Daniele Molmenti

Daniele Cristoforo Molmenti (born 1 August 1984 in Pordenone) is an Italian slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1999 to 2016.

Career On 1 August 2012, his 28th birthday, he won the gold medal in the K1 event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Molmenti also finished tenth in the K1 event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Molmenti won six medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K1: 2010, K1 team: 2013), two silvers (K1 team: 2005, 2006), and two bronzes (K1 team: 2010, 2011).

Molmenti is also the European Champion from 2009, 2011 and 2012. He also has 2 silver and 3 bronze medals from the European Championships. In 2010 he won the overall World Cup title in K1.

He announced his retirement from the sport in 2017, when he became the technical director of the Italian national team.

World Cup individual podiums Total K1 7 5 1 13

SeasonDateVenuePositionEvent 2004 30 May 2004 Merano 1st K1 2005 10 July 2005 Athens 2nd K1 24 July 2005 La Seu d'Urgell 1st K1 2006 28 May 2006 Athens 1st K1 2009 1 February 2009 Mangahao 2nd K11 5 July 2009 Bratislava 2nd K1 11 July 2009 Augsburg 3rd K1 3 August 2009 Kananaskis 1st K12 2010 21 February 2010 Penrith 1st K13 20 June 2010 Prague 1st K1 27 June 2010 La Seu d'Urgell 1st K1 2011 13 August 2011 Prague 2nd K1 2016 4 June 2016 Ivrea 2nd K1

1 Oceania Championship counting for World Cup points 2 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points 3 Oceania Canoe Slalom Open counting for World Cup points

Other activities In 2016, he was one of the Italian celebrities lending their support to the Green Cross campaign for World Water Day.