22-24. February 2013.

Day 3 - Sunday 24 February

Cold and cloudy weather with little snowfalls. Excellent trail conditions that all mushers and dogs enjoyed really very much.

As already foreseen yesterday this has been a tough competition and there have been some changes in the final classification compared to the leaders of yesterday. To show how tough it has been, just consider that for example in SKJ 1 Men, the difference in time between the first Michal Ivanco and the second Igor Stefan (both Slovaks) is 0.9 seconds.
Definitely, all participants enjoyed this race, perfectly organised with such short notice by the organisers that are true FISTC friends.

The pricing ceremony at 3:00 p.m. put and end to these 2013 FISTC World Championships Sprint. Now the next appointment will be in two weeks time in Innerkrems for our next FISTC European Championships Middle Distance and Long Trail.

And now the 2013 World Champions:

SKJ Men 2 dogs	ASTELBAUER Sebastian	Austria
SKJ Men 1 dog	IVANCO Michal	Slovakia
SKJ Men 1 dog cat 2	BRUGGER Sepp	Austria
SKJ Women :	REISTETTER Carla Jr	Slovakia
SKJ Women cat 2	OBRIST Helga	Austria
Pulka Men	REISTETTER Roman	Slovakia
Category O	COMBAZARD Jean	France
Category A1	BOTTEGA Loris	Italia
Category A2	MANNATO Nathalie	France
Category B1	DIEMER Rainer	Germany
Category B2	SAUERHÖFER Bernd	Germany
Category C1	WAHLHÜTTER Brigitte	Austria
Category C1 Jr	BOTTEGA Valentina	Italia
Category C2	DIFORT Alain	France
Category D1	ASTELBAUER Sebastian	Austria
Category D1 Jr	BRAECKMANS Westley Jr.	Belgium
Category D2	KLEIN Sabine	Germany

NATION CUP 2013
1	AUSTRIA
2	FRANCE
3	GERMANY
4	SLOVAKIA
5	ITALIA
6	BELGIUM
7	DENMARK
8	HUNGARY

Final result list

Saturday Evening

First a few words about the Musher Evening we had yesterday.
The organisers this time made this special evening some more exciting compared to what has been done at earlier events.
We knew that they had arranged a musher evening but much at our surprise, mushers, handlers and their families were picked up by buses at the stake-out.
We arrived at the “Gondelbahn” and were brought to the top of the famous mountain Wildkogel. Coming out in the cold up there in the sunset was really an experience!!!
The red reflexion of the sun in the clouds was beautiful and the following dinner from tables with a variety of dishes was excellent and offered to all mushers and handlers.
After a few hours we went down again and were picked-up by bus and brought back to the stake-out area.
This was an evening to remember and we sincerely thank the organisation and the Mayor of the city of Neukirchen on behalf of all mushers.

Day 2 - Saturday 23 February

Today, with the sunny and cold weather the Wildkogel Arena showed us its beauty.
Sunny and cold weather, the conditions for the race were almost perfect and all mushers told us they enjoyed the race even more than yesterday, trails were faster and magnificent.
The competition is extremely tough in some categories and changes happened in the lead of some categories and the mushers will compete even more tomorrow to win the World Champion titles 2013.

Here are the leaders after this second day:

SKJ Men 2 dogs	MLYNAR Jan (SK)
SKJ Men 1 dog	IVANCO Michal (SK)
SKJ Men 1 dog cat 2	BRUGGER Sepp (AUT)
SKJ Women :	REISTETTER Carla (jun) (SK)
SKJ Women cat 2	OBRIST Helga (AUT)
Pulka Men	REISTETTER Roman (SK)
Category O	COMBAZARD Jean (F)
Category A1	BOTTEGA Loris (ITA)
Category A2	MANNATO Nathalie (FR)
Category B1	DIEMER Rainer (GER)
Category B2	SAUERHOFER Bernd (GER)
Category C1	WAHLHUTTER Brigitte (AUT)
Category C2	DIFFORT Alain (FR)
Category D1	ASTELBAUER Sebastian (AUT)
Category D2	KLEIN Sabine (GER)

Tomorrow the final results of this beautiful race.

