Auronzo, February 8th - 11th 2007

World championship sprint

The third day- 11th of February 2007,

The result list 11-02-2007, The FINAL RESULT LIST

In the O Class, De Ferrari is a perfect World Champion, having been the fastest every day. He is a great musher with a really beautiful team. The second is a newcomer in this class, Jean Combazard (F), and the third is Hagen Muller (D). Jurgen Stolz (D) is another great winner in the A class, but he was closely followed by an excellent Francesco Becconcini (I) and the issue of the race remained uncertain until the last moment on the finish line. Rainer Diemer (D) was third in this exciting class. Germany also won in the B1 class, where Georg Patsch is World Champion this year, closely followed by Karl Rachbauer (A) and Michel Laboure (F).
In the B2 class, we have another German World Champion, Bernd Sauerhofer, who achieved his eighth title as World Champion with his Greenland dogs ! After him - two French mushers, also using Greenland dogs, went on the podium: Didier Kerouedan and Daniel Chomette.

The C1 class is always the most important in number and for the suspends. Many teams could be expected to be the winner, but Giovanni Nardelli (I) is the winner. Alexander Serdjukov (A) is second, but the third is the young Niels Havenaar, who did a fantastic third heat and overtook Christian Geier (I). The Slovak Peter Marcin became World Champion in C2 and Myriam Charasson (F) is second - both with Greenland dogs, while Horst Klank and his Samoyeds took the third place.
One year after the other, the young junior Jean Baptiste Labouré continues to surprise everybody. Having been European Champion in St. Ulrich, he became today World Champion in Auronzo, and he is 13 y.o. ! He started only fourth today but made the best time of the day. The second one is another French, Loic Marchal, and the third is Tobias Hager (A). In this D1 class there were also many junior mushers, and as a result there has been a junior podium. The Junior World Champion 2007 is Jean Baptiste Laboure (F), the second is Anthony Chevalley (F) and the third Diana Bretschneiderova (SK) but we wish also to mention two young Italians, Sebastian Ranigler and Micol Sajia. Finally, the last class, D2, was won by Jaroslav Banoci (SK) preceding Petr Hubka (CZ) and Alain Diffort (F).

For the Nations Cup, France jumped on the higher step of the podium, Germany was second and Italy third. Finally all mushers were happy as well as all their dogs, and we succeded once again in having an excellent FISTC Championship. We hope to see all again next year in Donovaly !

The nations cup 2007

01- F - 79,83
02- D - 64,61
03 -I - 51,65
04- A - 44,55
05- SK- 38,38
06 -CZ-37,64
07- NL- 36,27
08- DK- 10,04
09- H- 6,05
10- SLO- 4,46
11- CH- 3,33
12- 14- MC- 0,1
12- 14- LUX- 0,1
12- 14- B- 0,1

The second day - 10th of February 2007,

The result list 10-02-2007, The result list after two days

Roman Reistetter from Slovakia took the lead in the ski-joering class, and was followed by Jilji Krkoska (CZ) and Frédéric Gourves (F). In the Pulka class, Berit Weisscher (NL) jumped to the second place while Klaus Baumel (A) remained at the 1st place. Claude Paris lost a few seconds. The O class is totally dominated by one of the nicest mushers of the race, Claudio De Ferrari who drives like. Schumi ! He is followed by Jean Combazard (F) and Hagen Müller (D). Great exitement in A where at least five mushers might be on the podium tomorrow. Today Roderick Glastra had the best time, but Jurgen Stolz still leads the class immediately followed by Becconcini. Georg Patsch in B1 has 3min. advantage on the second, Karl Rachbauer (A) followedby Michel Labouré (F). The B2 class is dominated by Greenland dogs, and among them, the fastest is very well known - Bernd Sauerhofer (D), folowed by two French teams, Didier Kerouedan and Daniel Chomette. Two beautiful Malamute teams are also competing in this class.

In the C1 class, Giovanni Nardelli, the "Flying Italian" increased his advantage on Alexander Serdjukov by only. 1 second and has only 20 secs of advantage. Third in this class is Christian Geier (I) and 37 teams are still in competition in this class. The C2 class is dominated by Peter Marcin (SK), Myriam Charasson (F) and Christa Sauerhofer. In D1, the competition is between Austria and France with Graziella Beltrame (I) ready to jump in also. Loic Marchal, first has only 13" on the second Jurgen Kurzer. Another Slovak leads the D2 class, Jaroslav Banoci, followed by Peter Hubka (CZ) and Alain Diffort (F).

we expect thet tomorrow will show some fantastic competitions in classes, where many mushers have the chance to enter the podium. Anyway this race, the first one this season for many mushers from several countries, will already remain as one of the best FISTC Championships in Italy.