Luca Cattaneo

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Luca Cattaneo Alpine Freestyle
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 24th July 1972 (age 48)
place of birth Breno , Italy
size 176 cm
Weight 88 kg
Career
discipline Alpine skiing ( Downhill , Super-G )
Freestyle ( Skicross )
society SC Ponte di Legno
National squad since 1990
status not active
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Overall World Cup 27. ( 1998/99 )
Downhill World Cup 14th (1998/99)
Super G World Cup 08. ( 1997/98 )
Combination World Cup 10. (1998/99)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 1 0
 Super G 0 0 1
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup

Overall World Cup 54th ( 2006/2007 )
Ski cross world cup 13. (2006/2007)
last change: November 15, 2010

Luca Cattaneo (born July 24, 1972 in Breno ) is an Italian ski racer . As a specialist in the fast downhill and Super-G disciplines , he took part in alpine skiing competitions until 2005 , achieved two podium places in the World Cup and a sixth place in the Super-G at the 1997 World Cup . He then switched to the freestyle discipline ski cross and has been among the fastest 15 in the World Cup so far.

biography

Alpine skiing

Cattaneo's first major event was the 1991 Junior World Championship in Geilo . Here he reached fifth place in the downhill and eleventh place in the Super-G. He also started in slalom , a discipline in which he later only took part in the World Cup as part of combinations , and came in 24. The then 20-year-old won his first World Cup points on December 12, 1992 with 23rd place in the downhill on the Saslong in Val Gardena . Four months later he achieved his first top 10 result with tenth place in the penultimate downhill of the 1992/93 season in Kvitfjell . From then on he was able to place himself regularly in the World Cup points, i.e. among the top 30, but for almost four years he was only one more time among the top ten. In 1996 he was Italian downhill champion. On January 29, 1997, Cattaneo achieved eighth place in the Super-G in Laax, his best World Cup result to date, and a week later he started at the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere . There he reached sixth place in the Super-G as the best Italian and eleventh place in the downhill.

In the next two years, the Italian also achieved several top positions in the World Cup. On January 10, 1998 he was third in the Super-G on the Planai in Schladming for the first time on the podium and on December 12, 1998 he achieved his best World Cup result with second place in the downhill from Val-d'Isère . He was 24 hundredths of a second short of the winner, Lasse Kjus . With a few more top 10 results, he also achieved his best results in the overall and discipline World Cups in these two years. In the 1997/98 season he was particularly successful in the Super-G and finished eighth in the World Cup, while in the 1998/99 season he achieved the better results in the downhill and was 14th in the Downhill World Cup. In the overall World Cup he was among the top 30 in both years, for which his results in the combined rankings helped him, although he had to end the 1997/98 season early. In the departure of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Cattaneo suffered an Achilles tendon rupture in his left leg, which is why he could not compete in the rest of the winter. Three days earlier he had finished twelfth in the Olympic combined slalom. He could no longer take part in the combined descent, which took place on the same day as the special descent due to weather-related shifts, and in the Super-G that was held one day later. At the 1999 World Championships in Vail / Beaver Creek , despite his good downhill World Cup results, he was only used in the Super-G and finished 24th.

From the 1999/2000 season , Luca Cattaneo could not match the results of previous years . He seldom finished in the top 15 and tenth place in the downhill from Kvitfjell on March 3, 2000 was his last top 10 result. In December 2000 and February 2002 he reached two eleventh places, but otherwise mostly did not make it into the top 20. From the 2001/02 season he started in the World Cup almost exclusively in the downhill and could no longer score in the Super-G. He won his last World Cup points on January 30, 2004 with 28th place in the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen , a year later he contested his last World Cup race in Chamonix . He took part in the European Cup races until the end of winter 2004/05 , before ending his career as an alpine ski racer at the Italian Championships in March 2005.

Ski cross

Only one week after his last race in the Alpine Ski World Cup, Luca Cattaneo took part in a World Cup race in the freestyle discipline of ski cross for the first time on January 15, 2005 in Pozza di Fassa and won her first World Cup points with 26th place. He achieved similar results in the following races, until he achieved his best results to date in the Ski Cross World Cup in January and February 2007, finishing eleven in Flaine and nine in Les Contamines , making him 13th in the 2006 World Cup ranking / 07 scored. A short time later he drove in the 2007 World Championships in Madonna di Campiglio in 14th place in the 2007-08 season went Cattaneo twice in the top 20, but the following winter he came only once in the top 30. In the 2009 World Cup in Inawashiro was 35. He contested his last ski cross World Cup race in December 2009.

successes

Alpine skiing

World championships
Junior World Championships
  • Geilo 1991 : 5th descent, 11th Super-G, 24th slalom
World cup
  • Two podiums and another 13 top 10 placements
Italian championships

Ski cross

World championships
World cup
  • A top 10 placement and another five times in the top 20

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dreams and nightmares ( Memento from July 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). Sports Illustrated , February 13, 1998; accessed October 2, 2010
  2. ↑ Frenchman Cretier takes men's downhill gold . BBC News , February 13, 1998, accessed October 2, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Cattaneo, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian ski racer and ski crosser
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Breno (Lombardy) , Italy