Manuela Di Centa

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Manuela Di Centa Cross-country skiing
President Napolitano receives Manuela Di Centa

President Napolitano receives Manuela Di Centa

nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 31st January 1963 (age 57)
place of birth Paluzza , Italy
Career
National squad since 1980
status resigned
End of career 1998
Medal table
winter Olympics 2 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 4 × silver 3 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Albertville 1992 4 × 5 km
gold Lillehammer 1994 15 km
gold Lillehammer 1994 30 km
silver Lillehammer 1994 5 km
silver Lillehammer 1994 5 km + 10 km
bronze Lillehammer 1994 4 × 5 km
bronze Nagano 1998 4 × 5 km
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver Val di Fiemme 1991 4 × 5 km
bronze Val di Fiemme 1991 5 km
bronze Val di Fiemme 1991 30 km
silver Falun 1993 4 × 5 km
silver Falun 1993 30 km
silver Thunder Bay 1995 30 km
bronze Thunder Bay 1995 5 km
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
 Debut in the World Cup January 22, 1982
 World Cup victories in individual 15 ( details )
 Overall World Cup 1. (1993/94, 1995/96)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Distance races 15th 12 8th
 

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
1. February 18, 1990 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pontresina 15 km freestyle
2. March 7, 1990 SwedenSweden Sollefteå 30 km freestyle
3. December 21, 1993 ItalyItaly Toblach 15 km classic
4th February 13, 1994 NorwayNorway Lillehammer 15 km freestyle 1
5. February 24, 1994 NorwayNorway Lillehammer 30 km classic 1
6th March 6, 1994 FinlandFinland Lahti 30 km freestyle
7th March 12, 1994 SwedenSweden Falun 10 km freestyle
8th. March 20, 1994 CanadaCanada Thunder Bay 10 km freestyle
9. January 9, 1996 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Štrbské Pleso 30 km freestyle
10. February 2, 1996 AustriaAustria Seefeld 10 km freestyle
11 February 11, 1996 RussiaRussia Kavgolovo 10 km classic
12. February 24, 1996 NorwayNorway Trondheim 5 km classic
13. February 25, 1996 NorwayNorway Trondheim 10 km freestyle
14th March 2, 1996 FinlandFinland Lahti 10 km freestyle
15th March 9, 1996 SwedenSweden Falun 15 km freestyle

1 1994 Winter Olympics.

World Cup overall placements

season total Long distance sprint
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

  1. ↑ Klaus Blume: Manuela di Centa Between EPO and thyroid disease. www.nzz.ch, October 4, 2012, accessed on October 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Manuela Di Centa is suing WADA consultants. Handelsblatt, October 4, 2012, archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Sport invernali: Manuela Di Centa, quella candidatura con l'ombra del doping. Sport e Motori, March 18, 2014, accessed December 12, 2014 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Flavio Roda confirmed as FISI President. Südtirol News, April 13, 2014, archived from the original on April 15, 2014 ; Retrieved December 12, 2014 .

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personal data
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