Triple podium for Italy’s parallel snowboarding
Triple podium for Italy in parallel snowboarding
The first parallel slalom of the season è by Daniele Bagozza who triumphs in Davos (Switzerland) overcoming in the final the Austrian Arvid Auner with Edwin Coratti third. And Lucia Dalmasso is confirmed on the second step of the podium: Italian snowboarding è more and more; protagonist in this dream start of the season.
The team led by dt Cesare Pisoni manages to place as many as eight athletes in the main draw in Davos, five men and three women: Maurizio Bormolini and Roland Fischnaller unfortunately have to raise the white flag in the first round, but in the quarters Daniele Bagozza and Edwin Coratti guarantee themselves an all-Italian semifinal by overcoming Korea’s Sangho Lee and Austria’s Dominik Burgstaller, respectively, while Aaron Marc bows to the American Cody Winter.
The all-Italian challenge ended with a single hundredth advantage in favor of Bagozza: Coratti was routed to the final where he clearly got the better of Winters, to deserve his second podium of the season after placing second behind Bormolini in the opening race in Carezza.
In the duel for success, on the other hand, Auner can’t do anything against Bagozza’s will to win: for the 28-year-old from Ortisei, this is the third success in his career – all in slalom – almost four years after’s last pearl, dated January 2020 in Bad Gastein.
“I am delighted, speechless. I worked four years to get back on the podium. I managed to win and I can hardly believe it-I couldn’t have hoped for a better Christmas. I want to start the new year as I ended 2023” were the warm words of Bagozza, who leads a ranking that in addition to Coratti’s third place also offers Maarch’s sixth, Bormolini’s ninth and Fischnaller’s 14th, with Mirko Felicetti disqualified in the morning during the qualifying.
A week after placing first in the giant slalom in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Lucia Dalmasso was confirmed on the second step of the podium also in the slalom in Davos: the Bellunese skier is going through a shining moment of form and è comes within 29 hundredths of her first career success. But German Ramona Theresia Hofmeister è too strong in this beginning of the season: third victory for her out of as many races so far, two giants and one slalom.
And just as in Cortina, the podium è was completed by Austrian Sabine Schöffmann, who in the final for third and fourth place took advantage of the empty pass of Swiss Julie Zogg, overtaken in the semifinals by Dalmasso, who in the first two rounds had gotten rid of German Melanie Hochreiter and Czech Zuzana Maderova.
Eighth place and red light in the quarters then for Elisa Caffont who after overcoming in the eighth rounds the other Italian Jasmin Coratti – ninth – had to surrender in front of the same Zogg.
“I am really so happy to be on the podium in slalom as well. I believed it but not so much, if I have to be honest since I do better in giant slalom. Within a week I had two finals with Ramona Hofmeister: next time I have to be able to beat her”.
The 2023 on the board closes with Coratti leading the overall parallel ranking with 185 points, twelve more than Benjamin Karl with Bormolini (169) and Bagozza (130) in third and fourth place. The women’s ranking, on the other hand, naturally sees Hofmeister stand out with a full score (300) ahead of Lucia Dalmasso (2015) and Daniela Ulbing (154).
“I feel physically at my best, we have a great group and a splendid staff: the bib as leader of the overall è a special satisfaction: now a few days of rest for the holidays; and then I will tryò in the new year to continue like this” are the words of Coratti.
Press Release FISI
