Giorgio Vanzetta

Giorgio Vanzetta
nation	Italy
birthday	9th October 1959 (age 60)
place of birth	Cavalese ,  Italy
size	180 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
National squad	since 1982
status	resigned
End of career	2002
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1992 Albertville Season bronze 1992 Albertville 25 km pursuit bronze 1992 Albertville 50 km freestyle gold 1994 Lillehammer Season  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1985 Seefeld Season silver 1993 Falun Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup January 16, 1982  Overall World Cup 9. ( 1981/82 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Distance races 0 0 3

Giorgio Vanzetta (born October 9, 1959 in Cavalese ) is a former Italian cross-country skier . His greatest success was relay gold at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

Career

Vanzetta won the Italian Youth Championship in 1971. Seven years later he became European champion. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he ran over 15 km in 34th place. He also finished sixth in the relay race with Maurilio De Zolt , Benedetto Carrara and Giulio Capitanio . On January 16, 1982 he made his debut in the cross-country skiing world cup over 15 km in Le Brassus , but narrowly missed the points in 17th place. Less than a week later, with seventh place in Brusson, he reached the points for the first time and was also among the top ten. At the following Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 1982 he crossed the finish line over 30 km in ninth place. In the overall World Cup ranking he achieved his best result of the season of his career a little later after further good points placements with ninth place.

In the winter of 1982/83 Vanzetta did not start in the races in Sarajevo until February . He finished fifth in the second race. In Oslo and Anchorage he missed the points. In the following 1983/84 season , the Italian only started at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Over 15 km he finished 14th in the finish. Over 30 km he reached the 24th place. After a seventh place with the relay, he was able to run again to 30th place in the final 50 km individual race.

In the 1984/85 season Vanzetta did not start again in the World Cup and was nevertheless given a starting place for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1985 in Seefeld in Tyrol . Over 30 km he came in a good seventh place. Over the next 15 km he just missed his first world championship medal in fourth.

In March 1986 he started again in the World Cup for the first time in a long time and came in third in Lahti . In Falun , too , he was fifth in the top ten. A little later he finished 12th in the overall World Cup ranking. In the following winter, Vanzetta was not part of the permanent World Cup squad either. It was not used on an international level until the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1987 in Oberstdorf . After finishing ninth over 30 km, he ran over 15 km to seventh place. In the relay race he came in fifth together with Albert Walder , Maurilio De Zolt and Marco Albarello . In the World Cup, he narrowly missed a podium again a little later in Falun.

Despite only rare World Cup starts, he was always part of the Italian squad at the following major events. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , he ran over 30 km in classic style in fifth place, before reaching tenth place over 10 km. With the season he landed in fifth place. For the first time he did not start over the final 50 km.

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1989 , he ran over 15 km to 13th place. After the World Cup, Vanzetta was used more and more in the World Cup and achieved good top 10 placements. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1991 in Val di Fiemme , he barely missed another World Championship medal over 15 km with fourth place. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville that followed a year later , Vanzetta celebrated a total of three medals. So he won the bronze medal in the pursuit and over 50 km and the silver medal with the relay. He was also successful with the relay at the following Nordic World Ski Championships in 1993 in Falun and won another silver medal.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , Vanzetta won the gold medal ahead of the favored Norwegians in the 4 × 10 km relay with Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello and Silvio Fauner . It was his last major international medal. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 , he just missed a medal in fourth over 50 km. The now 35-year-old Vanzetta was not used in the season.

In the World Cup, Vanzetta remained mostly outside the top 10. In the meantime, he even started in the cross-country Continental Cup . He managed a safe victory over 10 in Campra . Vanzetta contested its last World Cup in December 1997 in Val di Fiemme. Subsequently, he started again in FIS races and in the Continental Cup, before ending his active cross-country skiing career with a start in the Marathon Cup over 70 km in Predazzo in January 2002.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , he and his former team-mate Silvio Fauner were among the official torchbearers at the opening ceremony.

In the later years it became known that Vanzetta was one of the clients of the Italian EPO researcher Francesco Conconi . However, doping could no longer be proven.

Vanzetta's younger sister Bice Vanzetta was also successful as a cross-country skier and won two Olympic medals.

successes

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
2nd place
3rd place			1		1	1			3
Top 10		1	6th	8th	3	1			19th
Scoring		6th	21st	16	5	1	1		50
Starts		11	26th	18th	6th	1	1		63
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

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 Silvio Fauner )

Web links

• Giorgio Vanzetta in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Giorgio Vanzetta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italy Cross Country Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
2. ↑ World Ski Championships 1982 - Men's 30 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
3. ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
4. ↑ World Ski Championships 1985 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
5. ↑ World Ski Championships 1987 - Men's 30 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
6. ↑ World Ski Championships 1987 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
7. ^ Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996. ISBN 82-7164-044-5
8. ↑ World Ski Championships 1989 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
9. ↑ World Ski Championships 1991 - Men's 15 km C in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014
10. ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 - Men's 50 km F in the database of the International Ski Federation (English), accessed on May 25, 2014