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The third most successful Italian giant player ever crosses an important milestone. That specialty cup, the world medals and the special farewell to Lenzerheide in 2014 ...
Sunday 16 August 2020 4 minutes reading time
They called her the fairy of Castelrotto, so tiny and at the same time capable of taming the most difficult slopes in the world, she who with her sublime technique made the difference in the most difficult sections.
Suffice it to say that the first of his six World Cup successes arrived on the toughest track in the world also for the men's sector, the Gran Risa which on 13 December 2003 also hosted the women's sector in Alta Badia.
Denise Karbon today crosses the milestone of 40 years: born on August 16, 1980, the South Tyrolean gigantist has lived an intense career, from every point of view if we think that since her debut in the CdM in the 1998 giant of Bormio, at only 17 years , until the wonderful party dedicated to her in the arrival parterre of Lenzerheide, on March 16, 2014 at the end of the giant of the World Cup finals run by Denise in traditional clothes, with dirndl and a basket to distribute sweets to all those who they were waiting on the track, she had to go through a thousand injuries, disappointments and also immense joys.
The third most successful Italian gigantist ever after Compagnoni and Brignone, Karbon has always been able to exalt herself in the big events, even though she has not obtained Olympic medals since her best years have never coincided with the Games. The junior world title in Pra Loup ''99, obviously in giant, preceded the silver at the World Championships in Sankt Moritz 2003, beaten only by Anja Paerson, and the bronze in Are 2007. Let's also think about Val d''Isère 2009, when the blue finished in 4th place both in giant and slalom, in the latter case mocked for a single cent by Tanja Poutiainen for the bronze.
His magical year, 2007/08, came after almost four years of fasting from victories and the terrible injury of 2004, with the broken cruciate and tibial plateau of the left knee, just one of the thousand problems that have characterized a real career special, which saw Denise obtain her last triumph in CdM on January 26, 2008 in the giant of Ofterschwang, winning with a fractured thumb of her hand and celebrating the specialty crystal ball well in advance, the second in Italy eleven years later Deborah Compagnoni and twelve before Federica Brignone.
Greetings, champion!
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