Alpine skiing - Women's European Cup
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Kvitfjell's women's combined European Cup has enjoyed a welcome return, moreover on the highest step of the podium, namely that of the Frenchwoman Anne-Sophie Barthet.
Friday 7 December 2018 3 minutes reading time
The 30 year old French native of Toulouse but adopted by Courchevel, stopped by the pre-combined Olympic warming of PyeongChang last February for an ankle injury, after returning to the races finishing twenty-eighth in the first super-G of yesterday won the multiple race reassembling from the twenty-third position obtained in the second super-G of the day making the second best time in the slalom heats, she who in addition to discretely running in speed is also a specialist in narrow doors. For Barthet it is the fourth success in the continental review and the ninth podium.
The transalpine has preceded by only 10 cents the Swedish class 1999 Ida Dannewitz, who did even better than her in the second heat recovering from the twenty-ninth position. The lowest step of the podium at 44 cents for the Swiss Nicole Good, at the first podium in the European Cup as Dannewitz, fourth and fifth other two Swiss, Nathalie Gröbli and Charlotte Lingg, the latter in comeback from the thirtieth position, the sixth Austrian Rosina Schneeberger, eighth the Norwegian Marte Monsen, tenth the French Tifany Roux. The two ex-aequo leaders of the super-G, the Austrian Christina Ager and Elisabeth Reisinger, fell respectively to the seventh and ninth places.
So the blue, seven in the first thirty but all out of the top 10: eleventh and thirteenth Sara Dellantonio and Sofia Pizzato, respectively twenty-eighth and twenty-sixth after the super-G, nineteenth from the sixth Roberta Melesi, twenty-third Jole Galli, twenty-fifth Nadia Delago, twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth Valentina Cillara Rossi and Marta Giunti, fourth and tenth after the super-G, thirty-sixth Anja Zenere, thirty-seven Giulia Albano, retired in the slalom heats Carlotta Da Canal, did not start in the slalom heats Teresa Runggaldier and Elena Dolmen. The women's European Cup now has two Paganella giants on Thursday 13 and Friday 14.
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Alpine Combined Female SL Run: 07.12.2018 Kvitfjell (NOR)
Alpine skiing - Women's European Cup
Anne-Sophie Barthet wins the combined Kvitfjell European Cup
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