Alpine skiing: Bassino, Liensberger and Faivre are first parallel champions


Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - February 16, 2021 Italy's Marta Bassino celebrates on the podium with a gold medal after winning the women's parallel REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Marta Bassino shared an historic women's parallel gold with Austrian Katharina Liensberger at the Alpine skiing world championships on Tuesday, as hosts Italy celebrated their first medal since the competition began last Thursday.

Mathieu Faivre won France a first gold of the championships in the men's event.

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