Zeno Colò was a champion alpine ski racer

Alpine skiing

Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

 from Italy

Italy

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, born in Abetone

Abetone

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, Tuscany

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. He was among the top ski racers of the late 1940s and early 1950s.

At the 1950 World Championships

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950

The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1950 were held February 13-18, 1950, on Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.These were the first World Championships held outside of Europe, and the first official world championships since 1939...

 in Aspen

Aspen Mountain (ski area)

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, Colorado

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, he won the gold medal in both downhill

Downhill

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 and giant slalom

Giant Slalom skiing

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, and the silver in slalom

Slalom skiing

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. Two years later, at the 1952 Olympics

Alpine skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics

At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, the six alpine skiing events were held from Thursday, February 14 to Wednesday, February 20, 1952.The giant slalom made its Olympic debut, and the combined event was dropped as an Olympic medal event for four decades, until 1988...

 in Oslo, he won gold in the downhill.

He won the Lauberhorn

Lauberhorn

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 downhill in Wengen

Wengen

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 in 1948, and took the slalom title there in 1949 and 1950.

Zeno Colò died in 1993 at age 72 in San Marcello Pistoiese

San Marcello Pistoiese

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, Italy

Italy

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