"The best thing about a man is his dog." French Proverb

FISTC General Assembly 2009.

All FISTC delegates met in Taxenbach (Austria) for our 24th General Assembly the 6th to 7th of June 2009.
You can read Report from president of FISTC Franco Mannato and The minute of the meeting..

REPORT FROM THE PRESIDENT

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Delegates,

I am happy to welcome you here in Taxenbach for this General Assembly and I take this opportunity to thank our Austrian friends for the organisation of this event. While we are here we will learn more about this place and the excellent race they organise as I have been told by FISTC Board members who participated here this winter.
Let's start working. This year my report will be mixed as we had some positive aspects and some negative ones.
We started the season with an excellent second European Championship Kart in Bueriis, Italy. As we expected from our Italian friends from FIMSS, the race was well organised and the trails were very good and quite flat. Indeed we had a successful organisation and all the controls were done and the results as expected. We mainly missed participation from some countries. The Netherlands did not show up, is that a lack of interest? All doping controls were negative and that also is very important. Equipment and rulesare still under review and final decisions will only be taken in 2012. Some rules need improvement and that is coming......read all report

From the 1th july 2009 the musher FISTC are allowed to partecipate to the next WSA Championship. The sanction for the partecipation in past years will remain.

Is introduced a Ski-joring class with 2 dogs, both sprint and MD. Like in all other classes the dog should be attached to eachother with a neck line, or when running in one line, the second (wheel) dog should be attached to the central line by a tawline and a neckline.

The dog pass may disappear, the last pages of the dog passport can be used, mushers should be reminded that it is obligatory to have a photo of the dog in a passport. The stamp of the club should be partly on the picture

The GA approve the distances for the sprint race proposed from the Board: D and C: 8 - 12Km B and SJ: 13 - 15 Km A: 15 - 20 Km O: 20 - 25 Km

The race calendar 2009/2010

20th -22nd November 2009
European Championship Cart- Netherland - MHSC SHOONLOO

11th -14th February 2010
European championhip Sprint, Austria - SSVÖ TAXENBACH

18th -21st of February 2010
European Championship MD/LT, Slovakia -SAJPS - ORAVSKA LESNA

FISTC EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS- MD/LT 2009
Inzell - Germany 21th to 22nd of February

Inzell 21-22 February 2009,
Another successfull European Championship MD/LT

Just one week after the fabulous World Championships Sprint in Werfenweng (A), the FISTC has organised its European Championships Middle Distance and Long Trail in Inzell on 21 and 22 February 2009.
Originally planned in Italy, we needed to move these Championships due to too much snow in Italy and to a high risk of avalanches that could not allow the Italian organiser to organise them safely and on the planned trails. Within two days we succeeded, with the help of the German SSD and particularly to its SSBayern Club, in organising these FISTC Championships 2009 in very good conditions.
While in 2008 we had been obliged to move from Inzell to Innerkrems due to missing snow, this year we have had a lot of snow. In fact it has been snowing almost all the time making conditions very tough for mushers, and particularly for skiers. However, trails have been perfectly worked out.
On Saturday morning, Longtrailers started first in the eisstadion and after 38 kms arrived at the bivouac. The SSB sprint race started before our middle-distance teams went on the trails that were 38 kms for A and O, 28 kms for B and Pulka and 22 kms for C and D classes. Everything went well as there was a close cooperation between the organisers of the two races.
On Sunday morning it was snowing again, but most mushers were happy on the finish line. Our Vet team, led as usual by Arno Roos, had very little work as, once again, most dogs were less tired than their mushers on the finish line. Despite the difficult weather conditions, most participants were happy and will keep excellent memories of this really beautifull race. The pricing ceremony was as usual very emotional.
Big congratulations to all teams that finished that beautifull but tough race !
We hope that in a short future we will come back again to Inzell to organise a three days European Championship MD/LT in this really wonderfull city.

Thanks once again to Inzell and to SSB !

The final results here

FISTC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS- SPRINT 2009
Werfenweng- Austria 12th to 15th of February

WEB SITE here

Sunday the 15th of February

On saturday night the snow keep falling, but Sunday morning finally the sun was shining with minus 7 c. The perfect condition for the race. The trail was perfect and all musher improved their time.
Price giving ceremony took place at 4,30 and the President of the FISTC , Mr. Franco Mannato, thanked the Mayor of the City of Werfenweng, Mr.Peter Brandauer, and all his staff for the great job done. A special medal has been given to the Race Marshall Franz Stadolka who has decided to give up sleddoging after many good years in our sport, where he has also been an important person in the Board of the FISTC..

