Luigino Fornasier

Luigino Fornasier
nation	Italy
birthday	December 14, 1982
place of birth	Belluno
size	180 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	Sci Club Ponte nelle Alpi
National squad	since 1998
status	not active
End of career	2004
Medal table
Junior World Championship 1 × 2 × 0 ×
Grass ski junior world championships silver Bursa 2001 slalom gold Nové Město 2002 Giant slalom silver Nové Město 2002 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
Overall World Cup 20th ( 2002 )

Luigino Fornasier (born December 14, 1982 in Belluno ) is a former Italian grass skier . He was a member of the Italian national grass ski squad from 1998 to 2004 and was junior world champion in giant slalom in 2002 .

Career

Fornasier was inducted into the Italian national grass ski squad in 1998. He celebrated his greatest successes at the Junior World Championships in 2001 and 2002. In 2001 he reached second place in slalom in Bursa and in 2002 he was junior world champion in giant slalom and second in Super-G in Nové Město na Moravě . At world championships in the general class, his only result was 17th place in the Super-G of the 2003 World Championship . At the Italian Championships Fornasier made it onto the podium twice: in 2002 he was third in the Super-G in Forni di Sopra and in 2003 he finished second in the giant slalom in Lanzo d'Intelvi . Fornasier took part in World Cup races until 2004 . His best placings in the overall World Cup were 20th in the 2002 season and 25th in the 2003 season .

successes

World championships

• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 17th Super-G

Junior World Championships

• Forni di Sopra 1999 : 12th Super-G
• Nakoyama 2000 : 4th Super-G, 6th giant slalom, 13th slalom
• Bursa 2001 : 2nd slalom, 4th giant slalom, 7th Super-G
• Nové Město na Moravě 2002 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd super-G

World cup

• Best placement in the overall World Cup: 20th place in the 2002 season

Web links

• http://www.fisi.org/portal/page/categoryItem?contentId=571441 Portrait at the Italian Winter Sports Association (Italian) (link no longer available)
• http://www.grasski.cz/detail-zavodnika/Fornasier-Luigino?code=290016&lang=ENG results from 2003 on www.grasski.cz (English) (link no longer available)