After the Olympic gold and 3 world cups, Michela wins the only title that was missing: “Incredible”
Michela Moioli frees the scream: in St. Moritz is gold in the snowboardcross, the most beautiful victory of the last few years for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic champion. After having conquered three world cups and the 2018 Olympic title (in addition to the teaching silver in 2022), Bergamo won the only title that was still missing. It is even more true, because it comes to the end of a complicated season and after having to give up the previous one for an injury during the preparation. On the most important day Michela has all left behind: in the challenge for gold, the British Charlotte Bankes, bronze for the French Julia Pereira de Sousa, beat a breath. “I have no words. We were fast, we trained very much – said Michela Moioli – but after the blow in the training I didn’t think I became world champion. It’s really incredible, I just want to thank everyone. I can’t believe I have managed to become world champion”.
the race
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Michela was perfect: after the second half in qualifying yesterday, she left no one has nobody. He won the quarterfinals and semifinals, before gold. It was not easy: in the final Pereira de Sousa tried to stretch, Moioli went up and burned at the sprint banks in the final straight. The two dived on the finish line and it was the photoFinish that assigned gold to blue. Then a full full of happiness and the race to embrace the technical director Cesare Pisoni.
For Michela it is the seventh overall world medal, the first gold after three individuals and an individual silver and two team silver. For Italy it is the second world championship of the SBX history after that of Luca Matteotti of 2015.
men
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A fall at the start of the quarter -finals instead put an end to Lorenzo Sommariva’s journey, ready to overcome the round of 16 in the wake of the Australian Lambert; Out in the first round Omar Visintin, third in his battery behind the French Chollet and Bozzolo. The final success went to the Canadian Eliot Grontin who in the final had the best of Loan Bozzolo and the Austrian Alessandro Hämmerle. Tomorrow from 11 to St. Moritz the team test is scheduled.
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