Pieralberto Carrara

Pieralberto Carrara
Association	Italy
birthday	February 14, 1966
place of birth	Bergamo
Career
job	Forest guard
society	Centro Sportivo Forestale
World Cup victories	5 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 2 ×
winter Olympics silver 1998 Nagano singles  Biathlon world championships gold 1990 Kontiolahti Season gold 1993 Borovets Season gold 1994 Canmore team bronze 1996 Ruhpolding team bronze 1997 Osrblie Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. (1992/93)

Pieralberto Carrara (born February 14, 1966 in Bergamo ) is a former Italian biathlete . He participated in four Winter Olympics and several Biathlon World Championships . During his active time he was one of the best and most successful biathletes in his country and was at times among the world's best.

Pieralberto Carrara lives in Serina and works as a forest ranger. He had been part of the Italian national team since 1982 and competed for Centro Sportivo Forestale . At the national level, he won three championships and achieved several second and third places. From the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s, he started in the biathlon world cup . In the second half of the 1980s, he won his first World Cup points. Carrara ran his first biathlon world championships in 1987 in Lake Placid and finished 42nd in the sprint. In 1988 the Italian ran the sprint race of the Winter Olympics in Calgary and was 13th. The 1989 World Championships brought a 14th place in the sprint. In the following year he won the gold medal with Wilfried Pallhuber , Johann Passler and Andreas Zingerle as the final runner of the Italian relay in Kontiolahti . The 1990/91 season was particularly successful . First he won a sprint in Ruhpolding and was second in an individual, in Oberhof he came third in an individual. The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville were somewhat unfortunate . In the sprint, Carrara was 41st, with the relay he just missed a medal in fourth.

Carrara had the best season in 1992/93. He first won a sprint race in Antholz and a little later with Wilfried Pallhuber, Johann Passler and Andreas Zingerle the gold medal in the relay race at the Biathlon World Championships 1993 in Borovets . He finished sixth in the sprint. In the 1992/93 season he finished third behind Mikael Löfgren and Mark Kirchner in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup. Carrara achieved good, but not outstanding results as 15th in the individual, 23rd in the sprint and sixth in the relay at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . At the non-Olympic team competition, he won his third world championship title shortly afterwards in Canmore with Hubert Leitgeb , Zingerle and Pallhuber. At the world championships in the following years, Carrara always achieved good results. In 1995 in Antholz he was ninth in the sprint and in fourth place with the relay just missed a bronze medal, in 1996 in Ruhpolding he reached rank 18 in the individual and four in the sprint, in 1997 in Ruhpolding he won bronze in the relay race. In the 1995/96 season , Carrara was fourth among the ten best biathletes of the overall World Cup for the last time.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , Carrara achieved his greatest international success and won the silver medal in the individual over 20 kilometers behind Halvard Hanevold . In addition, he reached tenth place in the sprint and ninth place with the relay. His last world championships were the 1999 title fights in Kontiolahti with 34th in the sprint and 44th in the pursuit. After the season, Carrara ended his active career and now works as a biathlon trainer.

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1	1			1	2	5
2nd place	1	3		1		2	7th
3rd place	1	1			1	3	6th
Top 10	11	20th		1	4th	19th	55
Scoring	27	39	5	1	4th	20th	96
Starts	51	67	11	1	4th	20th	154
Status : data not complete

Web links

• Pieralberto Carrara in the IBU database (English)
• Pieralberto Carrara in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Campioni della Valle Brembana (Lo Sport in Valle Brembana, 9 February 2016)
2. ↑ 50 ° Sci Club Valserina Paolo Maurizio, Oltre il Colle, 14 November 2015