René De Silvestro (; born 26 June 1996) is an Italian para alpine skier who competed at the

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and

2022 Winter Paralympics The 2022 Winter Paralympics (), commonly known as Beijing 2022 (), was an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China from 4 to 13 March 2022. This was the 13th Winter Paralympic Games, as administered by the Int ...

. He won a silver and bronze medal at the 2022 Winter Paralympics.

Career

Silvestro represented Italy at the

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jungSeo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olymp ...

and finished in seventh place in the slalom sitting event and eighth place in the

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

sitting event. He competed at the

2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships The 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships was an international disability sport competition held in Lillehammer, Norway from 8 to 23 January 2022. It was the inaugural edition of the World Para Snow Sports Championships with para-alpine skii ...

and won a gold medal in the super combined sitting event, and a bronze medal in the Super-G sitting event. He again competed at the

and won a silver medal in the

and a bronze medal in the slalom sitting events.

References

Living people 1996 births Italian male alpine skiers Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Italy Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing 21st-century Italian people {{Italy-Paralympic-medalist-stub