Stefania Belmondo biography

Born on January 13 of the year in Vinadio, Kuneo, Italy. Italian skier. Two -time Olympic champion, four -time world champion, the most titled Italian skier. Stefania Belmondo was born on January 13 of the year in Vinadio, the province of Kuneo. Father worked at ENEL. Mother is a housewife. Has an older sister. At the age of 3, she got on the skis that her father made for her. Next to their house was a large field, which was covered with snow cover every winter.

Father spent a lot of time with her on this field, teaching skiing. At the age of 6, Stefania was given to the skiing section. Belmondo recalled that at her very first competitions she came the last. However, quickly began to show high results. At the age of 8, she first won the competition for the children of her age group and she was awarded a yellow medal of cardboard, which she still stores as a good sign.

In the year, she became a member of the regional team of Piedmont. In years, it is admitted to the ranks of the junior national team, and since the year Stefania Belmondo has become a member of the Italian national team. In the year it becomes the first Italian skiing to rise to the podium of the World Cup among juniors. In the year he will make his debut at the Olympic Games in Kalgary.

In the year, for the first time takes part in the World Cup in Lahti. In the same year, Stefania Belmondo became the first Italian winner of the Junior World Cup. In the same year, for the first time in the history of Italian skis, she became the winner of the stage of the World Cup in Salt Lake City. In the year, at the World Championship in Val-Li-Femm, it becomes the first in the history of Italy’s skiing by a woman-ghost, having won a bronze medal in a 15 kilometer race in a classic style.

In the year at the Olympics in Alberville, she produces a real sensation: Belmondo took silver in the persecution race, led the team to third place in the relay and became the first Italian - the Olympic champion, winning a 30 km of free style. In the marathon at 30 km, Belmondo was able to get ahead of her main rivals in the World Cup - the unconditional leader of the world skis Elena Vyalbe and Lyubov Egorova at the peak of her sports form.

Since the year, Stefania Belmondo has been in the ranks of the Green Police. In the year, Stefania Belmondo became the first skiing of Italy, who won the gold of the World Cup at distances of 10 and 30 km in the Falun of Sweden. In May, Stefania transfers surgery on the thumb of the left leg, after which it is restored for a long time. And in September of the same year, repeated.

As a result, her finger becomes almost motionless, and during the cold, she completely loses sensitivity. Doctors categorically forbid her to get skiing. But thanks to his perseverance, will and hard work, Stefi continues to train and perform at competitions. But the transactions are still making themselves felt. For Stefania, Belmondo begins a strip of failure.

Stefania herself will call this Golgotha ​​period: in February, at the Olympics in Lillehammer, she wins only two bronze medals in the persecution race and in the 4x5 relay. The world championship is developing for her unsuccessfully. Here it does not rise above fourth place. But Stephi does not lose heart, and in the year it wins four silver medals in the individual races of the World Cup in Trondheim, each time competing only with the leader of world women's skis Elena Vyalbe.

The persecution race was especially dramatic, where only the photofinish was able to determine the victory of Elena Vyalbe. In the year, at the Olympics in Nagano, Stefania Belmondo wins the silver in the race for 30 kilometers and pulls the Italian women's team from tenth to third in the relay race, while playing about a minute. However, an exceptional case in the history of skiing she divided first place in terms of scored points with Bente Martinsen from Norway.

Since Norwegian had more individual victories at the stages of the World Cup, a large crystal globe was handed to her and officially Belmondo remained the second. In the year, at the World Cup in Ramzau Austria, she becomes a champion in the race for 15 kilometers, in the persecution race, having gone from the start of the eighth and helps in the relay of her team to win silver. In August, Stefania Belmondo, according to the results of voting among the local population, wins the contest “The Best Skirt of Italy of the 20th Century”, while ahead of her colleague-rival Manuel Di Chent.

In the first race of 15 kilometers in the mass start, the Russian skier Olga Zavyalova in a toll accidentally breaks her ski stick. The French coach is trying to come to her aid, but his stick is too large for little Stefania and she runs from almost one about one meters. But she continues to fight. In the end, the coach of Stefania is looking for her a spare stick and, having gathered all her strength, rushes forward, bypassing the Russian woman Larisa Lazutin at the finish, winning 1.8 seconds from her and winning her second golden Olympic medal.

In addition, Belmondo won bronze in the persecution race and silver in the race for 30 kilometers.This was the last victory in the sports career of the skier. During her career at the World Cup, she won 74 prizes and won 23 victories. In May, Belmondo, at a specially convened press conference in the sister, announced the end of the performance in big sports.

The real fairy tale of Stefania Belmondo ”, which included interviews taken by the Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Turin Antonella Sarakko at the illustrious skier for three years. In December of the year, Stefania Belmondo at a press conference in Turin makes a sensational statement about his intention to return to great sport after the birth of a second child in order to speak at the Olympics in Turin.

In the summer of the year, she passes tests that turn out to be positive and starts to work out. But in the fall of the year, Stefania Belmondo finally announces the completion of the performance in big sports because of the family. For her merits, Stefania Belmondo received the right to light the Olympic fire of the Winter Games in Turin in the year, where her debut took place as a sports commentator of the Italian state television channel RAI.

Stefania Belmondo, part of the money she earned, spends on charity. It is one of the sponsors of the Aquaevita program “Water and Life” that supports water projects in nine African countries. As well as the Arfa project, which collects funds for teaching doctors and for the development of new medical and surgical technologies. The growth of Stefania Belmondo: centimeters.

The family lives in a small alpine village of Pietraxi. When quoting and using materials, a link to Stuki-Druki-Druki pits.

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