Biography

He took up skeleton at the end of 2009 after cartilage problems in his knees prevented him from skiing. From a very young age, he began to write history, becoming the second most successful Italian skeleton athlete ever after Nino Bibbia (gold in St. Moritz 1948), thanks to the bronze medal won at the 2016 Junior World Championships in Winterberg—the discipline’s first Italian youth podium. Headfirst, he chased the world and in 2020 produced another landmark moment with world bronze in the mixed team in Altenberg alongside Valentina Margaglio (Italy’s first medal at a senior World Championship in this sport). He has a sister, Giulia, a former Italy representative in parallel snowboarding, and describes himself as a “fake winter athlete” because he also loves the sea and surfing. A home Olympics is every athlete’s ultimate dream, but for him—who lives in Cortina, with the Olympic track just a few hundred metres from home—even more so.