2021 cortina world championships
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Cortina 2021: Friday (the 1st heat at 10.00, the second at 13.30) the challenge between the wide doors. Kristoffersen, reigning champion, to start third; De Aliprandini with 12, also Borsotti, Tonetti and Franzoni in the race. The complete startlist.
Thursday 18 February 2021 7 minutes reading time
After the female giant, it is up to the men to face the super challenge between the wide doors, on that “Labyrinths” which presents a decidedly challenging first part, with the slope that then slowly decreases until Rumerlo and the finish area.
The third to last day of the world championships in Cortina will see Alexis Pinturault go in search of the eagerly awaited first gold in this world championship, as well as his first in the world discipline: the French is the favorite, if not for what has been demonstrated in the World Cup with the success of the last three giants, in particular the two from Adelboden literally dominated by the leader of the specialty cup (and of the general).
The 29-year-old from Courchevel will start with bib n ° 4, in the first heat scheduled for tomorrow at 10.00 and traced by his technician Fabien Munier (the second, at 13.30, entrusted to Rottensteiner who leads the Norwegians). It will be Marco Odermatt, still dry of medals but who could find himself very well in these conditions, to open the race followed by Filip Zubcic, another man able to make the coup.
With number 3 here is the reigning champion Henrik Kristoffersen: in crisis between the wide doors this season, but be careful because in the last cup race he won, or in the second slalom in Chamonix, and he prepared exclusively the two technical races of this World Championship, working with quality in Pitztal. Zan Kranjec will return to the race after a long absence, forced to miss the stage of Adelboden due to back pain: the Slovenian will start with the No. 5, before Nestvold-Haugen and Meillard to close the first sub-group.
Then here is the second and third French in the race, that is Muffat-Jeandet and the parallel world champion, Mathieu Faivre, at the start with number 9, followed by Alexander Schmid (bronze in the team event with his Germany and fourth in the individual parallel) , but there are many athletes who could enter from behind considering that already today, for the women's race, the snow has guaranteed greater grip after the first passes, keeping to the great.
Therefore, Luca De Aliprandini's bib n ° 12 could be anything but bad: the Trentino is in good condition, he played two good tests in parallel and came out well from the last CdM race in Adelboden. He is the great blue hope for a medal, but Giovanni Borsotti (n ° 21), Riccardo Tonetti (24) and the very young Giovanni Franzoni, who will start with 37 will also try.
Attention, even if clearly their race will be slalom, to the Schwarz-Feller duo with bibs 16 and 17, in a list of 100 starters and qualified from today's "prologue" on the Lacedelli at 5 Torri, won by James Crawford, the Canadian talent already fourth in combined and tomorrow at the start with number 50.
As is well known, there will be no Ted Ligety who would have closed his splendid career with the world champion from Cortina. The usual back pain stopped him, but tomorrow a thought will certainly also go to the American champion on race day that he won three times in his career.
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MEN'S GIANT - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS CORTINA 2021
Startlist 1st run: 1 Odermatt, 2 Zubcic, 3 Kristoffersen, 4 Pinturault, 5 Kranjec, 6 Nestvold-Haugen, 7 Meillard, 8 Muffat-Jeandet, 9 Faivre, 10 A. Schmid, 11 Murisier, 12 De Aliprandini, 13 Leitinger , 14 G. Caviezel, 15 Read, 21 Borsotti, 24 Tonetti, 37 Franzoni.
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