Elena Fanchini


Elena Fanchini is a former alpine ski racer from Italy. She was born and lives 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.

Biography

Fanchini won two World Cups in downhill 9 years apart and won a silver medal at the 2005 world championships. She represented Italy at two Winter Olympics and four World Championships.

Cancer

On 12 January 2018 Fanchini announced that she would have to give up participating in the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics in order to undergo cancer treatment. In the 2019 season she was preparing to return to the World Cup, but during training for the Killington Super-G she fell on the Superstar track 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 without being able to compete in the season.
On 22 April 2020 Elena and her sister Nadia both announced their retirement from alpine skiing.

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
20062 Dec 2005 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill1st
201429 Nov 2013 Beaver Creek, USADownhill3rd
20146 Dec 2013 Lake Louise, CanadaDownhill3rd
201516 Jan 2015 Cortina d'Ampezzo, ItalyDownhill1st

World Championship results

Year Age Slalom Giant
slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
200519—DNF1—220
200721——3127DNS
200923—————
201125——1816—
201327———915

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