World junior, the new world champion in slalom is Benjamin Ritchie. All out of the blues

In Bansko the expected triumph of the twenty year old American, already 13th in the senior race in Cortina 2021. On the podium the Swiss Janutin and the Austrian Sturm. Saccardi out in the 2nd heat after Franzoni, Bendotti and Della Vite had raised the white flag in the first.

Friday 5 March 2021 2 minutes reading time

All according to predictions. Benjamin Ritchie, already winner this year in the European Cup and even 13th in the world championship slalom in Cortina, in his debut at the senior level, is the junior slalom world champion, in the race that concluded the triptych of men's tests in that of Bansko. The American born in 2000, first halfway through the race with the same time as Fadri Janutin, made the difference in the decisive heat, trimming 48 cents to the Swiss, silver medal in front of the comeback Joshua Storm (3rd to 7 tenths from Ritchie), who gives Austria the third medal in as many races after Feurstein's gold and silver, now sixth behind the Norwegian Kindem (4th) and the other red-cross Luetolf (5th) . A bitter world slalom for Italy, after the two medals won by Giovanni Franzoni between super-g and giant: out of Brescia in the 1st heat, as well as the expected Bendotti and Della Vite, in the second Tommaso Saccardi came out instead, the 2002 class from Parma who finished 11th in the 1st heat. The Bansko Junior World Championship will continue at the beginning of next week with the three women's races: the super-g on Monday 8, then the technical races on Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 with Haller, Sandulli, Ghisalberti and Mathiou defending the blue colors.

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