16 Jan 2015

Italy hits the ground running at the Snowboard World Championships, which began yesterday in the Austrian town of Kreischberg.

The Azzurri team in fact wins the world gold in snowboard cross thanks to Valdostan athlete Luca Matteotti, able to prevail after racing a semifinal and a final perfectly. For Italy (“the strongest in the world”, as sporting director Cesare Pisoni proudly called them) it is the first ever success in cross; a victory that comes after a drought of wins at the World Championships that had lasted since 1999.

The Azzurri team – which even in the last three years had been able to achieve important results at other events – thus receives a well-deserved recognition; made even sweeter by the women's bronze, also in cross, won by the very talented Bergamo athlete Michela Moioli.

Here is the schedule of the competitions in the coming days:

Saturday 17/01 – Men's and women's halfpipe finals (18.00)
Monday 19/01 – Men's slopestyle qualifiers (9.30) and women's (14.05)
Wednesday 21/01 – Men's and women's slopestyle finals (11.00)
Thursday 22/01 – Men's and women's parallel slalom qualifiers (9.30)
Thursday 22/01 – Men's and women's parallel slalom finals (13.00)
Friday 23/01 – Men's big air qualifiers (16.55) and women's (15)
Friday 23/01 – Men's and women's parallel giant slalom qualifiers (9.00)
Friday 23/01 – Men's and women's parallel giant slalom finals (13.30)
Saturday 24/01 – Men's big air final (18.35) and women's (18.00)