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Skeleton: Bagnis in history, is world silver in St. Moritz

2023-01-27T11:57:51.266Z


Gold for Briton Weston, bronze for Korean Seunggi Jung (ANSA) Amedeo Bagnis enters the history of Italian winter sports by winning the first individual world medal for Italy in a skeleton world championship. It happened on the natural basin (the last existing in the world) of St. Moritz, where the twenty-three year old originally from Casale Monferrato on his sled built a masterful test for all four scheduled heats, spread over two days. The gap from the gol


Amedeo Bagnis enters the history of Italian winter sports by winning the first individual world medal for Italy in a skeleton world championship.

It happened on the natural basin (the last existing in the world) of St. Moritz, where the twenty-three year old originally from Casale Monferrato on his sled built a masterful test for all four scheduled heats, spread over two days.

The gap from the gold medal is 1″79, from the unattainable British Matt Weston, clearly superior to the competition with the overall time of 4'28″71.

The bronze went instead to the Korean Seunggi Jung, who came 2″46 behind the winner and ahead of the other British Craig Thompson by just one cent.

The day of the blue team directed by Maurizio Oioli is completed by the seventh place of Mattia Gaspari.

The Ampezzo rider maintained his seventh position, returning to high levels after the years he lost due to a serious injury to his Achilles tendon, which seems to be definitely behind him.

Approaching skeleton only four years ago from the world of athletics where he ran the 400 meters, Bagnis immediately showed a feeling for the specialty, conquering the Italian summer push title and the Italian title a few months later.

Deployed on the continental circuit, he achieved his first international result at the 2022 Junior World Championships on the Innsbruck track, where he won the bronze medal.

A member of the Cortina Bob Club, he took part in the 2022 Beijing Olympics last February, finishing eleventh.

The world silver in St. Moritz joins the bronze medal obtained in the team competition by Mattia Gaspari and Valentina Margaglio in Altenberg in 2020.

Source: ansa

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