Day 1 - Friday 22 February

ndid Wildkogel Arena where our local friends, together with Walter Treichl, succeeded in organising the FISTC 2013 World Championships Sprint after the cancellation of Donovaly.
Despite the very short notice the organisers of the race did a splendid job to solve our severe problem. We just may regret that many mushers could not get their holidays to join us as we really have a very beautiful race.
Yesterday evening we had a very nice opening ceremonyin the center of the beautiful city of Neukirchen am Grossvenedigerand a warm welcome from the Mayor of the city, Mr Peter Nindl, and all the inhabitants and tourists who were so happy to see the mushers from 9 countries and their beautiful dogs of the four Polar breeds. An evening with “Gluhwein”, snacks and music…
Today, the weather was cold and cloudy, perfect for the dogs. Trails were very well prepared and perfectly marked, so the mushers enjoyed this first day of race.

A short notice of the results, the various categories are led by:

SKJ Men 2 dogs	ASTELBAUER Sebastian (AUT)
SKJ Men 1 dog	IVANCO Michal (SK)
SKJ Men 1 dog cat 2	BRUGGER Sepp (AUT)
SKJ Women :	REISTETTER Carla (jun) (SK)
SKJ Women cat 2	OBRIST Helga (AUT)
Pulka Men	REISTETTER Roman (SK)
Category O	COMBAZARD Jean (F)
Category A1	BOTTEGA Loris (ITA)
Category A2	MANNATO Nathalie (FR)
Category B1	RACHBAUER Karl (AUT)
Category B2	SAUERHOFER Bernd (GER)
Category C1	MARTINI Massimo (ITA)
Category C2	DIFFORT Alain (FR)
Category D1	ASTELBAUER Sebastian (AUT)
Category D2	KLEIN Sabine (GER)

The race is very open for tomorrow as in some categories the first five are in less than 1 minute.

NEUKIRCKEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WEBSITE

A new website for the FISTC World Championship sprint has been created. The site will be update every day and in it you can find information about the championship, the accomodation in the area.

LINK TO NEUKIRCKEN WORLD CAHMPIONSHIP 2013 WEBSITE

 

Information about Distance Championship in Innerkrems

Here attached you'll find the programm of EC MD/LT organised in Innerkrems and information about the trail.

Programm of EC in Innerkrems

Information about EC in Innerkrems (in German)

Information about EC in Innerkrems (in English)

