Personal information | |
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Born | Cles, Italy [1] | 14 December 1996
Occupation | Alpine skier ♂ |
Height | 170 cm (5 ft 7 in) (2018) [2] |
Skiing career | |
Disciplines | Giant slalom, slalom |
Olympics | |
Teams | 2 – (2018, 2022) |
Nicola Zanon is an Italian-Thai alpine skier who competed for Thailand at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Zanon was born on 14 December 1996 [3] to an Italian father and a Thai mother and grew up in Val di Rabbi in Trentino. [4] He started skiing at age eight at the Madonna di Campiglio. [3]
He previously attempted to qualify for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia but failed, leading to his retirement and to work as a woodworker with his father. However, he came out of retirement when the Ski and Snowboard Association of Thailand in February 2017 offered him a chance to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics for the Southeast Asian nation. He participated in races in Argentina, Chile, and Italy to qualify for the Olympics. [4]
Before he participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he trained at the Piste Azzurre in Val di Fassa under coach Stefano Vampa. [4] In the men's giant slalom event held on 18 February he did not finish in the first run. [3]
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