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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
References
- 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
External links
- Simone Bertazzo at the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympics.com
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympic.org (archived)
- Simone Bertazzo at Olympedia