Elena Curtoni will return to racing next season

Elena Curtoni will return to competitions next season

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Elena Curtoni è fell in the women’s World Cup super-G in St. Moritz last December 8, getting a fracture of the sacrum, and there was optimism for her return to racing before the end of this season.

Instead, it wasn’t so: recovery’ve been slower than expected, and the Valtellina skier, despite having already put her skis back on in recent days, announced today that she has decided, in agreement with the technical staff of the Italian national team, to postpone her return to competitions until next winter.

“The clinical recovery è has been longer than expected, we have not reached the point where we would have liked to be at this time of the season and the calendar is advancing relentlessly – says Elena on fisi.org -. We do not want to force the timing, but to arrive at the’beginning of the preparation for next season completely in place from the physical”.

Elena Curtoni, 33 years old on Feb. 3, has so far competed in 259 World Cup races, the first in the slalom in Levi on Nov. 14, 2009. She has won three races, two downhill and one super-G, and è climbed the podium nine other times. Her best finish in the overall ranking è was ninth place last year, in the superG ranking è she was second in 2022 behind Federica Brignone.