fullname coach event club headercolor birth_place weight imagesize height sport birth_date nickname image article_title name
aaron march erich pramsohler alpine centro sportivo esercito # 57caf4 brixen , italy 77 kg lb 0 on 200px 1.86 0 on snowboarding 14 may 1986 '' the painter '' aaron march fis world cup parallel slalom jauerling 2012.jpg aaron march
 aaron march
aaron march

aaron march -lrb- born may 14 , 1986 in brixen -rrb- is an italian alpine snowboarder .
he represented his nation italy in two editions of the olympic games -lrb- 2010 and 2014 -rrb- , and eventually claimed a silver medal in parallel giant slalom at the 2013 winter universiade in the trentino and top ten finishes at the fis world cup series since his sporting debut in 2001 .
march nicknamed himself as `` the painter '' because of his love and passion on art and creativity ; thus he relates it to his respective sport , `` when i ride , i ride with imagination .
life can be rational but in the snow i can create and enjoy a new world .
i love the pop art of us artist andy warhol , its genius and recklessness .
he was an innovative artist who has broken the mould , as we have done with winter sports . ''
being a military soldier with the rank of a corporal , march also trains at centro sportivo esercito under his personal coach and mentor erich pramsohler .
march made his official debut as part of the italian squad at the 2010 winter olympics in vancouver , where he finished fifteenth in the men 's giant slalom , losing out to austria 's benjamin karl in a first knockout round by 2.27 seconds .
when his nation italy hosted the 2013 winter universiade in the trentino , march win a silver medal for his team in the same tournament , but he was defeated by austria 's sebastian kislinger in their final match .
at the 2014 winter olympics in sochi , march qualified for two alpine snowboarding events -lrb- including the first ever men 's parallel slalom -rrb- by finishing third from the fis world cup series in bad gastein , austria .
as part of his preparations for the olympics , march , together with his coach erich pramsohler and fellow snowboarders roland fischnaller and austrian siegfried grabner , cycled a 3,100-kilometre stretch from villnöß , italy , and passed through eight different countries on their sixteen-day voyage to sochi , russia .
in the men 's giant slalom , march was disqualified from the tournament after missing a gate on his second seeding run .
three days later , in the men 's slalom , march redeemed himself with a fourth-place finish in the small final race , but could not beat his former rival benjamin karl for the bronze medal by a wide 16-second margin .
