Daniele Molmenti

Daniele Molmenti
nation	Italy
birthday	1st August 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Pordenone , Italy
size	171 cm
Weight	69 kg
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Kayak (K1)
society	GS Forestale
status	resigned
End of career	2017
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 3 × 2 × 3 ×
Olympic games gold 2012 London K1 Canoe World Championships silver 2005 Penrith K1 team silver 2006 Prague K1 team gold 2010 Tacen K1 bronze 2010 Tacen K1 team bronze 2011 Bratislava K1 team gold 2013 Prague K1 team European Canoe Championships bronze 2004 Skopje K1 bronze 2005 Tacen K1 team silver 2008 Krakow K1 silver 2008 Krakow K1 team gold 2009 Nottingham K1 gold 2011 La Seu d'Urgell K1 gold 2012 Augsburg K1 bronze 2015 Markkleeberg K1 team
last change: December 16, 2018

Daniele Molmenti (born August 1, 1984 in Pordenone ) is a former Italian canoeist . He became world champion in 2010 and Olympic champion in canoe slalom in 2012 .

Career

Daniele Molmenti started for the Club GS Forestale . In 2002 he became Junior World Champion in canoe slalom in Poland.

At the Canoe Slalom World Championships in 2006 he was second in the team with Stefano Cipressi and Diego Paolini . Daniele Molmenti started in 2008 in a single kayak at the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. In 2009, 2011 and again in 2012 he became European champion and in 2010 he became world kayak champion.

In January 2017, the then 32-year-old declared his active time over and he became technical director of the Italian national team.

Awards

• Premio Gianni Brera - Sportivo dell'anno (Gianni Brera Prize): 2012

Web links

• Daniele Molmenti in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Si ritira un grande: Daniele Molmenti (2017)
2. ↑ Daniele Molmenti retires, but remains in canoeing (January 26, 2017)