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And '' it began in Kuhtai the World Cup of the season that will bring the World Championships in Tarvisio; scheduled the weekend one Slalom and two Giants.
Monday 19 December 2016 5 minutes reading time
In the men's field, Visually Impaired category, excellent start of James Bertagnolli. The seventeen Cavalese visually impaired from birth, led by peer Fabrizio Casal won last year the overall World Cup and in the Tyrol started the season with a second place in the slalom followed by an exit in the second round of the first Giant plans to close in style with victory in the second Giant. To give thread twist were the plurimedagliato Olympic and world Slovakian Miroslav Haraus which has prevailed in the Slalom picking up a second and a third place in the Giant and Giant i''Oro in Sochi, the Canadian Mac Marcoux, a boy who has now nineteen She started winning medals yet fifteen.
Sitting in the category, the Bronze Sochi, the 'Austrian Roman Rabl won both Giants scheduled as the first day was the Polish Igor Sikorski to win the Slalom. Two second places for the Japanese thirty-six Taiki Morii, world champion of 2013 in Gigante and Super G and medaled at Torino 2006 and Vancouver 2010.
Three winners in three races in the category Standing: Slalom goes to the twenty-four of Klagenfurt, Thomas Grochar while the two giants are won by the Slovak Martin France and dall''australiano Mitchell Gourley who returns to victory after more than three years of abstinence. A second place and two third places in Gigante for the American Thomas Walsh, engaged until 2013 in FIS races and newcomer in the world IPC last year with so much of a victory in St. Moritz.
In the women's category Visually Impaired, three girls have monopolized the podium. In the first two days to climb on the top step it was the Slovak Henrieta Farkašová all''attività to return after a long break following the three medals, two 'Oro, won at the Sochi Games. To establish itself in the second Giant in the program, with Farkašová third, it is the British seventeen, vice-world champion, Millie Knight (second in slalom and third in the first Giant). The third main character, which has escaped the victory, is the 'Australian Melissa Perrine, world champion in charge Downhill, Super G and Combined.
Sitting in the category comes the double victory of Anna Schaffelhuber, author of the Sochi Games in a sweep with five medals' Gold; the Slovak won the Giant Slalom and the second while the Friday victory went to the slalom world champion, returning after a stop season through injury, Anna Loesch.
In the category Standing the Sochi Paralympic champion in Slalom, Andrea Rothfuss win both the Giants and closes in second place slalom where it imposes the Canadian twenty-two Alana Ramsay closes in second place both Giants. The stage of Kuhtai saw the return to the dell''azzurra Melania Corradini World Cup after the Olympics in Sochi, faced with still recovering from a broken collarbone, due to repeated injuries had not regained massimaserie. For her came the 'eighth in Slalom and a sixth and a seventh place in Gigante.
Here are the full results of this stage of Kuhtai
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