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Although the weather conditions were not the best, you & egrave; regularly held on the two days of races scheduled in the resort & agrave; Watles in the Vinschgau Valley, which has so & Igrave; It made its debut set within the World Cup ski cross. & Nbsp;
Tuesday 19 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
South Tyrol on the track should have been originally carry a race on the weekend of 9 and 10 January, but due to lack of snow the 'organization had decided to forfeit the re-programming competitions for the following weekend at the French circuit of La Plagne. Subsequently also the stage transalpine & egrave; It was canceled, and at that point & egrave; It was agreed to play both races just Watles the same dates, namely those of the weekend of 16 and 17 January.
On Saturday, the circuit's World Cup ski cross & egrave; finally broken after four weeks out, and in a day conditioned by the wind wins went to the usual Jean-Fr & egrave; d & egrave; ric Chapuis among men and among women Anna Holmlund
The transalpine claimed victory in a triumphant day for the French team, which occupied all three steps of the podium, as also happened during the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. Cos & Igrave; as a huge success two years ago, the winner & egrave; always Chapuis, who redeemed as well as possible the bad qualifying, in which he was classified 28th. Second place went to Sylvain Miaillier, the second consecutive podium in the World Cup having finished third in San Candido. Third place for Jonas Devouassoux, fourth and fifth Bohnacker Daniel Brady Leman. Pi & ugrave; back Thomas Zangerl, seventh, Christopher Delbosco, ninth, 27th and Filip Flisar. As for the Italian athletes, beautiful tenth position for Marco Tomasi, the best career result in the maximum circuit world of ski cross, and 23rd place for Stefan Thanei.
In the women's third win of the season for the Swedish Anna Holmlund, who preceded the French Aliz & egrave; and Baron, who came second, and the reigning world champion Andrea Limbacher, third.
Eighth Marielle Thompson. The two Italian Debora Pixner and Sabine Wolfsgruber were classified respectively in 20th and 24th place.
Sunday's race is & egrave; place under a heavy snowfall, and saw all the registered athletes taking part in the final stage since the day Friday & Igrave; it was not possible to dispute the qualifications due to the strong wind.
Among men, the Swiss Lenherr Jonas scored the first victory of his career ahead of his countryman Alex Fiva, his first podium of the season with this second place. Third position for Brady Leman is & egrave; once again demonstrated the 'athlete pi & ugrave; constant circuit this season having never fallen below the sixth place, despite still missing the victory. With this result, the Canadian nibbled valuable points in the overall standings leader Jean-Fr & eacute; d & eacute; ric Chapuis, who & egrave; stopped at the 13th position due to a fall occurred a few meters after the start in the quarterfinals. Not out of the ten Christopher Delbosco, 13th. Both the Blues have confirmed the placings of the day before, with Tomasi you & egrave; again placed tenth and Thanei 23rd.
In the women's Marielle Thompson & egrave; back to winning and has so & Igrave; He captured his second victory of the season after that of Montafon. In the final, the Olympic champion in charge, after a poor start that 'had relegated in last place, & egrave; He managed to reassemble proving wily and talented to take advantage of a contact between Heidi Zacher and Anna Holmlund to take the lead and keep ahead until the finish. The Holmlund you & egrave; cos & Igrave; He had to settle for third place, while the Zacher got more step & ugrave; the bottom of the podium. The fourth French Oph & egrave; lie David, Debora Pixner 19mA, while Sabine Wolfsgruber did not finish his race. & Nbsp;
The next round of the World Cup ski cross will & agrave; next weekend at Nakiska, Canada. & nbsp;
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