No World Cup for the 'Italy of the snowboard cross

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There's a little 'bitter taste in the mouth to the unfavorable outcome for Italy of the last races of the season in the snowboard cross World Cup.

Saturday 25 March 2017 4 minutes reading time

In the women's trophy specialty, the first of his career, he brings home the Czech Olympic champion in office Eva SamkovÃ¡ who managed to resist the onslaught of Michela Moioli, the only one who could snatch the trophy confirming the triumph last year, with the Australian Belle Brockhoff out of the game due to injury. The race has won the French Charlotte Bankes, a contemporary of Michela, just in front of the Czech and the 21 year old from Bergamo Alzano Lombardo who ends up third, his twelfth podium in Cup, fourth round, while Bankes is on his second victory after that of The Molina two years ago. Fourth and sixth other two French Chloe Trespeuch and Nelly Moenne-LOCCOZ, among them, the fifth, the Bulgarian Alexandra Jekova. Ninth thirteenth and the other two blue Raffaella Brutto Belingheri and Sofia, the first fell in the semifinals and placed third in the small final, the second is over just outside in the quarterfinals after passing the qualifiers. 680 points separating the final standings Michela by Eve. Among the fifth bowl men specialty after those of 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2016 twentieth victory for the French world and Olympic champion of Pierre Vaultier specialties World, third-season Cup, surpassing atop the standings of snowboard cross Omar Visintin. 630 at the end points of advantage over the Alps sull'altoatesino who failed to repeat the success of 2014 because of a fall in the final when he was shoulder to shoulder with Vaultier and with the Spaniard lucas eguibar, also fell, l ' Iberian did not close the test while Omar was fifth. Second came the US Alex Deibold third Australian Alex Pullin and fourth Canadian Kevin Hill. Other blue: Emanuel Perathoner eliminated in the semifinals and final for fifth in the overall eleventh place finish, out in the quarterfinals Lorenzo Sommariva, Tommaso Leoni and Michele Godino, respectively, eighteen, twenty-first and twenty-fourth, and in the second round Matteo Menconi, thirty.

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