10 - 12 February 2012

DAY 3 - Sunday 12 february

This third day of the European Championships sprint was again cold, windy and snowy.
However, with more snow and a very good trail we could see a beautiful race.
Due to the snow all trails were slower than in previous days.
In Pulka Roman Reistetter (Slk) gets a new European Champion title, while Klaus Baümel (A) ended his very last sled dog race at the second place.
In Skijoring two dogs, Matjaz Ovsenek (Slo) gets his first title in this category, and the first title for Slovenia in FISTC history. Second is a nice Italian lady, Alessandra Lupezza and third the unlucky Slovak Marcel Matanin, who lost his dogs on the first day but then was the fastest on days 2 and 3.
Skijoring 1dog/1 was dominated by Slovak skiers with Igor Stefan becoming European Champion, Jan Mlynar second and Patrik Lucansky third.
Skijoring 1dog/2 was an Austrian story Manuel Haslacher becoming European Champion, with Romuald Schönfeld second and Sepp Brugger third.
Skijoring 1dog Women was dominated by German ladies and her Alaskan Malamutes, with Vicki Würfl becoming European Champion followed by Simone Nolte and Marina Gröschl.
In O class, Jean Combazard (F), just back from the “Grande Odissée” is European Champion and second we have Matteo Bartolini (I).
In A classs, Jurgen Stolz (D) is not only European Champion but also the fastest team on the trail ! Vice European Champion is Karl Rachbauer (A) very close to the first.
In B1 class the title of European Champion went to Massimo Martini (I) closely followed by Carel Van de Mortel (NL).
In B2, Giorgio Pirini (I) wins the title closely followed by Bernd Sauerhöfer (D) who, despite his best performance in days 2 and 3, could not catch the time lost on the first day.
In C1, Alexander Serdjukov (A) wins the title as he has been the fastest on each of the three days. Second and vice European Champion is Roberto Mattasoglio (I).
In C2, the French Laurent Blot is European Champion and vice European Champion we find Martin Zapletal (CZ) bith teams with Greenland dogs. Third place goes to Harry Braeckmans with four Malamutes. We should note in this category the problems encountered by the French Anthony Coffre whose dogs started fighting between themselves and the perfect behaviour of Ron de Ruiter who could stop and help him, he is a musher with great fair play.
Rhe D1 class was dominated by Christoph Rotter (A) European Champion, followed by Graziella Beltrame (I) and the third place was won by a very young junior, Marc Wiatowski (D). As such Marc Wiatowski is the 2012 FISTC European Champion junior, second junior and vice European Champion is the young and excellent musher coming from Russia, Alexey Tarazanov, third junior is Valentina Bottega (I), followed by another four junior mushers.
Finally, in the D2 class the title was won by Bernd Kirstein (D) and his two Greenland dogs and second is Sepp Brugger (A) with his Malamutes.

This is the end of the Championships sprint 2012, now we move to Gryon in Switzerland for the Championships MD/LT.

Next year the sprint championships will again take place in Italy, but on the other side of the country, close to the French border, and organised by the other Italian club CIS (the club that organised Auronzo).

Final result list of race

NATION CUP 2012
1	GERMANY
2	AUSTRIA
3	FRANCE
4	ITALY
5	SLOVAKIA
6	NETHERLANDS
7	BELGIUM
8	CZECH REPUBLIC
9	SLOVENIA
10	HUNGARY
11	RUSSIA
12	ROMANIA
13	DENMARK

DAY 2 - Saturday 11 february

After a very windy and snowy night the second heat took place today. Trails have been well prepared during the night and the trail marking - that has been redone - was perfect.
The vet. team, with three very experienced and specialised vets (including a Norvegian just arrived from the Femundlopet in Sweden) has impressed all participants. We had five vets in total on the Site!
All trails were in better conditions than yesterday but a lit bit slower because of the new snow.
In most categories it is impossible to figure out who will win tomorrow.
For the moment, after the second day, here are the first:

Pulka	Roman Reistetter	(SLK)
SKJ 2	Matjaz Ovsenk	(SLO)
SKJ 1 / 1	Igor Stefan	(SLK)
SKJ 1 / 2	Manuel Haslacker	(AUT)
SKJ Women	Simone Nolte	(GER)
O	Jean Combazard	(FRA)
A1	Jurgen Stolz	(GER)
A2	Nathalie Mannato	(FRA)
B1	Massimo Martini	(ITA)
B2	Giorgio Pirini	(ITA)
C1	Alexander Serdjukov	(AUT)
C2	Laurent Blot	(FRA)
D1	Christoph Rotter	(AUT)
D2	Bernd Kirstein	(GER)
D1 jr	Marc Wiatowski	(GER)

