Manuela Di Centa
Manuela Di Centa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President Napolitano receives Manuela Di Centa |
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nation | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 31st January 1963 (age 57) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Paluzza , Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National squad | since 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Manuela Di Centa (born January 31, 1963 in Paluzza ) is a former Italian cross-country skier .
Athletic career
Di Centa took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in Sarajevo in 1984 and in Calgary for the second time in 1988 , but without having a chance of a medal. At the 1992 Albertville Games , she won bronze with the Italian 4 × 5 km freestyle relay.
Her most successful winter games were the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway in 1994 when she became Olympic champion over 15 km freestyle and 30 km classic. In addition, she won the silver medals in the 30 km hunting race and over 5 km classic. With the season she repeated the success of 1992 and won bronze. In 1994 she was voted Europe's Sportswoman of the Year . In 1996 she was the first Italian to receive the Holmenkollen Medal .
In 1998 she started at the Olympics for the last time . In Nagano, when she was already 35, she won bronze with the relay.
She was the first Italian to take part in five consecutive Olympic Games.
In 2003, she climbed Mount Everest and was the first Italian to reach its summit.
Suspected doping
In 2012, Di Centa was linked in press reports with the long-term intake of the hormone erythropoietin , which she is said to have taken since the late 1980s at the instigation of her then Finnish trainer Jarmo Punkkinen and later in collaboration with the Italian sports scientist Francesco Conconi . In its great successes in the first half of the nineties, it is said to have almost always started with a hematocrit value artificially increased to over 50 percent due to EPO (values between 37% and 45% are normal for women). In October 2012, she said she was suing sports scientist Sandro Donati on charges of defamation for accusing her of doping in a documentary. However, she never put this announcement into practice.
Sports official
Di Centa has been a member of the Italian Athletes Association since 1996, of which she was President in 1996 and from 1998 to 2002. Since 2000 she has been a member of the National Olympic Committee of Italy . From 2005 to 2006 she was vice-president of the NOK and is also a member of the IOC for Italy .
In April 2014, Di Centa ran for the presidency of the Italian winter sports association Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali (FISI), but was defeated by the previous incumbent Flavio Roda .
politics
Manuela Di Centa was a member of Forza Italia and PdL in the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2013 .
family
Her brother Giorgio Di Centa is also a successful cross-country skier and won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .
World Cup victories in individual
No. | date | place | discipline |
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1. | February 18, 1990 | Pontresina | 15 km freestyle |
2. | March 7, 1990 | Sollefteå | 30 km freestyle |
3. | December 21, 1993 | Toblach | 15 km classic |
4th | February 13, 1994 | Lillehammer | 15 km freestyle 1 |
5. | February 24, 1994 | Lillehammer | 30 km classic 1 |
6th | March 6, 1994 | Lahti | 30 km freestyle |
7th | March 12, 1994 | Falun | 10 km freestyle |
8th. | March 20, 1994 | Thunder Bay | 10 km freestyle |
9. | January 9, 1996 | Štrbské Pleso | 30 km freestyle |
10. | February 2, 1996 | Seefeld | 10 km freestyle |
11 | February 11, 1996 | Kavgolovo | 10 km classic |
12. | February 24, 1996 | Trondheim | 5 km classic |
13. | February 25, 1996 | Trondheim | 10 km freestyle |
14th | March 2, 1996 | Lahti | 10 km freestyle |
15th | March 9, 1996 | Falun | 15 km freestyle |
World Cup overall placements
season | total | Long distance | sprint | |||
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Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | |
1981/82 | 27 | 22nd | - | - | - | - |
1983/84 | 6th | 49. | - | - | - | - |
1986/87 | 3 | 49. | - | - | - | - |
1987/88 | 21st | 27. | - | - | - | - |
1988/89 | 91 | 4th | - | - | - | - |
1989/90 | 126 | 5. | - | - | - | - |
1990/91 | 106 | 5. | - | - | - | - |
1991/92 | 54 | 9. | - | - | - | - |
1992/93 | 511 | 5. | - | - | - | - |
1993/94 | 790 | 1. | - | - | - | - |
1994/95 | 163 | 20th | - | - | - | - |
1995/96 | 1004 | 1. | - | - | - | - |
1996/97 | 48 | 41. | 26th | 27. | - | - |
1997/98 | 134 | 20th | 48 | 20th | 86 | 21st |
Awards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Blume: Manuela di Centa Between EPO and thyroid disease. www.nzz.ch, October 4, 2012, accessed on October 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Manuela Di Centa is suing WADA consultants. Handelsblatt, October 4, 2012, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Sport invernali: Manuela Di Centa, quella candidatura con l'ombra del doping. Sport e Motori, March 18, 2014, accessed December 12, 2014 (Italian).
- ↑ Flavio Roda confirmed as FISI President. Südtirol News, April 13, 2014, archived from the original on April 15, 2014 ; Retrieved December 12, 2014 .
Web links
- Manuela Di Centa's website
- Manuela Di Centa in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Profile at the IOC
- Manuela Di Centa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Di Centa, Manuela |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cross-country skier and politician, member of the Camera dei deputati |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1963 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paluzza |