Lisa Vittozzi returns to success after a one-year hiatus

Lisa Vittozzi returns to the international scene and dominates the Loop One Festival in Munich.

After renouncing the entirety of last season, the Sappada-born 2024 World Cup winner showed up at the Bavarian capital’s Olympic park in top condition. Between qualifying and the final she stumbled over only two shooting errors to dominate in the decisive round ahead of Johanna Skottheim.

These are really convincing impressions made by Vittozzi, who appeared on the ball as much on the skirolls as on the shot, both in terms of accuracy and quickness. Both errors accrue in the final, in each of the two standing ranges, but the penalty laps do not affect her escape, allowing her to cross the finish line ahead of all after 22’44″5 of the race, with a margin of 5″9 and 7″4 over the two Swedes Johanna Skottheim and Anna Magnusson – both with two errors – thus completing a podium that escaped instead the host Anna Weidel, fourth ahead of Finland’s Minkkinen and Norway’s Knotten.

“It’s amazing: it’s a really exciting day for me – were Lisa Vittozzi’s first words – it’s been a long time since I competed and I really enjoyed myself in this setting. Now I can really say that I can’t wait for winter to come. In the race I only thought about doing my best-I am aware of what I can do and I tried to live the moment to the fullest, both on the shot and on the track. Step by step I will now try to define my condition even more. I believe a lot in the work I have done, I feel confident and I am convinced that the results will come.”