Renato Pasini

Renato Pasini at Tour de Ski in Prague, 2007

Born

31 July 1977

Medal record

World Championships
	2007 Sapporo	Team sprint

Renato Pasini (born 31 July 1977) is an Italian cross country skier who has been competing since 1996. He won the gold medal in the team sprint (with Cristian Zorzi) at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo. Pasini also has seven individual victories at various levels all in sprint since 2002.

Competing in two Winter Olympics, his best finish at the Winter Olympics was 18th in the individual sprint at Turin in 2006.

He has also finished 2nd in the 2008-2009 sprint World Cup.

Pasini competes also in ski mountaineering events, amongst others in the Trofeo Mezzalama race, in which he finished 6th in 2001, together with Luciano Fontana and Ivano Molin,^[1] and 10th together with his brother Fabio Pasini and Daniele Chioda in 2009.^[2]

References

World champions in men's team sprint cross-country

2005: Norway (Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland) 2007: Italy (Renato Pasini and Cristian Zorzi) 2009: Norway (Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjølstad) 2011: Canada (Devon Kershaw and Alex Harvey) 2013: Russia (Alexei Petukhov and Nikita Kriukov) 2015: Norway (Finn Hågen Krogh and Petter Northug)

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