Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca 
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| birthday | 6th August 1975 (age 45) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Chur , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Slalom, giant slalom, combination | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | CS Carabinieri | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | January 8, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Giorgio Rocca (born August 6, 1975 in Chur ) is a former Italian ski racer . He grew up in Livigno ( Province of Sondrio ) and still lives there today. His specialty was slalom .
biography
He first attracted attention at the 1999 World Ski Championships in Vail when he missed the podium in slalom by just a few hundredths of a second and finished fourth.
At the 2003 World Ski Championships in St. Moritz , he won the bronze medal in slalom behind Ivica Kostelić and Silvan Zurbriggen . At the World Ski Championships 2005 in Bormio (which is only a few kilometers away from his place of residence) there were two more bronze medals, in the combination (behind Benjamin Raich and Aksel Lund Svindal ) and in the slalom (behind Benjamin Raich and Rainer Schönfelder ).
Rocca was able to win eleven world cup races (all slalom competitions). In the 2005/06 season he won five races in a row in the slalom discipline and secured first place in the discipline classification despite a below-average second half of the season. Rocca took the Olympic oath during the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . He was considered a big favorite for the slalom, but was eliminated in the first run. The years that followed were rather meager for his standards, but he was able to consistently hold his own in the first group in the slalom.
On February 17, 2007, he ended the season prematurely to have an operation on his right knee. On January 8, 2010, he retired from his career after suffering a groin injury in training in Domobianca and was unable to attend the 2010 Winter Olympics .
Rocca's mother is Swiss and comes from the Lower Engadine village of Scuol . For this reason, in addition to Italian, he also speaks Romansh and German .
successes
Olympic games
- Salt Lake City 2002 : 26th giant slalom
- Turin 2006 : 5th combination
World championships
- Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 4th slalom, 11th giant slalom
- St. Anton 2001 : 15th slalom
- St. Moritz 2003 : 3rd slalom, 8th combination
- Bormio 2005 : 3rd slalom, 3rd combination
World Cup ratings
Giorgio Rocca once won the discipline classification in slalom.
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | ||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 1996/97 | 126. | 8th | - | - | 54. | 8th | - | - |
| 1997/98 | 133. | 5 | 51. | 5 | - | - | - | - |
| 1998/99 | 28. | 269 | 17th | 114 | 13. | 155 | - | - |
| 1999/00 | 64. | 99 | 37. | 29 | 33. | 70 | - | - |
| 2000/01 | 79. | 58 | - | - | 29 | 58 | - | - |
| 2001/02 | 30th | 286 | - | - | 7th | 286 | - | - |
| 2002/03 | 21st | 438 | - | - | 4th | 438 | - | - |
| 2003/04 | 17th | 452 | 38. | 23 | 4th | 429 | - | - |
| 2004/05 | 18th | 402 | 50. | 12 | 4th | 390 | - | - |
| 2005/06 | 13. | 597 | 29 | 50 | 1. | 547 | - | - |
| 2006/07 | 37. | 244 | 34. | 20th | 11. | 213 | 39. | 11 |
| 2007/08 | 47. | 196 | - | - | 13. | 196 | - | - |
| 2008/09 | 38. | 210 | - | - | 12. | 210 | - | - |
| 2009/10 | 80. | 64 | - | - | 26th | 64 | - | - |
World Cup victories
22 podium places, including 11 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 19, 2003 | Wengen | Switzerland | slalom |
| March 16, 2003 | Lillehammer | Norway | slalom |
| January 11, 2004 | Chamonix | France | slalom |
| December 22, 2004 | Flachau | Austria | slalom |
| January 9, 2005 | Chamonix | France | slalom |
| February 27, 2005 | Kranjska Gora | Slovenia | slalom |
| 4th December 2005 | Beaver Creek | United States | slalom |
| December 12, 2005 | Madonna di Campiglio | Italy | slalom |
| December 22, 2005 | Kranjska Gora | Slovenia | slalom |
| January 8, 2006 | Adelboden | Switzerland | slalom |
| January 15, 2006 | Wengen | Switzerland | slalom |
Continental Cups
- 2 podium places in the European Cup
- 3 podiums in the Nor-Am Cup , including 1 victory
Junior World Championships
- Monte Campione 1993 : 6th slalom
- Lake Placid 1994 : 3rd combination, 9th slalom, 9th descent, 18th giant slalom, 33rd Super-G
More Achievements
- 1 Italian championship title (Slalom 2005)
- 6 victories in FIS races
Web links
- Website by Giorgio Rocca
- Giorgio Rocca in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Giorgio Rocca in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Giorgio Rocca in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rocca, Giorgio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur , Italy |