Elena Fanchini
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Elena Fanchini (30 April 1985 – 8 February 2023) was an Italian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Val Camonica, she focused on the speed events of downhill and super-G. Her younger sisters Nadia and Sabrina also raced on the Italian team.[1]
Biography
Fanchini won two World Cup races in downhill 9 years apart and won a silver medal at the 2005 world championships.[2][3] She represented Italy at three Winter Olympics and six World Championships.[4][5]
Illness and death
On 12 January 2018, Fanchini announced that she would not compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang in order to undergo cancer treatment. That November, she was preparing to return to the World Cup; during training in the United States at Copper Mountain, Colorado, she fell and suffered a fracture of a finger of the hand and a distortion-bruising trauma to the left knee, with fracture of the proximal fibula. The injury forced her to return to Italy and miss the 2019 season.[6]
On 22 April 2020, sisters Elena and Nadia Fanchini announced their retirement from racing.
At age 37, Fanchini died from colon cancer on 8 February 2023 at Pian Camuno.[7]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 19 | 75 | — | — | 45 | 32 | — |
| 2006 | 20 | 41 | — | — | 47 | 12 | — |
| 2007 | 21 | 77 | — | — | 50 | 30 | — |
| 2008 | 22 | 45 | — | — | 34 | 23 | 39 |
| 2009 | 23 | ||||||
| 2010 | 24 | 53 | — | — | 26 | 24 | — |
| 2011 | 25 | 28 | — | — | 25 | 12 | — |
| 2012 | 26 | 36 | — | — | 32 | 13 | 18 |
| 2013 | 27 | 62 | — | — | 47 | 22 | 37 |
| 2014 | 28 | 33 | — | — | 42 | 10 | — |
| 2015 | 29 | 17 | — | — | 19 | 5 | — |
| 2016 | 30 | 51 | — | — | 24 | 24 | — |
| 2017 | 31 | 57 | — | — | 50 | 16 | — |
| 2018 | 32 | 70 | — | — | 40 | 27 | — |
Race podiums
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2 December 2005 | Template:Flagicon Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 1st |
| 2014 | 29 November 2013 | Template:Flagicon Beaver Creek, United States | Downhill | 3rd |
| 6 December 2013 | Template:Flagicon Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill | 3rd | |
| 2015 | 16 January 2015 | Template:Flagicon Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy | Downhill | 1st |
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 19 | — | DNF1 | — | 2 | 20 | |
| 2007 | 21 | — | — | 31 | 27 | DNS2 | |
| 2009 | 23 | ||||||
| 2011 | 25 | — | — | 18 | 16 | — | |
| 2013 | 27 | — | — | — | 9 | 15 | |
| 2015 | 29 | — | — | — | 26 | 16 | |
| 2017 | 31 | — | — | — | 14 | — | |
Olympic results File:Olympic rings.svg
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 20 | — | — | DNF | 29 | — |
| 2010 | 24 | — | — | 14 | DNF | — |
| 2014 | 28 | — | — | — | 12 | DNS2 |
National titles
Elena Fanchini won 7 national titles.[8][9]
- Italian Alpine Ski Championships
- Downhill: 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 (7)
References
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External links
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- 1985 births
- 2023 deaths
- Sportspeople from Lovere
- Deaths from colorectal cancer in Italy
- Deaths from cancer in Lombardy
- Skiers from the Province of Bergamo
- Italian female alpine skiers
- Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Olympic alpine skiers for Italy
- Alpine skiers of Fiamme Gialle
- Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- 21st-century Italian sportswomen