Stefano Sartori

Stefano Sartori
Stefano Sartori at the 2009 World Cup
nation	Italy
birthday	19th August 1973
place of birth	Thiene
size	187 cm
Weight	94 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	GS Forestale
National squad	since 1989
status	resigned
End of career	2009
Medal table
World championships 5 × 8 × 1 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Grass ski world championships silver Müstair 1997 slalom silver Müstair 1997 Giant slalom gold Gaal 1999 Super G silver Gaal 1999 combination bronze Gaal 1999 slalom gold Forni di Sopra 2001 Giant slalom gold Forni di Sopra 2001 Super G silver Forni di Sopra 2001 combination silver Forni di Sopra 2001 slalom gold Presolana 2003 slalom gold Dizin 2005 Giant slalom silver Dizin 2005 slalom silver Olešnice 2007 Super G silver Rettenbach 2009 Giant slalom  Grass ski junior world championships bronze Lanzo d'Intelvi 1991 Super G
Placements in the World Cup
Overall World Cup 1. ( 2000 )

Stefano Sartori (born August 19, 1973 in Thiene ) is a former Italian grass skier . He was a member of the Italian national grass ski team until 2009, was world champion five times, Italian champion 22 times and won the overall World Cup in the 2000 season .

Career

Sartori was accepted into the national grass ski team of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) in 1989 . He achieved his first international success at the Junior World Championship in Lanzo d'Intelvi in 1991 , when he won the bronze medal in the Super-G. In the same year he became Italian champion for the first time. By 2006 he was able to win another 21 national title fights.

At the world championships in Müstair in 1997 , Sartori first achieved medal ranks with second places in slalom and giant slalom. Two years later he was able to celebrate his first of a total of five world championship titles at the 1999 World Cup in Gaal . Before the Austrian Christian Balek and the German Christian Ring , he won the gold medal in the Super-G. Two more medals were added with second place in the combination and third place in the slalom. At the 2001 World Cup in Forni di Sopra , Italy , Sartori successfully defended his Super G title and this time he was also able to celebrate a victory in the giant slalom. In the slalom and in the combination he was second behind the Czech Jan Němec . Sartori won his fourth world title in slalom at the 2003 World Championships in Castione della Presolana and at the 2005 World Championships in Dizin , Iran , he was able to look forward to gold in giant slalom and silver in slalom. At the next two world championships Sartori won another silver medal: in 2007 he finished second behind Fausto Cerentin in the Super-G and in 2009 behind Jan Němec second in the giant slalom.

In the World Cup , Sartori was one of the most successful runners in the early 2000s. In the 2000 season , in which there was an official World Cup ranking for the first time, he won it. In 2001 , 2002 and 2005 he reached second place overall. After the 2009 season, the Italian retired at the age of 37.

successes

World championships

• Müstair 1997 : 2nd slalom, 2nd giant slalom
• Gaal 1999 : 1st Super-G, 2nd combination, 3rd slalom
• Forni di Sopra 2001 : 1st giant slalom, 1st Super-G, 2nd combination, 2nd slalom
• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 1st slalom
• Dizin 2005 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd slalom
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 2nd Super-G
• Rettenbach 2009 : 2nd giant slalom, 8th Super-G

Junior World Championships

• Lanzo d'Intelvi 1991 : 3rd Super-G

World cup

• 1st overall: 2000
• 2nd overall: 2001 , 2002 and 2005

Italian championships

• Sartori is 22 times Italian champion: 4 × slalom, 7 × giant slalom, 6 × Super-G and 5 × combination

Web links

Commons : Stefano Sartori  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait at the Gruppo Sportivo Forestale (Italian)
• Stefano Sartori in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004