Piero Gros

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Piero Gros Alpine skiing
nation ItalyItaly Italy
birthday 30th October 1954 (age 65)
place of birth Sauze d'Oulx , Italy
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom
status resigned
End of career 1982
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Innsbruck 1976 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze St. Moritz 1974 Giant slalom
gold Innsbruck 1976 slalom
silver Garmisch-Partenk. 1978 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 12
 Overall World Cup 1. ( 1973/74 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1973/74)
 Slalom World Cup 2. ( 1975/76 )
 Combination World Cup 6. (1975/76)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 7th 6th 4th
 slalom 5 7th 4th
 combination 0 1 1
 

Piero Gros (born October 30, 1954 in Sauze d'Oulx ) is a former Italian ski racer .

biography

In his career he won 12 World Cup races (7 wins in giant slalom , 5 wins in slalom ) and was overall World Cup winner in 1973/74 . His first two victories in December 1972, the giant slalom in Val d'Isère and the slalom in Madonna di Campiglio, he achieved with the high starting numbers 45 and 42. This also makes him the youngest alpine athlete (as of January 1, 2017) World Cup winner in the men. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , he won gold in slalom. At the 1974 World Cup in St. Moritz , he came third in the giant slalom. Four years later he reached second place in the slalom world championship in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From 1974 to 1982 he won a total of ten Italian championship titles.

Piero Gros was involved in the organization of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . He organized the volunteer program with around 20,000 volunteers. He was also mayor of his hometown Sauze d'Oulx from 1985 to 1990.

successes

Olympic games

(also counted as world championships)

World championships

World Cup ratings

Piero Gros won the overall World Cup and the discipline ranking in giant slalom in the 1973/74 season .

season total Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1972/73 10. 91 4th 55 6th 36 - -
1973/74 1. 181 1. 110 4th 61 - -
1974/75 4th 196 2. 106 3. 90 - -
1975/76 2. 205 3. 78 2. 85 6th 20th
1976/77 4th 165 5. 70 4th 76 - -
1977/78 8th. 60 9. 23 4th 47 - -
1978/79 4th 152 6th 74 7th 71 - -
1979/80 29 40 24. 10 18th 18th 11. 12
1980/81 28. 48 - - 8th. 48 - -
1981/82 50. 26th - - 15th 26th - -

World Cup victories

Gros achieved a total of 35 podium places, including 12 wins:

date place country discipline
December 8, 1972 Val d'Isère France Giant slalom
17th December 1972 Madonna di Campiglio Italy slalom
17th December 1973 Sterzing Italy slalom
7th January 1974 Berchtesgaden Germany Giant slalom
January 13, 1974 Morzine France Giant slalom
March 3, 1974 Voss Norway slalom
March 9, 1974 Vysoké Tatry Czechoslovakia Giant slalom
5th December 1974 Val d'Isère France Giant slalom
18th December 1974 Madonna di Campiglio Italy Giant slalom
January 6, 1975 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany slalom
January 13, 1975 Adelboden Switzerland Giant slalom
19th January 1975 Kitzbühel Austria slalom

Italian championships

A total of ten Italian championship titles :

  • Slalom (5): 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982
  • Giant Slalom (2): 1974, 1976
  • Combination (3): 1974, 1976, 1978

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Arbeiter-Zeitung of December 10, 1972, page 15, lower right box "sport interview"
  2. Arbeiter-Zeitung from December 19, 1972, page 10 - bottom left photo
  3. The miracle of Turin. Stadionwelt, February 1, 2006, accessed April 8, 2018 .