Marco Casanova

Marco Casanova
nation	Switzerland
birthday	7th June 1976 (age 44)
place of birth	Chur , Switzerland
Career
discipline	Slalom, giant slalom
society	SC Obersaxen
status	resigned
End of career	March 28, 2004
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Junior World Championship silver Voss 1995 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 15, 1997  Overall World Cup 48th (1998/99)  Slalom World Cup 19. (1998/99)  Combination World Cup 39th (2003/04)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 0 0 1

Marco Casanova (born June 7, 1976 in Chur ) is a former Swiss ski racer . He almost exclusively drove slalom races , occasionally giant slalom .

biography

Casanova grew up in Obersaxen in the Surselva . He started his career playing in FIS races and in the European Cup . At the Junior World Championships in 1995 in Voss , he won the silver medal in slalom. On December 15, 1997 he started in Sestriere for the first time in a World Cup race .

Casanova scored the first World Cup points on January 18, 1998 as 18th in the Veysonnaz slalom . In the same year he also took part in the Winter Olympics in Nagano , where he could not classify. He achieved the best World Cup result on March 13, 1999 in the Sierra Nevada when he finished third in the slalom. In the following years Casanova established himself in midfield, but only once managed to place in the top ten. At the end of the 2003/04 season he announced his retirement from top-class sport.

successes

World championships

• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 13th slalom
• St. Anton 2001 : 24th slalom

Junior World Championships

• Voss 1995 : 2nd slalom

World cup

• 1 podium, 1 further placement among the top ten

More Achievements

• 2 podium places in the European Cup
• 16 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Marco Casanova in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Marco Casanova in the database of Ski-DB (English)