Giorgio Di Centa

Giorgio Di Centa, born on 7 October 1972 in Tolmezzo in the Province of Udine, is an Italian former cross-country skier who won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. One of them came in the individual 50 km freestyle, where he beat the Russian Eugeni Dementiev by 0.8 seconds, the closest 50 km race in Olympic history; the other came in the 4 x 10 km relay with the strongest Italian relay team ever. He had earlier taken a silver medal in the relay at the 2002 Winter Olympics, a silver in the double pursuit at the 2005 world championships and a bronze in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit at the 2009 world championships. He is the younger brother of Olympic gold medalist Manuela Di Centa, and he retired in 2015 at the age of 42.