Silvio Fauner

Silvio Fauner
nation	Italy
birthday	1st November 1968 (age 51)
place of birth	San Pietro di Cadore , Italy
size	183 cm
Weight	74 kg
Career
society	CS Carabinieri
National squad	since 1987
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 2 × 2 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 4 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Season gold 1994 Lillehammer Season bronze 1994 Lillehammer persecution silver 1998 Nagano Season bronze 1998 Nagano 30 km classic  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1993 Falun Season bronze 1993 Falun 25 km gold 1995 Thunder Bay 50 km freestyle silver 1995 Thunder Bay 25 km bronze 1995 Thunder Bay Season bronze 1997 Trondheim Season bronze 1999 Ramsau Season  Nordic Junior Ski World Championships silver 1988 Saalfelden Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup February 15, 1987  World Cup victories in individual 3 ( details )  Overall World Cup 3rd ( 1994/95 )  Sprint World Cup 3. ( 1996/97 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Sprint races 0 0 3  Distance races 3 6th 7th

Silvio Fauner (born November 1, 1968 in San Pietro di Cadore , Belluno province ) is a former Italian cross-country skier . In the 1990s he was one of the most successful medal collectors in cross-country skiing . His greatest success was relay gold at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

Career

Fauner made his international debut on December 15, 1987 at the cross-country skiing world cup in Castelrotto . As 15th he immediately landed in the points. In February 1988 he won the silver medal in the relay race with the Italian relay at the Junior World Championships in Saalfelden . However, two years passed before he was used again in the World Cup. It was not used again until December 1989 in Salt Lake City and also celebrated a point win here.

For the 1991/92 season Fauner was accepted into the senior national team and got a permanent place in the World Cup. In his second World Cup of the season in Silver Star, he achieved his first podium with third place. At the following Winter Olympics in Albertville in 1992 , he took a very good tenth place over 10 km. In the later pursuit, he improved to seventh place. In the relay race he won the silver medal together with Giuseppe Puliè , Marco Albarello and Giorgio Vanzetta . A little later he finished his first full season in 14th place in the overall World Cup standings.

Fauner also started the following season 1992/93 with good results. In Bohinj he finished fifth again on a top 10 place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 1993 , he reached 13th place over 30 km. In the following individual race over 10 km he was in sixth place before he finished in third place in the pursuit and thus won the bronze medal. Since this competition was also rated as a World Cup, he secured important World Cup points with third place. In the 4 × 10 km relay he won the silver medal with the team. After he was on the podium again at the World Cup in Štrbské Pleso at the end of the season, he finished sixth in the overall World Cup ranking at the end of the season.

In the following season 1993/94 he started with a weak 64th place in Santa Caterina. However, after this performance he returned to his old strength and finished the following World Cups all in the top ten. In Toblach , Fauner achieved his best result to date with second place. At the following Winter Olympics in Lillehammer in 1994 , he celebrated the Olympic victory in the 4 × 10 km relay together with Maurilio De Zolt , Marco Albarello and Giorgio Vanzetta and thus secured Olympic gold for the first and only time in his career after he was the final runner defeated Bjørn Dæhlie , who had been leading up until then, on the home straight . He had previously won bronze in the pursuit. At the first World Cup after the Games in Lahti , he narrowly missed the podium in fourth. He finished the season in fifth place in the overall World Cup standings.

With the 1994/95 season he denied his most successful World Cup season. In Sappada, for the first time , he was back on the podium in second place. Also in January he convinced again and finished third in Nové Město na Moravě . In February he finished second in Falun and again took a good podium and traveled as a favorite medal to the following Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay . After fifth place over 30 km in classic style, he reached fourth place over 10 km in classic style. After silver in the pursuit, he secured his first and only individual world championship title in the individual race over 50 km. With the relay he secured bronze. He finished the season a little later in third place in the overall World Cup standings. It remained his best season result in his entire career.

In the following two years he landed with regular podium placements and mostly top 10 results twice in a row in fifth place overall. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 he was without an individual medal for the first time. Only with the relay he secured bronze. In the following season 1997/98 Fauner succeeded with good World Cup results again the qualification for the Olympic Winter Games 1998 in Nagano . At what was now his third Olympic Games, Fauner won the bronze medal in the 30 km race after finishing tenth over 10 km. In the pursuit, he finished fourth and narrowly missed the medal ranks. After he secured the silver medal in the following relay race together with Marco Albarello , Fulvio Valbusa and Fabio Maj , he again achieved tenth place in the final 50 km individual race.

