Matilde Lorenzi, the young Italian ski promise who fell yesterday during a training session on the Val Senales glacier in Alto Adige, has died. The news was reported in a post by the Ministry of Defense.
Matilde Lorenzi, born in Turin and living in Sestriere, would have turned twenty on November 15. The Italian skier died in Bolzano hospital from injuries sustained Monday in a fall during training on a slope in Val Senales. The sister of another skier, Lucrezia, Matilde was an Army athlete and a promising Italian skier, a member of the Italian women's C team.
A specialist in speed disciplines, he stood out in downhill and especially in the super-G, where in the 2023/2024 season in Val Sarentino he won the Italian overall and youth title, beating Laura Pirovano, of the World Cup team.
That same season, she participated in the Junior World Championships in Châtel, France, finishing fourth in the team event and sixth in the downhill. Her European Cup debut was on February 11, 2021, in Santa Caterina di Valfurva, while her best finish was eleventh in the super-G on December 12, XNUMX, in St. Moritz.
She had never competed in the World Cup, but was closely monitored by the Italian coaches, including Angelo Weiss, who had participated in the 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. Matilde had started skiing when she was in kindergarten, but she had many other interests and hobbies, including fashion, cooking, photography, and crochet, the latter of which she used to relieve tension before competitions.
An avid reader of novels, her great love, however, was the mountains: "It's a place where you feel free and let go," she said. "I like it even without snow, for running and biking. When you see a really steep slope, you think, 'Oh my God, do I really have to do that?' But then it turns out to be fun, because skiing is always fun. It's like painting; you always leave a mark."
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What sad news, the world of skiing loses a promising star. My condolences to Matilde's family and friends.