Sandro Viletta

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Sandro Viletta Alpine skiing
Sandro Viletta at the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday 23rd January 1986 (age 34)
size 177 cm
Weight 78 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G , slalom ,
giant slalom , super combination
society La Punt Chamues-ch
status resigned
End of career December 18, 2018
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Sochi 2014 Super combination
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
bronze Mount St. Anne 2006 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 12, 2006
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 45th ( 2014/15 )
 Downhill World Cup 23. (2014/15)
 Super G World Cup 18th ( 2011/12 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 16. (2009/10)
 Slalom World Cup 33rd ( 2007/08 )
 Combination World Cup 4. (2013/14)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 1 0 0
 team 0 1 0
 

Sandro Viletta (born January 23, 1986 ) is a former Swiss ski racer . He comes from La Punt-Chamues-ch , was a member of the Swiss-Ski national team and specialized in the Super-G and giant slalom disciplines.

biography

Viletta took part in FIS races from December 2001 and in the European Cup from January 2004 . He celebrated his first major success on February 1, 2004 when he won the Swiss junior championship in giant slalom. At the Junior World Championship in 2006 on Mont Sainte-Anne , he won the bronze medal in slalom. In the 2006/07 European Cup season he was fifth in the slalom classification.

Viletta contested his first World Cup race on December 12, 2006 in Levi . On February 25, 2007 he was 16th in the slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won his first World Cup points. On January 10th, 2009 he finished fourth in the giant slalom in Adelboden , which was his best result for more than two years. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , he finished sixth in the super combined and 13th in the slalom. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he finished 14th in the super combined and 15th in the giant slalom.

At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he finished 24th in the giant slalom after a failure in the Super-G. On December 3, 2011, he won a world cup race for the first time, the Super-G in Beaver Creek . As a result, he was unable to confirm this success for a long time for health reasons. He rarely achieved appealing results. In the 2013/14 season he established himself in the super combination discipline in the extended world elite. Somewhat surprisingly, he won the gold medal in the super combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi .

From the 2014/15 season he was plagued by injuries, each of which happened at his starts in Val Gardena : After his fall in December 2014, he competed in speed races up to Kitzbühel (23 January), but his back pain degenerated so that he for had to give up the rest of the season (so that the World Championships in Beaver Creek ) could not contest. In 2015/16 - after he had still contested the Super-G in Val Gardena on December 18 - he fell in a training run, which meant his season was out. And ultimately it was on December 16, 2016, when he made his "comeback" in his second race of the season (previously on December 2 in the Super-G in Val-d'Isère with 41st place) in the Super-G on the Saslong fell. He had been driving with No. 46 when it tore his legs apart and then slid head first towards the safety nets, where he suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament in his right knee. He was taken away by helicopter. That meant the season was over for him again, and again he missed the world championships, this time in St. Moritz . In 2017/18 he only competed in the European Cup and also contested a few FIS races.

On December 18, 2018, he announced his retirement from active competitive sports.

successes

Olympic award ceremony 2014 in the super combination: Viletta in the middle

Olympic games

World championships

Junior World Championships

World cup

  • 10 placements among the top ten in individual races, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
December 3, 2011 Beaver Creek United States Super G

European Cup

  • Season 2006/07 : 5. Slalom Score
  • 3 podium places

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selections men alpine skiing 2012/2013. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 61 kB) Swiss-Ski, April 18, 2012, accessed on April 26, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swiss-ski.ch
  2. ↑ Viletta the sensation, Feuz the confirmation: Cuche is under pressure! (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, December 3, 2011, archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; Retrieved December 7, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skionline.ch
  3. ↑ Sandro Viletta has had enough: resignation. Aargauer Zeitung , December 18, 2018, accessed on December 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Viletta, Sandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1986