Denise Karbon (born 16 August 1980) is a retired

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

alpine ski racer Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

from

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. She competed in the technical events and specialized in

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

Biography

Born in

Brixen Brixen (; , ; or , ) is a town and communes of Italy, commune in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located about north of Bolzano. Geography Brixen is the third-largest city and oldest town in the province, with a population of nearly twenty-three t ...

, Karbon made her World Cup debut in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

at age 17, while the following year she was Junior World Champion. She won a total of six World Cup giant slaloms: in December

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at Alta Badia and five of the first six races in the

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season. She obtained ten other podiums for a total of sixteen. Karbon won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships in giant slalom, followed by a bronze in

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in the same discipline. In the 2008 season, Karbon won 5 of the 7 giant slalom races (and took third in another) to win the GS season title with 592 points, 113 points ahead of runner-up

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. She finished tenth in the overall standings. At age 33, Karbon retired in March

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, after the World Cup finals in

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Personal

Karbon is the niece of Norbert Rier, leader of the

Kastelruther Spatzen The Kastelruther Spatzen (German for Kastelruth sparrows) are a musical group from South Tyrol, northern Italy, who have won many honours and awards for their schlager in folk music style. Members The Kastelruther Spatzen were formed in 1976 by ...

, and the cousin of fellow alpine ski racer

Peter Fill Peter Fill (born 12 November 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northern Italy. Born in Brixen, South Tyrol, he formerly competed in all disciplines, and later focused on the speed events of downhill, super-G, and combined. Fil ...

World Cup results

Season titles

Season standings

Race podiums

* 6 wins – (6 GS) * 16 podiums – (16 GS)

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

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– personal website – '
Fischer Skis
– athletes – Denise Karbon {{DEFAULTSORT:Karbon, Denise 1980 births Italian female alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic alpine skiers for Italy FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Alpine skiers of Fiamme Gialle Ladin people Skiers from Brixen Living people 21st-century Italian sportswomen