Alpine Skiingsummer competitions
pg fb Lara Colturi
Sixth victory in seven seasonal races for the 2006 Piedmontese class racing for Albania. In Cardrona, New Zealand, off to the FIS races with a brace from the Swiss Schmidiger in slalom.
Tuesday 9 August 2022 4 minutes reading time
She had come out in the last Chapelco giant, having won her debut in the South American Cup the day before.
The South American racing circuit still rewards Lara Colturi, an encore between the wide doors (and there are six wins in seven seasonal tests considering the FIS races) on the snows of Cerro Catedral, where a long appointment is staged, given that tomorrow and Thursday will touch to slalom.
The daughter of art, who is preparing this season for her so special with a long trip between Chile and Argentina, settling for the next two weeks in the Bariloche area, then won the giant on the Argentine snows ahead of Sarah Schleper by 81 cents (who paid from Colturi only 3 tenths after the 1st heat), at the age of 43 again on the podium of an international race for “his” Mexico, and by 1 ”66 the new national champion Francesca Baruzzi Farriol. At the foot of the podium the British Gorringe and to follow, in fifth place, the first of the Simari Birnker sisters, Maria Belen, remembering that there were no Italians at the starting gate.
The 2nd round of the male giant is underway.
In Cardrona the calendar of FIS tests has begun for Australia and New Zealand (waiting for the ANC to start): today four slaloms, two male and two female, with a single master among the men. and a well-known name also in the World Cup, given that Reto Schmidiger, specialist in narrow posts outside the ranks of the Swiss national team, is trying to relaunch himself starting from these latitudes.
Schmidiger dominated race-1, preceding the two Koreans Minsik Jung (1 "14 away) and Dohyun Hur (4" 20), with the latter then second behind the 30-year-old rossocrociaro in the encore, paying the beauty of 4 "78 and with the place of honor shared with New Zealander Thomas Gillard. Sixth in the first slalom was the blue Vittorio De Pieri (born in 2005), who came out in the 1st heat of race-2.
Oceanic success in the first women's slalom, with New Zealander Mikayla Smyth beating Australian Rebecca Brown and compatriot Michol Hinton, but the winner of race-1 then went out in the attempt of an encore, leaving room for Brown herself, winner in front of the British Bartlett and Crawford from New Zealand.
Four more races on Wednesday, with two male and two female giants.
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