TORINO 2006 PARALYMPICS WINTER GAMES March 10-19

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Great Gold for Dal Maistro and another Bronze for Parente in Sestriere’s SuperG

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Dal Maistro e Balasso

Mar 14 2006

Victory by the Austrian Sabine Gasteiger

It was an historic day for Italian skiing. Gold medal for Gianmaria Dal Maistro, in the SuperG - blind category - in the Torino 2006 Paralympic Winter Games.

The Italian skier had finished second behind German Gerd Gradwohl, who was then disqualified because the distance bewteen him and his guide was not within regulations; third was Slovakian Radomir Dudas.


So Gianmaria Dal Maistro's silver medal in the Super G blind category became gold.


Second bronze medal for Silvia Parente in the Paralympic Winter Games : the skier from Milan with a visual impairment finished third in the SuperG, behind Austrian Sabine Gasteiger and Czech Anna Kuliskova. Compared to the winner, Parente crossed the finish line with a delay of 2"55. As in the Downhill, Silvia Parente skied down the SuperG track preceded by Lorenzo Migliari, her loyal guide, who is her partner also in life.


Thirty-six-year-old computer programmer, with a degree in psychology, Laura Parente also loves sailing. “I hope these results will have a positive effect on all sport for people with a disability. I had already won a medal 12 years ago, at the Paralympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, but there wasn’t much of a stir, maybe because the event was held far away in Norway, or maybe because there was less awareness at the time. Today things are different”.


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