Elena Fanchini

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Elena Fanchini Alpine skiing
Elena Fanchini (2014)
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 30th April 1985 (age 35)
place of birth Lovere , Italy
size 164 cm
Weight 69 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , combination
society GS Fiamme Gialle
status resigned
End of career April 22, 2020
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Santa Caterina 2005 Departure
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Bardonecchia 2005 Departure
bronze Bardonecchia 2005 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 6, 2005
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 17. ( 2014/15 )
 Downhill World Cup 5. (2014/15)
 Super G World Cup 19. (2014/15)
 Combination World Cup 18th ( 2011/12 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 2 0 2
 

Elena Fanchini (born April 30, 1985 in Lovere ) is a former Italian ski racer . She specialized in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines. In 2005 she was vice world champion in the downhill. Her younger sisters Nadia and Sabrina were also ski racers.

biography

Fanchini comes from Montecampione near Artogne in Valcamonica ( province of Brescia ). In 1998 she won the slalom and giant slalom of the Whistler Cup . She contested her first FIS races in April 2001, her first appearance in the European Cup followed in January 2003. From the 2003/04 season , Fanchini competed regularly in the European Cup and reached the third race, the departure from Ponte di Legno / Tonale on 19. December third place.

Fanchini's first races in the World Cup were the two descents from Santa Caterina on January 6th and 7th, 2005, where she finished 17th on both occasions. A month later she took part in the 2005 World Cup, also in Santa Caterina. In the combination she only reached 20th place (out of 21 rated runners), but two days later the then 19-year-old achieved her greatest success so far: behind Croatian Janica Kostelić and ahead of Austrian Renate Götschl , she won the silver medal on the descent - after falling in training. At the end of February, she also took part in the Junior World Championships in Bardonecchia and won the silver medal in the downhill and the bronze medal in the Super-G.

Fanchini was able to maintain her good form at the beginning of next winter: In the 2005/06 season she won her first World Cup victory in the first downhill race on December 2nd in Lake Louise . After that, however, their results deteriorated significantly. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin , she came only on the 29th downhill rank. At the end of the season she reached a ninth place again in the downhill from Åre . In the 2006/07 season , Fanchini reached seventh place in the second downhill run from Lake Louise on December 2nd, but did not get past 25th in all other races. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre, she could not repeat her success from the last World Cup and only finished 27th in the downhill and 31st in the Super-G. In the 2007/08 World Cup season there were only two placements among the top 15.

At the end of October 2008 Fanchini sustained a serious injury in his left knee while training on the Hintertux Glacier and had to take a break for the entire following season. During the 2009/10 season she was among the top 15 in four World Cup races and achieved her first top 10 result in more than three years with tenth place in the Super-G in St. Moritz . At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she reached 14th place in the Super-G. In the 2010/11 World Cup season , Fanchini finished in the top ten in three downhill runs and two Super-Gs, making her a big step forward in the Downhill World Cup in particular and equaling her best overall result from the 2005/06 season with twelfth place. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , she was 16th in the downhill and 18th in the Super-G.

In the 2011/12 World Cup season Fanchini achieved four top 10 results. In mid-March 2012 she celebrated the only European Cup victory of her career at a Super-G in Pila . Although she was only placed in the top ten once in the 2012/13 World Cup , she took part in the 2013 World Championships in Schladming , where she finished 9th in the downhill. She achieved a significant increase at the beginning of the 2013/14 World Cup : She finished third in both Beaver Creek and Lake Louise. This successful streak broke off after a short time and she had to accept several failures in a row. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she did not get beyond 14th place in the downhill. Shortly after the end of the season, she contracted a collateral ligament on her right knee and had to take a break from training for several weeks.

In the winter of 2014/15 Fanchini had the most successful World Cup season of her career, when she was among the top ten five times. On January 16, 2015, on the downhill run from Cortina d'Ampezzo , she surprisingly celebrated her second World Cup victory , ahead of Larisa Yurkiw and Viktoria Rebensburg . On the other hand, the 2015 World Cup was disappointing , when she did not get beyond 16th place in the combination. In the winter of 2015/16 she was twice in the top ten, in the winter of 2016/17 only once. Fanchini finished fourth in the first World Cup downhill run in winter 2017/18 . In mid-January 2018, she had to end the season after she was diagnosed with a benign tumor disease . As a result, she missed her fourth Olympic participation. Barely recovered, she suffered another setback in November 2018 after breaking her fibula during training.

On April 22, 2020, she and her sister Nadia announced their retirement from competitive sports.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World cup

  • 4 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
December 2, 2005 Lake Louise Canada Departure
January 16, 2015 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2004/05 75. 42 32. 28 45. 14th - -
2005/06 41. 184 12. 173 47. 11 - -
2006/07 77. 65 30th 59 50. 6th - -
2007/08 45. 130 23. 108 34. 18th 39. 4th
2009/10 53. 128 24. 74 26th 54 - -
2010/11 28. 228 12. 165 25th 63 - -
2011/12 36. 215 13. 154 32. 33 18th 28
2012/13 62. 106 22nd 100 47. 1 37. 5
2013/14 33. 220 10. 207 42. 13 - -
2014/15 17th 376 5. 291 19th 85 - -
2015/16 51. 165 24 98 24. 67 - -
2016/17 57. 144 16. 126 50. 8th - -
2017/18 70. 79 27. 61 40. 18th - -

European Cup

  • 2006/07 season : 5th downhill classification
  • 5 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
March 16, 2012 Pila Italy Super G

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Elena Fanchini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Elena Fanchini. In: Personaggi della Valle Camonica. 0364.it, accessed February 24, 2019 (Italian).
  2. Women's departure: Queen before Cinderella. Blick , February 6, 2005, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  3. Elena Fanchini wins in Lake Louise. news.ch, December 3, 2005, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  4. Fanchini is out the whole season. derStandard.at , October 25, 2008, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  5. One-month training stop for Elena Fanchini. skiweltcup.tv, March 31, 2014, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  6. Fanchini celebrates a home win in Cortina - Vonn, the favorites and all Swiss women clearly beaten. watson , January 16, 2015, accessed February 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Olympic Forfait by Elena Fanchini. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , January 12, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  8. Elena Fanchini's serious fall - comeback plans are on hold. skiweltcup.tv, November 20, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2019 .
  9. Fanchini sisters stop at the same time. ORF , April 22, 2020, accessed on April 22, 2020 .