Corrado Hérin
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| Full name | Corrado Hérin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Turbo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 August 1966 Pollein, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain bike and luge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Corrado Hérin (born August 4, 1966) is an Italian luger.
Biography
Originally from Pollein, Aosta Valley, he competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. A natural track luger, he won four medals at the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships with two gold in the doubles (1986, 1992) and two silvers at the 1990 event (singles, doubles).
Hérin also won three medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships with one gold (1993) and two silvers (1985, 1987).
Hérin was involved with mountain biking during his career in luge during the 1990s, winning a bronze medal in the downhill event at the 1994 World Mountain Biking Championships in Vail, Colorado. He remained active in mountain biking from 1997 to 2002 after retiring from luge.
He won the UCI mountain bike Downhill World cup in 1997 racing for Sintesi Verlicchi team. In 2016 he returned to racing at the age of 50 and won the Mountain Bike Downhill Masters World Championships in Val Di Sole, Italy.
References
- Natural track European Championships results 1970–2006.
- Natural track World Championships results: 1979–2007
External links
- Official website Template:En icon, Template:Fr icon & Template:It icon
- Corrado Hérin at Cycling Archives
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