Claudia Riegler and Andrey Sobolev world champions parallel giant

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Claudia Riegler and Andrey Sobolev world champions parallel giant

After the big win yesterday's Roland Fischnaller in parallel slalom l & rsquo; Italy is a dry mouth in the two World Cup snowboard parallel giant played in Lachtal.

The women's race l & rsquo; he won the & rsquo; ultraveterana Austrian Claudia Riegler 41 years old, born in Vienna but resident in Flachau, not to be confused with the alpine skier Claudia Riegler who is three years younger than her and anch & rsquo; it Austrian by birth but 15-20 years ago that competed for New Zealand. The boarder of Salosburghese was silver in giant slalom and beonzo in 2011 and this time you take the first gold of his career having the better of coleiche l & rsquo; he had beaten in the final four years ago, the Russian Alena Zavarzina. Bronze & egrave; went to the Japanese Tomoka Takeuchi who in the end part has had the better of the Swiss Julie Zogg. Out in the quarter that was perhaps the favorite, the Czech Ester Ledeck & aring; that ceraca encore of triumph in the slalom yesterday and the rest & egrave; was the best in qualifying but then & egrave; was eliminated from Zogg which you & egrave; then due to surrender to Riegler. Eliminated in the quarter also the Swiss Patrizia Kummer (from Zavarzina) and l & rsquo; Austrian Marion Kreiner from Takeuchi) and in the second round, at the hands of Kummer, the defending champion, Germany's Isabella Lab & ouml; ck. No blue took part in the finals in 16 Since & eacute; Nadya Ochner and Corinna Boccacini were eliminated in the qualifying rounds, respectively seventeenth and twenty-seventh. Among men triumph for Russian Andrey Sobolev that after being beaten yesterday only Fischnaller today has been right in the semifinals of the winner of the last two World Cup of specialty & agrave ;, l & rsquo; Austrian Benjamin Karl, and in the final of the favorite Slovenian an Ko & scaron; ir, Olympic bronze medalist of specialty & agrave; and silver today. Karl remains on the podium of specialty & agrave; grabbing the bronze medal at the expense of & rsquo; another Russian Valery Kolegov. Out in the quarterfinals at the hands of Ko & scaron; ir one who for years has dominated this race, the almost 40-year old Canadian Jasey Jay Anderson, gold champion in 2005 and 2009 and Olympic gold in 2010, again in the quarterfinals out another veteran of specialty & agrave; in 2007, the Slovenian Rok Flander, and l & rsquo; Olympic gold in Sochi, the Russian d & rsquo; adoption Vic Wild, respectively, at the hands of Karl and Sobolev. Two blue four were ranked among the best sixteen qualifying, Edwin Coratti even with the best time but quest & rsquo; last it has made all the colors in the second round and was eliminated from Flander, Aaron March has instead lost the comparison with Ko & scaron; ir. They have not even passed the first hurdle Fischnaller, twenty-second and evidently satisfied by the triumph of yesterday, and Mirko Felicetti, forty-eighth. Tonight we have the qualifications and the finals tomorrow the big air, specialty & agrave; that quest''anno & egrave; reserved to women and terminating the program snowboarding World Cup & nbsp; Kreischberg.
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