Greta Pinggera (born January 17, 1995 ) is an Italian natural track tobogganist . In the 2011/2012 season she won the overall ranking of the European Cup and the silver medal at the Junior World Championship and took part in World Cup races for the first time that same winter . In 2014 she became junior world champion and in 2017 world champion in single-seater. In the World Cup , Pinggera won the overall World Cup in the 2016/17 season and has so far achieved 36 podiums, including six wins.
Pinggera comes from Laas and attended the secondary school center in Mals . She rides in the South Tyrolean national team and has been competing in the Intercontinental Cup since winter 2009/2010. This and the next winter, she reached third place overall. In the 2011/2012 season, Pinggera won the overall ranking of the European Cup - the successor to the Intercontinental Cup - with two wins and a second place. At her first international junior championship, the Junior World Championship 2012 in Latsch , Pinggera won the silver medal in the single seater behind Alexandra Obrist . In the same winter, she also took part in two World Cup races for the first time . After she could not qualify for the actual World Cup race at the opening race in Latzfons and had to start in the Nations Cup, which was held for the first time, she already reached fourth place at the World Cup finals of the 2011/2012 season in Umhausen , making her 20th in the overall World Cup.
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