Peter Fill in history, is the first blue to win the downhill cup – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published March 16, 2016 at 14:57 hours.
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Peter Fill goes into the history of Italian skiing. The 33-year-Bressanone is in fact the first blue ever to win the downhill cup: it is enough for the tenth place finish in the trial of St. Mortiz, site of the final of the 2015-16 World Cup. The race was won by Swiss Beat Feuz in front of the American Nyman and the Canadian Guay; 19th Paris that ended second in the standings behind Fill. historic day for the Italian ski with the descent of the cup victory, the first ever, by Peter Fill.

At the 33-year-Brixen, the head of the special ranking on a par with Svindal, injured and is already out of the game for a long time, it took the tenth place in the race in St. Moritz, headquarters of the finals of the World Cup 2015-16. Fill, who won this season’s race Kitzbuehel January 23, saw rewarded his perseverance and therefore closed the downhill standings with 462 points to first place in front of 444 of Paris and 436 Svindal. For Italy is the first-ever downhill cup while it is the first trophy of the special slalom cup Manfred Moelgg of 2008.

For the record the race in St. Moritz has been the master of Beat Feuz house that, despite the wind and the snowfall has stopped the clock on 1’40 “44 ahead of 8 cents l ‘ American Steven Nyman and 54 cents Canadian Erik Guay.

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