Schmidiger also dominates in giant in Cardrona, Baruzzi wins the first SAC slalom (outside Colturi)

The results of today's FIS races: the Swiss without rivals in New Zealand, while at Cerro Catedral the South American Cup circuit continues with the winning Argentina.

Wednesday 10 August 2022 4 minutes reading time

Second and final day, again very rich with four races in series, of FIS tests on the New Zealand snows of Cardrona. The only European level athlete who has already arrived in the southern hemisphere dominated again, after yesterday's double in slalom: Reto Schmidiger, in fact, also made a void even in the two giants disputed today, preceding the masters of Hadley house (2nd at 1 "43), Bain (3rd at 1" 55) and Gillard (4th) in race-1, in which Vittorio De Pieri (the only Italian entered) finished ninth, while in the encore the 'Swiss beat the same opponents in order, but with more than two and a half seconds margin. Outside, in this case, De Pieri. The two female giants were instead won first by the Australian Rebecca Brown (already in the slalom), in front of the New Zealander Amelia Gillard (at 79 cents) and the British Honor Bartlett (+ 0 "88), then by the same Gillard who he burned Brown for just 6 cents, with Michol Hinton third (+ 0 ”84). At Cerro Catedral, the Argentine town that is hosting the second round of the South American Cup, today it was slalom time and the news is that Lara Colturi did not win, even yesterday before in giant. The 16-year-old in Albania, who started last with bib 26 in the 1st heat, finished second at 1 "53 from Francesca Baruzzi Farriol, then attacked in the second and left the scene, while the Argentine will then go to dominate with the beauty of 3 ”37 of margin against the British Giselle Gorringe, with Maria Belen Simari Birkner third at over 5 seconds. The Chilean Andres Figueroa continues in his excellent start to the season, imposing himself in the men's race between the tight posts with a good advantage (respectively 64 and 70 cents) against the Argentine duo formed by Delfin Van Ditmar and the eternal Cristian Javier Simari Birkner. Pietro Tranchina, the only blue at the gate, went out during the 1st heat. Two more slaloms scheduled for Thursday, also valid for the South American Cup circuit.

Social media engagement