Gallhuber and Schmidiger win the City Event in San Vigilio di Marebbe. Fourth Martina Perruchon

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They are the 'Austrian Katharina Gallhuber and Switzerland's Reto Schmidiger the parallel slalom winners valid Marebbe San Vigilio as a fifth leg of the European Cup in Alpine skiing.

Saturday 17 December 2016 6 minutes reading time

On a well prepared track by the local organizers Ski Club San Vigilio, tonight battled the best slalom skiers 8 and 8 best slalom of the afternoon qualifying who clashed in the quarterfinals in a series of duels avvicenti often were settled on wire cents. In the women's field the great protagonist of the day was Katharina Gallhuber. The 'Austrian born in 1997, third yesterday in the traditional slalom in Andalo, eliminated without too many worries of' mood Norway's Maren Skjold in the quarterfinals, while in the semi-finals had the better of the Aosta Valley Martina Perruchon. In the final Gallhuber was then faced the 'fierce Slovenian Meta Hrovat a year younger, who suffered in the opening quarter-final was able to put pressure on most favored Returns Stigler who has walked into a big mistake in the second heat coming incredibly quickly ousted from the fight for victory. In the semifinals the original eighteen Kranjska Gora silver Olympic Games in Lillehammer 2016 Youth, got rid of the Swedish Anna Larsson Swenn-logging so the finals. The 'expected final is practically solved already in the first run with Katharina Gallhuber that exploited the most of the' error of the rival crossing the line 50 cents ahead. In the rematch the Slovenian Hrovat gave all out to win the game with a 16 cents profit that nevertheless prevented sopravvanzare rival, because the sum of the times rewarded the 'Austrian. With this Gallhuber successfully moved up to second place in the overall standings of the European Cup, taking just 8 points behind leaders delay the Norwegian Kristin Lysdahl. In the final for the third-fourth place the 'won the day the Swedish Anna Larsson Swenn-good at resisting all''attacco dell''azzurra Perruchon that in the final heat he made a run throughout all''attacco committing But a big smear on the same point at which it stumbled during the semifinals. For the Aosta Valley that Levi made his debut in the World Cup, however, comes the best result of his career in the cadet circuit, she had personal best as a seventeenth-place finish in the slalom Zinal in December of 2014. In the men he dominated the 'Swiss Reto Schmidiger. The Swiss twenty-four has hardly had rivals vicendo each one of the duels in which he participated. Schmidiger addressed in the final valid for the victory of the French Maxime Rizzo came on the top epilogue in the semifinals after eliminating the Swede Emil Johansson. In the final Schmidiger was selected from 20 cents ahead of his opponent, thanks to the 13 earned in the first heat and 7 obtained in the final descent. This victory allows all''elvetico to gain many positions in the ranking cadet circuit into second place, just three points behind the standings leader, the Norwegian Leif Kristian Haugen. In the battle for the third-fourth place success ventissettenne Johansson who had the better of the Finnish Jonas Rasanen. Finnish in the quarterfinals eliminated the 'South Tyrolean Fabian Bacher unique blue to be awarded the' access to the final scoreboard. The next round of the Alpine Skiing European Cup is scheduled for December 20th in Reiteralm in Austria where it will go a supergiant stage.