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Andrea Carloni - IPC
On a beautiful sunny day, the IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships were opened in Tarvisio with the dispute of the Downhill for the six competition categories.
Wednesday 25 January 2017 4 minutes reading time
In the category Men's Visually Impaired, James Bertagnolli with the guide Fabrizio Casal (in the video below their statements collected on arrival from FISIP) achieved fifth place in the race won by the Canadian Mac Marcoux which is confirmed on the top step of the podium already obtained nell''ultima edition, all''epoca with his brother BJ as a guide, now with Jack Leitch. Of the 'Silver medal goes to the Spaniard Maiztegui Santacana while the bronze is the slovaccio Miroslav Haraus. In the women imposes the British eighteen Millie Knight for what should be, the CPI statistics are not complete, especially for first editions, the first world title of Britain. As has happened in the World Cup season in this Knight beats Olympic champion in office, the Slovak Henrieta Farkašová. Third place went to the Belgian Eleonor Sana.
Standing in the women's category are witnessing all''eccezionale return to racing of the French Marie Bochet, Olympic champion and world champions, who had fractured fibula as recently as three months ago. The twenty-two Chambery won the medal 'Oro, the third consecutive Descent in the light of the fact that in the last two editions of the World Championships won ten titles in ten races scheduled. And '' the second German Andrea Rothfuss and conquest, with the bronze, his first podium of the young Canadian champion Alana Ramsay. In the men the Sochi 2014 champion, the 'Austrian Markus Salcher four years after the reconquest medal' Oro ahead by a wide margin the Canadian Kirk Schornstein and the 'Dutch Jeffrey Stuut.
In the category women Sitting won his first world title in Downhill, the Olympic champion, the German Anna Schaffelhuber that for only 23 cents prevents reappointment to the Austrian Claudia Loesch. Bronze medal for the Japanese Momola Muraoka. And '' the American Andrew Kurka to establish itself in the men where forces all''abdicazione New Zealander Corey Peters, second, while the bronze medal was conquered by the Japanese Akira Kano.
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