Elena Curtoni carves out Cortina d'Ampezzo super-G
Jan 23, 2022·Alpine Skiing
Elena Curtoni's day was to complete an all-Italian two-day event at the "Olympia delle Tofane" in Cortina. The sixth super-G of the season spoke Italian again (5 victories with three different athletes!).
The Italian skier is at her second World Cup triumph, two years after Bansko's downhill (where there was an Italian hat-trick with Bassino and Brignone), for the first pearl in "her" speciality, where she had already reached the podium twice in the season.
She beat Tamara Tippler (AUT), who started just before her (bib number 3 compared to the Italian's 5) by only nine hundredths on the fast and equally technical course designed by Franz Gamper, Ester Ledecka's coach. And in third place was Michelle Gisin (SUI), 24 hundredths behind Curtoni and just 8 in front of Federica Brignone (ITA). The Italian Overall winner postponed her appointment with her first podium in Cortina but took Goggia's red bib away. She was chasing her with only 5 points (and now Curtoni is in second place in the discipline).
The sore point of the day was Sofia Goggia's fall, which spoiled the Italian party a little given the concern about the consequences.
The World Cup now moves on to Kronplatz to finish the Italian week.
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