Result list of the second day of race

DAY1 - Friday 10 february

After the nice opening ceremony yesterday evening in the center of the city of Tarvisio, the serious things began this morning on the famous trail designed by Ararad Katchikian in Piana di Fusine.
The quite cold (-10° C) but nice weather was good for the dogs.
A special trail had been designed for the skiers, pulka, ski joring 2 and 1 dog and all trails were in good conditions thanks to the work of the organisers. The first team started at 10.00 am.
In Pulka class Roman Reistetter (SLK) is first followed by Klaus Bäumel (A). In Sj 2 dogs, Matjaz Ovsenek (SLO) benefied from the problems encountered by Marcel Matanin (SLK). Three slovaks are also leading the Ski joring 1 dog class with siberian huskies while three Austrians lead SJ1 class 2 with malamutes or Greenlanddogs. In SJ women class the lead is in the hands of three very nice German athletes with alaskan malamutes.
In O class, Jean Combazard (F) returned from the Grande Odissee race is first.
In A1, Jurgen Stolz (D) is leading the class closely followed by Karl Rachbauer (A).
in A2, Nathalie Mannato is first.
The B1 class is lead by Carel Van de Mortel (NL) closely followed by Massimo Martini and Luca Castelletta – both from Italy.
Giorgio Pirini (I) in B2 is faster than Bernd Sauerhofer (A), second.
Alexandr Serdjukov (A) is first in the C1 class. The C2 class is lead by two French teams with greenlanddogs, Laurent Blot preceding Anthony Coffre. Christoph Rotter (A) is first in D1 class followed by a junior - Marc Wiatowsky (D). Another German musher, Bernd Kirstein and his two Greenlanddogs are leading the D2 class.
After a good Work on the trails the the race will restart at 10.00 am tomorrow morning on these fast trails.

Result list of the first day of race

11 – 13 february 2011

11th of February 2011 – Day ONE

Yesterday at the Delegates Meeting we were happy to inform that the 10th WC Sprint in Donovaly would take place as earlier informed on our Website.
This was in direst contradiction to what some Mushers have spread around, and of course were happy being able to open this big Event.
Thanks to our Organizers and their helpers they created a good Trail form what seemed to be impossible. W can be very thankful to the Donly Klub for this, and we cannot thank them enough.
The Mushers and especially the Skiers had some difficulties but almost everyone were happy having done the Trail.

Despite th Weather conditions 140 Teams started today. In SJ2 the first skiers are within 37 sec. With the Italian Christian Geier on the First Place.
SJ1 is led by Jili Krkoska in front of tow Slovaks – Roman Reissteter and Ivan Kasko.
Brigita Albertova (SK) is leading the SJ Women Class.
Two French Mushers – Jean Combazard and Patric Logais are fighting for the first Place in the Class O.
Mateusz Soreovka, the Flying Polish Musher is first in A, C,and D Classes!
Berndt Sauerhoefer is leading the new A2 Class.
Stefan Krkoska is first in B1 Class but closely followed by Andi Birkel.
The French Alain Diffort is leading the B2 Class, Waldemar Stawoweczyk (POL) is first in C2 Class, and Bernd Kirsten in D2 Class.It can be noted that all 2 Classes are led by Greenland Dogs despite a god opposition from Alaskan Malamutes and Samoyeds.
Tonight Temperatures will go below -10 ° C. And the Race will restart at 9.00 in Presence of the Prime Minister of Slovakia and several Ministers.

Resultlist 11.02.2011

12th of February 2011 - DAY 2

How lucky can we be? - FISTC and our mushers!
Yesterday evening it was raining pretty much, but as the sky was cloudy the temperature did not drop as the weather forecast said. Because of this we woke up to snow and wind. The trails were very much better than yesterday which pleased the skiers mostly. In the stakeout area and in the starting / finishing area we had wind that occasionally caused white out, but in a couple of hours the wind reduced its force having blown the clouds away leaving a clear blue sky.

