Tommaso Sala takes the last skiing championship

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Tommaso Sala closed out the 2023 edition of the Italian Absolute Championships in La Thuile, triumphing between the wide gates for his fourth career championship, his third in giant slalom after the one he won in 2016.

The Brianzolo of the Gruppo Sportivo Fiamme Oro, fourth at the halfway point of the race, paid a good 1″06 from Giulio Zuccarini, who seemed to be in full control of the situation, before the 26-year-old from Bologna squandered the chance of his first category title, exiting at the most beautiful moment. Second place went to Alex Hofer (G.S. Fiamme Gialle), 22 hundredths behind Sala, and third to Filippo Della Vite (G.S. Fiamme Oro), fifth after the first run and eventually on the podium, after a furious comeback, by only 5 hundredths over Luca Taranzano (Sci Club Monte Lussardi).

Without Alex Vinatzer, Tobias Kastlunger, and Simon Maurberger, among others, who went out in the first run, the standings saw Stefano Pizzato a great fifth ahead of Filippo Collini, Andrea Bertoldini, and Davide Seppi, on the day of Riccardo Tonetti’s last career race, who had waved goodbye to everyone at the end of the first run.