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CESARE PISONI

Cesare Pisoni (born 1 July 1968 in Milan) is an Italian snowboarder.

He is the reigning Italian snowboard mountaineering champion (2023). Among his most significant victories are:

The podium of the Arctic Splitboard Challenge 2019: First Cesare Pisoni (ITA), Second Petter Brattli (NOR), Third Giancarlo Costa (ITA)

The Arctic Splitboard Challenge 2019 in Tromso in Norway

and the European Freeride Festival in Livigno in 2015.

He has 10 Italian titles and 3 general Italian Cups to his credit.

Biography

He lived in Valcanale, a hamlet of Ardesio, a tourist resort in the Val Seriana in the province of Bergamo until he started high school. He began practicing snowboarding in 1989 upon returning from military service and immediately after becoming an alpine ski instructor. In 1991 he took part in the first snowboard competitions and in the meantime he devoted himself to the study of this sport, obtaining in 1993 the diploma in Physical Education at the I.S.E.F. Lombardy University of Milan, in 1995 the specialist degree in Sciences and Techniques of Physical and Sporting Activities at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon (France) and in 2002 the second level master's degree in Training Methodology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Tor Vergata (Rome)

He was co-author and star of Dario Tubaldo's film Snowboard Alpinism.

He is the federal coach and technical director of the Italian national snowboard teams.

Cesare Pisoni at Corna Piana

National snowboard instructor, he takes care of both the training of the instructors and the coaches.

Skyrunner and good marathon runner, in this discipline he has a personal best of 2h 56', achieved in his first marathon held in Bergamo in October 2008.

Palmares

He was 10 times Italian mountaineering snowboard champion:

- on 18 February 2007 in Filettino (FR) on Monte Viglio

- on March 1st 2009 in Colere (BG) in the 2nd Baz Snow & Race Trophy

- on 31 January 2010 in Filettino (FR) on Mount Viglio

- on 27 February 2011 in Lizzola (BG) in the 4th Baz Snow & Race Trophy

- February 5, 2012 in Vetan in the 10th Vetan Classic

- on 15 February 2015 in Filettino on Monte Viglio

- on April 3, 2016 in Monte Pora (BG)

- on 19 March 2017 in Prali (TO)

- on 20 February 2022 in Filettino (FR) on Monte Viglio

- on 5 March 2023 in Filettino (FR) on Monte Viglio

He is currently the reigning Italian Champion having won the Absolute Italian Championship of Snowboard Mountaineering on 5 March in Filettino (FR)

In 2015, on Sunday 1 February at the European Freeride Festival in Livigno, he won the snowboard mountaineering competition valid as the first stage of the Italian Cup

He won 3 editions of the Italian Cup of Snowboard Alpinism General: the first edition in 2009, in 2010 and in 2012

ON April 27th 2019, in Tromso, Norway, he won the Arctic Splitboard Challenge, the most important Splitboarding competition in Europe

Books

In 1995 he published the book Snowboard. Snow Surfing published by Sperling & Kupfer. It is one of the first teaching manuals written in Italy on the subject.

Honours Golden Palm for Technical Merit — Rome, 19 December 2018. Note