In SJ2 the first 3 are within 19 seconds so everything is opened for the title between Sebastian Astelbauer (A), Christian Geier (A) and Stephan Krkoska (CZ).
In SJ1 Jilji Kroska (CZ) is leading the category in front of Roman Reistetter (SK) and Ivan Vaško (SK).
Brigita Albertova (SK) is leading the SJ Women class.
Today Patrick Logeois (FR) on a faster trail was able to catch Jean Combazard (FR! and is now leading the O class.
Mateuz Zorowka (SK) is still leading the A, C1 and D1 classes and maybe he will be the 1st triple world champion of the FISTC.
Berndt Sauerhofer (D) is the solid leader of the new A2 class.
Stepan Krkoska (CZ) leads the B1 class, closely followed by Andi Birkel (D).
Alain Diffort (FR) is the strong leader of the B2 class with his Greenland dogs.
Waldemar Stawowczyk (PL) and his Greenland dogs are leading the C2 class and Bernd Kirstein (D) leads the D2 class.

Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

Kind Regards from
The Board

Resultlist 12.02.2011

13th of February 2011 - DAY 3

Lower degrees today and sunny weather made this Championship a great success. The trails were during the night again groomed and repaired to an extent beyond every musher beliefs.
For the working members of the Board it was a great satisfaction to see the happy faces of our musher. It seemed that also the musher were happy, also we avoided accidents today which unfortunately was not the case of yesterday as a Polish musher broke his arm and was hospitalized. By the end of the Races we could notify a great deal of happiness and the Pricing Ceremony carried on and the winners of the World Championship were:
SJ2 Stepan Krkoska (CZ)
SJ1 Jilji Krkoska (CZ)
SJW Brigita Albertova (SK)
O Patrick Logeais (F)
A1 Mateusz Surowka (POL)
A2 Berndt Sauerhofer (D)
B1 Stepan Krkoska (CZ)
B2 Alain Diffort (F)
C1 Mateusz Surowka (POL)
C2 Waldemar Stawoczyk (POL)
D1 Mateusz Surowka (POL)
D2 Bernd Kirstein (D)

Final result list 13.02.2011

Nations cup 2011

Click here to enter in the Photo gallery of Monika Stawowczyk

Donovaly 12 – 14 february 2010

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A great European Sprint Championship

This Championship was originally planned for Taxenbach (A), but with a very short notice it was moved to Donovaly (Slovakia) because the municipality of Taxenbach could not carry out this event.
Luckily our friends of the Donly Club were able to organize a superb European Championship in stead.
The weather conditions were cloudy and windy for all tree days of the race, but thanks low temperatures the trail was in good condition and perfectly worked out.
The fair play of our musher was excellent: We had no official protests.

We do thank again our Slovak friends, and particularly thanks to the Race Marshall Pavel Toma who during the price giving Ceremony announced, that this has been his last Championship.
Now we wait for the 2011 World Championship in Donovaly, which is also the twentieth Anniversary since their very first sled dog race, and we are certain, that this will be a great event.

Your Board says thank you to all participants, and we hope to have many musher coming next Year.

The final results list

The Nation Cup

Photogallery on web site of Donly Club

Photogallery of Philippe Corradi

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12th to 15th of February

 

After the great success of spectators during the World Championship in Werfenweng we received from our friend Franz Stadolka a press review..... 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

Skijoring	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

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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

