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Manuela Di Centa

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Manuela Di Centa (left) in October 2008

Country
 Italy
Born
(1963-01-31) 31 January 1963 (age 55)
Paluzza, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Height164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Ski clubG.S. Forestale
World Cup career
Seasons
1982, 1984, 1987–1998
Individual wins15
Team wins1
Indiv. podiums35
Team podiums9
Indiv. starts106
Team starts15
Overall titles2 – (1994, 1996)
Discipline titles0

Manuela Di Centa OLY (born January 31, 1963) is a former Italian cross-country skier and Olympic athlete. She is the sister of former cross-country skier Giorgio Di Centa and cousin of former track and field athlete Venanzio Ortis.




Contents





  • 1 Career


  • 2 2006 Winter Olympics


  • 3 World Cup results

    • 3.1 World Cup standings


    • 3.2 Individual podiums


    • 3.3 Team podiums



  • 4 National titles


  • 5 Politics


  • 6 Doping allegations


  • 7 See also


  • 8 References


  • 9 External links




Career[edit]


Di Centa, born in Paluzza, province of Udine, to a family of Nordic skiers, made her debut on the Italian national team in 1980 at the age of 17, skied with the G.S. Forestale. Two years later, she competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo finishing in eighth place. After a quarrel with the president of the Italian Skiing Federation, Di Centa left the national team, not returning until 1986.


At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, she finished sixth in the 20 km freestyle. She won her first medals in international competition at the 1991 World Championships in Val di Fiemme: a silver (4 x 5 km) and two bronzes (5 km, 30 km). An Olympic medal followed in 1992, a bronze in the 4 x 5 km. In 1993, at the Falun World Championships, she won two more silvers (30 km, 4 x 5 km). At the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, she won another silver (30 km) and a bronze (5 km).


Di Centa also became Italian national champion in fell running in 1985, 1989 and 1991.[1]


Di Centa seemed confined to the role of the eternal second, but this changed abruptly at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, where she medaled in all five cross-country events: two gold, two silver and one bronze medal. The same year she also won her first aggregate Cross Country Skiing World Cup, a feat she repeated in 1996.


In 1996 she was the first Italian cross country skier to receive the Holmenkollen Medal. Her last title was a bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in the 4 x 5 km.


After retiring, Di Centa worked for Italian television (RAI), and became a member of the Italian and International Olympic Committees.


Di Centa became the first Italian woman to climb Mount Everest (with supplementary oxygen) in 2003.[2]


Di Centa is the first Italian woman (and the 19th Italian) to compete at five Olympics, which she did from 1984 to 1998.


Her younger brother Giorgio is currently a member of the Italian national cross country ski team and was the winner of two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics.


At the 2018 Winter Olympics di Centa was inducted into the Olympians for Life project.[2]



2006 Winter Olympics[edit]


As a member of the International Olympic Committee and the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) and as one of Italy's most accomplished Winter Olympic athletes, Di Centa played a prominent public role in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She was one of the eight flag bearers during the Opening Ceremonies. At the Closing Ceremonies, she participated in the awarding of medals to the winners of the men's 50 km cross-country race. Coincidentally, the gold medal winner was her younger brother Giorgio Di Centa.



World Cup results[edit]


All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[3]



World Cup standings[edit]













































































 Season 
 Age 
Overall
Long Distance
Sprint
19821922N/AN/A
19842149N/AN/A
19872449N/AN/A
19882527N/AN/A
1989264N/AN/A
1990275N/AN/A
1991285N/AN/A
1992299N/AN/A
1993305N/AN/A
1994311N/AN/A
19953220N/AN/A
1996331N/AN/A
1997344127
DNP
199835202021


Individual podiums[edit]


