Italian skier Matteo Franzoso has died following a crash in pre-season training in Chile, the Italian Winter Sports Federation announced. He was 25.

He's the second elite Italian skier to die in less than a year, after Matilde Lorenzi in October 2024.

Franzoso suffered “a major head injury” on Saturday and was being treated at a hospital in Santiago.

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The federation, FISI, said it was informed by medical officials in Chile of the skier’s death, adding he did not survive “cranial trauma” and a consequent swelling of his brain.

Franzoso won a super-G race on the second-tier Europa Cup circuit in 2021, having finished fourth in the downhill at the world junior championships in 2020.

He competed in 17 World Cup races

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