Francesca Canepa

Francesca Canepa is an Italian athlete, born on 14 September 1971, who first competed internationally as a snowboarder and then turned to the mountains as an ultrarunner. In the 1997-98 season her best result in the FIS Snowboard World Cup was eighth place in the parallel slalom at Sestriere. In 2010, at the age of 40, she became a skyrunner and trail runner, and her best international results came in skyrunning, where she won three Skyrunner World Series races and appears in the final rankings of the 2017 Ultra category. Her listed race results include the Tor des Geants, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, the Lavaredo Ultra Trail, the Hong Kong 100, the Transgrancanaria and the 100 Miles of Istria, mostly between 2012 and 2018.