Daniele Molmenti

Daniele Cristoforo Molmenti 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 [Canoeing at the 2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships|2012 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom K-1|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, two silvers, and two bronzes.
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. Molmenti finished the 2010 and 2011 seasons as the World No. 1 in the K1 event.
He announced his retirement from the sport in 2017, when he became the technical director of the Italian national team.

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