Giorgio Rocca
Giorgio Rocca.
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Giorgio Rocca (born 6 August 1975 in Chur, Switzerland) is an Italian Alpine skier, a specialist in Slalom skiing. Together with Marc Girardelli and Ingemar Stenmark, he is one of three skiers to have won 5 Alpine Skiing World Cup slaloms in a row, which he achieved in the 2005/2006 season: only Alberto Tomba (7) has won more World Cup slaloms consecutively. He is currently the ninth in the list of all-time slalom winners, with a total of 11 victories (after Henrik Kristoffersen's win at Adelboden on January 8, 2017).
Rocca made his debut in the Alpine Skiing World Cup on 6 January 1996 in Flachau. However, Rocca broke his right knee and was forced off the tour for a year. In March 1997 he scored his first point-scoring result in the Cup, at the Shigakogen slalom. He scored his first top ten finish in November 1998, at the Aspen slalom.
One year later Rocca finally managed to be on the podium, scoring a third place in the renowned Kitzbühel slalom. In 1999 he won the bronze medal at the Alpine World Skiing Championships in Vail. Rocca began to be considered the legitimate heir of Italy's Alberto Tomba, who had just retired. This responsibility however, seemed to crush Rocca and stunted his progress, together with another knee accident.
After two difficult seasons, in 2001 Rocca was again on the podium, with second places in Aspen and Madonna di Campiglio. In January 2003, after another 2nd in the Sestriere slalom, Rocca finally won his first World Cup race on the Lauberhorn Run in Switzerland. In the 2004 season he obtained two victories at Chamonix and Flachau, and two bronze medals at his home World Championship in Bormio, in the slalom and the combined.
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