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Elena Fanchini (born 30 April 1985) 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.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Cancer
• 3 World Cup results
  • 3.1 Season standings
  • 3.2 Race podiums
• 4 World Championship results
• 5 Olympic results
• 6 National *les
• 7 References
• 8 External links

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

• Standings through 4 February 2018

Race podiums

• 2 wins – (2 DH)
• 4 podiums – (4 DH)

World Championship results

Fanchini at the World Cup in 2017

Olympic results

National *les

Elena Fanchini has won 7 national *les.

• Italian Alpine Ski Championships
  • Downhill: 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 (7)

References

External links

• Elena Fanchini at FIS (alpine)
• Elena Fanchini at Olympedia
• Official website (in Italian) (Fanchini Sisters)