
Left Roberta Pedranzini right Francesca Martinelli
MOUNTANEERING SKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN ANDORRA
Super-Italy won 22 medals
March 07, 2010
Italian teams have obtained the gold medal in all categories of the relay races that have taken place this Saturday in Soldeu under a radiant sun.
Relay races were the last of the Canillo (Andorra) World Championship of Mountaneering ski 2010.
Italians have shown they are the best ski Mountaineering team in the World. Damiano Lenzi, Manfred Reichegger, Lorenzo Holznecht and Denis Brunod outstood the Swiss by a minute (41'48" Italy 42'49"Switzerland), in an explosive race that started with the Swiss in front, then at the the third fraction Lorenzo Holznekcht passed Yannick Ecoeur and Italy maintened the first place to the end of the competition.
France obtained third position and Spain fourth although Kilian Jornet, fourth relay, fell in the first descent.
The Andorran team that aimed for a fifth o sixth position has finally obtained the eighth. In the women’s category the Italian team (Francesca Martinelli, Roberta Pedranzini and Silvia Rocca 40'48") has shown once more to be invincible, and even though Andorrans started in second position thanks to Sophie Dusautoir, finally they have had to conform with eighth position.
The podium has been completed by the Swiss and Austrian team. Mireia Miró has achieved fourth position for the Spanish team only one second ahead of France that came in fifth in a spectacular dispute with Laetita Roux.
In the youth’s category, podium was for Italy, with Alessandra Cazzanelli, Stefano Stradelli and Robert Antonioli, silver for Switzerland and bronze for France.
Italy won con 22 medals, France 13, Switzerland 12 and Spain 7.
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