Ivo Rudiferia
Ivo Rudiferia 
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| birthday | 1966 | ||||||||
| place of birth | abbey | ||||||||
| job | Snowboard instructor | ||||||||
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| discipline | (Parallel) slalom, (parallel) giant slalom |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | April 1997 | ||||||||
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Ivo Rudiferia (* 1966 in Abtei ) is a former Italian snowboarder .
Rudiferia began his snowboard career in 1984, having previously started as an alpine ski racer. In the first ten years of his career, a runner-up in a Master Series World Cup was his greatest achievement; there he was only beaten by double world champion Martin Freinademetz . As snowboarding became more and more popular, the FIS began to take an interest in the sport. The association, which had been responsible for Nordic and Alpine skiing until then, set up its own World Cup series, which ran parallel to the competitions of the World Snowboard Federation ISFtook place. Rudiferia, who had previously started for the ISF, changed associations and started in the FIS World Cup from the 1994/95 season. There the 28-year-old achieved three podium finishes in the first winter and his first World Cup victory - in February 1995 in Breckenridge - whereby he benefited from the fact that several other world-class snowboarders had stayed with the ISF and did not take part in FIS competitions.
The following season 1995/96 was Rudiferia's most successful: One week after his second World Cup victory in January 1996, he won the world championship title in parallel slalom at the first FIS Snowboard World Championships in Lienz . After that he never reached the podium at any other World Cup, lost his world title in 1997 to the American Mike Jacoby and ended his career in April 1997 with a victory in an FIS race . To this day (as of 2010), Rudiferia is one of only two male Italian snowboarders to become world champions alongside Thomas Prugger .
After his sports career, Rudiferia opened two sports shops in his home town of Alta Badia, where he teaches snowboarding and is responsible for snowboarding instructors in South Tyrol.
Web links
- Ivo Rudiferia in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- A Life, A Board, A Passion: Interview with Ivo Rudiferia on snowpark-altabdia.org.
1996 : Ivo Rudiferia | 1997 : Mike Jacoby | 1999 : Nicolas Huet | 2001 : Gilles Jaquet | 2003 : Siegfried Grabner | 2005 : Jasey-Jay Anderson | 2007 : Simon Schoch | 2009 : Benjamin Karl | 2011 : Benjamin Karl | 2013 : Rok Marguč | 2015 : Roland Fischnaller | 2017 : Andreas Prommegger | 2019 : Dmitri Loginov
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| SURNAME | Rudiferia, Ivo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian snowboarder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | abbey |