Who is Michela Moioli, on the snow roof of the world with the snowboard

She was missing a single title to embellish an already extraordinary career. He won it, he took it with the whole class and ferocity, the determination and technique he holds. He entered the legend, winning the photoFinish, falling immediately after crossing the finish line, after slaloming between bumps, parabolic and jumps. With world gold in the Snowboard Cross Michela Moioli Book a place in the very great Italian sport of all time.

The triumph on the snows of Sankt Moritz, in the Engadina valley, in Switzerland, has reached the age of maturity, at the age of twenty -nine. Moioli did nothing wrong. First in the quarterfinals, first in the semifinal and first in the final. For the Bergamo area of ​​Alzano Lombardo, already winner of the Olympic gold at the PyeongChang games in 2018, it is the fourth World Cup, the seventh overall world medal: It is the first Italian snowboard that succeeds in the company. Moioli’s is the third gold for Italy at the World Cup: previously the most coveted medal if Roland Fischnaller had grabbed it (parallel giant slalom), Maurizio Bormolini and Elisa Caffont (team parallel slalom). For Italy it is the second world championship of the SBX history after that of Luca Matteotti of 2015.

“It looked like a taboo, but I did it: I’m very happy”: So Moioli, radiant after gold. The technical director Cesare Pisoni is also enthusiastic: “He is the largest world championship for Italy in the history of snowboard: Michela managed to win a gold in a season that seemed difficult: it is the number one in the world”. Just like his great friend Sofia GoggiaMoioli had a professional path marked by various physical injuries and problems, not least the pneumonia that in recent weeks it seemed to have even compiled his participation in the World Cup.

Competitive, determined; Michela has transformed her great passion – the snowboard – into a profession. He began on the Nevi Bergamasche, in Spiazzi di Gromo, where he went on vacation with his family. And after measured in many disciplines, from volleyball to football (practiced up to thirteen years) to cycling, he chose the snowboard. “I put the skis for two and a half years and eight years and the table,” said the champion.

The most critical moment of his career had (and overcome) eleven years ago when, at the 2014 members’ Olympics, during the final he suffered a fall due to which the cruciate ligament broke out. He came out thanks only to that “frightening strength of the will” that friends and opponents recognize them and who still constitutes the pedestal of his triumphs. He said: «In the snowboard the injuries must be taken into account. The important thing, after the fall, is to get up and leave ». This did Michela Moioli, who again – as every time before an important race – slept three to four hours, living with the wait, transforming anxiety into a force.