Michela Moioli returns to podium in Beidahu

Michela Moioli second

Michela Moioli è second in Beidahu! The second seasonal stage si World Cup è opened with the acuto of the 2018 Olympic champion that in the final è was preceded only by the British Charlotte Bankes at the end of a decisive challenge resolved only on the final humps of the Chinese track.

Coming out of the’last corner Moioli was able to thread through provisional leader Lea Casta, but Bankes found the momentum to cross the finish line ahead of all, ahead of the Bergamasque and the Frenchwoman herself; fourth place for Austrian Pia Zerkhold.

Thus takes shape the podium number 43 in the World Cup career of Michela Moioli, who has been able to climb the highest step on 19 occasions:  the Lombard woman had also been second in the final race of last season, behind Bankes herself, on March 24 in Mount St. Anne, Canada.

Casta maintains the leadership of the overall standings with 150 points, followed by Bankes (150) with Moioli moving up to fourth place at 112.

On the other hand, a mistake in the semifinals prevented a sin lì authoritative Lorenzo Sommariva from entering the decisive act of the men’s race: in the subsequent B final, the Italian managed to cross the finish line first, materializing fifth place followed by Julian L’ftner and Nathan Pare.

Victory è then went to Canadian Eliot Grondin ahead of Austrian Alessandro Hämmerle and Frenchman Merlin Surget. Instead, Omar Visintin, who was third in his own battery, had been eliminated in the round of 16.

After his fourth place in Cervinia Grondin jumps to the top of the overall ranking with 150 points, followed by Austria’s Dusek (126); Sommariva maintains third position with 105.