Matilde Lorenzi, Marco Degli Uomini and Matteo Franzoso: three talented young skiers dead in less than a year

That of Matteo Franzoso, who passed away in Chile after a disastrous fall, is the third tragic death of a young Italian skier in the space of not even a year.

Matilde Lorenzi passed away on Oct. 28, 2024, in Bolzano, Italy. The 19-year-old from Turin, considered a promise of Italian skiing, had fallen during a giant slalom training session on the Grawand slope in Val Senales.

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On March 9, 18-year-old Marco Degli Uomini, who was engaged on Mount Zoncolan as the opener of a SuperG race of the regional championships, Children category, died in a bed in Udine hospital. The’accident while warming up on a slope adjacent to the race track. A flight of tens of meters after a bump.

“What happened on the track brought us back to what happened to our Matilde. For us it was like going back to the abyss of those days. It is difficult to deal with this news. We hoped we would never have to comment on such misfortunes again. We wanted that after Mati no one would feel our pain. But after this accident, our commitment to promote safety in skiing will only grow,” Lorenzi’s dad, Adolfo, had said after learning about Matteo Franzoso’s accident.