Franco Colturi
Franco Colturi 
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| birthday | January 26, 1970 | ||||
| place of birth | Bormio , Italy | ||||
| job | police officer | ||||
| Career | |||||
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| discipline | Downhill , combination | ||||
| society | CS Carabinieri | ||||
| status | resigned | ||||
| End of career | February 1994 | ||||
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Franco Colturi (born January 26, 1970 in Bormio ) is a former Italian ski racer . He took part in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and was largely specialized in the fast downhill discipline. In 1994 he ended his career as a result of a positive doping test. His older brother Luigi was also a ski racer.
biography
Franco Colturi, originally from Bormio, took part in the Junior World Championship in Madonna di Campiglio in 1988 and finished 14th in the downhill. A year later he was sixth in his favorite discipline in Alyeska .
His breakthrough came in the 1991/92 World Cup season . After winning his first points in Garmisch with 22nd place, he achieved his best career result in ninth place on the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel . With 19th place on the Lauberhorn , he achieved another respectable result and qualified for the Olympic Games in Albertville. In the descent over the Face de Bellevarde he finished tenth as the best Italian. After the combination descent, he was only 0.62 seconds behind Jan Einar Thorsen in third intermediate place, but fell far behind in the slalom and ultimately finished the race in 31st place.
The 1992/93 season missed Colturi injury. He made his comeback on December 17, 1993 with rank 66 in the downhill from Val Gardena . Without a single placement in the points, he clearly failed to qualify for the Olympic Games . On February 10, 1994 - before the start of the games in Lillehammer - it was announced that Colturi had been suspended by the FIS . A doping test in April of the previous year proved that he was using nandrolone , making the Italian the first case of doping in alpine skiing since Christelle Guignard in 1989. It was also the first recorded case of anabolic steroid abuse in the sport. Colturi resigned immediately.
successes
Olympic games
- Albertville 1992 : 10th departure, 31st combination
World cup
- 1 place in the top ten
Junior World Championships
- Madonna di Campiglio 1988 : 14th departure
- Alyeska 1989 : 6th Downhill, 12th Super-G
Web links
- Franco Colturi in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Franco Colturi in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Franco Colturi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Alpine Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Men's Combined Downhill. Sports Reference LLC, accessed March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Mattia Chiusano: Colturi, doping disperato. La Repubblica , February 10, 1994, accessed March 26, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ Italian skier tested positive for doping. UPI , February 10, 1994, accessed March 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Doping shock - ski star Knauß cancels World Cup start. Spiegel Online , December 19, 2004, accessed March 26, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Colturi, Franco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bormio |