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Daniela Ceccarelli

Daniela Ceccarelli

Italian alpine skier

Daniela Ceccarelli (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian alpine skiing coach and former World Cup Alpine skier.[1]

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In 2002, she won a surprise gold medal in the super-G competition in Salt Lake City.[2] After her retirement, she started her own ski club, under the name Golden Team Ceccarelli, along with her family. She is the mother of the Albanian alpine skier Lara Colturi.[3]

Biography

Ceccarelli (right) with her husband Alessandro Colturi and her daughter Lara Colturi.
Ceccarelli, engineer Giuseppe Palamara and the President of the Albanian Ski Federation Elvis Toci shot in San Vigilio di Marebbe in 2023.

Daniela Ceccarelli in her 16 years of high-level competitive activity, from 1996 to 2010, conquered three podiums in World Cup races, two second places in super-G and a third place in downhill, but her most important result it is undoubtedly the Olympic gold medal won at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. She has also won the Italian Alpine Ski Championships two times and various other podium finishes.[4]

After her career as an athlete, she founded a ski team, the Golden Team Daniela Ceccarelli, in which she is also a coach, and subsequently she also became technical commissioner of the Albanian national ski team, for which nation her daughter Lara Colturi also competes.[3][5]

Until 2021 she was also a technical commentator for the ski races for the Italian RAI radio and television.[6]

World Cup results

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Race podiums

  • 3 podiums - (1 DH, 2 SG)
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National titles

Ceccarelli has won two national championships at individual senior level.[4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Daniela Ceccarelli profile". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Gli Olimpionici invernali italiani". Retrieved 31 January 2018.
  3. [3]
    "VALSUSA, LARA COLTURI GAREGGERÀ PER L'ALBANIA E NON PER L'ITALIA: LO SCI AZZURRO PERDE UNO DEI SUOI MIGLIORI TALENTI". it.geosnews.com (in Italian). 26 May 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  4. [4]
    "ALBO D'ORO CAMPIONATI ITALIANI SCI ALPINO". sportflash24.it (in Italian). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Sci, Daniela Ceccarelli e la figlia Lara che scia per l'Albania e non per l'Italia". corriere.it (in Italian). 4 June 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  6. [6]
    "danielaceccarelli.it". danielaceccarelli.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2 February 2022.
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