vysoké Tatry	Czechoslovakia	slalom
January 23, 1984	Lime Piemonte	Italy	slalom

Italian championships

Daniela Zini is six-time Italian champion :

• Slalom (3): 1980, 1981, 1982
• Giant Slalom (2): 1982, 1984
• Combination (1): 1982

Web links

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