Somebody ask me, ‘Alberto, why you not race in Torino?’ I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.
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Birth: | 19th December, 1966 |
Nationality: | Italian |
Profession: | Ski Racer |
Alberto Tomba is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier in the late 1980s and 1990s. Tomba won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championships, and nine World Cup season titles; four in slalom, four in giant slalom, and one overall title. He was popularly called Tomba la Bomba Tomba the Bomb. His first podium came the following season in Alta Badia, Italy in December 1986, and later that winter he won bronze in the giant slalom at the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
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