Alberto Tomba

Alberto Tomba (known as Bent It ) is old a alpine skier Italy N, born the December 19th 1966 with Bologna.

Biography

" Bomba" With three Olympic titles and 50 championship victories of the world in twelve years with the more world high level, Alberto Tomba forged one of the richest prize lists of the Alpine skiing. Called " Bomba" because of his explosive style, the Italian accumulated successes in slalom and a giant, gaining the World cup of these two disciplines with eight recoveries (four each one).

Alberto Tomba is born in an easy family. His/her father, Free, rich negotiating in textile of the suburbs of Bologna, offers to him the services of a professor of particular ski. It is about Alberto Siopaes, former member of the Italian team of descent, a discipline in which Tomba will always refuse to be aligned in competition.

In 1986, for its first season of World cup, it is classified 51e. Two years later, when it is aligned with the OJ of Calgary, it gained seven races of World cup and fact appears of scarecrow in the two technical disciplines.

It easily gains the giant in front of the Austrian Hubert Strolz and Switzerland Pirmin Zurbriggen. Two days later, it gains the slalom with 6/100 of second in advance over the German Frank Woerndl.

Apart from the tracks, where it can combine technical and aggressiveness, Tomba forges a reputation of playboy, sometimes sulfurous.

The Ferrari of the dad, pastes of the mamma In Calgary, it feeds the rumors: his/her father would have promised Ferrari in the event of Olympic success to him; moreover, it publicly offers one of its two gold medals to the East-German skater Katarina Witt, with of which it known as in love.

Albertville 1992. " Bomba" in favorite slalom arises and of the giant, in spite of his fall of form due to a fracture of the clavicle and to its preoccupations with a weight - he thinks unable to refuse the pastes that kitchen his mother.

If it fails of 28/100 in the slalom gained by the Norwegian Fine Christian Jagge, Tomba is essential in the giant in front of the Luxembourger Marc Girardelli.

With the Olympic Games of Lillehammer, the Italian, who gains less out of World cup, tears off a money medal, after being gone up 13èm place… in the slalom behind the Austrian Thomas Stangassinger. In the giant, it is disqualified.

Whereas the end of its reign seems close, Alberto Tomba finds the motivation to gain the World cup 1994-95 by signing 11 victories including 7 slaloms of at a stretch. The following year, he is world champion of slalom and giant with Sierra Nevada, in Spain.

The OJ of Nagano mark its true decline: abandonment in the giant (in spite of 1st best intermediate time) and fixed price before the second sleeve of the slalom.

After twelve years of white circus, a victory at least per season, record of Ingemar Stenmark beaten, it announces its retirement on October 3rd, 1998.

Out of the tracks, " Bomba" will be the subject of an investigation of the Italian tax department for not-declaration (due to an agent more than doubtful) of part of its incomes (approximately 11 million euros), of 1990 to 1996. In January 2002, he is discharged after having refunded 5 million euros, but his/her Franco father is condemned to 16 month of suspended sentence.

However, its fame is not started since Tomba, which launches a perfume to the provocative name d'" Indecente" (Indecent), is one of the craftsmen of the candidature of Turin, city organizing of the OJ of winter 2006.

Prize list

Olympic Games

Championships of the world

  • Championships of the world of 1987 to Notches Montana (Swiss):
    • Bronze medal in Giant slalom.
  • Championships of the world of 1996 in the Sierra Nevada (Spain):
    • Gold medal in Slalom.
    • Gold medal in Giant slalom.
  • Championships of the world of 1997 to Sestrières (Italy):
    • Bronze medal in Slalom.

World cup

  • Victorious of general classification in 1995.
  • Victorious of the classification of Slalom in 1988, 1992, 1994 and 1995.
  • Victorious of the classification of Giant slalom in 1988, 1991, 1992 and 1995.
  • 50 successes in race (35 in Slalom, 15 in Giant slalom).

Season per season

External bonds

  • official site

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