Biography
Sometime Stefania Belmondo became the first Italian skier who took the world championship medal in this sport. Since then, alternating triumphs with annoying downturns, she for a decade made feats on the snowy track, for which she claims the unlawful title of the best skiing of the twentieth century.Childhood and youth
On January 13, 1969, in the city of Vinalio, surrounded by the Alpine Mountains, in the family of a modest clerk and a housewife was born Girl Stefania, which was destined to become a great athlete. She first embarked on skis at 3 years old, and the inventory for riding she his own smartly father. He went out with Stephanie every winter and her older sister on the snow-covered field at home, where she taught girls to ride.
Belmondo was talented and stubborn. Later, she will say that she achieved success due to the fact that he saw the goal and went to her, going to the victims. Her sports and volitional character was already visible in childhood, and parents gave her daughter to the ski section when that was only 6 years old.
The girl liked to participate in competitions, and, although at the first start she came the latter, did not show a trace of resentment and despondency. She ran ahead not so much from passion to victory, as for fun and love for skiing. Soon the first victories began to come to the cheerful and hardworking Stefania.
At the age of 13, Belmondo fell into the district team, and after 4 years of training in the regional team, a young skier took to the youth national team of Italy. In 1987, in the Junior World Championship, she fell on the podium, which was not a single Italian skier. Since then, the stefania has conclusted all new vertices. For example, in 1989 he became a world champion among juniors.
Ski race
The first Olympiad in the career of Italian happened when she was still running on juniors. Successes in Calgary Stefania did not achieve, but at an adult World Cup in 1989 won the stage, becoming the first Italian with such an achievement. In the early 1990s, Belmondo conquered the ski world by creating one sensation after another.At first, the athletes will be submitted by the podium championship championships when she brought from Val Lie Fiemma in 1991 silver and bronze. And from the Olympic Games in Alberville in 1992, Stephanie returned to the Queen at all, taking gold at a 30-kilometer race with a free style and becoming the first Italian - a skier with the title of Olympic champion. This victory became all the more valuable that Italian managed to overtake on the ski club of world leaders - Russian women, Elena Vyalbe and the love of Egorov.
In addition, Belmondo brought silver racing and bronze races from that Olympics. No one doubted that she would reign on the ski in the coming years, but an injury happened, after which Stephanie was repeatedly operated on her thumb on her left foot. Treatment and recovery were difficult, the doctors strongly recommended the athlete to part with skis, but the stubborn Belmondo returned to the system.
Embed from getty imagesItalian continued to compete, but the victories did not go. Olympiad in Lillehammer 1994 brought only 2 bronze, the world championship was still unsuccessful. She called those years in Calvary. And in Trondheim in 1997, Stefania once again gained momentum, collecting the scatter of silver medals in all disciplines. Gold could be in the race of persecution, but the photoFinish was identified by Elena Vyalbe's victory.
At the Olympics in Nagano in 1998, the Italian again drove past gold, but took silver and bronze. But a year later at the World Championships in Austria with two victories and one second place Belmondo once again showed what is capable of. The last Olympiad in his career happened in 2002 and brought Stephanie the title of two-time Olympic champion.
That mass start in Salt Lake City began dramatically: in the crown, Italian broke a stick, and she had to escape with the inventory not by growth, his french coach stretched out. She fled, pushing out, in essence, only with one hand, and helped the athlete only athletic anger. As a result, Belmondo was so accelerated that Larisa Larisa was ahead of Larisa for 1.8 seconds and again won the golden medal of the Olympiad.
In the same year Stefania declared the completion of the career. However, in 2006 they started talking that the skier would return to a great sport. Indeed, on the eve of the Olympics in Turin, born two children Belmondo discovered that it reaches in training quite competitive indicators. But ultimately the Italian decided to devote himself to the family.
Personal life
The personal life of the skiing at first was successful: in marriage with a fellow village, David, she gave birth to the sons of Mathias and Lorenzo. Maternity opened to Stephenia a completely different line of being, fascinating and no less important than sport. She gladly plunged into care for children, but training was left a mandatory element of life.
Belmondo with his family settled in the small town of Pietrazo, where a little more than 100 people live now. Cozy commune, surrounded by mountains and forest, has become a house where the family receives guests. For example, a long-standing rival on the ski door and a girlfriend in life Elena Vyalbe.
In 2016, it became known that an athlete divorced her husband. She called him a bad man and a traitor who would like to strike out life.
Stephanie is engaged in charity, supporting environmental projects and private initiatives in the field of medicine. And she goes to schools, where talks about the importance of sports and affects such problems as doping, which, to her great regret, often occurs in ski racing and biathlon.
Celebrity raises sons. They preferred mountain skiing and even achieved success in this sport. Stefania itself is happy to conquer the ski sloping, riding a bike, engaged in climbing and feels no less cheerfully than in youth. It is not interested in social networks, and therefore it is not divided by fresh facts of biography in "Instagram". Her photo fans have to find out on third-party resources.
Stephanie Belmondo now
After completing the sports career, Belmondo could not finally say goodbye to ski racing. She began to comment on the competition on the RAI TV channel. Her commentation debut took place at the Olympics in Turin, and since then, Stefania voices for Italians the main skiing starts.It turned out that work on the air takes a lot of strength and emotions, which is comparable to protracted lifts on the track. But skis - the passion of Belmondo, from which she is not ready to refuse. In addition, in 2021, the Italian serves in the command of the Department of Forest Protection, the Environment and Agriculture.
Achievements
- 1991 - Bronze medalist of the world championship in the individual race
- 1991, 1993, 1999 - Silver winner of the world championship in the relay
- 1991, 1992, 1997, 1999 - Silver winner of the World Cup in the overall standings
- 1992 - Winner of the Olympic Games in the individual race
- 1992 - Silver medalist of the Olympic Games
- 1992, 1994, 1998 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in the relay
- 1993, 1999 - Winner of the World Championship in the Pursuit Racing
- 1993, 1999 - Winner of the World Championships in the individual race
- 1993, 1998, 2002 - Bronze medalist of the World Cup in the overall standings
- 1994 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games
- 1997 - World Cup winner in sprint
- 1997 - Silver winner of the world championship in the individual race
- 1997 - Silver winner of the World Championship in the Pursuit Racing
- 1998, 2002 - Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in the individual race
- 2001 - Bronze medalist of the world championship in the relay
- 2002 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in the individual race
- 2002 - Winner of the Olympic Games in the Mass Start