Elena Tagliabue
Elena Tagliabue 
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 Italy
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| birthday | December 12, 1977 | ||||||||||
| place of birth | Edolo | ||||||||||
| size | 164 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg | ||||||||||
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| discipline | Super-G, downhill, combination |
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| society | Orezzo Ski Club | ||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||
| End of career | 2004 | ||||||||||
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Elena Tagliabue [ ˈɛːlena taʎʎaˈbuːe ] (born December 12, 1977 in Edolo ) is a former Italian ski racer . She specialized primarily in the fast downhill and super-G disciplines and competed in the Ski World Cup from 1996 to 2004 .
biography
Tagliabue began her career with FIS races and in the European Cup , where she was among the top ten for the first time in February 1996. A little later she reached eighth place in the downhill at the 1996 Junior World Championships . In the 1996/97 season she celebrated two European Cup victories in the downhill and super-G of Tignes and, with two further podium places, she finished fourth in the super-G and downhill rankings as well as sixth overall. In the same winter she also drove her first races in the World Cup , but did not yet achieve the points.
On December 6, 1997, she took 27th place in the Super-G of Lake Louise for the first time and reached 18th place in the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo in January . At the beginning of the 1998/99 season she was 14th in the Super-G of Lake Louise, but otherwise had to be content with places around 30th. On February 7, 1999, the Italian competed for the first and only time at a world championship and finished 24th in the downhill.
Towards the end of the 1999/2000 season , Tagliabue achieved her best World Cup result: on February 27, 2000, she was fifth in the Super-G in Innsbruck . The next winter she did not come close to this result and only placed in the top 30 twice, but in the 2001/02 season she again achieved two ninth places in the Super-G in St. Moritz and in the downhill from Åre . At the 2002 Winter Olympics , she only competed in the combination and finished in 19th place.
In the 2002/03 season , the Italian did not get any good results and she was only once among the top 30. In 2003/04 she contested her last three World Cup races, in which she did not score any more, and again increasingly participated in European Cup races which she achieved a third place in the Super-G of Bardonecchia . After the season, Tagliabue ended her career.
successes
winter Olympics
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 19th combination
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 24th departure
World cup
- Three placements among the top ten
European Cup
- Season 1996/97 : 6th overall classification, 4th Super-G classification, 4th downhill classification
- 2003/04 season : 5th Super-G classification
A total of 6 podium places, including 2 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 9, 1997 | Tignes | France | Departure |
| January 10, 1997 | Tignes | France | Super G |
Junior World Championships
- Hoch-Ybrig 1996 : 8th descent, 20th slalom
Web links
- Elena Tagliabue in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Elena Tagliabue in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Elena Tagliabue in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Tagliabue, Elena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edolo |