BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 : Marianne Fatton of Switzerland won gold in the Olympic ski mountaineering women's sprint on Thursday.France's Emily Harrop took the silver with Spain's Ana Alonso Rodriguez in the bronze medal position.Fatton's victory was the first-ever Olympic gold in ski mountaineering, which

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 : Marianne Fatton of Switzerland won gold in the Olympic ski mountaineering women's sprint on Thursday.France's Emily Harrop took the silver with Spain's Ana Alonso Rodriguez in the bronze medal position.Fatton's victory was the first-ever Olympic gold in ski mountaineering, which

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 : Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the inaugural ski mountaineering event on Thursday.Minutes earlier, Switzerland's Marianne Fatton also made history as she beat big favourite Emily Harrop of France

Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Switzerland's Marianne Fatton clinched the first ski mountaineering gold medal in Olympics history Thursday, winning by 2.38 seconds in Bormio, Italy.

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 : Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the inaugural ski mountaineering event on Thursday.Minutes earlier, Switzerland's Marianne Fatton also made history as she beat big favourite Emily Harrop of France

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 19 : Oriol Cardona Coll won Spain's first Winter Olympics gold medal for 54 years as he claimed victory in the men's sprint in the inaugural ski mountaineering event on Thursday.Minutes earlier, Switzerland's Marianne Fatton also made history as she beat big favourite Emily Harrop of France

They skied uphill through a diamond-shaped pattern and climbed a flight of on-slope stairs in their ski boots. Far from done, they endured more lung-searing climbing, with skis back on, and then a downhill dash to the finish line. All the while, their course looked like a giant snow globe…