Danko Marinelli

Danko Marinelli
nation	Croatia
birthday	May 30, 1987
place of birth	Rijeka
size	184 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, combination
society	SK Rijeka
status	active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 6, 2009
last change: April 9, 2009

Danko Marinelli (born May 30, 1987 in Rijeka ) is a Croatian ski racer .

Career

Marinelli contested his first FIS race in November 2002. From 2004 to 2007 he took part in the Junior World Championships, his best result was 31st place in the giant slalom in 2005. This year he also started at the World Championships in Bormio in slalom and in Giant slalom, but did not finish in any of the races. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he started in slalom, but failed in the first round. At the 2007 World Cup , he finished 41st in the giant slalom, but he could not finish the slalom again.

On January 6th, 2009 the Croatian had his first and so far only start in the World Cup . In the Zagreb slalom he was in 38th place after the first run and did not qualify for the second run. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he came in 53rd place in giant slalom, and dropped out in the first round in slalom.

Sporting successes

World championships

• Åre 2007 : 41st giant slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 53rd giant slalom

Junior World Championships

• Maribor 2004 : 66th downhill, 74th Super-G
• Bardonecchia 2005 : 31st giant slalom, 32nd slalom
• Québec 2006 : 38th Super-G, 43rd giant slalom, 52nd downhill
• Altenmarkt 2007 : 46th descent, 73rd giant slalom

More Achievements

• 3 giant slalom victories in FIS races

Web links

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