Ubaldo Ranzi

Personal information
National team	Italy (athletics): 6 caps (1993-1996)[1]
Born	(1970-07-18) July 18, 1970 (age 53) Templecombe, Great Britain
Sport
Sport	Athletics Bobsleigh
Event(s)	Combined events (athletics) Two-man bob (bobsleigh)
Club	G.S. Fiamme Azzurre
Retired	1999 (athletics)
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Decathlon: 7,930 pt (1996)
Medal record Bobsleigh World Championships 1999 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man European Championships 2000 Cortina d'Ampezzo Two-man

Ubaldo Ranzi (18 July 1970) is a former Italian decathlete and bobsledder who competed in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Biography

Born in England to an Italian father and a British mother, he won a gold medal in the two-man event at the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo and won a silver medal (with Gunther Huber), in 2000 always in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Before starting his bobsleigh career he collected 6 caps in Italy national athletics team from 1993 to 1996.^[2] Ranzi held the fourth performance of all-time of Italy in the speciality of the decathlon.^[3]

Doping In 1998 Ranzi was found positive, Salbutamol, substance contained in Ventolin, used by asthmatics, as he was, at the Italian athletics championships. Ubaldo was allowed to use Ventolin being treated by the medical division of the athletic federation. The case, few days after being published by the italian national press (3rd of august 1999), was, by the same national press, DROPPED (16 September 1999). case: web|url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1999/agosto/03/decathleta_Ranzi_trovato_positivo_giallo_ga_0_990803610.shtml%7Ctitle=Il decathleta Ranzi trovato positivo. E' un giallo il suo oro iridato del bob|publisher=gazzetta.it|language=it|date=3 August 1999|access-date=9 April 2021))</ref> case DROPPED: http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it//1999/settembre/16/Ranzi_caso_archiviato_ga_0_9909165069.shtml

National titles

Athletics

Ubaldo Ranzi has won several time the individual national championship.^[4]