- Deborah Compagnoni
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Olympic medal record Women's Alpine Skiing Gold 1992 Albertville Super-G Gold 1994 Lillehammer Giant Slalom Gold 1998 Nagano Giant Slalom Silver 1998 Nagano Slalom World Championships Gold 1996 Sierra Nevada Giant Slalom Gold 1997 Sestrières Giant Slalom Gold 1997 Sestrières Slalom Deborah Compagnoni (born June 4, 1970) is an Italian former Alpine skier who won three gold medals at the 1992, 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics.
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Career
Deborah Compagnoni was born in Bormio, northern Lombardy.
Compagnoni soon was noticed for her great talent. Her career was always marked by great successes, by also by great accidents. After her first great victory, the World Junior Title in Giant slalom, and her first podium in World Cup, she broke her right knee in the Val d'Isére downhill. After the surgery operation she decided to abandon the downhill races, where her talented could have permitted even greater successes than those she obtained in her yet victorious career.
Compagnoni won her first race in the World Cup in 1992. She also won the gold medal at the Winter Olympics of the same year, again in the Super-G: however, while racing the Giant Slalom, one day later, she destroyed her left knee.
In the following years she left the fast races (downhill and super-G), confirming herself as one of the best Giant Slalom specialists. Her fragile knees hindered Compagnoni's practice activity and limited the number of victories in the World Cup: however, she always presented in her best shapes for the great championships. In 1994, at the Lillehammer Olympics, she won gold medal in the Giant Slalom, a feat she repeated four years later in Nagano. In 1998 she won also a silver medal in the Slalom, finishing second by only 0.06 seconds.
Compagnoni won the World Champion in Giant Slalom in 1996: in the following year edition she confirmed the title, coupling it with the Slalom one, a deed never accomplished by any Italian female skier. She won a total of 16 races in the Alpine Skiing World Cup (14 Giant Slalom, 2 Super-G and 1 Slalom), plus a Giant Slalom World Cup in 1997.
Deborah Compagnoni is considered the best female skier ever of Italy, equal to famous male winners like Gustav Thöni and Alberto Tomba. The World Cup skiing track in her native Santa Caterina Valfurva has been named after her.
Family
She is married to Alessandro Benetton; they have three children: Agnese, Tobias, and Luce; they live in Ponzano Veneto, Italy.[1][2]
World Cup victories
Overall
Season Discipline 1997 Giant Slalom Individual races
Date Location Race January 26, 1992 Morzine
Super-G March 7, 1993 Morzine
Super-G December 5, 1993 Tignes
Giant Slalom December 11, 1993 Veysonnaz
Giant Slalom January 5, 1994 Morzine
Giant Slalom February 24, 1994 Kvitfjell
Giant Slalom January 8, 1995 Haus im Ennstal
Giant Slalom March 2, 1996 Narvik
Giant Slalom December 29, 1996 Semmering
Slalom January 17, 1997 Zwiesel
Giant Slalom January 18, 1997 Zwiesel
Giant Slalom January 26, 1997 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Giant Slalom March 15, 1997 Vail
Giant Slalom October 25, 1997 Tignes
Giant Slalom November 21, 1997 Park City
Giant Slalom December 19, 1997 Val-d'Isère
Giant Slalom January 6, 1998 Bormio
Giant Slalom References
External links
- Ski-DB.com - Results - Deborah Compagnoni
Olympic Champions in Women's Giant Slalom 1952: Andrea Mead-Lawrence | 1956: Ossi Reichert | 1960: Yvonne Rüegg | 1964: Marielle Goitschel | 1968: Nancy Greene | 1972: Marie-Theres Nadig | 1976: Kathy Kreiner | 1980: Hanni Wenzel | 1984: Debbie Armstrong | 1988: Vreni Schneider | 1992: Pernilla Wiberg | 1994: Deborah Compagnoni | 1998: Deborah Compagnoni | 2002: Janica Kostelić | 2006: Julia Mancuso | 2010: Viktoria RebensburgOlympic Champions in Women's Super-G 1988: Sigrid Wolf | 1992: Deborah Compagnoni | 1994: Diann Roffe | 1998: Picabo Street | 2002: Daniela Ceccarelli | 2006: Michaela Dorfmeister | 2010: Andrea Fischbacher1931: Esme Mackinnon · 1932: Rösli Streiff · 1933: Inge Wersin-Lantschner · 1934: Christl Cranz · 1935: Anny Rüegg · 1936: Gerda Paumgarten · 1937: Christl Cranz · 1938: Christl Cranz · 1939: Christl Cranz · 1948: Gretchen Fraser · 1950: Dagmar Rom · 1952: Andrea Mead-Lawrence · 1954: Trude Klecker · 1956: Renée Colliard · 1958: Inger Bjørnbakken · 1960: Anne Heggtveit · 1962: Marianne Jahn · 1964: Christine Goitschel · 1966: Annie Famose · 1968: Marielle Goitschel · 1970: Ingrid Lafforgue · 1972: Barbara Cochran · 1974: Hanni Wenzel · 1976: Rosi Mittermaier · 1978: Lea Sölkner · 1980: Hanni Wenzel · 1982: Erika Hess · 1985: Perrine Pelen · 1987: Erika Hess · 1989: Mateja Svet · 1991: Vreni Schneider · 1993: Karin Buder · 1996: Pernilla Wiberg · 1997: Deborah Compagnoni · 1999: Zali Steggall · 2001: Anja Pärson · 2003: Janica Kostelić · 2005: Janica Kostelić · 2007: Šárka Záhrobská · 2009: Maria Riesch · 2011: Marlies Schild1950: Dagmar Rom | 1952: Andrea Mead-Lawrence | 1954: Lucienne Schmith | 1956: Ossi Reichert | 1958: Lucille Wheeler | 1960: Yvonne Rüegg | 1962: Marianne Jahn | 1964: Marielle Goitschel | 1966: Marielle Goitschel | 1968: Nancy Greene | 1970: Betsy Clifford | 1972: Marie-Theres Nadig | 1974: Fabienne Serrat | 1976: Kathy Kreiner | 1978: Maria Epple | 1980: Hanni Wenzel | 1982: Erika Hess | 1985: Diann Roffe | 1987: Vreni Schneider | 1989: Vreni Schneider | 1991: Pernilla Wiberg | 1993: Carole Merle | 1996: Deborah Compagnoni | 1997: Deborah Compagnoni | 1999: Alexandra Meissnitzer | 2001: Sonja Nef | 2003: Anja Pärson | 2005: Anja Pärson | 2007: Nicole Hosp | 2009: Kathrin Hölzl | 2011: Tina MazeCategories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from the Province of Sondrio
- Italian alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
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