Natascia Leonardi Cortesi

Natascia Leonardi Cortesi
Medal record
Ski mountaineering
Gold 2006 World Championship Vertical race
Olympic Games
Women's cross country skiing
Bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 4 x 5 km

Natascia Leonardi Cortest (born May 1, 1971) is a Swiss cross-country skier and Ski mountaineering who has competed since 1988 in the World Cup circuit. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and had her best individual finish with a 10th place in the 30 km event at those same games. This was the first olympic medal ever for a swiss woman cross-country team. Leonardi Cortesi's best score at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a 5th place in the 4 x 5 km relay in 1999.

In Ski mountaineering she won 2005 the Trofeo Mezzalama with Gloriana Pellisier and Christiane Nex. 2006 she was vertical race world champion.

At the Worldloppet she won three times her home-race the Engadin Skimarathon in 2003, 2005 and 2006. She was the first swiss woman to win the Kangaroo Hoppet 2006 in Australia and 2011 the Transjurassienne in France.

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