page_title: Sport in Italy
section_title: Skiing
hierarchical_section_title: Sport in Italy / Popular sports / Skiing
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Bormio, 18 marzo 1995. Al termine della vittoriosa prova di slalom gigante, lo sciatore italiano Alberto Tomba solleva la Coppa di cristallo dopo la conquista della classifica assoluta della Coppa del Mondo di sci alpino 1995. Licensing 1995 03 18
context_page_description: Sport in Italy has a long tradition. In several sports, both individual and team, Italy has good representation and many successes. Football is the most popular sport in Italy. Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and is currently the second most successful football team in World Cup history, after Brazil, having won four FIFA World Cup championships.
  Basketball, volleyball, and cycling are the next most popular/played sports, with Italy having a rich tradition in all three. Italy also has strong traditions in swimming, water polo, rugby union, tennis, athletics, fencing and Formula One.
context_section_description: Alpine skiing or ski (sci) is a very popular sport in Italy, with more than 2,000,000 skiers, most of them in the northern regions near the Alps and in the central provinces near the Apennine Mountains. Italian skiers have achieved good results in the Winter Olympic Games, World Cup, and World Championship, most notably Zeno Colò, Gustavo Thoeni, who won 4 Overall World Cups between 1970 and 1975; Piero Gros, who was Overall World Cup champion in 1974, and Alberto Tomba who won the Overall World Cup in 1995. Tomba, Deborah Compagnoni, and Isolde Kostner received many medals in different editions of the Winter Olympic Games. Giorgio Rocca and Manfred Mölgg won the Slalom World Cup in 2006 and 2008 respectively, whilst Giuliano Razzoli was Olympic slalom champion in 2010.
  Cross-country skiing is popular in northern Italy, with the likes of Stefania Belmondo, Manuela Di Centa, Franco Nones, Marco Albarello, Silvio Fauner, Giorgio Vanzetta, Giorgio Di Centa and Federico Pellegrino.
caption: Alberto Tomba, one of the most successful alpine ski racers of all time.
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