Riccardo Lorenzone

Riccardo Lorenzone
Riccardo Lorenzone at the 2009 World Cup
nation	Italy
birthday	5th November 1976
place of birth	Domodossola
size	194 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	Sci Club San Domenico
National squad	since 1992
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
World championships 1 × 3 × 3 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Grass ski world championships silver Presolana 2003 combination bronze Presolana 2003 Super G silver Dizin 2005 Super G bronze Olešnice 2007 slalom gold Rettenbach 2009 Super G silver Rettenbach 2009 Super combo bronze Rettenbach 2009 slalom  Grass ski junior world championships bronze Arzberg 1995 slalom
Placements in the World Cup
World Cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 4. ( 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 )

Riccardo Lorenzone (born November 5, 1976 in Domodossola ) is a former Italian grass skier . He was a member of the grass ski national team of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) until 2009 , was world champion in Super-G in 2009 , won another six medals at world championships as well as two world cup races and five Italian championship titles.

Career

Lorenzone celebrated his first international success with the bronze medal in slalom at the Junior World Championships 1995 in Arzberg . In the general class, he first came on the podium at the 2003 World Championships in Castione della Presolana . In the slalom he was seventh, in the giant slalom fifth and in the Super-G he won the bronze medal, which also brought him silver in the combination. In 2005 he won the silver medal in the Super-G in Dizin, Iran and finished fourth in the giant slalom. At the 2007 World Championships in Olešnice v Orlických horách he was third in the slalom and fourth in the Super-G at the same time as his compatriot Edoardo Frau . In the giant slalom, however, he only finished 19th. The Italian celebrated his greatest success at his last major event, the 2009 World Cup in Rettenbach, Austria . With almost three hundredths of a second ahead of the Czech Jan Němec , he became world champion in Super-G. In the super combined he won the silver medal and in the slalom the bronze medal, in the giant slalom he finished fourth.

In the World Cup , Lorenzone was able to place himself in the top 7 of the overall standings with two wins and numerous podium places from 2002 to 2008. The best results he achieved in the 2004 , 2006 , 2007 and 2008 seasons were fourth overall. At the Italian Championships Lorenzone won a total of five titles: in 2005 he won the slalom, the super-G and the combined, 2006 the super-G and 2007 the super-combined. After the 2009 World Cup, Lorenzone ended his career.

successes

World championships

(up to 1999 only top 10 placements)

• Müstair 1997 : 9th slalom, 10th giant slalom
• Forni di Sopra 2001 : 4th Super-G, 5th giant slalom
• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 2nd combination, 3rd super-G, 5th giant slalom, 7th slalom
• Dizin 2005 : 2nd Super-G, 4th giant slalom
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 3rd slalom, 4th super-G, 19th giant slalom
• Rettenbach 2009 : 1st super G, 2nd super combination, 3rd slalom, 4th giant slalom

Junior World Championships

(only podium placements)

• Arzberg 1995 : 3rd slalom

World cup

• 4th overall: 2004 , 2006 , 2007 and 2008
• 6th overall: 2003 and 2005
• 7th overall: 2002
• Two victories

Italian championships

• Lorenzone is five times Italian champion: Slalom 2005, Super-G 2005 and 2006, Combination 2005, Super Combination 2007

Web links

Commons : Riccardo Lorenzone  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Riccardo Lorenzone in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004