Lara Colturi second in slalom at 18 behind Shiffrin: she is Italian but competes for Albania

It is not Brignone, Goggia, Bassinobut was on the verge of winning the World Cup. She doesn’t compete for the Italian national team, but she is very Italian: since she made her debut in the World Cup at the age of 15 she has represented Albania. Is called Lara Colturiis now eighteen years old and is already able to place second in the World Cup behind a dominatrix like Mikaela Shiffrin, who achieved success number 99 in the Gurgl slalom (154th podium) and could already reach the historic one hundred in the Cup next weekend in Killington.

Only 55 cents from Shiffrin

But for one day the surprise Colturi takes away some space from the American. Starting with number 27, she immediately rose to fourth place after the first heat. She did not let herself be influenced by the long wait for the second, and with extreme naturalness she found excellent trajectories on the steep slope, prevailing in the final with 2 hundredths of a second over the Swiss caseultimately third. Not even the Austrian Liensberger and Switzerland Holdener they managed to overtake her, and only Shiffrin managed to beat her with 55 cents of an advantage, giving up 6 to the Italian-Albanian on the second track.

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Daughter of Daniela Ceccarelli and Alessandro Colturi

Lara Colturi is the daughter of champions: her mother Daniela Ceccarelli she was Olympic super-G champion in Salt Lake City 2002, while her father Alessandro Colturi, suo skiman, he was track director at the 2006 Turin Olympics. Since she was little, Lara was introduced to skiing and constantly trained by her parents, who followed their own programming different from that of the Italian federation. From this diversity of management was born the choice to compete for Albania, skipping the intermediate stages and immediately debuting in the World Cup, at the age of 15, in the 2022-23 season. Until now the best placing was a ninth place in the slalom Flachau last January, now comes this second place, one step away from Shiffrin, who truly seems to be entering the world elite of alpine skiing. In a specialty where the Italians suffer, without the help of the big three who range from giant slalom to downhill: Lara Della Mea she went out in the first gates of the second heat, when she was in tenth place, as she went out Giorgia Collomb who had a beautiful first run starting with number 64. She was twentieth Martina Peterlinitwenty-first Beatrice Solaout too Marta Rossetti, Vera Tschurtschenthalerand unqualified Lucrezia Lorenzi. From now on the comparison with the Italian from Tirana will be very tough for the Italians who want to count again.