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1974   1980
 
National Youth Games. The first friends and the first medal.   Finally, here is the first national cross-country skiing team. From the left: the team manager Claudio Migliorini, Antonella Bidinot, Manuela di Centa and the athletic coach Alberto Berto.
     
1981   1982
 
The work begins and also the will for an ever increasing performance.   Ready to start for the Ladies 5km’ classical in Murao, Austria, World Juniors Championships.
     
1982   1982
 
First experience around the world. Here the World Juniors Championships, silver medal in Austria   The first medal won by a woman in the Cross-country skiing, which will include me right in the Olympus of the Norwegian cross-country skiing, Oslo 1982, where I would have surprisingly arrived eight.
     
1982   1984
 
Oslo 1982.The first moments before the competition together with the coach of the men team Ville Sadeharju.   My first Olympic Games in Yougoslavian land, Sarajevo.
     
1988   1989
 
My first podium in the Worlds Cup, silver medal in East Germany, Klinghental.   An historical fourth place in the World Championships in Lahti, Finland, first Italian woman in this position.
     
1991   1991
 
Italy, World Championships in the Fiemme Valley. Bronze medal in the Ladies’5km classical.   The enormous responsibility of skiing in your home country and reaching for the podium.
     
1991   1991
 
Satisfaction shared with the top FISI manager, gen. Carlo Valentino, who always believed in me and all the ladies of the cross-country skiing.   Determination and passion in the group competition, the relay, which gave us the first world medal of the Ladies Cross-country skiing.
     
1991   1991
 
Joy and emotions shared with the spectators that I always felt very close to me.   Our historical podium. From the left Manuela, Stefania Belmondo, Gabriella Paruzzi and Bice Vanzetta.
     
1991   1992
 
The three medals won the Fiemme Valley (o Val di Fiemme), two bronze and a silver.   The most difficult Olympic Games in Albertville (France) and the illness to the thyroid.During those days I did not know if I could continue my agonistic career.
     

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