She died of a heart attack after turning 30: she was Marta Bassino’s sister-in-law

Marta Bassino will not participate in the Ski World Cup competitions that will take place in Kvitfjell this weekend. The Piedmontese champion, gold in Super-G at the recent world championships, returned to Italy for personal reasons. Her sister-in-law Sara Fina died yesterday, aged 30, wife of Matteo Bassino, that is, Marta’s older brother. It was the last to find her lifeless, having set foot in the bedroom of his house in Via Boves – in Borgo – around 7 am – after going out at night to clear snow, one of his other occupations ( co-owner of a sheep farm with his wife). The intervention of the 118 medical team was useless: in all likelihood, the young woman was killed by a heart attack.

Sister-in-law Marta Bassino passed away: “Terrible tragedy”

Sara Fina leaves behind two children (Asia and Pietro, aged 7 and 2). So much for the pain of the city: «On my behalf and that of the city council, I express my deepest sympathy. We are close to her husband, her little children, alderman Bassino, our champion Marta and the whole family. It’s a terrible tragedy, the whole community gathers around this family’s pain.” the words of the mayor of Borgo, Roberta Robbione. “Piedmontese skiing is losing another protagonist on the track and a woman who could have best embodied the values ​​of sport,” the Fisi Western Alps Committee’s chairwoman pained, Peter Blenginiand the president of the Provincial Committee Fisi Cuneo, Paul Jordan. Sara Fina, from Cartignano where she had also been a town councillor, in fact she had been a cross-country skier in her youth. From childhood she helped her parents breed Frisian dairy cows. Then meeting Matteo Bassino, with whom he also shared a passion for skiing. The date of the funeral has yet to be determined.