Giuliano Besson

Giuliano Besson
nation	Italy
birthday	1st January 1950 (age 70)
place of birth	Sauze d'Oulx , Italy
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom
status	resigned
End of career	1975
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1971  Overall World Cup 19. ( 1973/74 )  Downhill World Cup 9. (1973/74)  Giant Slalom World Cup 27. ( 1971/72 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 0

Giuliano Besson (born January 1, 1950 in Sauze d'Oulx ) is an Italian entrepreneur and former ski racer . He mainly drove downhill runs , but also started in giant slaloms .

biography

Besson took part in the World Cup from 1971 . At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , he was eleventh in the downhill. He scored his first World Cup points on March 15, 1972 when he was seventh on the downhill run on the Saslong in Val Gardena . As a result, he was classified in the top ten several times. He achieved his best result on January 26, 1974 in Kitzbühel , where he finished second in the Hahnenkamm race at the same time as Stefano Anzi . At the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz , he finished fifth.

At the end of the 1974/75 season, Besson resigned. In 1976 he and his teammate Stefano Anzi founded the sportswear company Anzi-Besson in Turin .

successes

Olympic games

• Sapporo 1972 : 11th departure

World Championship

• St. Moritz 1974 : 5th descent

World cup

• Season 1973/74 : 9. Departure rating
• 12 placements among the top ten, including 1 podium

More Achievements

• Italian downhill champion 1974

Web links

• Giuliano Besson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Giuliano Besson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Giuliano Besson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )