Snowboarding
Fisi Pentaphoto
Second victory of the season and fifth career World Cup for Michela Moioli triumphing in the women's snowboard cross in La Molina, in the men's race in fourth place for Omar Visintin who returns to the top of the specialty rankings.
Sunday 5 March 2017 3 minutes reading time
triumphant day for the Bergamo winter sports: After the triumph of Sofia Goggia in the super-G of Jeongseon rooms on the top step of the podium in the 21 year old Lombard who in the final beat the leading specialty, the Czech Eva Samková, and the French Chloe Trespeuch and Charlotte Bankes. Michela approaches Samková in the ranking of specialties: when it lacks only the Veysonnaz race on March 25, has 480 points behind the Czech and 170 by the Australian Fine Brockoff, seventh today. Thirteenth and sixteenth Raffaella Brutto and Sofia Belingheri, eliminated in the first round of the finals, out in qualifying instead Francesca Gallina, nineteenth.
In the men's race 19th career win in the World Cup and second of the season for the French Olympic champion Pierre Vaultier of specialties, which in the final set, the Austrian Lukas Pachner and the American Nick Baumgartner, Visintin off the podium, as mentioned , returns to lead the specialty cup although with only 20 points on Vaultier and 355.4 the previous leader, the Austrian Alessandro Hämmerle, fifty-third today. Other blue: the ninth, twelfth and sixteenth Emanuel Perathoner, Michele Godino and Lorenzo Sommariva, eliminated in the quarter, out in the second round Thomas Leoni, eighteenth, and in qualifying Luca Matteotti and Matthew Menconi, thirty-third and fifty-fifth.
"It '' was a tough race, already in the semi-finals was not easy - says Moioli to fisi.org -. Then in the final there have been contacts, but I managed to stay strong and in the end to win. Now I do not think the charts I go from race to race. in the tests I was strong, then in the race perhaps a little '' of the emotion 'I heard, but I played my cards right and win is the best. the World Cup is a race in itself, certainly will not go there to make a sixth place. As for the Finals will see: the track of Veysonnaz I really like, it is my favorite. "
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