Marta Bassino, no encore with parallel

World Cup, parallel

Norway was a major player in the individual parallel at the World Championships in Coruchevel-Méribel, France, with three medals taken home out of the six available between the men’s and women’s events, .

In the women’s parallel, Marie Therese Tviberg took gold around her neck at the end of a final in which she was sensational in the second run-after a first one that ended ex-aequo-she finished well ahead of Switzerland’s Wendy Holdener, who was nonetheless able to boast her second silver in this rainbow event, her sixth career medal in a World Championships.

Teammate Thea Louise Stjernesund, took bronze (after losing the semifinal to Tviberg by 6 hundredths), ahead of host Marie Lamure in fourth.

The very young transalpine had eliminated Marta Bassino in the round of 16: for the Cuneo-born, reigning champion, the first run was fatal, in which she had paid half a second, then failed to make up lost ground during the second.

In the men’s race, success for Alexander Schmid, able to bring Germany back to the top step of the podium in a World Championships, a full 34 years after the last time. In the big final, the German bent the resistance of Austrian Dominik Raschner. Third place went to Timon Haugan, who did well to mock the other white-born Adrian Pertl in a heated consolation final.

Luca De Aliprandini was the best of the Azzurri: the Trentino surrendered in the quarterfinals against Pertl himself, after having passed the round of 16 in a confrontation with Linus Strasser from Germany. Out in the round of 16 were Filippo Della Vite – defeated by the winner Schmid -, and Alex Vinatzer, out against Slovenia’s Zan Kranjec, after having played it all during the second run.