Elena Curtoni redeems Sofia Goggia: stunning podium in downhill-bis in Cortina

Elena Curtoni third in downhill-bis in Cortina

Despite the fall of Sofia Goggia, who was thus unable to replicate Friday’s success on the Olympia slope of the Tofane, Italy nevertheless has a reason to smile, and not a little, at the conclusion of the downhill-bis in Cortina: Elena Curtoni in fact placed third, preceded only by Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec and Norway’s Kajsa Vickhoff Lie.

The 31-year-old native of Morbegno was able to snatch a place on the podium from the likes of Lara Gut-Behrami and Rangnhild Mowinckel, who were tied for fourth just one hundredth behind Curtoni. As for the other azzurre, 17th place for Laura Pirovano, 21st Nicol Delago, 24th Nadia Delago, 32nd Elena Dolmen, 34th Karoline Pichler, 41st Teresa Runggaldier. Out of the race, in addition to Goggia, was Monica Zanoner.