The following year Fauner was again without an individual medal at his last World Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein . In the relay race, he landed on the bronze rank.

In March 2000, Fauner finished on the podium for the first time in a long time in the Lahti sprint. It wasn't until almost a year later that he was back in third place in Soldier Hollow. At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti, Fauner only started in the sprint and ended up in seventh place. Another year and a few mixed World Cups later, at the age of 33, he started again at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Over 30 km he finished in a weak 51st place before he crossed the finish line in 14th place in the sprint. A little later he finished the season again in 32nd place in the overall World Cup standings.

In the following year he only ran after the world's best. Although he once again qualified for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2003 in Val di Fiemme , he did not get beyond the 37th place in the sprint. At the end of the season in March Fauner began to concentrate more and more on long-distance races in the Marathon Cup. At the Wasalauf he finished 13th.

His last race in the Marathon Cup took place in March 2006 at the age of 37 in Samedan. He finished the race over 42 km in seventh place.

Fauner was a member of the Carabinieri sports promotion group . Since May 2007 he has been the head coach of the Italian national cross-country skiing team. Previously, he was one of the official torchbearers at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Awards

Fauner received several awards for his successes, such as the Cross of Merit of the Italian Army in silver in 1995 and gold in 1997. In the same year he also received the Collare d'oro al merito sportivo . In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic at the level of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic .

successes

winter Olympics

• 1992 in Albertville : Silver with the relay
• 1995 in Lillehammer : gold with the relay, bronze over 15 km
• 1998 in Nagano : silver with the relay, bronze over 30 km

World championships

• 1993 in Falun : silver with the relay, bronze over 25 km
• 1995 in Thunder Bay : gold over 50 km, silver over 15 km, bronze with the relay
• 1997 in Trondheim : bronze with the relay
• 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein : bronze with the relay

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	March 19, 1995	Thunder Bay	50 km freestyle 1
2.	January 11, 1997	Hakuba	10 km classic
3.	January 12, 1997	Hakuba	15 km freestyle

¹ Nordic World Ski Championships 1995.

Victories in ski marathon races

• 1996 Gsieser Tal-Lauf , 42 km freestyle
• 2000 Gsieser Tal-Lauf , 42 km freestyle

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place		1	1		1				3
2nd place			3	2		1			6th
3rd place			3	2		2	3		10
Top 10		6th	20th	9	5	4th	11		55	1	3
Scoring		19th	36	20th	10	6th	19th		110	1	3
Starts		25th	45	23	10	6th	26th		135	1	3
Status: end of career

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
1987/88	1	53.	-	-	-	-
1988/89	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	2	54.	-	-	-	-
1990/91	4th	43.	-	-	-	-
1991/92	37	14th	-	-	-	-
1992/93	308	6th	-	-	-	-
1993/94	412	5.	-	-	-	-
1994/95	591	3.	-	-	-	-
1995/96	508	5.	-	-	-	-
1996/97	447	5.	77	13. 2	320	3.
1997/98	273	9.	145	8. 2	128	11.
1998/99	169	24.	46	26. 2	111	22nd
1999/2000	234	26th	18 76	43. 2 33. 3	140	8th.
2000/01	186	25th	-	-	147	11.
2001/02	140	32.	-	-	98	19th
2002/03	17th	95.	-	-	17th	45.
2003/04	24	96.	24	62.	-	-
2004/05	-	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	5	165.	5	121.	-	-

² Long distance world cup.

³ Middle distance world cup.

Awards

• 1994: World team of the year with the Italian cross-country skiing relay in the election of the Gazzetta dello Sport (together with Maurilio De Zolt , Marco Albarello and Giorgio Vanzetta )

Web links

• Silvio Fauner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Silvio Fauner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Silvio Fauner on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italy Cross Country Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's 10 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1993 - Men's 25 km M Pursuit in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
6. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's 10 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
7. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's 25 km M Pursuit in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
8. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's 50 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
9. ↑ Italy Cross Country Skiing at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
10. ↑ World Ski Championships 2001 - Men's SP 1 km F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
11. ↑ World Ski Championships 2003 - Men's SP 1.5 km F Final in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
12. ↑ Silvio Fauner new Italian coach ( English ) FasterSkier.com. June 4, 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
13. ↑ Silvio Fauner ( English ) Who is Who in Italy. Archived from the original on May 25, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2014.