Canada’s Calve captures first WC victory
Posted December 21, 2011 12:16 pm.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
CAREZZA, Italy — Canada’s Caroline Calve has captured her first World Cup snowboard victory.
The 33-year-old from Aylmer, Que., won the parallel giant slalom event Wednesday, beating Amelie Kober of Germany by 3.2 seconds in the final.
Austrian Marion Kreiner beat Julie Zogg to take third place.
Roland Fischnaller of Italy won the men’s race after Benjamin Karl crashed during his second run.
Karl was 0.09 seconds ahead of Fischnaller after the first run, but the World Cup leader crashed halfway down to hand Fischnaller his first win in the discipline after finishing second twice.
It was Fischnaller’s fourth career World Cup victory overall and second this season.
Rok Flander of Slovenia was third after beating Austrian Andreas Prommegger in the small final.
Karl still tops the overall standings, 10 points ahead of Fischnaller.
