Vlhova "subscriber" to '1, Bassino, Brignone and Shiffrin follow her: giant of Kronplatz, here is the startlist

On Tuesday (the 1st heat at 10.30, the 2nd at 13.30) the great challenge at the "Erta": number 2 for Marta, 3 for Fede, to lead a national team without Goggia and Curtoni and with youngsters on the attack. Worley, who triumphed in 2021 and is in great shape, with number 6 after specialty leader Sara Hector.

Monday 24 January 2022 6 minutes reading time

We return to Kronplatz, on a wonderful slope like that of the "Erta", which after four editions (this January 2022 is the fifth) the queen track for the female giant, for a World Cup that does not allow breaks, to a few hours before the races in Cortina and before the last pre-Olympic, next weekend in Garmisch. On Tuesday the sixth giant of the season, in weather and track conditions that promise to be super, for a once again stellar confrontation between the greats of the specialty who will be able to enhance their technique: at 10.30 the start of the 1st heat (live on Eurosport and Rai Sport ), based on a Norwegian design, at 1.30 pm the 2nd with tracing entrusted to Mike Day, coach of Mikaela Shiffrin. Crucial race for the leader of the general classification, who has only 52 points of margin on Petra Vlhova: the American has caught the bib number 4, the Slovak again the 1 and among the great rivals for the coppone, there will be precisely the two most anticipated blue ones. Marta Bassino (n ° 2), on the Erta already on the podium three times (third also in the last edition of 2021 in comeback), and Federica Brignone who will start with 3, returned to the first sub-group thanks to the absence of Lara Gut -Behrami, to look for an encore of that splendid triumph of 2017, in the first time of Kronplatz in the World Cup. Tessa Worley, first and second in the last two races, will start with 5 just before Sara Hector, red bib and woman of the moment, with 4 podiums in series and a total domination in Kranjska Gora, just over two weeks ago. Michelle Gisin, who a year ago literally threw the victory (went to Worley) in the last gates, will start with the 7 before Liensberger, Robinson (will she be able to realize the New Zealander?), Gasienica-Daniel, Mowinckel, the Austrians Brunner and Truppe, a Meta Hrovat trying to find himself and finally Holtmann with 15 to close the second subgroup. But be careful, since with the No. 16 there will be Valérie Grenier at the gate, fabulous 4th on Podkoren, and with 21 another loose cannon like Camille Rast. Absences? In addition to Gut-Behrami and Holdener in Switzerland, Ramona Siebenhofer is missing, also for a precise choice from an Olympic point of view, and as known Elena Curtoni (who will prepare Garmisch best) and unfortunately Sofia Goggia due to injury. From number 40 onwards, the mission of the other five Italians will begin in search of qualification for the 2nd heat: Karoline Pichler, on a track she loves, will try with bib number 40, followed by Roberta Midali (41), Roberta Melesi ( 45), Ilaria Ghisalberti (52) and another athlete who has practically grown up on the “Erta”, Vivien Insam with the n ° 57. CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STARTLIST FEMALE GIANT - KRONPLATZ Startlist 1st heat: 1 Vlhova, 2 Bassino, 3 Brignone, 4 Shiffrin, 5 Hector, 6 Worley, 7 Gisin, 8 Liensberger, 9 Robinson, 10 Gasienica-Daniel, 11 Mowinckel, 12 Brunner, 13 Trouppe, 14 Hrovat, 15 Holtmann, 40 Pichler, 41 Midali, 45 Melesi, 52 Ghisalberti, 57 Insam.

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