Kostner wins bronze at Sochi

IMG class=hide alt=”Kostner wins bronze at Sochi” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wpid-62667ebdd44d703aa1a0b5dda5cb5d6d.jpg” (ANSA) – Sochi, February 20 – Italy’s 2012 world champion Carolina Kostner on Thursday won the bronze medal in the Olympic ladies’ figure skating at the Sochi Winter Games. PKostner, 27, came third behind Russia’s Adelina Sotnikova, who won the gold, and defending champion Yuna Kim of South Korea. It was Italy’s eighth medal of the Russian Olympics./PPKostner, one of Italy’s most popular athletes, has finally tasted Olympic success after five European titles and several world medals./PPShe flopped at Turin in 2006, where she finished ninth after going in as favourite, and placed 16th at Vancouver in 2010./PPItaly won the bronze medal in the biathlon mixed relay on Wednesday./PPThe Italian team of Dorothea Wierer, Karin Oberhofer, Dominik Windish and Lukas Hofer came behind gold medallists Norway and the Czech Republic./PPEarlier in the Games, short-track skater Arianna Fontana won two individual medals, bronze in the 1,500-metres and silver in the 500m, and helped Italy come third in the 3,000m relay event./PPItalian skier Christof Innerhofer won two more medals: silver in the men’s downhill and bronze in the super combined./PPArmin Zoeggeler’s bronze in the luge is the other medal Italy has won in Sochi so far./P
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