Bobsleigh
Alessandro Genuzio
Great show yesterday in Cortina d''Ampezzo where the Italian bob and skeleton push championships took place.
Monday 15 July 2019 4 minutes reading time
The sports event organized impeccably by the Bob Club Cortina in collaboration with the Italian Winter Sport and Ampezzo Services Federation of Cortina and sponsored by the Cortina Foundation has seen at the start all the best Italian athletes of the two disciplines of the gut, but it has also been a excellent opportunity to bring sports and other sports to bobsled and skeleton. The FISI has, since last year, decided to re-launch the Italian movement by deciding to do "system", that is trying to unite the interests of federation, military sports groups and the various bob clubs in a common project.
The day of competitions opened with the women's skeleton competition which saw the Alexandrian Valentina Margaglio (GS Fiamme Azzurre) litterally dominate, who won the Italian title for the second consecutive year. The Piedmontese preceded by 38 cents the ex-astista Elena Scarpellini (Aeronautica Militare), while in third place Alessia Crippa (Sci Club Valli Antigorio) was ranked the best of the juniors, who suffered a delay of 43 cents from the winner .
Among the men in absentia of the leader of the movement Mattia Gaspari in clear recovery from the injury to the Achilles tendon that put him out of action in the last two seasons, second consecutive victory for Amedeo Bagnis (Bob Club Cortina) athlete who just last on this track he had begun to take his first steps in the world of skeleton. Bagnis has cut Gabriele Marenchino (Ski Club Valleys Antigorio) by 14 cents and the other representative of the Bob Club Cortina Pietro Drovanti by 19 cents. The three also composed the podium reserved for the junior category.
In the two-man bobsleigh succeeded by the Fiamme Azzurre crew composed of the Pordenone driver Mattia Variola and the brakeman Alexi Atchori Essoh. Second position for the Italian Air Force's bobsled run by Costantino Ughi and Alessandro Monte detached by 14 cents from the winners, while Baumgartner-D''Alessandro climbed to the third step of the podium at 19 cents from Variola-Essoth.
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