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They go to Slovenia and Austria medals' gold ski cross nell''ultima race of the World Championships of Freestyle and Snowboard 2015 in Kreischberg.
Tuesday 27 January 2015 9 minutes reading time
The twenty-five Austrian Andrea Limbacher triumphed in the women ahead of a final blow in the French veteran Ophelie David, and you & egrave; cos & Igrave; won his first world title in his career. The 'Austrian took the lead at the start of the route followed by the Swiss Fanny Smith, from David and the German Julia Eichinger. These positions remained unchanged until just before the end of the runway, when David took advantage of an error of Smith to overcome it and go to attack the first position of Limbacher. In the section of the final waves French & egrave; was pi & ugrave; Quick rival and has joined with the Teutonic Outside, a maneuver. The two athletes have cos & Igrave; crossed the line almost at par, and only the photo finish could ensure victory dell''Austriaca.
An extraordinary David, who compir & agrave; 39 years in July, & egrave; went one step away from his second world title in his career after the one won in Madonna di Campiglio in 2007, but it & egrave; had to settle dell''argento.
Bronze medal for the twenty-two Swiss Fanny Smith, who & egrave; been able to defend the world title won two years ago in Voss due dell''errore committed before entering the part of the track. The 'Swiss this season was already & agrave; took the podium, winning the third place in the World Cup race in Nakiska.
Very unfortunate two of the big favorites for medals, the Canadian Marielle Thompson and Georgia Simmerling. The Thompson, Olympic champion in office and winner of three races of the World Cup played in the season, it was presented in this World Championship as the 'athlete to beat, but a bad fall in the semifinals' has deprived of the opportunity agrave; to win the first world title of his career after the 'silver Voss two years ago. The Simmerling instead & egrave; was even more & ugrave; unfortunate, since it does not really take part in the competition due to an injury suffered in training just hours before the race dell''inizio.
In the men twenty-seven Slovenian Filip Flisar surprised everyone by winning a medal 'gold hardly predictable on the eve. There are some similarities between the victories of Limbacher and Flisar: neither of athletes before this race had never won a medal at the World Championships or Olympic Games, and for both the 'last major achievement was the podium Cup World got to Les Contamines the 12.01.2013.
In the men's final, in addition to the new world champion, also attended the Olympic champion and defending world champion Jean Frederic Chapuis, the winner of the World Cup ski cross 2013/14 Victor Oehling Norberg and surprise German Paul Eckert. Swedish Oehling Norberg took the lead right from the start, with French Chapuis in second position and Flisar and Eckert respectively in third and fourth place. This situation & egrave; remained unchanged, without major upheavals, until the section of the waves in the final part of the track, when the Scandinavian, which seemed to start to conquer the world title, he made a mistake coming exceeded both Flisar both Chapios. The French made overtaking Outside, while the Slovenian acquired a great speed & agrave; surpassing set within and cos & Igrave; passed both Oehling Norberg Chapuis is going to win the medal 'gold. Silver for Chapuis, definitely regretted not being able to defend his world title, but that has proved once again to be present when they arrive the races in which you assign the medals, very difficult thing in sports in general, but even more & ugrave ; in a specialty & agrave; unpredictable as the ski cross. Bronze for Oehling Norberg, on his first world medal in career. Fourth place for the twenty-four Eckert, who before this race had won his only career podium in a European Cup race last season. Both the men's final is in the female, the two Germans who arrived in fourth place remained in last place for the entire descent, never launch an attack decided to win the medal.
Even in the men several important athletes were eliminated due to falls: German Andreas Schauer, leader of the World Cup of specialty & agrave ;, & egrave; came out in the second round, while the Swiss Armin Niederer and the 'Austrian Thomas Zangerl have been involved in a nasty fall in the semifinals. The 'Austrian, because of injuries, salter & agrave; the next two stages of the World Cup.
Chapter Italy: the 'Blue only to qualify to the knockout stage, Marco Tomasi, you & egrave; ranked thirtieth; other Italian members, Diego Castellaz, Stefan Thanei and Francesco Mauriello, were eliminated in qualifying respectively with the thirty-fourth, fortieth and forty-first time.
This race ski cross & egrave; was a wonderful conclusion to this fifteenth edition of the World Championships of Freestyle, the first one you & egrave; been held together at the World Championships of Snowboarding. The freestyle ripartir & agrave; next weekend: in Lake Placid, United States, Thursday & Igrave; 29 will be held & agrave; a race of moguls, while Friday & Igrave; 30 and Saturday 31 there will be & agrave; a double date with World Cup aerials; & Nbsp; & Nbsp;
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