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The FIS Snowboard World Cup has made stops in an unusual location for the sport of table in the snow, the Bulgarian Bansko, for two parallel giant.
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Among women 14th victory in the Cup and the first of the season for the 29 year-old Swiss Patrizia Kummer, Olympic champion in charge of the specialty, which burned in the final by just one hundredth of a second Austria's Julia Dujmovits same age, the first podium of the winter. Also in the match for third place was a challenge between Switzerland and Austria and also here prevailed Confederation thanks to Jenny Ladin, the third podium in Cup and the first season, which has denied the podium at the World Championships 43-year old in charge of Claudia Riegler specialties , 20 years older than his opponent! Absent the leader of the general parallel Cup, the Czech Ledecká Ester, who is preparing for its first World Cup in Alpine skiing in St. Moritz. The blue: Nadya Ochner passes in the final stages with the seventh fastest time, passes a turn but then is eliminated in the quarterfinals by Riegler and is ranked seventh, out in qualifying Elisa Profanter, thirty-eighth.
Three blue pass male qualifiers: Mirko Felicetti eighth, ninth and twelfth Maurizio Bormolini Aaron March. Right off the others: thirty-ninth Christoph Mick, fortieth Gabriel Messner, disqualified Roland Fischnaller. March is eliminated in the first round of the finals while Felicetti won the derby with Bormolini and then goes up to the semifinals where he is beaten by Switzerland's Nevin Galmarini, recently won the parallel giant Rogla, and then in the final yields to the small Austrian Benjamin Karl superveterano finishing in fourth position, Bormolini and March are ranked eleventh and thirteenth respectively. In the final there are the same two to six days ago in Slovenia, Galmarini and Bulgarian Radoslav Yankov, but this time the local favorite takes his revenge by reversing the outcome of the Rogla challenge thanks to the release from the Swiss track. Moral of the story, the third victory in the Cup and before the season for Yankov that overthrows Karl atop the overall standings parallel. Sunday there will be two parallel giant always in Bansko.
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Patrizia Kummer and Radoslav Yankov won the parallel giant of the Bansko World Cup
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