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The national contingen 2008
Austria	10+12
	Klaus BÄUMEL	Pulka
	Dieter GRAMBERGER	B1
	Karl RACHBAUER	B1
	Günther TAKACS	B1
	Jürgen HIERZER	C1
	Gerald OSTERBAUER	C1
	Alexander SERDJUKOV	C1
	Elisabeth PROBST	C1
	Karl REHNER	C1
	Patrick FREI	C1
	Dieter WEINHANDL	D1
	Tobias HAGER	D1
	Martin HARKAMP	D1
	Cornelia REHNER	D1
	Christoph ROTTER	D1
	Thomas REUTER	D1
	Bianka JASINSKI	D1
	Josef BRUGGER	D2
	Klaudia LPPUSCH	D2
	Manfred KOMAC	O
	Wolfgang HAMMERSCHMID	O
	Gerald SCHINZEL	O
Belgium	1-1
Czech	3+8
	Krkoška Jiljí	Skj
	Homolka Miroslav	D1
	Hubka Petr	D2
	Škoda Martin	C1
	Stejskal Ondřej	C1
	Brož Ondřej	C1
	Tomášek Miloš	C1
	Zapletal Martin	C2
	Procházka Antonín	B1
	Kůrka Zdeněk	B1
	Trinkl Ladislav	B2
Denmark	5-1
	BAUER-PEDERSEN Jan-Erik	C1
	PEDERSEN Jan	A1
	SCHMOELZ Knud	A1
	KRONHOLM Gert	A1
France	20+1
	COCHET Charles (junior)	Skj
	BUET Gerald	Skj
	COMBAZARD Jean	O
	LOGEAIS Patrick	O
	LABOURE Michel	B1
	FOULON Liliane	B1
	FOURNIER Patrick	B1
	COINTE Agnes	B2
	PEREZ Antoine	C1
	CHEVALLEY Christophe	C1
	GERARD Pascal	C1
	VERDY Raphaël	C1
	MARGUINAUD Nathalie	C2
	CAILLIBOTS Jean-Paul	C2
	SELLIER Karine	C2
	LABOURE Jean-Baptiste (junior)	D1
	MARCHAL Loic	D1
	JOGUET Marc	D1
	BROCARD Jacques	D2
	DIFFORT Alain	D2
	BROCARD Marc (junior)	D2
Germany	25-6
	Kreuzer Ludwig	Pulka
	Christine Biewald	Pulka
	Oettl Robert	Skj
	Martina Patsch	D1
	Kirstein Bernd	D2
	Speer Wolfgang	C1
	Radschun Petra	C1
	Klank Horst	C2
	Kreuzer Ludwig	B1
	Georg Patsch	B1
	Birkel Andy	B1
	Vandeveerd Michael	B1
	Sauerhoefer Bernd	B2
	Stadolka Franz	B2
	Ehm Detlef	A
	Pela Christian	A
	Stolz Juergen	A
	Chistian Pela	A
	Mueller Hagen	O
Hungary	2+1
	Richard Teszár	C1
	Zsófia Verla	C1
	Tamás Hering	B1
Italy CIS	10-1
	Graziella BELTRAME	D1
	Christian GEIER	C1
	Luca BAGGIANI	C1
	Massimiliano VETRANO	C1
	Luca CASTELLETTA	B1
	Luca PANATTONI	B1
	Giorgio PIRINI	B2
	Francesco BECCONCINI	A
	Claudio DE FERRARI	O
Italy FIMSS	3
	Martini Massimo	C1
	Del Nevo Ugo	C1
	Petri Stefano	C1
Luxembourg	1
	Franck Chabriac	C2
Monaco	1-1
Netherlands	10-4
	Berrit Weisscher	Pulka
	Karel v/d Mortel	C1
	Nyls Havenaar	C1
	Onno de Jong	A
	Roderick Glastra	A
	Frans Weisscher	O
Scotland	1-1
Slovakia	20-20
Slovenia	2-1
	Kordez Dani	D2
Switzerland CSCPT	0+1
	THEVOZ Florian	D2
Romenia	0+1
	GROSU Constantin	C2
Rusia	2-2
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7th -10th of February 2008

The new website of DONLY club here

where you can find all informations and results durind the race.

"All doping controls made in Donovaly (Slovakia) were negative, according to the results received from the German Lab who made the controls."

Arno Roos, FISTC Verinary

The final result list here
The list of competitors

Dono1, Dono2, Dono3, Dono4

Auronzo, February 8th - 11th 2007

The third day- 11th of February 2007

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

IT HAS BEEN FANTASTIC !!!!!

