Biography
The star of the biathlon season 2018/2019, along the beauty of Dorothea Virr, became a young Italian sportswoman Liza Vitozzi. Starting a professional career in youthful competitions, the girl took a worthy place in the national team of the country and won silver in an individual race at the World Championships in Swedish Estersund. Other personal achievements were pedestals in the cup stages in Atholz and Rupleding and 2 gold medals in the sprint and race of persecution in Oberhof.Childhood and youth
Lisa Vitoztsi was born in the Italian commune of Pieve-Di-Cadore on February 4, 1995.
Parents of the future biathletes were far from sports, but did not prevent the hobbies of energetic from the nature of the daughter. Starting from the school team on women's football, Lisa loved the movement and gladly chased the ball and scored goals into the gates of rivals. But soon the interests of girls were changed, and due to the lack of participants, the section was closed.
After playing a little with boys, Lisa changed the profile and went out of curiosity to biathlon. This sport, popular in Italy, immediately liked the 13th-year athlete, and with the support of the Vitoztsie family began to train hard on the roller trail, which was near the house.
Gradually pupil by Camosci Sappada and G.S. FIMME GIALLE has mastered the skating technique, learned to hit the target and realized that, in addition to speed, hard arm and accuracy, it is necessary to develop logic and intelligence. In addition, the young Italian felt the excitement and unpredictability of biathlon and firmly decided to succeed in the race and on the Fire Light.
Biathlon
The first competitions in the sports biography of Vitozzi became the Winter Youth Olympic Games, held from 15 to 19 January 2012 in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, and the youth World Championship in Finland. Unfortunately, Lisa did not show decent results, but received experience in races with talented biathletes, among whom were Russian Ulyana Kaishev and German Lesus.Next year, luck smiled athlete at the main start of the Junior season in Obertillia. Silver in the sprint has become a decent reward for stubborn labor and will to victory. A year later, Lisa won gold medals in the pursuit race and sprint at the World Championships among the 19-year-old boys and girls and became a bronze medalist in an individual race at the European tournament next step in the Czech Republic.
In adult competitions, Vitoztsie debuted in the season 2013/2014. After the 19th place in the sprint race at the IBU Cup stage in the Italian town called Martello athlete in the company of Christian de Lorenzi, Marcus Vidicha and Michel Ponzi won silver in a mixed relay and showed that it could fight for leading positions in the national team.
True, at the next year's competitions, Lisa did not achieve high results in the Cup, but ranked 3rd step pedestal in the individual race at the European Championships in the modern place and won the silver and 2 gold on the world youth championship.
After that, the talented skiing of Vitoztsi worked a lot over the shooting and adopted the experience of famous colleagues on the national team. Focusing on the results of the three-time Olympic champion Katie Wilhelm and the Great Biathlete of Marten Furcade, Lisa has achieved a good percentage on the fire line and since 2017 began to show decent results at the adult stages of the World Cup.
For three bronze medals in pursuit and sprint followed silver in the mass start of the cup standing and 3rd place in the mixed relay at the Olympic Games in Pyonchhan. And although the purpose of the main competition of four years was a reward in personal races, an athlete, confident in his own potential, was not desperate because of the result and firmly decided to repeat the attempt.
Training in the national team under the start of Fabrizio of the Kurtza, Andrea Dzattoni and others, Vitozzi together with Dorothea Virr headed the team in 2018 and justified the confidence of coaches, winning 2 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze awards in the season.
In 2019, the Italian athlete, along with a friend of the team, became the leader of the overall standing before the last stage of the World Cup, gaining 852 points on the past competitions and ahead of such famous biathletes, like Anastasia Kuzmina, Cais Makarainen, Francis Passion and Laura Dalmayer.
Personal life
Having achieved success in biathlon competitions, Vitozzi became the object of attention of fans and journalists. Modest, but sociable beauty in an interview with pleasure tells about personal life and demonstrates photos published in Instagram and other social networks.
The girl boasts a bright appearance and an excellent figure (height 176 cm, weight of 60 kg), allowing it without constraint to pose in front of the camera not only in a costume of the national biathlon team, but also in a swimsuit.
In the daily life of the athlete is fond of shopping, he reads a lot and travels. When there is an opportunity, Lisa plays with guys in football and visits home matches of the Italian club "Juventus".
In addition, Lisa mastered the profession of the tax inspector and tries to learn English to contact foreign reporters and respond to messages of members of his own fan club.
Vitozzi loves the quiet home parties and tries to spend as much time as possible with the closest and most expensive person - Mom. She does not think about her husband and children, and although she has a boyfriend, he does not go about the wedding yet.
Lisa Vitoztsi now
At the finish line of the next biathlon season, Lisa is satisfied with its own results. On March 12, 2019, the athlete became a silver medalist of the World Championship and, at the end of the year, won a "small crystal globe" for glasses in individual cup racing.On the eve of the last stage in the Norwegian Holmenclane, Vitoztsi, together with Virr, lead in the overall standings, typing 852 points. The fate of the "Big Crystal Globe" will decide very soon.
Now the girl is preparing for the upcoming competitions and plans to leave with a young man in Rio de Janeiro. She does not think about the distant future and, feeling forces for new victories, hopes for a long and successful biathlon career.
Awards and achievements
- 2015 - Contiolachti. Bronze medal of the world championship in the relay
- 2015-2016 - Hochfilzen. Gold medal in the relay
- 2016 - 2017 - Contiolachti. Bronze Medal in Pursuit Racing
- 2017 - 2018 - Annecy. Bronze Medal in Pursuit Racing
- 2017 - 2018 - Contiolachti. Bronze medal in the sprint
- 2017 - 2018 - Contiolachti. Silver medal in the race with a general start
- 2018 - 2019 - Oberhof. Gold medal in the sprint
- 2018 - 2019 - Oberhof. Gold Medal in Pursuit Racing
- 2018 - 2019 - Rupleolding. Silver medal in the sprint
- 2018 - 2019 - Antholz. Bronze Medal in Pursuit Racing
- 2019 - Ostersund. Silver medal of the world championship in the individual race