Alena Zavarzina and Sylvain Dufour won the second parallel giant Bansko World Cup

They staged races-two male and female World Cup parallel giant on the Bulgarian snows of Bansko.

Sunday 5 February 2017 3 minutes reading time

The women's race was won by Alena Zavarzina, standings of the specialty in 2011 and the first victory of the season in the Cup, the third of his career. The Russian beat in the final the winner of the day before yesterday, Patrizia Kummer, and jumped to second place overall parallel and the first in that specialty, in both cases just before the Swiss. The third place goes to the Japanese Tomoka Takeuchi who has the better of the German Cheyenne Loch. Seventh and twenty-sixth the two blue, Nadya Ochner Profanter and Elisa, the first eliminated in their quarters Zavarzina, the second out of the qualifiers. Among men fourth win in three years at a distance from the third Cup for the French veteran Sylvain Dufour who beat the local favorite and the other winner yesterday and leader of the general and specialty rankings, the Bulgarian Radoslav Yankov, which has not concluded the crucial challenge. Third place went to the German Stefan Baumeister in front of another veteran, this time Austrian, Benjamin Karl. Immediately eliminated in the first round blue unique arrived to the final stages, Maurizio Bormolini and Roland Fischnaller, ranked ninth and fourteenth respectively. So others eliminated in qualifying: the seventeenth Christoph Mick, twenty Mirko Felicetti, trantaduesimo Aaron March, forty-ninth Gabriel Messner. Next Sunday will stage the pre-Olympic parallel giant of Bokwang, in South Korea.

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