ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Overall 196 (103 men + 93 women) will be the athletes of Italy Team engaged in the Games of Milan Cortina 2026, which will officially leave on Friday 6 February with the opening ceremony. 87 blues (47 men + 40 women) of the five ice sports already selected a week ago, in fact, the 109 (56 men + 53 women) of the 11 winter disciplines, whose races will be articulated between Anterselva (biathlon), Cortina (bob, skeleton, sled and alpine skiing women), Valfree Fiemme ( Nordic combined, cross-country skiing and ski jumping), Livigno The figure allows our country to exceed the previous record established in the last edition of Turin 2006 (184 athletes of which 109 men and 75 women). The youngest in absolute is the 16-year-old Giada D’Antonio, a very young promise of alpine skiing that will be 17 years old next May 28. The longest, however, is the forty-five-year-old Roland Fischnaller who, competing in the parallel slalom of alpine snowboard, will live the seventh consecutive Olympiad (blue man or woman with the greatest number of presences in the history of the Winter Games).
In front of the South Tyrolean (with eight participations) there is only the poker formed by the brothers Piero and Raimondo d’Inzeo (equests – 1948/1976), Josefa Idem (canoa – 1984/2012), but took part in Los Angeles 1984 and in Seoul 1988 defending the colors of West Germany before inanellare six appearances with Italy, and Giovanni Pellielo (tiro a volo – 1992). As for the biathlon, whose competitions will take place on the track of the Anterselva Biathlon Arena, the male quintet will be formed by Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer, Patrick Braunhofer, Elia Zeni and Nicola Romanin while the female one from Dorothea Wiererer, Lisa Vittozzi, Rebecca Passler, Michela Carrara and Hannah Auchentaller. At the Cortina Sliding Centre, on the track entitled to the blue Olympic Eugenio Monti (gold in the bob in Grenoble 1968 both in the two race and in the four race), will be staged the tests of three disciplines. Five men and women were summoned in the bob: Patrick Baumgartner, Robert Gino Mircea, Lorenzo Bilotti, Eric Fantazzini, Alex Verginer, Giada Andreutti, Simona De Silvestro, Anna Costella, Alessia Gatti and Noemi Cavalleri. In the skeleton poker space composed of Amedeo Bagnis and Mattia Gaspari to the male and Valentina Margaglio and Alessandra Fumagalli to the female while in the sled they will be 11 (seven men and four women) the blue ones to the gate: Dominik Fischnaller, Leon Felderer, Alex Gufler, Ivan Nagler, Fabian Malleier, Emanuel Rieder, Simon Kainzwaldner, Andrea Voetter, Marion Oberhofer, Verena Hofer and Sandra Robatscher.
It will take part, therefore, in the Nordic combined races, scheduled in Val di Fiemme between Tesero Cross-Country Skiing Stadium and Predazzo Ski Jumping Stadium, the trio constituted by Samuel Costa, Alessandro Pittin and Aaaron Kostner. The first plant will be the Olympic venue for cross-country skiing, a discipline in which Italy will open 13 athletes (six to men and seven to women): Federico Pellegrino, Elia Barp, Davide Graz, Martino Carollo, Simone Mocellini, Simone Daprà, Federica Cassol, Caterina Ganz, Iris De Martin Pinter, Maria Gismondi, Martina Di Centa, Nicole Monsorno and Anna Comarella. The second, on the other hand, will be the setting for ski jumping competitions, in which seven blues will act: on the one hand Giovanni Bresadola, Alex Insam, Francesco Cecon and on the other Annika Sieff, Martina Zanitzer, Martina Ambrosi and Jessica Malsiner. The freestyle will split between Snow Park and Aerials & Moguls Park, both based in the Valtellinese resort of Livigno. For our country the choice has fallen over five men and as many women: Simone Deromedis, Dominik Zuech, Edoardo Zorzi, Federico Tomasoni, Andrea Chesi, Jole Galli (ski cross), Miro Tabanelli, Flora Tabanelli, Maria Gasslitter (big air & slopestyle) and Manuela Passaretta (moguls & dual moguls). The first center will also welcome snowboard specialists, whose challenges will see 17 Italians (nine to male and eight to female): Roland Fischnaller, Aaron March, Maurizio Bormolini, Mirko Felicetti, Lucia Dalmasso, Elisa Caffont, Jasmin Coratti, Sofia Valle (PGS), Omar Visintin, Lorenzo Sommariva, Filippo Ferrari, Michela Moioli, Lisa Francesia Boirai, Sofia Groblechner (cross), Ian Matteoli, Marilù Poluzzi (big air & slopestyle) and Louislf.
