Sara Fina had just turned 30co-owner together with her husband Matteo Bassino, older brother of Marta, the ski champion, of a sheep farm and mother of two children. She was found lifeless in her home in via Boves, in Borgo San Dalmazzo. Her husband found her, who had gone out in the night to clear the snow, one of her other activities. The ski champion for the grave mourning in the family, announced his withdrawal from the Kvitfjell World Cup stage in Norway.
Originally from Cartignano, in the upper valley Maira Sara had also been a municipal councilor. She graduated from the Agricultural Institute and was part of a historic family of Friesian dairy cow breeders. Since she was a girl she helped her parents, Edoardo and Daniela, with whom she lived together with her brothers Raffaele and Samuele. With Matteo, Marta’s brother, he also shared the passion for skiing which he practiced at a competitive level. In 2014 he founded a farm in via Mazzini in Borgo, two years later she joined him, helping him to expand the breeding of sheep of the Sambucana breed. Over 250 heads, transferred in the summer to the pastures of Limone and Valasco above Valdieri.
«In my personal name and that of the municipal administration, I offer my deepest condolences. We are close to her husband, her little children, councilor Bassino, our champion Marta and the whole family. It is a terrible tragedy, the whole community gathers around the pain of this family”. As the mayor of Borgo, Roberta Robbione.
Condolences also from Fisi. «About her Her smile, her passion for cross-country skiing, fielded first as an athlete and then as a coach. We want to express on behalf of the Western Alps Committee and the Cuneo Provincial Committee of the FISI our condolences and closeness to the family in this very sad moment – they write from the federation that deals with skiing -. Piedmontese skiing loses another protagonist on the track and a woman who had been able to best embody the values of sport»: with these words the President of the FISI Western Alps Committee, Pietro Blengini, and the President of the FISI Cuneo Provincial Committee, Paolo Giordano comment with the sudden disappearance of Sara Fina.
«Our heartfelt and sympathetic thoughts – continue Blengini and Giordano – go to Sara’s family, her husband Matteo Bassino and her sister-in-law Marta, to whom Sara had given the joy of becoming a father and an aunt of two splendid children. In memory we go back to Sara’s commitment in training and in competitions for the colors of the Valle Maira Ski Club and, more recently, to the passion with which he passed on his technical experience and his moral baggage to the boys of the Valle Stura Ski Club that he coached. We have the images of her when, as a young athlete, she gave her best on the race tracks, but above all her example of a girl who loved sport and life and who was carrying out a beautiful life project with Matteo, unfortunately tragically interrupted by the destiny”.
