Federica Brignone champion of Italy in giant slalom

Federica Brignone d'oro

Federica Brignone è for the fourth time in her career Italian giant slalom champion. The Valle d’Aosta native of the Carabinieri Sports Center dominated the scene in both heats of the giant slalom at the Italian Absolute Championships offered on the Lazaun slope in Val Senales, Bolzano. Thus rises to ten the overall total of Italian titles of the champion of La Salle.

After the best time in the first downhill, Brignone stretched further in the second, to stop the stopwatch on 2’00″96 and guarantee herself a margin of 2″40 over the younger Giorgia Collomb, 17 years old and herself a Valle d’Aosta member of the Carabinieri, who thus graspsì the second overall tricolor medal of her career after the bronze in the combined last winter.

The tricolor podium è completed by the Friulian Lara Della Mea (Army, +3″07), able to climb three positions in the decisive heat to close in fourth place overall in the wake of Swiss Vanessa Kasper, third at 3″01.
In contrast, Merano’s Elisa Platino (Carabinieri, +3″43), who was fifth at halfway through the race, slipped to fifth, with Ilaria Ghisalberti (Carabinieri) sixth at 3″75 followed by Francesca Carolli (Esercito) seventh at 3″77 thanks to a ten-position comeback in the second run.

As said for Brignone this is the fourth overall title in giant slalom after those of 2011, 2017 and 2018, the tenth overall counting also the other specialties, with two titles in super-G, three in combined and one in slalom. In the coming days the Italian Absolute Championships will continue in Val Senales with the women’s slalom (Thursday, April 4) and men’s slalom (Friday, April 5) to conclude on Saturday, April 6 with the men’s giant slalom.