Werner Perathoner

Werner Perathoner
nation	Italy
birthday	21st September 1967 (age 52)
place of birth	Bressanone , Italy
size	179 cm
Career
discipline	Super-G , downhill
status	resigned
End of career	1999
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 15th ( 1994/95 )  Downhill World Cup 8. (1994/95)  Super G World Cup 3rd (1994/95)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 3 2  Super G 2 1 3

Werner Perathoner (born September 21, 1967 in Brixen ) is a former Italian ski racer . The South Tyrolean achieved a total of two World Cup victories in his career.

The Perathoner, who grew up in Selva , surprisingly achieved his first podium in the Ski World Cup in 1988 in the downhill from Leukerbad , when he finished 3rd. This was followed by many injuries, so that he only found connection in the World Cup in winter 1992/93. At the end of the season he finished two second places in the downhill runs from Lillehammer in 24 hours. Perathoner equalized these results in the Super-G in Lech in December 1993.

In the Super-G of Lillehammer in March 1995 he won his first World Cup race, which he confirmed in the following season in the Super-G of Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He reached his last podium in March 1998 on his "favorite track" in Lillehammer. There he reached a second place in the downhill.

He won no medals at major events: He was fifth in the Super-G at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and seventh in the downhill at the 1996 World Ski Championships in the Sierra Nevada . From 1993 to 1996 he was Italian champion in super-G four times in a row . At the end of the 1997/98 season, Perathoner resigned.

Web links

• Werner Perathoner in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Werner Perathoner in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Werner Perathoner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )