Daniele Molmenti


Daniele Cristoforo Molmenti is an Italian slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2016.

Career

On [|1] August 2012, his 28th birthday, he won the gold medal in the K1 event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Molmenti also finished tenth in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Molmenti won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds, two silvers, and two bronzes.
Molmenti is also the European Champion from 2009, 2011 and 2012. He also has [|2] silver and [|3] bronze medals from the European Championships. In 2010 he won the overall World Cup title in K1.
Molmenti announced his retirement from the sport in 2017, when he became the technical director of the Italian national team.

World Cup individual podiums

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent
200430 May 2004Merano1stK1
200510 Jul 2005Athens2ndK1
200524 Jul 2005La Seu d'Urgell1stK1
200628 May 2006Athens1stK1
20091 Feb 2009Mangahao2ndK11
20095 Jul 2009Bratislava2ndK1
200911 Jul 2009Augsburg3rdK1
20093 Aug 2009Kananaskis1stK12
201021 Feb 2010Penrith1stK13
201020 Jun 2010Prague1stK1
201027 Jun 2010La Seu d'Urgell1stK1
201113 Aug 2011Prague2ndK1
20164 Jun 2016Ivrea2ndK1

Other activities

In 2016, he was one of the Italian celebrities lending their support to the Green Cross campaign for World Water Day.