Stefano Strazzabosco (born November 2, 1983 in Asiago ) is a former Italian grass skier . He was a member of the Italian national grass ski squad from 2001 to 2006, was junior world champion in combination in 2001 and achieved several top 10 results in world cup races .
Strazzabosco was included in the Italian national team in 2001 and also celebrated his first major successes that year. At the Junior World Championships in 2001 in Bursa , he won silver in the Super-G and bronze in the slalom and thus the gold medal in the combined ranking. In the same year he started at the World Championships in Forni di Sopra , where he finished 21st in the giant slalom and in the Super-G. In the 2001 World Cup he was among the top 20 in the overall ranking for the first time. He succeeded in doing this four more times by 2006. The successes of the Junior World Championships 2001 could not repeat Strazzabosco in the next two years. In 2002 he reached fifth place in slalom and eighth in giant slalom and in 2003 his best results were seventh in Super-G and eighth in giant slalom. At the 2003 World Championships in Castione della Presolana , Strazzabosco finished 18th in the giant slalom and 19th in the Super-G.
The Italian achieved his best result in the overall World Cup in the 2004 season . With tenth place in the combination of Forni di Sopra , two twelfth places in the second slalom of L'Aquila and in the Super-G of Nové Město na Moravě and another three placements among the fastest 25, he reached 16th overall. In the 2005 season, Strazzabosco was among the fastest 20 in all six World Cup races and, as in the previous year, achieved tenth place in the combination of Forni di Sopra as the best result, which brought him to 17th place in the overall World Cup. At the 2005 World Championships in Dizin, he was among the fastest 30 in all competitions, with his best result being 20th in the giant slalom. He also achieved his best result at the Italian Championships in 2005 with fifth place in the Super-G. The 2006 season was Strazzabosco's last. With sixth place in the giant slalom in Forni di Sopra and another four top 12 results, he finished 19th in the overall World Cup.
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Placements in the World Cup
