Simone Bertazzo
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Simone Bertazzo (born 19 August 1982) is a retired Italian bobsledder and current bobsled coach who has competed since 2001. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.
Bertazzo also competed in two Winter Olympics, earning his best finish of tied for ninth in the four-man event at Vancouver in 2010.
In July 2018, he announced that he would retire from competition after the 2019 World Championships in Whistler,[1] and the following November he was chosen to join fellow German Manuel Machata as the new head coach of the Italian national bobsled team.[2]
References
[edit]- Simone Bertazzo at the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 September 2018)
- Yahoo! Sports profile for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 10 January 2007)
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931 at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
- ↑ "Bobsleigh pilot Simone Bertazzo ends his career". ibsf.org. IBSF. 16 July 2018. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018.
- ↑ "Bobsleigh World Champion Manuel Machata head coach of Italian Team". ibsf.org. IBSF. 7 November 2018. Archived from the original on 8 December 2018.
External links
[edit]- Simone Bertazzo at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympics.com
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympic.org (archived)
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympedia
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- 1982 births
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- Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Italian male bobsledders
- Living people
- Olympic bobsledders for Italy
- Bobsledders of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
- 21st-century Italian sportsmen
- Sportspeople from Pieve di Cadore
- Italian bobsleigh biography stubs