Stefano Sertorelli
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Stefano Sertorelli was an Italian
Italy
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 soldier and skier.

Sertorello was born in Bormio
Bormio
Bormio is a town and comune located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy region of the Alps in northern Italy. It has a population of 4,200...

, Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

 and was member of a skiing family. His brother Erminio was a successful cross-country skier, and his brother Giacinto
Giacinto Sertorelli
Giacinto "Cinto" Sertorelli was an Italian alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.In 1936 he finished seventh in the alpine skiing combined event....

, who died in an accident during a downhill race in 1938, was a successful alpine skier.

Stefano Sertorelli by himself served at the mountain warfare school of the Italian Army
Italian Army
The Italian Army is the ground defence force of the Italian Armed Forces. It is all-volunteer force of active-duty personnel, numbering 108,355 in 2010. Its best-known combat vehicles are the Dardo infantry fighting vehicle, the Centauro tank destroyer and the Ariete tank, and among its aircraft...

 called Scuola Militare di Alpinismo (today: Centro Addestramento Alpino), which was founded in 1934. He was a member of the national Olympic military patrol team
Military patrol at the 1936 Winter Olympics
At the 1936 Winter Olympics, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1936, a military patrol competition was held. The International Olympic Committee refused admission of this sport into the Olympic Program, but the expressed desires of Adolf Hitler forced the IOC to make this program a...

, which placed first at the 1936 Winter Olympics
1936 Winter Olympics
The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1936 in the market town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. Germany also hosted the Summer Olympics the same year in Berlin...

. Afterwards he preferred alpine skiing, took part in several national and international races and won several national championship titles. In the end of 1950 he founded together with the mountain guide and writer Lodovico Cusini the first skiing school of Livigno
Livigno
Livigno is a town and comune in the province of Sondrio, in the region of Lombardy, Italy, located in the Italian Alps.- Geography :Livigno is located 1,816 metres above sea level. Livigno's main river is called Aqua Granda or Spöl. Trepalle, a frazione in the municipality of Livigno, is...

under the name Scuola Sci Livitur.

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