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Team snowboard cross, Italy d'silver: new medal record arrives!

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The Italy of winter sports another extraordinary page to its Olympic history: Michela Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva have in fact won the silver medal in the mixed team event at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games, finishing behind Great Britain and ahead of France.

Just minutes after Federica Brignone&#8217s stunning gold medal in the giant slalom comes the 21st overall medal of the Azzurri&#8217s adventure in Milan Cortina 2026, a result that, with still a week of competitions left, allows Italy to break the previous record for total medals, 20, set in Lillehammer in 2004.

Francesco LuciveroAll the Azzurri medals in Milan Cortina 2026: photos

Francesca Lollobrigida won two golds in speed skating, in the women’s 3,000 and 5.000 meters women’s.
Splendid gold also for the mixed relay of the short track (Confortola, Betti, Fontana, Nadalini, Sighel and Spechenhauser).
Marion Oberhofer and Andrea Vötter came out on top in the women’s luge.
Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner, on the other hand, won the men’s event, again in luge.
Federica Brignone gave very strong emotions, winning two golds (Super-G and giant) ten months after the serious accident.
Double podium positions for the Azzurri in the men’s downhill: Giovanni Franzoni silver, Dominik Paris bronze.
Dorothea Wierer, Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer and Lisa Vittozzi won silver in the 4×6 km mixed biathlon.
Arianna Fontana also won an individual silver in the short track, in the 500 meters, equaling fencer Mangiarotti’s 13 Olympic medals.
Sofia Goggia won a bronze medal in the women’s downhill, taking another laurel at Five Circles.
Also Lucia Dalmasso celebrated a bronze, in snowboarding, finishing third in the women’s parallel giant slalom.
In a'crazy edition for the Italian luge, Dominik Fischnaller’s bronze in the men’s individual race is also recorded.
Bronze also for the Italian figure skating team (Rizzo, Grassl, Gutmann, Conti, Macii, Guignard and Fabbri).
Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner confirmed on the Olympic curling podium, winning bronze in the mixed doubles.
Yet another Italian luge medal is the bronze in the mixed relay (Hofer, Vötter, Oberhofer, Fischnaller, Rieder and Kainzwaldner).
Michela Moioli also found a medal: excellent bronze for her, recovering from a bad fall in training.
Davide Graz, Elia Barp, Martino Carollo and flag bearer Federico Pellegrino cheered for the splendid bronze in the men’s cross-country relay.

Moioli and Sommariva delivered a solid performance on the Livigno Snow Park course, confirming the competitiveness of the Italian movement in a discipline that has delivered top results in recent years.

In the final, Sommariva, however, had to deal with a contact that cost him 66 hundredths of a delay, but Moioli was very good at turning the situation around with an aggressive and clean second fraction, finishing 43 hundredths behind Great Britain and ahead of France, third at 55 hundredths.

For Michela Moioli this is her second Olympic medal in these Games, after the bronze she won in the individual race despite a previous bad fall in training. The tally of Italian medals thus rises to 7 golds, 4 silvers and 10 bronzes.

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