Jasmine Flury returns to win in the European Cup: her first descent in Crans-Montana, blue out of the top ten

Switzerland beats Grill (increasingly on the rise) and compatriot Kolly. Two good placings for Runggaldier and Albano, but Sosio, Gasslitter and Nadia Delago are out. Sunday bis race on Mont Lachaux.

Saturday 16 January 2021 4 minutes reading time

A sort of aperitif for the World Cup, which will return to the Canton of Valais next week with a triple speed appointment on Mont Lachaux. Crans-Montana has prepared itself, not without a series of weather problems, so much so that it has to postpone the tests directly to the first day of competition, proposing two European Cup runs, the first seasonal for the continental circuit (Sunday will be the second , even if snow is still expected ...). Switzerland dominated on their home snow, with Jasmine Flury who today found her fifth success in CE, which the 27-year-old Rossocrocia had missed for almost three years, when she triumphed in Crans-Montana (but in super-g). One of the great promises of Austrian skiing, the twenty-year-old Lisa Grill, who was already looking forward to her second triumph after the super-g one in Zinal, before Flury came down with bib 33, was beaten for only 15 cents. In third place (32 cents from the winner) still a Swiss, that is Noemie Kolly who thus takes the second podium of her career at these levels. Down from the podium the French Laura Gauche, who preceded the young Austrian Nussbaumer and a great protagonist of speed in CdM, or Kajsa Vickhoff Lie who finished sixth and carried out a good test thinking about the races scheduled from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 January. Italy? With Nadia Delago and Verena Gasslitter more in the engine than the "basic" formation, she did not collect top ten placements with the two South Tyrolean exits on a par with Federica Sosio, in great shape after finding herself after the injury of 2019. Also out Sofia Pizzato, the best were Teresa Runggaldier, 11th at 79 cents from Flury, and Giulia Albano 12th with 9 tenths of a gap. A couple of points instead for Elena Dolmen, 29th, with Jole Galli who finished out of thirty. And Sunday is repeated.

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