Belle Brockhoff and Alessandro Hmmerle win snowboard cross of the Bansko World Cup

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Third round with the nell'inedita snowboard cross World Cup, until this year, the Bulgarian resort of Bansko.

Saturday 4 February 2017 4 minutes reading time

The peculiarity of the two races, the masculine and the feminine, is to be a sort of sprint, a straight of about 20 seconds, so it has only to be fast. All qualified to the final stages the Blues: among women Michela Moioli with ninth place after the first run and Raffaella Brutto eighteenth after the second, among men qualify after the first run only Lorenzo Sommariva, tenth, all the others after the second: Omar Visintin twenty-ninth, thirtieth Thomas Leoni, Emanuel Perathoner forty, forty-fifth and forty-sixth Michele Godino Luca Matteotti. Perathoner, Visintin, Lions and Sommariva pass the first round, eliminated Matteotti and Godino. Accessing Moioli semifinals, Visintin, Lions and Sommariva out in Ugly quarters and Perathoner. The only access to the final from the 1st to 6th place is Visintin, Moioli, Sommariva and Lions will have to settle for the consolation final. The holder of the specialty cup is third place and then to the final ninth place, Sommariva and Lions are the second and fourth and then eighth and tenth. In the women's final third career victory in the World Cup and second of the season after that of mid-December to Montafon for the Australian Belle Brockhoff beating the Czech Eva SamkovÃ¡ and climbs 150 points topped the list of specialties, the lowest step of the podium for the French Chloe Trespeuch. Among men the second win of the season and fourth overall in the Austrian Cup Alessandro HÃ¤mmerle who lines up French champion Pierre Vaultier and the Canadian Baptiste Brochu and hooks atop the standings of Visintin specialties, who finished fifth in the final. The next snowboard cross World Cup will take place in Feldberg Saturday 11 and Sunday, February 12, preceded by Friday 10 qualifiers. Yesterday in the European Cup fourth career win in the continental event and before the season for Francesca Gallina, the 20 year old was born in Novara and transplanted in Courmayeur, in the snowboard cross in the French snows of Puy St. Vincent French Julia Pereira, born in 2001, and the German Jana Fischer, fifth and fifteenth place for the other two blue Caterina Carpano and Sofia Belingheri. In the men's race successful Swiss Nick Watter front of the Austrian David Pickl and Nathanael Mahler. Blue: Lorenzo Catapano tenth, twenty-fourth Matteo Menconi.

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