Yes indeed, this 2007 FISTC World Championship has really been fantastic. The third day of the race provided some surprises, as we expected yesterday evening. The trail today was perfect, even better than yesterday, thanks to the excellent work done thanks to the Trail Boss Antonio Piazza and his colleague Renato Alberoni. In fact, the whole CIS,- Club Italiano Sleddog, can be praised for the collective work that has been done. With the support of the city and local authorities, and with the help of the young association Ad Maiora, everything was perfect. Which also clearly was said by so maany mushers -- again -- thank you so much.
The FISTC thanks all those who helped during this weekend and particiularly CORTE´S RANCH who kindly allowed us to have a free connection to the internet, that we were able to update information for you.

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Photografer-CORRADI Philippe- www.corradi.be

The quality of the trail was such, that our Vet., Arno Roos, had very little work these three days, and particularly today no injuries occured, and ther were no feet problems on this extremely fast and beautiful trail. The stake-out was also very well prepared and large enough for the 161 participants, a big improvement from last time in 2004.

The price giving ceremony

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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

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The second day - 10th of February 2007,

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

The second day of the FISTC World Championships 2007 has been one of the most beautiful in these lasts years. The trail was perfectly packed, and the low temperature in the morning ( minus 8°C) allowed all mushers to go much faster and to improve their times. Another important aspect of this Championship is that we improved once again in having not only the best Veterinarian team but also this year a physiotherapist that helped several dogs to recover immediately from small accidents that may happen on the trail. Once again the animal wellfare is one of the top preoccupations of the FISTC.

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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.

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The result list 09-02-2007

Auronzo di Cadore is a super city, a perfect host for the FISTC World Championships 2007. Not only do we have one of the most beautiful trails in Europe, but we are also lucky enough to have snow. Trails are in perfect conditions, and in addition the new layer of ten more centimeters of snow that came tonight, made a super scenario for the race. All 161 starters enjoyed this first day, with low temperatures and a sunny sky.

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Schedule
Schedule may vary, please check this page frequently.

Thursday, february 8
5:00 p.m. - F.I.S.T.C. delegate meeting.
6:00 p.m. - Official opening of the sleddog world championship sprint in Villa Gregoriana.
7:30 p.m. - Fireworks show.
Friday, february 9
9.30 a.m. - Races start.
2:00 p.m. - Races end.
5:00 p.m. - F.I.S.T.C. delegate meeting.
Saturday, february 10
9:30 a.m. - Races start.
2:00 p.m. - Races end.
5:00 p.m. - F.I.S.T.C. delegate meeting.
8:00 p.m. - Musher's dinner at Villa Gregoriana.
10:00 p.m - Holzhockar Sappada's group show at Villa Gregoriana.
Sunday, february 11
9:30 a.m. - Races start.
2:00 p.m. - Races end.
3:30 p.m. - Award giving and closing ceremony in Palus San Marco (Villa Gregoriana).

Track
Planimetry of "Palus San Marco" track

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17. - 19. Februar 2006

Photos provided by CORRADI Philippe, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. & Henychova Jana, FISTC

PRICE GIVING CEREMONY- St.Ulrich 19.2.2006:

The FINAL result list

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INFORMATION from St.Ulrich 19.2.2006:

The FINAL result list

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After a cold night, today there was the third and last day of the FISTC European Championship in St. Ulrich am Pillersee/ Austria. The SJ-category started at 9.00p.m.. Again there were exciting runs under a wonderful blue sky and sunny weather. Due to the nice but warm weather, the trail for caterories B, C and D was shortened. The starts and finishs where well reported and the visitors were well informed on the ongoing of the competition. All teams enjoyed this race that took place in one of the most beautiful mountain sites in Europe with fantastic trails for the dogs very much appreciated by mushers.According to the shedule, the final ceremonie will take place at 17.00a.m. The FINAL result list

