AURONZO DI CADORE

13 – 02 – 2015

FISTC SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS

Today in this superb area of Auronzo di Cadore – Palus San Marco the weather was splendid, sunny but cold ( minus 10 °) and absolutely perfect for the dogs of all teams. In many classes the fight was tough and the results show how the competition is hard. The trails were perfectly prepared and extremely fast. In big categories the winners ran the trail faster than 25 km/hour. We have four different ski-jorring classes, in SJ2/1dog Sepp Brugger is first with his Greenland dog the three following competitors racing with Alaskan Malamutes. In SJ 2 dogs, Marcel Matanin (SK) is first, preceding Sebastian Astelbauer (A). SJ 2 dogs women is leaded by Nathalie Roland (F), Roman Reistetter (SK) is leading the SJ 1 dog class. Jean Combazard (F) has the fastest team of the race and is leading the O class, while Karl Rachbauer (A) leads the A1 Class. Horst Kland (D) and his flying Saòoyeds are leading the A2 class. In B1 Luca Castelletta (I) is first and very fast, while in B2 nobody could be as fast as Berndt Sauerhofer (D). In C1, Brigitte Wahlhutter (A) is leading just a few seconds in front of Pascal Gerard (F). The C2 class is leaded by two French mushers separated by only 2 seconds. In D1, the Italian junior Valentina Durio is first, and very impressive. In D2 class, Berndt Kirsten (D) is leading just before Sabine Klein (D). Tomorrow, weather forecasts indicate some possible snowfalls which may slower the race. Anyway the biggest success is that we currently have 100 per cent satisfied mushers.