Riccardo Romani

Riccardo Romani
Association	Italy
birthday	December 31, 1987
Career
job	soldier
society	GS Fiamme Gialle
Trainer	Andreas Zingerle
Admission to the national team	2008 (B)
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2008
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	-
Debut in the World Cup	-
World Cup victories	-
status	active
World Cup balance
last change: February 6, 2012

Riccardo Romani (born December 31, 1987 ) is an Italian biathlete .

Riccardo Romani is a sports soldier and lives in Bormio . He starts for GS Fiamme Gialle , where he is trained by Andreas Zingerle . He competed in his first international races in 2005 as part of the Junior European Cup, which later became the IBU Cup . In 2007 he made it to Cesana San Sicario as third behind Alexis Bœuf and Jean-Guillaume Béatrix for the only time on the podium. He was also in the top ten several times. The first international championships were the 2007 Junior World Championships in Martell, Switzerland, in which the Italian was 56th in the individual, ninth in the sprint race, 25th in the pursuit race and with Claudio Mussner , Daniel Taschler and Harald Egger as the last runner of the season 12th.

Since the 2008/09 season Romani starts in the men's performance area, in the season he was also part of the B-squad of Italy, and remained in this position in the following season . Here he contested his first race in Obertilliach and was 48th in an individual and a sprint race. He won his first point a little later than 40th of a sprint in Martell. In Ridnaun , towards the end of his first season, he was able to improve to 21st place in an individual, which is his best position in the racing series so far. The first international men's championship was the 2012 European Championships in Osrblie . In the individual Romani was 33rd, in the sprint 60th, which he qualified last for the pursuit race in which he was 54th, and with Mirco Doddi , Pietro Dutto and Michael Galassi as the starting runners in the relay race finished tenth.

Several times he was active as a cross-country skier in lower-class races on the continental level .

Web links

• Riccardo Romani in the IBU database (English)
• Riccardo Romani in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)