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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.
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.
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'Isere |
Giant Slalom |
| January 6, 1998 |
Bormio |
Giant Slalom |
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