Alpine Skiingsummer competitions
pg fb Lara Colturi
At Cerro Catedral, the 2006 class also dominates the narrow posts, after yesterday's exit, and leads the general of the South American circuit. Among the men the usual Figueroa wins, the Piedmontese gives himself a top ten comeback. Friday last races (FIS valid for national championships).
Thursday 11 August 2022 3 minutes reading time
Lara Colturi returns to success, after the unsuccessful step in the first of the two South American Cup slaloms scheduled at Cerro Catedral, taking the second challenge very clearly between the narrow poles on the Argentine snow.
It is the third success in four races of the South American circuit (whose general classification is led by the 2006 Piedmontese class competing for Albania) for Lara, in seventh hurray in nine tests of this start of the season if we consider all the FIS competitions. And it was not easy in this case, given that just like yesterday, the bib in the 1st heat (20 out of 26 athletes at the start) put her down a lot, but managed to reduce the gap from direct rival Francesca Baruzzi to 27 cents. Farriol.
The Argentine came out in the decisive heat, after Colturi had distanced the Canadian Marie-Penelope Robinson by 2 "78, in a great comeback and in the end second ahead of Macarena Simari Birkner (3 ^ at 3" 34), who held down from the podium for four tenths the British Giselle Gorringe.
The podium of the men's slalom saw the South American athletes take the lead, with the usual Andres Figueroa to bring home another race: this time the Chilean, this time, had to recover Cristian Javier Simari Birkner, in the lead in the middle of the race and in the finished second with 42 hundredths of a gap, while the American Oliver Parazette took away the satisfaction of third place from another Argentine, Tiziano Gravier, 4th at + 0 ”58 (12 cents from the podium).
And the only blue in the race was also a good protagonist: Pietro Tranchina, born in 2003 from Piedmont who is disputing the whole block of races in Sufamerica, made a good comeback in the 2nd heat, gaining ten positions up to the eighth final , 1 ”89 from the winner.
On Friday, the last double appointment (female and male) in Cerro Catedral, with two other FIS slaloms valid, however, only for the Argentine national championships.
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