Again Candace Crawford at Coronet Peak, in Nelson the male giant. Sasaki and Colturi in the slalom of La Parva

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Again Candace Crawford at Coronet Peak, in Nelson the male giant. Sasaki and Colturi in the slalom of La Parva

The Canadian won the third consecutive race in the Australian New Zealand Cup (outside Alice Robinson in the 1st heat), an excellent men's race with Haugan and Andreas Zampa behind the young American. In Chile, in the South American Cup challenges, the Japanese veteran and the 2006 Piedmontese class of Albania win (5th victory in the circuit, 2nd in slalom).

On the New Zealand snows of Coronet Peak, the first round of the ANC season continues with two giants regularly staged, in an ideal morning in terms of weather, after the postponement on Sunday (two more races between the wide doors that will be recovered on Tuesday, ed) . Candace Crawford's trio has arrived, with the ''97 class that had already imposed itself in the two super-gs played last Saturday; the Canadian preceded Katie Hensien by 58 cents and the Finnish Riikka Honkanen by 69, with the American Ava Sunshine this time at the foot of the podium, while Alice Robinson (who had obtained a 3rd place in the second speed race) came out in 1 ^ heat. High level also for the male giant, with a nice talent like the American Isaiah Nelson (born in 2001) who imposed himself by a tenth against Timon Haugan, new pupil of Marcel Hirscher in the "Van Deer" house, in turn in front of a cent to the Slovak Andreas Zampa, with his brother Adam fourth at + 0 ”62 and Ian Gut 5th over the second behind the winner. Sixth and eighth place for two other young USA players expected in CdM (especially in slalom), Luke Winters and Benjamin Ritchie. Vittorio De Pieri, the only Italian at the start, finished 23rd. In La Parva, the second South American Cup race after yesterday's giants that saw Lara Colturi and Delfin Van Ditmar win. The Piedmontese who competes with the colors of Albania dominated the slalom of the South American circuit (her fifth victory in SAC, the second between the narrow poles), ahead of the usual Francesca Baruzzi Farriol, with the young American, by 6 "47 Chloe Lathrop third at almost 10 ”. The men's slalom saw Akira Sasaki conquer another victory, after that of Cerro Catedral: challenge again on the cents in favor of the 40-year-old Japanese, who burned another veteran like the Argentine Cristian Javier Simari Birkner by 0 "04. , with the Chilean Andres Figueroa back on the podium, third with 38 cents behind. Today, again in the Chilean town, the tests of the descents that will open the speed season on Tuesday.
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