Stefano Ticci

Stefano Ticci
nation	Italy
birthday	May 13, 1962
place of birth	Forte dei Marmi , Province of Lucca
size	188 cm
Weight	85 kg
Career
position	Brakeman
society	GS Fiamme Oro
status	unknown
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Lillehammer 1994 two  European bobsleigh championships bronze Cervinia 1991 two gold La Plagne 1994 four silver La Plagne 1994 two

Stefano Ticci (born May 13, 1962 in Forte dei Marmi , Province of Lucca ) is a former Italian bobsleigh athlete .

Ticci participated in four Winter Olympics in the course of his career . At the 1984 Games in Sarajevo , he was ninth in the two-man bobsleigh with pilot Marco Bellodis . In the four, the team with Ticci, Guerrino Ghedina , Paolo Scaramuzza and Andrea Meneghin finished eighth. He finished the 1985 Bobsleigh World Championship with Alex Wolf , Oasquale Gesuito and Georg Beikircher in fifth place. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , Canada , Ticci was less successful. He finished the two-man bobsleigh competition with Ivo Ferriani in 19th place; the one in the foursome together with the team of the 1985 World Cup in tenth place. Ticci achieved his greatest successes with the pilot Günther Huber . At the 1991 European bobsleigh championships , they made it onto the podium by winning the bronze medal. A year later, at the Winter Olympics in Albertville , Huber and Ticci finished fifth in the two-man bobsleigh. The four-man bobsleigh with Gesuito, Antonio Tartaglia and Paolo Canedi landed in twelfth place. Ticci's most successful European championship was in 1994 when he won the silver medal in the two-man bobsleigh with Huber and the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh with Huber, Tartaglio and Mirko Ruggiero . Later at the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer he was third in the two-man bobsleigh competition with Huber. He finished ninth with Huber, Tartaglia, Bernhard Mair and Ruggiero in the four-man bobsleigh.

Furthermore, Ticci was Italian champion in the two-man bobsleigh three times during his active career: in 1988 with Ivo Ferriano and in 1990 and 1991 with Roberto D'Amico . In his home province of Lucca he was honored for his sporting successes. Ticci later worked as a police officer.

Web links

• Stefano Ticci in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )