Simone Bertazzo (born 19 August 1982) is a retired
Italian
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bobsled
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der and current bobsled coach who has competed since 2001. He won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the
2007 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz.
Bertazzo also competed in two
Winter Olympics
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, earning his best finish of tied for ninth in the four-man event at
Vancouver
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in
2010
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In July 2018, he announced that he would retire from competition after the 2019 World Championships in Whistler, and the following November he was chosen to join fellow German Manuel Machata as the new head coach of the Italian national bobsled team.
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1982 births
Bobsledders at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Italian male bobsledders
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for Italy
Bobsledders of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
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