University Games - Alpine Skiing
Federico Modica
PUDDLE OF FASSA (Italy) - With a resounding first round, in which he mortgaged the de facto'' gold, thinking then only to defend themselves in the second, the Serbian Nevena Ignjatovic has secured the most valuable coin in the race for the rapid gates on the beautiful track "Aloch" Pozza di Fassa,'' countering the attack of the Swiss Givel, silver, and author of a great comeback in the second round, and the Czech Dubovska, bronze. Far from the best Italian outside the Geyr during the first run. Twenty Helen King
Friday 20 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
Good show in Val di Fassa, close the evidence of alpine skiing. Women's slalom at night on the magnificent "Aloch" steep track, maybe short, but certainly not difficult, since the World Cup, with compacted snow, aggressive but not crossed. The slalom women was fun, interesting, compelling, with more than one surprise in the second round. The victory went to Serbia Nevena Ignjatovic that skiing very well on the wall in the first round, has given more than a second athlete'' s closer, immediately making a big mortgage on the gold medal'' . For her final time of 1:38:42.
The twenty-two Serbian preceded by 36 cents the Swiss Margaux Givel, eighth after the first run and can recover'' 1'' and 4/10 in the second test, and 56 of the Czech Martina Dubovska. The best was the Italian Ligurian Elena King, twenty-first, after the release of'' Carmen Geyr during the first run, the most important card of the Italian formation.
Immediately behind the area medals were instead put the Russian Ksenia Alopina (+0.72), the Croatian Sofija Novoselic (+0.83) and the Slovak Barbora LukáÄová (+0.92), tenth place instead for the French Lucie Piccard, daughter of Olympic champion Downhill Franck Piccard.
In the ranking of that takes into account the combined placings in 4 races, victory went to the Slovak Jana Gantnerova that preceded the Belarusian compatriot Barbora Kantorova and Mary Shkanova.
INTERVIEWS
Nevena Ignjatovic, "I wanted to give my contribution to this Universiade, because my team achieved excellent results and end my experience in Trentino with a gold was very exciting. In the first moto I took advantage of the lower pectoral departure. In the second race I found a very damaged track, but I still managed to do a good line. "
Margaux Givel: "These university games were challenging and tiring, but in the end I'm happy, especially my second run. '' The atmosphere of these days is beautiful, the track is challenging, even though the snow was not icy, the Dolomites are a stunning backdrop ... I have nothing to complain about, in fact. "
Martina Dubovska: "I admired from'' organization, the staff, the volunteers, everyone went out of their way to entertain us and make us compete for the best ... the track is beautiful, the track was challenging enough, unfortunately the snow helped us, he surrendered and were formed hole, I have to admit to not being entirely satisfied even though I still have a medal around my neck ... it went well, maybe next time. "
Jana Gantnerova: "It is not that sorry my medal, winning a gold is always something that excites, but honestly I was hoping to get a good result even in slalom.Complimenti however my opponents who have been able to deal with more security. "
HERE the final result of the slalom.
HERE the final result of the combination.
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