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E.Selleget - WPAS
Traditionally, the Paralympic Alpine Ski season opened in the Dutch indoor plant with two WPAS races and two European Slalom Cup races.
Sunday 11 November 2018 3 minutes reading time
In the Sitting category, twenty-two of San Candido René De Silvestro took two second places, scoring in all six rounds the second time behind the Dutchman Jeroen Kampschreur who at only 19 years already has Gold in Super Combined at the PyeongChang Olympics and three world titles won in 2017 at Tarvisio. The third place went to the Swiss Micha Waefler in the first race and the second to the Dutch Niels De Langen. Manuel Michieletto goes out in the first round of race 1 and closes the second race in eighth position while Parmesan Danilo Rossi leaves in both races after the third place in the WPAS Slalom on the eve. In the women's field the Dutch star of the Carriage Basket Barbara Van Bergen has won in both races, second place for the French Meje Bidault and third place for the American Anna Beninati.
In the standing category, the twenty-four French Marie Bochet, eight Paralympic Ori in the last two editions and always on the podium in the last three editions of the World Championships with thirteen Ori and two Argenti puts her seal in both races leaving the other steps of the podium to the Swiss Bigna Schmidt and Elena Kratter. In the men's field is the emergent eighteen-year-old French Arthur Bauchet, four Argenti at PyeongChang, to seize the double victory preceding in race 1 the Swiss Thomas Pfyl and the 'andorrano Roger Puig Davi and in the race 2 the same Andorran and the US Spencer Wood. Davide Bendotti closes the first competition in eighth position and is fifth in the Slalom that closes the race program.
In the Visually Impaired category the Slovakian Jakub Krako (with the guide Branislav Brozman) is imposed with already five Paralympic Ori in the neck and the fifteen year old British debutant Neil Simpson, led by his brother Andrew, which also shows the third place in race 1 where salt on the second step of the podium, the French Hyacinthe Deleplace who captures two squares of 'honor.
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