Francesco Vida
{{Short description|Italian military officer and skier}}
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Francesco Vida (11 September 1903 – 1 June 1985) was an Italian military officer and skier.
Biography
Vida, born in Gorizia,Umberto Pelazza: [http://www.ana.it/index.php?name=News&sid=6409&file=article&pageid=2 SMALP, ovvero la scuola dell’alpinismo militare]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, L'Alpino, January 28, 2009. joined the Bersaglieri corps of the Italian army in 1923. From 1925 to 1929 he attended the Military Academy of Modena, before he joined the Alpini corps, where he became skiing instructor in 1931 and in 1934 one of 92 military academic mountaineers (alpinista accademico militare) of the Scuola Militare di Alpinismo (SCMA; today: Centro Addestramento Alpino) in Aosta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vecio.it/cms/index.php/divisioni-e-brigate/213-scuola-militare-alpina |title=Scuola Militare di Aosta |access-date=2012-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032933/http://www.vecio.it/cms/index.php/divisioni-e-brigate/213-scuola-militare-alpina |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} In 1935, Lieutenant (Tenente) Vida, Ettore Schranz and Carlo Invernizzi placed second at the 3rd Trofeo Mezzalama competition. Vida, Ettore Schranz and Angelo Bonora formed the reserve military patrol team at the 1936 Winter Olympics, where the Italian competition team placed first.[http://www.gemeinde.innichen.bz.it/de/aktuelles/der-innichner.asp?&somepubl_action=300&somepubl_image_id=198787 Un prestigioso anniversario] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230233143/http://www.gemeinde.innichen.bz.it/de/aktuelles/der-innichner.asp?&somepubl_action=300&somepubl_image_id=198787 |date=2013-12-30 }}, Der Innichner N° 52, p. 72. During the closing ceremony of the event he was the standard-bearer of the Italian representation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20150406140045/http://www.sportmilitarealpino.it/site2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=53 Storia], Sportmilitarealpino.it At the fourth edition of the Trofeo Mezzalama in 1936, Vida, Sergeant Carlo Ronc and Sergeant Luigi Perenni, his team placed first. Later he became commander of the SCMA in the rank of a lieutenant colonel.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vecio.it/cms/index.php/divisioni-e-brigate/213-scuola-militare-alpina |title=Scuola Militare Alpina |access-date=2012-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032933/http://www.vecio.it/cms/index.php/divisioni-e-brigate/213-scuola-militare-alpina |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} Later he was advanced to general.Franco Fucci: [http://www.smalp91.com/storiasmalp.html Tratto da Storia Illustrata n°313 12/1983]
He died in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Publications
- Francesco Vida, [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4626049M/La_storia_dello_sci_in_Italia_%281896-1975%29 La storia dello sci in Italia (1896-1975)], Milano Sole, 1976
Awards
- International Emilio and Aldo De Martino Prize, 1972[http://www.premiodemartino.it/albodoro.html Albo d'oro sul sito ufficiale del premio]{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|it}}