Denise Karbon
Denise Karbon 
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| birthday | 16th August 1980 (age 40) | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Bressanone , Italy | |||||||||||||||
| size | 160 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Giant slalom , slalom | |||||||||||||||
| society | GS Fiamme Gialle | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | March 16, 2014 | |||||||||||||||
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Denise Karbon (born August 16, 1980 in Brixen ) is a former Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean became Junior World Champion in her specialty giant slalom and won two World Cup medals, six World Cup races and one World Cup discipline.
biography
Karbon graduated from the Bozen commercial college and has been a member of the sports group of the Finanzwache in Predazzo ever since . Her father worked at times as a ski trainer and her two brothers Martin (member of the Carabinieri sports group and the Italian C-team) and Pirmin (young athlete from the TZ Schlern) also dedicated themselves to skiing .
At the age of three, Karbon started skiing at the Gunser lift at home. In 1987 she competed in her first VSS ski race with SC Kastelruth under the direction of Birgit Senoner. As an 11-year-old she already drove a Grand Prix race under the coach Peter Thomaseth. In 1993 she won the Trofeo Topolino . In 1994, at the age of 14, she moved from SC Kastelruth to TZ Schlern . The new coach was now her father Arnold. She was recognized as a talent and was accepted into the South Tyrolean national team under coach Ernst Pfeifhofer. Finally, in 1997, he joined the Italian national team. A year later, Karbon was promoted to the B squad and the following year to the World Cup team. The first World Cup appearances in 1998 in Bormio in the giant slalom ended with 42nd and 53rd places.
Karbon achieved his first great success at the age of 19 at the 1999 Junior World Championships in Pra-Loup ( France ) by winning the giant slalom gold medal, which also meant qualifying for the World Cup final in Sierra Nevada ( Spain ). A 7th place in Cortina d'Ampezzo and on December 28, 2002 the first podium in the World Cup (3rd place in the giant slalom at Semmering in Austria ) promised a bigger career. On December 13, 2003 she was able to celebrate her first World Cup victory at the giant slalom on Gran Risa in Alta Badia . Before that, on February 13, 2003, she was runner-up in the giant slalom world championship in St. Moritz .
Karbon's career has been marked by repeated bad luck with injuries. Hardly once was she able to prepare for a World Cup season without injury. Nevertheless, she managed to work her way back to the top of the World Cup after six serious knee injuries. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre she was able to win the bronze medal in her specialty discipline again on February 13, where she improved from 12th place. But again she could not use her top form for long. On March 1, 2007, she was injured again when she broke her fibula during slalom training in Val di Fassa and had to end the season prematurely. In October 2007 she celebrated a successful comeback with a victory at the World Cup opener in Sölden . She was also able to win the three following giant slaloms. After five wins this season, Karbon was prematurely confirmed as the winner of the Giant Slalom World Cup.
At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , Karbon narrowly missed a medal twice: in both giant slalom and slalom, she finished fourth, with the slalom only a hundredth of a second behind third-placed. In late November 2009 she suffered a meniscus injury in the Aspen giant slalom . She had to take a four-week break after an operation. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she was 18th in slalom and 23rd in giant slalom. At the beginning of November 2010 Karbon injured her meniscus again, after which she had to take a break from racing for several weeks. She finished the giant slalom of the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in fourth position.
In the World Cup, Karbon achieved no further victories after their successful streak in the 2007/08 season, but several podium places. In the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons she was sporadically among the top ten. At the 2013 World Cup finals on Lenzerheide , she threaded a gate in the second round of the giant slalom (the last race of the season) and broke her ankle. Despite this injury, she still had another season. She contested her last World Cup race on March 16, 2014, also on Lenzerheide.
Private
Karbon is the cousin of Peter Fill , who was also a ski racer, and the niece of Norbert Rier , the singer of the Kastelruther Spatzen .
successes
Olympic games
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 14th giant slalom
- Vancouver 2010 : 18th slalom, 23rd giant slalom
World championships
- St. Moritz 2003 : 2nd giant slalom, 27th slalom
- Åre 2007 : 3rd giant slalom
- Val-d'Isère 2009 : 4th giant slalom, 4th slalom
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 4th giant slalom
World Cup ratings
Denise Karbon once won the giant slalom discipline.
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | |||||||||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |||||||||
| 1999/00 | 41. | 226 | 18th | 153 | 27. | 73 | ||||||||
| 2000/01 | 48. | 134 | 24. | 80 | 27. | 54 | ||||||||
| 2001/02 | 80. | 62 | 31. | 49 | 42. | 13 | ||||||||
| 2002/03 | 26th | 299 | 6th | 293 | 50. | 6th | ||||||||
| 2003/04 | 23. | 343 | 2. | 343 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2004/05 | No results due to injury | |||||||||||||
| 2005/06 | 85. | 36 | 33. | 36 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2006/07 | 53. | 131 | 15th | 131 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2007/08 | 10. | 651 | 1. | 592 | 29 | 59 | ||||||||
| 2008/09 | 18th | 357 | 6th | 282 | 24. | 75 | ||||||||
| 2009/10 | 32. | 202 | 9. | 182 | 44. | 20th | ||||||||
| 2010/11 | 57. | 109 | 15th | 109 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2011/12 | 53. | 136 | 14th | 136 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2012/13 | 60. | 109 | 21st | 109 | - | - | ||||||||
| 2013/14 | 63. | 83 | 21st | 83 | - | - | ||||||||
World Cup victories
Karbon achieved 16 podium places in individual races, including 6 victories:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 13, 2003 | Alta Badia | Italy | Giant slalom |
| October 27, 2007 | Soelden | Austria | Giant slalom |
| November 24, 2007 | panorama | Canada | Giant slalom |
| December 28, 2007 | Lienz | Austria | Giant slalom |
| January 5, 2008 | Špindlerův Mlýn | Czech Republic | Giant slalom |
| January 26, 2008 | Often swing | Germany | Giant slalom |
There are also 2 podium places in team competitions .
Junior World Championships
- Megève 1998 : 9th giant slalom
- Pra-Loup 1999 : 1st giant slalom, 7th slalom
- Québec 2000 : 4th slalom, 36th Super-G
More Achievements
- 4 Italian championship titles (giant slalom 2000, 2008 and 2012; slalom 2002)
- Gold medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Military World Games
- Military and police world champion in giant slalom 2002, silver 2003 and 2004
- 5 podium places in the European Cup
- 10 victories in FIS races (8 × giant slalom, 2 × slalom)
Web links
- Denise Karbon in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Denise Karbon in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Denise Karbon in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Take a deep breath with Denise Karbon: "Only" meniscus damage. ( Memento of December 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), stol.it, December 2, 2009
- ↑ Carbon out for a month after training fall. fisalpine.com, November 5, 2010, accessed on November 29, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Denise Karbon's horror fall - career over? , südtirolski.com, March 17, 2013, accessed on March 17, 2014
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Karbon, Denise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bressanone , Italy |