As well as for Nordic combined and freestyle, Alpine skiing competitions will also be on the snow of two plants. The Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre in Cortina d’Ampezzo will host the female races, which will see in action 11 blue: Sofia Goggia, Federica Brignone, Nicol Delago, Laura Pirovano, Lara Della Mea, Elena Curtoni, Nadia Delago, Martina Peterlini, Asja Zenere, Anna Trocker and Giada D’Antonio. The Stelvio Ski Centre in Bormio, instead, will be the home of the male ones, in which will be of the game 10 azzurri: Giovanni Franzoni, Dominik Paris, Florian Schieder, Mattia Casse, Christof Innerhofer, Luca De Aliprandini, Alex Vinatzer, Tobias Kastlunger, Tommaso Saccardi and Tommaso Sala. The latter system will also be the home of sprint tests and mixed ski mountaineering relay, a discipline introduced for the first time at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne and which is ready to make its debut at the senior level. To defend the tricolor will think of a man and two women: Michele Boscacci, Alba De Silvestro and Giulia Murada.
Below is the complete list of the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) – 109 Blues (56 men + 53 women)
BIATHLON (10) Men (5): Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer, Patrick Braunhofer, Elia Zeni, Nicola Romanin Donne (5): Dorothea Wiererer, Lisa Vittozzi, Rebecca Passler, Michela Carrara, Hannah Auchentaller
Men (5): Patrick Baumgartner, Robert Gino Mircea, Lorenzo Bilotti, Eric Fantazzini, Alex Verginer Donne (5): Giada Andreutti, Simona De Silvestro, Anna Costella, Alessia Gatti, Noemi Cavalleri
SKELETON (4) Men (2): Amedeo Bagnis, Mattia Gaspari Donne (2): Valentina Margaglio, Alessandra Fumagalli
Men (7): Dominik Fischnaller, Leon Felderer, Alex Gufler, Ivan Nagler, Fabian Malleier, Emanuel Rieder, Simon Kainzwaldner Women (4): Andrea Voetter, Marion Oberhofer, Verena Hofer, Sandra Robatscher
Men (3): Samuel Costa, Alessandro Pittin, Aaron Kostner
SCI FONDO (13) Men (6): Federico Pellegrino, Elia Barp, Davide Graz, Martino Carollo, Simone Mocellini, Simone Daprà Donne (7): Federica Cassol, Caterina Ganz, Iris De Martin Pinter, Maria Gismondi, Martina Di Centa, Nicole Monsorno, Anna Comarella
Men (3): Giovanni Bresadola, Alex Insam, Francesco Cecon Donne (4): Annika Sieff, Martina Zanitzer, Martina Ambrosi, Jessica Malsiner
FREESTYLE (10) Men (5): Simone Deromedis, Dominik Zuech, Edoardo Zorzi, Federico Tomasoni (ski cross), Miro Tabanelli (big air & slopestyle) Donne (5): Andrea Chesi, Jole Galli (ski cross), Flora Tabanelli, Maria Gasslitter (big air & slopestyle), Manuela Passaretta (moguls & dual moguls)
SNOWBOARD (17) Men (9): Roland Fischnaller, Aaron March, Maurizio Bormolini, Mirko Felicetti (PGS), Omar Visintin, Lorenzo Sommariva, Filippo Ferrari (cross), Ian Matteoli (big air & slopestyle), Louis Philip Vito III (halfpipe) Women (8): Lucia Dalmasso, Elisa Caffont, Jasmin Coratti, Sofia Valle (PGS), Michela Moioli, Lisa Francesia Boirai, Sofia Groblechner (cross), Marilù Poluzzi (big air & slopestyle)
_ ALPINO (21) Men (10): Giovanni Franzoni, Dominik Paris, Florian Schieder, Mattia Casse, Christof Innerhofer, Luca De Aliprandini, Alex Vinatzer, Tobias Kastlunger, Tommaso Saccardi, Tommaso Sala Donne (11): Sofia Goggia, Federica Brignone, Nicol Delago, Laura Pirovano, Lara Della Mea, Elena Curtoni, Nadia Delago, Martina Peterlini, Asja Zenere, Anna Trocker, Giada D’Antonio
Men (1): Michele Boscacci Women (2): Alba De Silvestro, Giulia Murada
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