Moioli and Sommariva closed the season with a double 5th place. Blue podium in the team PSL

In Veysonnaz the last act of the Snowboard Cross World Cup, with victories by Bankes and Grondin (general cup in Noerl). In Berchtesgaden, Caffont and Bormolini are third.

Sunday 20 March 2022 3 minutes reading time

The season of the blue snowboard cross specialists, protagonists of the final race in Veysonnaz, ends with a double fifth place signed by the leaders of the Italian national team. Michela Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva fail to center the final of the appointment on the Swiss snows, with the Bergamo rider eliminated in the semifinal by McManiman and Petit Lenoir, and then to establish themselves in the small final and still conquer the 2nd place in the overall standings of the Cup. World. In front of her only Charlotte Bankes, who takes another success also in today's test, regulating Faye Gulini and Manon Petit Lenoir, with the Canadian McManiman fourth. For Sofia Belingheri, however, the race ended in the quarter-finals. The men's race handed the World Cup to Martin Noerl, even if the German finished out in the quarterfinals today, while Eliot Grondin mocked an all-French trio in the big final: the Canadian's masterpiece ahead of Surget, Le Ble and Bozzolo, while Lorenzo Sommariva had come out in the semifinals (with Surget and Le Ble), and then finished in 5th place another excellent race after the success of Reiteralm and in the same position the overall cup standings. Out in the round of 16 Leoni and Visintin, the other two Azzurri protagonists in the finals. Last race of the season also for the parallel snowboard World Cup: after Edwin Coratti's triumph in yesterday's PSL, team event that smiled at the German hosts in Berchtesgaden, with Ramona Hofmeister and Stefan Baumeister to win the final against the Austrians Schoeffmann and Payer. And in third place, another blue podium with Elisa Caffont (first time in the top 3 in a CdM event) and Maurizio Bormolini who beat the Canadians Farrell-Gaudet, after eliminating Lucia Dalmasso and Aaron March in the quarters.

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