Shock in Italy: young ski promise Matilde Lorenzi dies in an accident

The young Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi He died this Monday after suffering a serious fall while training descending from the Val Senales station, in the northern region of Alto Adige.

Matilde Lorenzi, 19 years old and part of the Italian army, He trained on the Gravard G1 track in Val Senales when he fell and violently hit his face on the icy track, according to the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) in a statement.

«The Ministry of Defense and Minister Guido Crosetto express their deepest condolences and embrace the family and colleagues of Corporal Matilde Lorenzi, athlete of the Italian Army and promising Italian skier, who tragically died after a very serious accident that occurred during a session “training,” the Italian Ministry of Defense itself lamented in a post on X this Tuesday.

A promising track record

Lorenzi, who was part of the Italian junior women’s team, won the national Open and junior titles in Super G earlier this year, and last year she was sixth in the downhill and eighth in the super-G at the Junior World Championships in Chatel (France ). In December 2023 she was eleventh in the Super-G in St Moritz (Switzerland), her best ranking in the European Cup.