Of Aldo Simoni
The young man, 26 years old, was in a meeting in Sabaudia with the Austrian national rowing team. At the wheel of the Y10 he was hit by a 30-year-old woman, investigated for roadside homicide. The team returned to Austria
He was driving his Y10 when, being overtakinginvested and killed Christoph Seifriedbergertwenty-six-year-old athlete from rowing team of Austria. Now the woman30 years old from Amaseno (Frosinone) is being investigated for road homicideAnd.
The youngster, in retreat in Sabaudia (site of the Austrian Federation’s start-of-season meeting) has arrived after Boxing Day, was continuing the preparation in bicycle and he was in the company of seven other Austrian athletes on the Provincial Maritime Road II, between Pontinia and Sabaudia. When, shortly after 15.30, a Lancia Yspilon proceeding in the opposite directiondriven by a woman who was returning home from work attempted to overtake a truck and she didn’t notice that the small group of athletes on bikes was arriving.
The woman has invested fully young Seifriedberger, last in the row of boys. The athlete was thrown to the side of the road, while the car ran into an adjacent ditch the street. Arrived on site, the 118 doctors tried to revive him, but for the young Austrian there was nothing they could do. Desperate his companionswho had many difficulties communicating with the paramedics and carabinieri, due to the language, and who managed to make themselves understood only thanks to a lady who stopped and acted as a translator speaking in English.
In the meantime the truck driver is missing: we don’t know if out of fear, or why he didn’t notice of what happened. The accident proved the national team Austrian who decided to come back home in advance. In the meantime, the embassy has made available to the group a psychological support. Many i condolence messages arrived to the athlete’s family and to the Austrian national team in the last few hours, including those of the mayor of Sabaudia, Albert Moscowand the president of the Italian rowing federation, Joseph Abbagnale.
Christoph Seifriedsberger he had frequented Sabaudia for 8 years and appreciated its beauties so much as to post various glimpses of it on his social networks. She loved the sun pontine coast and its landscapes. His death has shaken the whole rowing environment that orbits around the lake of Paola, in Sabaudia.
Christoph Seifriedberger had won, in 2014, the bronze in pairs, at the junior world championships; he had been under 23 world champion in 2016, in four without; bronze in 2017 at the under 23 world championships in coxless four and, again on this boat, he had placed fourth to the Europeans of Poznan in 2020. A respectable curriculum. But he was also an excellent student. He was graduate last May 13 in Political economy and international trade at the University of Berkeley in California. And now he was ready to face the next competitive season.
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08 January 2023 ( edit 08 January 2023 | 13:44)
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