Camille Rast wins and overtakes Federica Brignone

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Brignone overcome

Swiss one-two in Flachau: Camille Rast climbs seven positions in the second run to precede her compatriot take her second career success to jump to the lead also of the overall World Cup ranking where she overtakes Federica Brignone and of the specialty ranking. A very positive performance for Lara Della Mea who after having taken the qualification in the first run è managed in turn to gain nine positions to insert herself in sixteenth place in the overall ranking, nineteenth instead Martina Peterlini who confirmed her mid-race placing. Nothing to do instead for Marta Rossetti, excellent fifteenth in the first but out in the second while attempting the’attack to a top10 placing.

Not quaalified in the first fraction instead were Lucrezia Lorenzi and Giulia Collomb, unfinished heats then for Vera Tschurtschenthaler, Celina Haller and Lazio rookie Giulia Valleriani.

A great second run then allowed Rast to revolutionize the Flachau night slalom standings: 1’55″03 was the overall time for the Swiss, who saw teammate Holdener finish behind her by 0″16, with Sweden’s Sara Hector third at 0″38. Only fourth place, then, for Katharina Liensberger, who was truly dominant in the first split but then failed to capitalize on her lead in the second. A gap of 2″04 for Lara Della Mea, who came close to a career-best result (è she was 15th in Killington in November 2023), with Peterlini nineteenth at 2″38 at the end of a second run in which she struggled to shift gears.

As mentioned, Rast climbs to the top of both rankings: in the slalom one with 405 points she precedes Wendy Holdener (345) and Ljutic (309) while in the overall there are 533 points for the Swiss against Hector’s 507 with Brignone stopped at 479. But the Valle d’Aosta native will be able to have her say again in the next stage in Cortina d’Ampezzo: a downhill and a super-G are scheduled between Saturday and Sunday on the Tofane Olimpia, preceded by two days of time trials.

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