Italy without podiums in the parallel giants of the Secret Garden World Cup

Few satisfactions for the Azzurri in the two parallel giants, male and female, of the World Cup on the snows of the Chinese ski resort of Secret Garden.

Saturday 23 February 2019 3 minutes reading time

In the men's third win in the Cup and second in the season for the Slovenian Tim Mastnak who beat Russian Andrey Sobolev in the final, third place for the German Stefan Baumeister who got the better of the Polish Oskar Kwiatkowski. Edwin Coratti and Roland Fischnaller, fifth and sixth, respectively beaten by 5 cents from Sobolev and disqualified against Baumeister who knocked out in the second round Aaron March while Daniele Bagozza and Maurizio Bormolini came out at the hands of Fischnaller Kwiatkowski. Eliminated in qualifying Mirko Felicetti, twenty-first, and Gabriel Messner, forty-second, while Bormolini was ranked ninth, Bagozza twelfth and March fifteenth. In the overall standings of the parallel World Cup and in the specialty one the Austrian veteran Andreas Prommegger commands, today twentieth. Two Germans on the podium of the women's race. Ramona Theresia Hofmeister won, the fourth triumph in the Cup and the second in six days, which in the final beat the Czech star Ester Ledecka, third place for the other German Selina Joerg against the Polish Aleksandr Krol. Of the blue, only the usual Nadya Ochner has passed the qualifications but in the quarters has bowed for disqualification to Hofmeister being classified sixth, twenty-first and not admitted to the final table Giulia Gaspari. As Prommegger among the men, also Ledecka commands both the general classification and that of specialty. Tomorrow there will be two parallel slaloms.

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