Michela Moioli before and Omar Visintin third in the snowboard cross World Cup of the Feldberg

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First season and fourth career success for Michela Moioli who returns to victory at the World Cup in the first of two snowboard cross Feldberg.

Saturday 11 February 2017 3 minutes reading time

The snow on the German 21 year old Lombard, owner of specialty cup, beat in the final from the 1st to 4th place in the order the Australian Belle Brockhoff, leader of the seasonal ranking, the Canadian Maryeta Odine and Bulgarian Alexandra Jekova. In the final from the 5th to 8th place was ranked third, and then a total of seventh, Raffaella Brutto, eliminated in the semifinals and then beat in the end part by US Lindsey Jacobellis and Rosina Mancari, disqualified the Czech Eva SamkovÃ¡. Eleventh Francesca Gallina, landed also in the final stages but eliminated in the first round out immediately in qualifying Sofia Belingheri, nineteenth. In the ranking of Moioli specialty it is now at 710 points Brockhoff and to 80 from SamkovÃ¡ when missing after four races, including that of tomorrow. In the men's third place of Omar Visintin who gives the final of the French Olympic champion Pierre Vaultier specialties, the 18th success in the Cup and the first season, and the Spaniard Lucas Eguibar (fourth the other Spanish Regino Hernandez) but back in solitary head the specialty ranking detaching the Austrian Alessandro HÃ¤mmerle, who had to settle for winning the consolation final and then finishing fifth. Eliminated in the second round of the final stages Michele Godino and Lorenzo Sommariva, respectively thirteenth and fourteenth, and the first Emanuel Perathoner, twenty-fourth, out in qualifying Thomas Leoni, forty-fifth, Luca Matteotti, fifty-third, and newcomer Lorenzo Catapano, seventy. Tomorrow the two races bis.

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