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During the 2007-2008 season, Cologna finished in the top ten four times and placed 37th overall.
During the 2007-2008 season, Cologna finished in the top ten four times and placed 37th overall.
He has three overall World Cup victories, three Olympic gold medals, one World Championships gold medal and three Tour de Ski victories in his career so far. Cologna debuted in the FIS Cross-Country World Cup in Kuusamo in November 2006, and took his first points in Falun in March 2007. In December 2008, Cologna took his first world cup podium finish with a second place in the 30-kilometre competition in Louisiana Clusaz.
He finished the 2009-2010 FIS Cross-Country World Cup fourth, winning a race and taking other two podiums.
He also came in third in the 2009-2010 Tour de Ski. He finished more than a minute ahead of everyone else, with Marcus Hellner being second and Petter Northug third.
He also snatched the yellow jersey becoming world northern 1 in the 2011-2012 FIS Cross-Country World Cup as of January 8, 2012.
Individual victories
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Updated on 18 March 2013.
He went on to win the 2008-2009 Tour de Ski in January 2009, finishing the final event almost a minute ahead of runner-up Petter Northug. Cologna also won the overall 2008-2009 World Cup with more than 100 points in front of the second place after placing 2 times first and other 3 times on the podium. In the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics he won the gold medal in the men"s 15km freestyle event. Cologna is the first Swiss to win a cross-country skiing gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Cologna won the 2010-2011 FIS Cross-Country World Cup with more than 300 points ahead of Petter Northug, who came second. In this season he won four races and took other six podiums, winning the 2010-2011 Tour de Ski with 27 seconds ahead of Northug. During the 2011-2012 FIS Cross-Country World Cup season, Cologna won three races and took seven additional podium positions. On January 8, 2012 Cologna took his third Tour de Ski win in Val di Fiemme, winning the 2011-2012 Tour de Ski. With this performance, Cologna won his third Tour de Ski overall win, being the only male athlete to ever have done southern At the World Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme Cologna won the 30 km pursuit. He won the 30 km skiathlon at the Sochi Olympics.
Later in the games he successfully defended his title from the Vancouver Olympics in the 15 km race.
