Valentina Margaglio

Valentina Margaglio
nation	Italy
birthday	November 15, 1993
place of birth	Casale Monferrato ,  Italy
size	173 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Skeleton Bobsleigh (former)
Trainer	Milko Campus, Andrea Gallina
National squad	since 2014
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Skeleton World Championships bronze Altenberg 2020 Mixed
Placements in the WC / EC / NAC / IC
Skeleton ranking 22. ( 2019/20 ) Debut in the World Cup December 14, 2018 in Winterberg Overall World Cup 19. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 ) Debut in the European Cup January 14, 2016 in Koenigssee Debut in the Interconti-Cup November 4, 2017 in Whistler
last change: 2020-03-07

Valentina Margaglio (born November 15, 1993 in Casale Monferrato ) is an Italian skeleton pilot and former bobsledder. In 2012 she and Mathilde Parodi took part in bobsleigh for Italy in the Winter Youth Olympic Games . In 2020 she and Mattia Gaspari won the bronze medal in the skeleton mixed competition at the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships .

Career

Career as a bobsledder

Valentina Margaglio began her sporting career as a track and field athlete . For the 2011/12 season she switched to bobsleigh and was trained as a bobsleigh shifter. On November 5th and 6th, she took part in the European qualification for the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck as Mathilde Parodi's pusher . In these two competitions, they finished eighth and ninth. On November 17, 2011, the two started for the first and only time in the European Bobsleigh Cup . In the race on the Bob-Rodel Igls artificial ice rink , they finished 27th and last. Ultimately, the two of them qualified for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games and were nominated for them by the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano . On January 22nd, the two finished the competition in fifth place. After this competition, she did not take part in IBSF-listed bobsleigh competitions for three years. It was not until January 31, 2015 that she took part in another competition as Martina Schiavon's pusher and the two took ninth place in this European Cup competition in Winterberg .

Career as a skeleton driver

After that, Valentina Margaglio switched from bobsleigh to skeleton and made her debut in the 2015/16 European Skeleton Cup. On January 14, 2016, she completed her first international skeleton race and finished 15th in these European Cup races in Königssee . A day later, she finished twelfth in the second race on the Königssee artificial ice rink . At the end of the season she finished 25th in the overall ranking of the European Cup with 63 points. In the 2016/17 season she collected a total of 132 points and thus took 20th place in the overall ranking of the European Cup. Thanks to her achievements, at the end of the 2016/17 season she qualified for the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships , which were held in Königssee in 2017 . At her first World Championships she finished 28th out of 31 starters.

In the 2017/18 season Valentina Margaglio made her debut in the Skeleton Intercontinental Cup . In her first competition in this racing series, she finished 19th in Whistler on November 4th, 2017 and a day later she finished 18th in the second competition at the Whistler Sliding Center . On December 15, 2017, she took part in the European Championships in Innsbruck , which were held together with the World Cup . However, she was only rated in the European Championship ranking because she had no starting place in the World Cup, and in this ranking she finished 15th. After participating in the European Championship, she started again in the Intercontinental Cup on January 4, 2018 and was able to achieve a top ten result for the first time in the Intercontinental Cup with fifth place in the competition in St. Moritz at the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz-Celerina . At the end of the season she finished 12th in the overall ranking of the Intercontinental Cup with 452 points.

After she graduated already four races in the Intercontinental and two competitions in the European Cup, Valentina Margaglio debuted in the season 2018/19 in the Skeleton World Cup . In her first World Cup race on December 14, 2018 in Winterberg, she finished 20th and in her third World Cup race on January 18, 2019, she finished in tenth place in Innsbruck for the first time, a top ten placement in the World Cup. The World Cup in Innsbruck also served as the European Championship and in this ranking she finished ninth. In the end, she finished 19th in the overall World Cup with 368 points. At the end of the season, she took part in the Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships for the second time . At the 2019 World Championships , which were held in Whistler, she finished 23rd.

In the 2019/20 season, Valentina Margaglio started in both the World Cup and the European Cup . On January 10, 2020, she started a European Cup competition in Innsbruck and finished third behind Alina Tararytschenkowa and Alessia Crippa , her first podium finish in the European Cup. After taking fourth place in Altenberg on January 24, 2020 , she was able to celebrate her second podium place on January 25, 2020 at the second competition in Altenberg. Behind Alina Tararytschenkowa and Agathe Bessard , she again took third place. At the end of the season, she was allowed to take part in the 2020 Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships , which were held on the Altenberg racing sled and bobsleigh track . In the individual competition, she finished 17th after four runs. At the first mixed skeleton competition, she and Mattia Gaspari won the bronze medal behind the German and Canadian teams. This enabled them to win Italy's first World Championship medal in skeleton.

Private

She is the daughter of an Ivorian and an Italian and has two sisters and a brother.

Web links

Commons : Valentina Margaglio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Valentina Margaglio in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Valentina Margaglio in the pyeongchang2018.coni.it database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lölling / Gassner as GER II win title at the first Skeleton Mixed Team World Championship. IBSF , March 7, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .