Ubaldo Ranzi
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| National team | Italy (athletics): 6 caps (1993-1996)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 July 1970 Templecombe, Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics Bobsleigh | |||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Combined events (athletics) Two-man bob (bobsleigh) | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Fiamme Azzurre | |||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1999 (athletics) | |||||||||||||||||
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Ubaldo Ranzi (18 July 1970) is a former Italian decathlete and bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
Biography
Born in England to an Italian father and a British mother, he won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo and won a silver medal (with Gunther Huber), in 2000 always in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
Before starting his bobsleigh career he collected 6 caps in Italy national athletics team from 1993 to 1996.[2] Ranzi held the fourth performance of all-time of Italy in the speciality of the decathlon.[3]
Doping
An anti-doping test done at the end of the season, September 1998, during the Italian championships, confirmed the presence of Salbutamol (Ventolin) in the athlete's urine, also confirmed by the counter-analysis. Ubaldo Ranzi, suffering from asthma since birth, was treated and authorized by the federation and CONI to use Ventolin, therefore always declared, in the numerous anti-doping tests to which he was subjected. The case opened on August 3, 1999 was then archived in September 1999. Confirming the correctness and transparency of the whole athlete's sporting career. https://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it//1999/agosto/04/Ranzi_positivo_non_colpevole_ga_0_990804374.shtml https://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it//1999/settembre/16/Ranzi_caso_archiviato_ga_0_9909165069.shtml
National titles
- Athletics
Ubaldo Ranzi has won several times the individual national championship.[4]
- 1 win in the decathlon (1993)
See also
References
- ^ "Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
- ^ "LISTE ITALIANE ALL TIME" (PDF) (in Italian). fidal.it. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
External links
- Ubaldo Ranzi at World Athletics
- Ubaldo Ranzi at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)