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With 50 wins and 88 podium finishes in the World Cup, eight crystal globes and one overall title, two world titles, and three gold and two silver medals at the Olympic Games, Alberto Tomba is the greatest Italian Alpine skier of all time and an unforgettable champion, a real star who made a lasting mark on his own sport and far beyond.
Alberto TOMBA. Team Italy. Alpine Skiing. Olympic Medals. 3 G. 2 S. Games Participations 4. First Olympic Games Calgary 1988. Year of Birth 1966. Olympic Results. Biography. Alberto Tomba was a charismatic sportsman who became the first Alpine skier to win medals at three Olympic Winter Games.
Oct 5, 1998 · Oct. 5, 1998. Winter will seem longer and grayer this year. Alberto Tomba has retired, and skiing is hardly the better for it. He was not the most successful men's alpine skier in history:...
Aug 23, 2018·Alpine Skiing. Born in San Lazzaro di Savena, Italy, on Dec. 19th, 1966, Alberto Tomba raised in Castel de Britti, an area without solid alpine skiing traditions, but not far from the Apennine Mountains. The son of a wealthy businessman in the textile industry burst onto the scene in 1984, when he beat every member of the A team ...
Tomba made a sensational Olympic debut at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games, winning both the giant slalom and the slalom. Four years later at the ... 1992 Albertville Winter Games, he successfully defended his giant slalom title to become the first Alpine skier in Olympic history to win the same event twice.
Oct 9, 2020 · Alberto Tomba named FISI Athlete of the Century. Oct 09, 2020·Alpine Skiing. For several weeks, the FISI, in cooperation with the Gazzetta dello Sport, voted for Italy’s winter sportsman of the century. Now the results are out: Alberto Tomba won the election with 61% of the votes.
An Olympic gold medalist in the slalom and giant slalom in 1988, Italy’s Alberto Tomba succesfully defended his giant slalom title in 1992 when he also took the silver medal in the slalom. At his third Winter Games in 1994 he placed second in the slalom giving him a total of five Olympic medals.
