Michela Moioli returns to success in the women's snowboard cross world cup.
The reigning Olympic champion won her first individual victory of the season - seventeenth in her career, also considering the success in the team trial in Montafon - on the Italian snows of Cervinia, where she preceded the American Faye Gulini, the Australian Belle in the four-man final. Brockhoff and the other American Lindsey Jacobellis.
Twelfth and out in the quarterfinals Caterina Carpano, as well as Francesca Gallina fifteenth.
The cup classification after three tests sees Banks in command with 209 ahead of Moioli with 186 and Brockhoff with 180.
"I got rid of a great weight because I had a lot of pressure on my shoulders from running at home and because the first races didn't go very well - explained the Olympic champion at the end -. I dedicate the victory to my family who came here. to cheer, I competed for them and for the whole team. I knew I could get a good result, so I gave my all. The big final was a sporting battle, but I am a fighter and I am very happy, I really needed of this victory ".
In the men's field, the Austrian Jakob Dusek prevailed over the Canadian Eliot Grondin and the Spaniard Lucas Eguibar.
Best of the Italians Tommaso Leoni, finished in ninth position, while the other blues are more late with Lorenzo Sommariva 13th, Michele Godino 15th, Filippo Ferrari 16th, Matteo Menconi 18th.
