Michela Figini

Michela Figini
nation	Switzerland
birthday	7th April 1966 (age 54)
place of birth	Prato , Switzerland
size	168 cm
Career
discipline	Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination
society	SC Airolo
status	resigned
End of career	February 1990
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 2 × 0 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Sarajevo 1984 Departure silver Calgary 1988 Super G  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Santa Caterina 1985 Departure silver Crans-Montana 1987 Departure silver Crans-Montana 1987 Super G  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships bronze Sestriere 1983 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 21, 1983  Individual world cup victories 26th  Overall World Cup 1. ( 1984/85 , 1987/88 )  Downhill World Cup 1. (1984/85, 1986/87 , 1987/88, 1988/89 )  Super G World Cup 1. (1987/88)  Giant Slalom World Cup 2. (1984/85)  Slalom World Cup 28th (1984/85)  Combination World Cup 2. (1984/85)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 17th 5 3  Super G 3 2 3  Giant slalom 2 2 4th  combination 4th 0 1

Michela Figini (born April 7, 1966 in Prato ) is a former Swiss ski racer .

biography

In 1983 Michela Figini won the bronze medal in the giant slalom at the Junior Ski World Championships in Sestriere , for which the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation awarded her the title of Swiss Young Athlete of the Year 1983. In the 1980s, the specialist in the fast disciplines was one of the strongest ski racers. She won 26 individual races, including 17 downhill runs, the overall World Cup in 1985 and 1988 and the individual Downhill World Cup four times and the Super-G World Cup once. In the Giant Slalom World Cup 1984/85 she was able to achieve the same number of points as Marina Kiehl with 110 points - she even had one more victory in the season in question - but the higher number of deleted results was decisive, with Kiehl leading with 53 versus 33.

At the 1985 World Championships in Santa Caterina she won gold in the downhill, two years later she won the silver medal in the downhill and Super-G at the World Championships in Crans-Montana .

The culmination of her career was her victory in the downhill at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo , where she was able to relegate Maria Walliser and Olga Charvátová to second and third place. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary , she won the silver medal in the Super-G behind Sigrid Wolf . After differences with Jan Tischhauser, the Swiss national team coach, she resigned in 1990.

Today Figini, who after her career also worked as a TV commentator, lives in Lugano . His first marriage to the Italian Ivano Camozzi , a former ski racer in the 1980s, had two children.

successes

Olympic games

• Sarajevo 1984 : 1st downhill, 12th giant slalom
• Calgary 1988 : 2nd Super-G, 9th Downhill

World championships

• Bormio 1985 : 1st descent, 15th giant slalom
• Crans-Montana 1987 : 2nd downhill, 2nd Super-G, 4th giant slalom, 6th combination
• Vail 1989 : 5th Super-G, 8th Downhill

Junior World Championships

• Sestriere 1983 : 3rd giant slalom, 4th descent, 16th slalom

World Cup ratings

Michela Figini won the overall World Cup in the 1984/85 and 1978/88 seasons. In addition, there are five victories in discipline classifications (four times downhill, one super-G).

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1982/83	26th	52	24.	15th	-	-	15th	25th	-	-	16.	12
1983/84	5.	166	5.	67	-	-	6th	64	-	-	5.	67
1984/85	1.	259	1.	115	-	-	2.	110	28.	9	2.	60
1985/86	6th	178	6th	53	10.	24	6th	58	-	-	3.	43
1986/87	5.	162	1.	93	11.	27	5.	55	-	-	-	-
1987/88	1.	244	1.	143	1.	65	10.	29	-	-	14th	7th
1988/89	3.	242	1.	176	5.	29	17th	18th	-	-	5.	19th
1989/90	8th.	134	3.	105	13.	24	34.	5	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

Figini won 26 World Cup races, including 17 downhill runs, 3 Super-G, 2 giant slaloms and 4 combinations. There were also 9 second places and 11 third places.

Departure date place country January 28, 1984 Megève France January 9, 1985 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria January 10, 1985 Bad Kleinkirchheim Austria 20th January 1985 Saint-Gervais France December 12, 1986 Val d'Isère France January 16, 1987 Pfronten Germany March 8, 1987 Nakiska Canada December 11, 1987 Leukerbad Switzerland January 14, 1988 Zinal Switzerland March 12, 1988 Rossland Canada 2nd December 1988 Val d'Isère France January 12, 1989 Grindelwald Switzerland January 13, 1989 Grindelwald Switzerland February 18, 1989 Lake Louise Canada February 19, 1989 Lake Louise Canada February 24, 1989 Steamboat Springs United States January 27, 1990 Santa Caterina Italy

Super G date place country January 13, 1985 Pfronten Germany December 12, 1987 Leukerbad Switzerland March 13, 1988 Rossland Canada Giant slalom date place country 4th January 1985 Maribor Yugoslavia January 21, 1985 Saint-Gervais France combination date place country January 29, 1984 Saint-Gervais France January 9, 1985 Santa Caterina Italy March 8, 1985 Arosa Switzerland January 6, 1986 Maribor Yugoslavia

More Achievements

• 4 Swiss championship titles :
  • Departure: 1984, 1985, 1989
  • Giant slalom: 1988
• Swiss junior athlete of the year 1983

Web links

• Michela Figini in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Michela Figini in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Michela Figini in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Sport-Bild & Audi present the Ski World Cup '93 - Everything about the exciting races from February 3rd to 14th in Morioka (Japan)", Sport-Bild from February 3rd, 1993, p. 31ff, 34