Edwin Coratti first and Daniele Bagozza second in the parallel giant of the Rogla World Cup!

The impression of a day that could have been historic for Italy was in the morning, when Italy had placed six athletes in the last sixteen. That could end with a shotgun, however, was not easily predictable.

Saturday 19 January 2019 6 minutes reading time

In the parallel giant of the Snowboard World Cup, Rogla turns blue: Edwin Coratti triumphs in the final by beating his young team-mate Daniele Bagozza who at the age of 23 wins his first podium in his career. For the blue snowboard a result, in fact, historical, also because the number of podiums, including the cross, rises to eight, with eight different athletes (the others are Fischnaller, Ochner, March, Moioli, Visintin and Perathoner). Coratti, a 27 year old from Alto Adige, had already won in Winterberg in 2016, also at the time in an all-blue final (but in the slalom) against Roland Fischnaller. Last year he even climbed five times on the podium in an extraordinary season for him, here he is doing it for the first time in the specialty directly on the top step. Edwin had passed the qualifiers with the fourth time, then won the derby with Maurizio Bormolini in the first knockout of 61 cents, he bent for just ten cents the Swiss Dufour in the quarterfinals and the masterpiece in the semifinals passed a champion like Nevin Galmarini, Olympic gold at PyeongChang. In the final, as said, he overcame another team-mate, that Bagozza who until now was the maximum arrived fifteenth and that here has passed, first exploiting the 'error of the Austrian veteran Andreas Prommegger in the quarter and then beating another great interpreter of this sport as Rok Marguc in the semifinals. Another incredible figure of this day, for Italy, is that at the top of the general standings of the giant parallel there is another athlete, the veteran Roland Fischnaller, at an altitude of 1810 against 1590 of Galmarini and 1520 of Benjamin Karl , while in the overall ranking of the parallel the South Tyrolean is third behind the same Karl and Galmarini. Fischnaller had reached the knockout phase with the best time, he had the misfortune to find the Russian Andrey Sobolev in the first round and then Galmarini, with whom he lost but he still closed fifth. They came out in the second round, however, Aaron March (beaten by Marguc) and Mirko Felicetti (also defeated by Galmarini), respectively tenth and ninth in the order of 'final arrival, in addition to the aforementioned Bormolini, thirteenth. The only one to stop in the qualifications was Gabriel Messner, forty-eighth. The podium fades in the women's field, but Nadya Ochner can celebrate with the men's team. The South Tyrolean was first beaten in the semifinals by Natalia Soboleva and then, disqualified, surrendered to the German Cheyenne Loch in the consolation final, finishing the day in fourth place. But the real company had already done it before: in the quarters it took away the satisfaction of beating the veteran of the circuit, Claudia Riegler, back from the slalom triumph in Bad Gastein, where she had eliminated the blue that surpasses Ester Ledecka , in Cortina d'Ampezzo in alpine skiing: Nadya rises to 2050 in the general against the 1800s of Ledecka, while the giant points only to the giant are the same, while those of the Ochner down to 1900, however more than anyone else. Next weekend, in Moscow, there will be the World Cup stage with parallel slalom and team competition.

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