Alessandro Roberto (born 22 May 1977) is an Italian former alpine skier who completed predominantly in the

Giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

discipline between 1995 and 2009.

Career

He began to compete in

International Ski Federation The ''Fédération internationale de ski et de snowboard'' (FIS; en, International Ski and Snowboard Federation) is the highest international governing body for skiing and snowboarding. Founded on 2 February 1924 in Chamonix, France during the ...

sanctioned events in 1995. He competed at the 2001 FIS World Alpine Ski Championships finishing in 13th position in the Giant slalom. Roberto went on to qualify for the

2002 Winter Olympics The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002 ( arp, Niico'ooowu' 2002; Gosiute Shoshoni: ''Tit'-so-pi 2002''; nv, Sooléí 2002; Shoshoni: ''Soónkahni 2002''), was an internation ...

. There he finished in 22nd position in the Giant slalom. He continued to ski competitively until 2009.

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* 1977 births Living people Italian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of Italy Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Italian alpine skiing coaches {{italy-alpine-skiing-bio-stub