  • 15 victories

  • 35 podiums

































































































































































































































No.
Season
Date
Location
Race
Level
Place
1 1988–89 13 January 1989
East Germany Klingenthal, East Germany
10 km Individual CWorld Cup2nd
211 March 1989
Sweden Falun, Sweden
15 km Individual FWorld Cup3rd
31989–9018 February 1990
Switzerland Pontresina, Switzerland
15 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
47 March 1990
Sweden Sollefteå, Sweden
30 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
510 March 1990
Sweden Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
10 km Individual CWorld Cup2nd
6 1990–91 12 February 1991
Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
5 km Individual CWorld Championships3rd
716 February 1991
Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
30 km Individual FWorld Championships3rd
810 March 1991
Sweden Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
15 km Individual FWorld Cup2nd
916 March 1991
Norway Oslo, Norway
5 km Individual FWorld Cup2nd
10 1992–93 27 February 1993
Sweden Falun, Sweden
30 km Individual FWorld Championships2nd
116 March 1993
Finland Lahti, Finland
5 km Individual FWorld Cup2nd
129 March 1993
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
5 km Individual CWorld Cup3rd
1310 March 1993
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
10 km Pursuit FWorld Cup2nd
1410 March 1993
Slovakia Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia
10 km Individual CWorld Cup3rd
15 1993–94 18 December 1993
Switzerland Davos, Switzerland
10 km Individual FWorld Cup3rd
1621 December 1993
Italy Toblach, Italy
15 km Individual CWorld Cup
1st
1715 January 1994
Norway Oslo, Norway
15 km Individual FWorld Cup2nd
1813 February 1994
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
15 km Individual FOlympic Games
1st
1915 February 1994
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
5 km Individual COlympic Games2nd
2017 February 1994
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
10 km Pursuit FOlympic Games2nd
2124 February 1994
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
30 km Individual CFOlympic Games
1st
226 March 1994
Finland Lahti, Finland
30 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
2312 March 1994
Sweden Falun, Sweden
10 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
2420 March 1994
Canada Thunder Bay, Canada
10 km Pursuit FWorld Cup
1st
25 1994–95 12 March 1995
Canada Thunder Bay, Canada
5 km Individual CWorld Championships3rd
2618 March 1995
Canada Thunder Bay, Canada
30 km Individual FWorld Championships2nd
27 1995–96 9 December 1995
Switzerland Davos, Switzerland
5 km Individual FWorld Cup3rd
289 January 1996
Slovakia Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia
30 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
2918 March 1995
Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic
10 km Individual CWorld Cup2nd
302 February 1996
Austria Seefeld, Austria
5 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
3111 February 1996
Russia Kavgolovo, Russia
10 km Individual CWorld Cup
1st
3224 February 1996
Norway Trondheim, Norway
5 km Individual CWorld Cup
1st
3325 February 1996
Norway Trondheim, Norway
10 km Pursuit FWorld Cup
1st
342 March 1996
Finland Lahti, Finland
10 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st
359 March 1996
Sweden Falun, Sweden
15 km Individual FWorld Cup
1st


Team podiums[edit]


  • 1 victory – (1 TS)

  • 9 podiums – (8 RL, 1 TS)














































































No.
Season
Date
Location
Race
Level
Place
Teammate(s)
1 1990–91 15 February 1991
Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
4 x 5 km Relay MWorld Championships[1]2nd
Vanzetta / Paruzzi / Belmondo
2 1991–92 18 February 1992
France Albertville, France
4 x 5 km Relay MOlympic Games[1]3rd
Vanzetta / Paruzzi / Belmondo
3 1992–93 26 February 1993
Sweden Falun, Sweden
4 x 5 km Relay MWorld Championships[1]2nd
Vanzetta / Paruzzi / Belmondo
4 1993–94 22 February 1994
Norway Lillehammer, Norway
4 x 5 km Relay MOlympic Games[1]3rd
Vanzetta / Paruzzi / Belmondo
5 1995–96 17 December 1995
Italy Santa Caterina, Italy
4 x 5 km Relay CWorld Cup2nd
Paluselli / Belmondo / Paruzzi
614 January 1996
Czech Republic Nové Město, Czech Republic
4 x 5 km Relay CWorld Cup3rd
Paluselli / Belmondo / Paruzzi
73 February 1996
Austria Seefeld, Austria
6 x 1.5 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup1st
Belmondo
810 March 1996
Sweden Falun, Sweden
4 x 5 km Relay MWorld Cup3rd
Giacomuzzi / Dal Sasso / Belmondo
9 1997–98 14 December 1997
Italy Val di Fiemme, Italy
4 x 5 km Relay FWorld Cup2nd
Paruzzi / Valbusa / Belmondo

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Note: 1 Until the 1999 World Championships and the 1994 Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.




National titles[edit]



  • Italian Mountain Running Championships

    • Mountain running: 1985, 1989, 1991 (3)


Politics[edit]


Manuela Di Centa, who has been vice-president of the National Council of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) until 2006, is also involved in politics and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia, between 2006 and 2013. She became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 1999 and remained there until 2010.[4]



Doping allegations[edit]


The Swedish investigative television program Uppdrag granskning claimed that Di Centa had an exceptionally high hemoglobin level prior to a World Cup in Lahti in 1997. Di Centa's hemoglobin value was measured in an official pre-competition test as high as 17.3 g/dL. The allowed limit to start in official FIS competition is 16.5 g/dL.



See also[edit]


  • List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games

  • Italian sportswomen multiple medalists at Olympics and World Championships


References[edit]




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  2. ^ ab https://olympians.org/news/1064/woa-honours-olympians-for-life-inductees/


  3. ^ "Athlete : DI CENTA Manuela". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 17 March 2018.


  4. ^ "Ms Manuela DI CENTA". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 24 December 2017.




External links[edit]



  • Manuela Di Centa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com


  • Manuela Di Centa at the International Ski Federation


  • Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (in Norwegian)


  • Official website (in Italian)


  • Media related to Manuela Di Centa at Wikimedia Commons













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