Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo

Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo
nation	Italy
birthday	November 26, 1931
place of birth	Marostica
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 2 × World championships 0 × 0 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze Oslo 1952 Departure bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Oslo 1952 Departure bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 combination bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Giant slalom

Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo (born November 26, 1931 in Marostica , Vicenza Province , Veneto ) is a former Italian ski racer . Chenal Minuzzo was the first Italian to win a medal at the Winter Olympics (1952). In 1956 she was the first woman to take the Olympic oath .

biography

Giuliana Minuzzo celebrated her first successes in skiing at the age of 17 (at the Italian championship and at the international Coppa Femina race in Abetone ). Other international successes followed, including three wins (2 × slalom and 1 × combination) at the SDS races in Grindelwald from 1953 to 1961 or a giant slalom victory at the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein in 1961.

At the Olympic Winter Games in 1952 , Minuzzo took part in all three alpine skiing disciplines and achieved a bronze medal in the downhill . In 1952, Minuzzo married and changed her name to Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo. Their daughter Silvana was born during this time. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1956 in her own country, she reached fourth place in the downhill and in the slalom . In the combination , which only counted as a world championship, she won the bronze medal. Four years later, at the 1960 Winter Olympics , she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom . Another international placement was fourth place in the slalom at the traditional start of the season in December 1960 in Val-d'Isère . Chenal Minuzzo ended her career in 1963 with the ninth Italian championship title , this time in slalom. During the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , she held the Olympic flag when Giorgio Rocca and Fabio Bianchetti took the oath.

statistics

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

• Oslo 1952 : 3rd downhill, 8th slalom, 20th giant slalom
• Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 : 4th slalom, 4th descent, 13th giant slalom, 3rd combination *
• Squaw Valley 1960 : 3rd giant slalom, 10th slalom

* The combination only counted as a World Championship event

Italian championships

Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo won a total of 9 Italian championship titles from 1952 to 1963 :

• Slalom (4): 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963
• Giant Slalom (2): 1951, 1953
• Departure (3): 1952, 1953, 1955

Web links

• Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo in the database of the International Ski Federation (Giuliana Minuzzo)
• Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo in the database of the International Ski Federation (Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo)
• Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A woman takes the Olympic oath . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ «The natural change in leadership» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 20, 1960, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).