Cristian Zorzi

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold	2006 Turin	4 x 10 km
Silver	2002 Salt Lake City	4 x 10 km
Bronze	2002 Salt Lake City	Individual sprint
World Championships
Silver	2001 Lahti	Individual sprint

Cristian Zorzi (born August 14, 1972, Cavalese, province of Trento) is an Italian cross country skier who excels at sprint ski races. He is nicknamed Zorro, for his exuberant character.

Cristain's first major success was at the 2000 Cross Country Skiing World Cup, where he finished in second place. He won the silver medal in the 1.5 km individual sprint at the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he won a silver medal in the 4 x 10 km and a bronze in the individual sprint.

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he was the anchor on the 4 x 10 km team that would win gold in those games.

He has also finished 2nd in the 2000-1 sprint World Cup, then followed it up with a 3rd the following season.

[edit] External links

• Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali profile (Italian)
• FIS profile

Olympic champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay

1936 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen 1948 Sweden Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström 1952 Finland Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä 1956 Soviet Union Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolai Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin 1960 Finland Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen 1964 Sweden Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund 1968 Norway Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter 1972 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin 1976 Finland Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto 1980 Soviet Union Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeniy Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov 1984 Sweden Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan 1988 Sweden Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren 1992 Norway Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie 1994 Italy Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner 1998 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 2002 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard 2006 Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi