Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy) (AFP)
Two more tricolor medals!
Frenchman Mathieu Faivre became on Tuesday the first world champion in history in individual parallel at the Alpine Skiing World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy), where Tessa Worley won bronze.
Faivre, 29, has so far only had one World Cup victory (giant of Val d'Isère in December 2016).
He dominated the Croatian Filip Zubcic by 48/100 in the final after two rounds to give France its first World Championship title.
The Swiss Loïc Meillard, big favorite, benefited from the fall of Alexander Schmid in the second round to clinch 3rd place, his 2nd bronze medal after the combined Monday.
In women, the French Tessa Worley finished 3rd in front of the American Paula Moltzan (+1 sec 18), obtaining the 4th tricolor medal after the title of Faivre and the two medals of Alexis Pinturault (bronze and silver).
Marta Bassino, 24 and victorious over four of the five World Cup giants contested this winter, adorned herself with gold by barely beating the Austrian Katharina Liensberger in the final.
The morning qualifications had been fatal to several favorites including the Slovakian Petra Vlhova, victorious in the only women's parallel of the season, the Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami and the Austrian Marco Schwarz, crowned Monday on the combined.
Others had decided to ignore this competition, such as the French Alexis Pinturault, the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen and the American Mikaela Shiffrin, before the giant and the slalom at the end of the week.
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