Alberto Tomba

Alberto Tomba (popularly called Tomba la Bomba) is a retired professional alpine skier of Italian nationality. He was born in Castel de Britti (San Lazzaro di Savena), Bologna, on December 19 1966 to Marco and Maria Grazia Tomba . He started doing various sports like tennis, soccer, dirt biking and above all skiing.

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Alpine skier - Italian - San Lazzaro di Savena - Bologna - December 19 - 1966 - Tennis - Soccer - Dirt biking - Skiing

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Tomba is the first of only two winter sports athletes in the world to have obtained 50 World Cup victories (he won 15 races in the giant slalom discipline and 35 in slalom). (The other athlete with 50 WC victories is biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen, still active as of the 2004/05 season.)

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Winter sports - Giant slalom - Slalom - Biathlete - Ole Einar Bjørndalen

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