The final results here

The Nation Cup here

You can see some photos here

Ski joring	Pulka	O	A
B1	B2	C1	C2
D1	D2	Junior

Saturday the 14th of February

During Friday night we had much snow. Actually 30 cm in the lower part and 40 cm on the top. Normally this is positive, butas the snow came late in the night, it made things a bit difficult. Due to security it was decided not to use the Open trail and let this class do the A trail because of risk of avalanges. The rest of the trail were ok and safe, but of corse a bit soft.
The snow kept falling all day and influenced on the number of spectators, it was difficult to make it up here. The City of Werfenweng had arranged for Shuttle Busses, and this helped a lot. At the end of the day we were happy having had only success and best of all good behavior of our musher, This means another day without protest, and also dogs in absolute fine shape.
The traditional Musher Evening with live music and dancing went well. The major of the City of Werfenweng Mr. Peter Brandauer made a speach thanking the FISTC and its musher for coming and every mushe was given a gift as a memory of this beatiful race.
The weather forecast is looking fine so we are looking forward to another good day.

The list of results after 2nd day

Friday the 12nd of February

After the first day of the WC in Werfenweng

The opening cerimony yesterday evening was something to see. The comunity of Werfenweng has done a fantastic job and prepared everything to the smallest details in a perfect form and the Championship was opened by the Major of the city, Major Peter Brandauer and highranking politishers. The musher were presented per country by entering with torches and the opening cerimony closed with spectacular fireworks.
On the first day of race we had shifting periods of snow ad a little bit of sun. The trail itself is pretty hard crossing a mountain side and many musher said it was quite hard to do the trail, but everyone were happy and we are looking forward to a great race tomorrow.

The list of results after 1st day

All informations about IRON SLED DOG MAN you can find here

"After our European Championships Cart in Bueriis, the FISTC wants to congratulate the winner of the O class and European Champion, Gerald Schinzel of Austria, president of the Austrian Federation BSSC-Austria, and also European Champion last year in A class in Denmark. On December 2, Gerald has been awarded the Silver Medal (Order of Merit) for his outstanding merits in Sports by Landeshauptman Hans Niessl"

21st to 23th of November 2008

FISTC CART EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008
Bueriis - Italy 22/23 November '08

http://www.bueriis2008.fimss.com

You can see very nice photos on this web site:

http://www.mushing-austria.at/seiten/berichte/bueriis_2008/content/index.html

23th of November

Let us be honest. We have been extremely lucky with the weather expect from the storm on Friday night, that took down the internet connection in the region, and we are sorry for the late update of the news.

On Saturday evening we had the Musher evening where typical dishes from the region were served. This evening was spent in a tent in the middle of the area.

Sunday arrived with a clear blue sky and minus 8 degrees Celsius as the first scent of winter.
The trail was a bit frozen but in excellent shape and all teams did a great job.
We owe many thanks to the whole organization but especially to the trail boss and his numerous staff and officials. They simply did a great job, which also was expressed from the musher.
Schedule for the race was to end it at just after one o'clock and it worked.

Price giving ceremony took place at 3 pm and our president closed the event with a lot of praising to the musher and their fantastic dogs, and invited all to the next EC Cart in Schonloo in the Netherlands in November 2009, which will take place over three days.

The final result list

O	B1	C1	C2	D1	D2
Scooter	Bike1	Bike2	Canicross2	Canicross1	Canicros1 Jun

During the night we had a storm and tents and some markings and ribbons disappeared. This ment a huge job in the morning to repair every thing and remove branches from the trail. Despite this the organizers did this in due time for the first start.

Saturday arrived with light overcast and cold weather. We did see the sun, but not much. Obviously the dogs and musher liked it, as we saw some very good times in some classes.
Despite some minor problems we had a good race. Unfortunately one musher in the O class lost in the woods and lost a lot of time.

We bring the list of results here and are looking forward to another successful race day for our musher.

The list of results after 1st day

Today, at the delegate meeting our president Mr. Franco Mannato welcomed all and especially said thank you to Mr. MassimoBassan and his crew for a well organized pre work. Also the major of Reingers, Austria Mr.Christian Schlosser was welcomed as this region is applying for the FISTC cart EC 2010, and he wishes to present their possibilities.

The site here in Bueriis is nice and the trail looks very good and a rather good condition though covered by water just 14 days ago: The trail has been prepared for 4 weeks and we are now looking forward to good race.
Dogs papers and equipment controls went well and almost everything was OK. Some few mushers were guided to be more perfect next year.
Have a look at this site tomorrow for results of the first day as well as some beautiful pictures.

The starting list for the first day

3th of September 2008

"As from 1st of July 2008, all dogs participating in all FISTC Championships (EC/WC), must be 18 months old at the first day of the race. This of course applies to the EC Cart in Bueriis".