Edoardo wife

Edoardo wife
Edoardo's wife in June 2010
nation	Italy
birthday	June 24, 1980
place of birth	Asiago
size	173 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	CS Esercito
National squad	since 1995
status	active
Medal table
World championships 2 × 2 × 7 × Junior World Championship 4 × 3 × 4 ×
Grass ski world championships gold Dizin 2005 Super G silver Dizin 2005 combination bronze Dizin 2005 slalom bronze Dizin 2005 Giant slalom bronze Olešnice 2007 Giant slalom bronze Olešnice 2007 Super combo bronze Rettenbach 2009 Giant slalom bronze Rettenbach 2009 Super G bronze Rettenbach 2009 Super combo gold Goldingen 2011 Giant slalom silver Goldingen 2011 Super combo  Grass ski junior world championships gold Müstair 1997 Super G bronze Müstair 1997 Giant slalom bronze Müstair 1997 combination silver Forni di Sopra 1999 slalom silver Forni di Sopra 1999 Giant slalom silver Forni di Sopra 1999 combination bronze Forni di Sopra 1999 Super G gold Nakoyama 2000 slalom gold Nakoyama 2000 Giant slalom gold Nakoyama 2000 combination bronze Nakoyama 2000 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
Overall World Cup 1. ( 2008 , 2012 )
last change: October 22, 2012

Edoardo Frau (born June 24, 1980 in Asiago ) is an Italian grass skier . He became world champion in super-G in 2005 and world champion in giant slalom in 2011 , won nine other medals at world championships, was four times junior world champion and thirteen times Italian champion. In the 2008 and 2012 seasons he won the overall World Cup .

Career

Edoardo Frau is a member of the sports group of the Italian Army ( Corpo Sportivo dell'Esercito Italiano ) and has been a member of the national grass ski team of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) since 1995 . He achieved his first international successes at the Junior World Championships in 1997 in Müstair , where he won gold in the Super-G and bronze in the giant slalom and combined. In 1999 in Forni di Sopra he won three silver medals in slalom, giant slalom and combination as well as a bronze medal in Super-G. At the Junior World Championships in 2000 in Nakoyama , Tokushima Prefecture , he won three gold medals in slalom, giant slalom and combined, as well as a bronze medal in super-G.

In the general class, women won their first world championship medals and at the same time also their first world championship title at the 2005 World Cup in the Iranian ski resort of Dizin . First he won bronze in the slalom and giant slalom, before he secured the gold medal in the final Super-G ahead of his compatriot Riccardo Lorenzone and the Czech Jindřich Jež , with which he also won silver in the combination. At the next two World Championships, a total of five more bronze medals were added. In 2007 he was third in the giant slalom and in the super combined as well as fourth in the super G and fifth in the slalom in Olešnice v Orlických horách in the Czech Republic . In 2009 he won bronze three times in giant slalom, super-G and super combined in Rettenbach, Austria , and finished sixth in slalom. Woman won her second world title in the giant slalom of the 2011 World Championships in Goldingen . He also finished second in the super combined, sixth in the super G and eleventh in the slalom.

In the World Cup , women made it into the top 10 in the overall ranking for the first time in the 2001 (8th place) and 2002 (9th place) seasons. Since 2003 he has been among the absolute best in the world. By 2012 he was able to place in the top three in the overall World Cup ten times in a row. So far, Frau has won the overall World Cup twice: For the first time in the 2008 season , when he was overall World Cup winner with four wins and two more podium places in front of the Austrian Michael Stocker , and for the second time in the 2012 season , when he was with six wins and more four podiums again won the overall standings, this time ahead of the Czech Jan Němec .

In addition to his international successes, Edoardo Frau has also been 13 times Italian champion so far. In 2004 he won the slalom and the super-G, in 2007 he won the slalom, the giant slalom and the super-G and in 2009 he secured the titles in the super-G and super-combined. In 2010 he won the giant slalom and the super combined and in 2011 he won the national championships in all four disciplines.

successes

World championships

• Müstair 1997 : 19th Super-G, 20th giant slalom, 26th slalom
• Gaal 1999 : 13th slalom, 16th giant slalom
• Forni di Sopra 2001 : 9th giant slalom, 12th slalom, 13th super-G
• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 5th Super-G
• Dizin 2005 : 1st Super-G, 2nd combination, 3rd slalom, 3rd giant slalom
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 3rd giant slalom, 3rd super combination, 4th super G, 5th slalom
• Rettenbach 2009 : 3rd giant slalom, 3rd super-G, 3rd super combination, 6th slalom
• Goldingen 2011 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd super combination, 6th super-G, 11th slalom

Junior World Championships

• Müstair 1997 : 1st Super-G, 3rd giant slalom, 3rd combination, 4th slalom
• Forni di Sopra 1999 : 2nd slalom, 2nd giant slalom, 2nd combination, 3rd super-G
• Nakoyama 2000 : 1st slalom, 1st giant slalom, 1st combination, 3rd super-G

World cup

• 1st overall: 2008 and 2012
• 2nd overall: 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2010 and 2011
• 3rd overall: 2003 , 2005 and 2009

Italian championships

• Woman is 13 times Italian champion: 3 × slalom, 3 × giant slalom, 4 × super-G and 3 × super-combination

Web links

Commons : Edoardo Frau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Edoardo Frau ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at the Italian Winter Sports Federation (Italian)
• Edoardo woman in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004