Daniele Molmenti
Italian slalom canoeist
Daniele Molmenti
Full name Daniele Cristoforo Molmenti Nickname Cali Born (1984-08-01 ) 1 August 1984 (age 40) Pordenone , ItalyHeight 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Weight 69 kg (152 lb) Country Italy Sport Canoe slalom Event K1 Club G.S. Forestale Highest world ranking No. 1 (2010-11, K1)
Daniele Cristoforo Molmenti (born 1 August 1984 in Pordenone )[ 1] is an Italian slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2016.
Career
On 1 August 2012, his 28th birthday, he won the gold medal in the K1 event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London .[ 2] Molmenti also finished tenth in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing .
Molmenti won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K1: 2010 , K1 team: 2013 ), two silvers (K1 team: 2005 , 2006 ), and two bronzes (K1 team: 2010, 2011 ).[ 3]
Molmenti is also the European Champion from 2009 , 2011 and 2012 . He also has 2 silver and 3 bronze medals from the European Championships. In 2010 he won the overall World Cup title in K1.[ 3] Molmenti finished the 2010 and 2011 seasons as the World No. 1 in the K1 event.[ 4]
He announced his retirement from the sport in 2017, when he became the technical director of the Italian national team.[ 5]
World Cup individual podiums
1 Oceania Championship counting for World Cup points
2 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points
3 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points
Other activities
In 2016, he was one of the Italian celebrities lending their support to the Green Cross campaign for World Water Day .[ 6]
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1949 (folding): Switzerland (Werner Zimmermann , Jean Engler & Eduard Kunz )
1951 (folding): Austria (Hans Frühwirth , Rudolf Pillwein & Othmar Eiterer )
1953 (folding): Austria (Franz Grafetsberger , Hans Herbist & Rudolf Sausgruber )
1955 (folding): West Germany (Manfred Vogt , Sigi Holzbauer & Alois Würfmannsdobler )
1957 (folding): East Germany (Heinz Bielig , Eberhard Gläser & Reinhard Sens )
1959 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser , Heinz Bielig & Günther Möbius )
1961 (folding): East Germany (Horst Wängler , Eberhard Gläser & Roland Hahnebach )
1963 (folding): East Germany (Eberhard Gläser , Rolf Luber & Fritz Lange )
1965: West Germany (Manfred Vogt , Eugen Weimann & Horst Dieter Engelke )
1967: East Germany (Jürgen Bremer , Christian Döring & Volkmar Fleischer )
1969: France (Patrick Maccari , Claude Peschier & Alain Colombe )
1971: Austria (Kurt Presslmayr , Norbert Sattler & Hans Schlecht )
1973: East Germany (Wolfgang Büchner , Siegbert Horn & Christian Döring )
1975: West Germany (Ulrich Peters , Dieter Förstl & Bernd Dichtl )
1977: France (Jean-Yves Prigent , Bernard Renault & Christian Frossard )
1979: Great Britain (Richard Fox , Albert Kerr & Allan Edge )
1981: Great Britain (Richard Fox , Albert Kerr & Nicolas Wain )
1983: Great Britain (Richard Fox , Paul McConkey & Jim Dolan )
1985: West Germany (Peter Micheler , Toni Prijon & Jürgen Kübler )
1987: Great Britain (Richard Fox , Melvyn Jones & Russell Smith )
1989: Yugoslavia (Jernej Abramič , Marjan Štrukelj & Albin Čižman )
1991: France (Manuel Brissaud , Gilles Clouzeau & Jean-Michel Regnier )
1993: Great Britain (Richard Fox , Melvyn Jones & Shaun Pearce )
1995: Germany (Jochen Lettmann , Thomas Becker & Oliver Fix )
1997: Great Britain (Paul Ratcliffe , Ian Raspin , & Shaun Pearce )
1999: Germany (Thomas Becker , Ralf Schaberg & Jakobus Stenglein )
2002: Germany (Claus Suchanek , Thomas Becker & Thomas Schmidt )
2003: Switzerland (Thomas Mosimann , Mathias Röthenmund & Michael Kurt )
2005: France (Julien Billaut , Fabien Lefèvre & Benoît Peschier )
2006: France (Fabien Lefèvre , Julien Billaut & Boris Neveu )
2007: Germany (Fabian Dörfler , Alexander Grimm & Erik Pfannmöller )
2009: Czech Republic (Ivan Pišvejc , Vavřinec Hradilek & Michal Buchtel )
2010: Germany (Alexander Grimm , Fabian Dörfler & Hannes Aigner )
2011: Germany (Sebastian Schubert , Hannes Aigner & Alexander Grimm )
2013: Italy (Daniele Molmenti , Andrea Romeo & Giovanni De Gennaro )
2014: France (Mathieu Biazizzo , Sébastien Combot & Boris Neveu )
2015: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec , Vavřinec Hradilek & Ondřej Tunka )
2017: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec , Ondřej Tunka & Vít Přindiš )
2018: Great Britain (Joseph Clarke , Bradley Forbes-Cryans & Christopher Bowers )
2019: Spain (David Llorente , Samuel Hernanz & Joan Crespo )
2021: France (Boris Neveu , Mathieu Biazizzo & Benjamin Renia )
2022: Germany (Hannes Aigner , Noah Hegge & Stefan Hengst )
2023: Czech Republic (Jiří Prskavec , Vít Přindiš & Jakub Krejčí )
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