FISTC Nation Cup 2006
1	France	74,07 pTs
2	Austria	46,89 pTs
3	Germany	43,86 pTs
4	Italy	40,87 pTs
5	Slovakia	37,94 pTs
6	The Netherlands	34,16 pTs
7	Czech republic	32,25 pTs
8	Denmark	13,57 pTs
9	Hungary	7,87 pTs
10	Switzerland	2,63 pTs
11	Slovenia	0,00 pTs

 

INFORMATION from St.Ulrich 18.2.2006:

The result list after the 2nd day

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The second heat started at 9:00 am, Saturday the 18th. After a cold night everything was frost and the trail was very hard and fast at least for the first categories Skj, Pulka and O category. During the day the weather changed and the sun showed up again. It has been a beatuful day, but the trail became a little bit soft when the C2 and D classes started. Tomorrow, the races promises to be extremely competed as for example in the C1 class there are only six seconds between the first and the third team after two days of competition.

INFORMATION from St.Ulrich 17.2.2006:

The result list after 1st day

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The first heat started at 9:30 am, Friday the 17th. Thanks to the organizers everything was well prepared. We can say that we have been lucky with the weather. Since morning a beautiful sun shine follows all competitors on the trail. The race had to take a break at noon because of the high temperature and animal welfeare supervisor together with FISTC veterinary advised to delay the race for three hours sothat the temperature became lower and the conditions got better. After the break the race continued on a perfect trail witch was prepared by the local snow specialists. In each category of the race the competion is very strong as in many categorie there are only a few seconds between the first teams. According to weather conditions, the second heat that will start tomorrow morning at 9:00 is very promising.

INFORMATION from St.Ulrich 16.2.2006:

The start list

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16.2.2006
Today the mushers arrived at St. Ulrich in a rainy weather. A total of 158 will be on the start tomorrow, and today all the dogs were checked by the vetteam. There were no problems with the dogs found, so all the dogs can enter the competition tomorrow.

There was also a lot of work on the trail, because the rain damaged the trail a lot. But the trailboss and his team did a very good job and they did succeed in optimalizing the trail. The traillenghts are as follows Skj: 15 km, D class: 7km, C class: 10 km, B class: 15 km, A class: 18 km and O class: 22 km.

This evening the opening ceremony will be tonight at 19:30 hour, because of the weather the program had to be changed, but still it will be a night with lots of entertainment.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
The travel map
WEB CAMERA
Stake out iformation
The list of competitors
Programme

The trail profile
Category	Lenght	Trail	Superelevation
D	7 km	flacher	70
Skj	15 km	anspruchsvoller Trail mit Steigungen	240
B	15 km	anspruchsvoller Trail mit Steigungen	240
C	10 km	flacher	70
A	18 km	anspruchsvoller Trail mit Steigungen	240
O	22 km	anspruchsvoller Trail mit Steigungen	300

Programm

Mittwoch 15.2.2006 Anreise der EM Teilnehmer

Donnerstag 16.2.2006 18.00 Uhr Startnummernvergabe anschl. Begrü_ungsfest im Musher Zelt

Freitag 17.2.2006 FISTC EUROPAMEISTERSCHAFTEN 2006 SPRINT 09.00 - 16.00 Uhr 1. Renntag 19.30 Uhr offizielle Eröffnungsfeier mit Livekonzert & Feuerwerk

Samstag 18.2.2006 09.00 - 16.00 Uhr: 2. Renntag 19.30 Uhr: " Alaska meets Brasil" das Musher Fest mit Skiffle & Country , Samba & Salsa...

Sonntag 19.2.2006 09.00 - 16.00 Uhr: 3. Renntag Ca. 17.30 Uhr: Preisverleihung und Verabschiedung anschl. Abschlussfest im Musher Zelt Programmänderungen vorbehalten.

Contat:

TSDC - Transpillersee Sled Dog Club Strass 56 A-6393 St. Ulrich am Pillersee /Tirol Tel.: + 43 5354 88 375 Mobil: +43 699 1189 9835

e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , www.huskys.at

http://www.huskys.at/FISTC%20Europameiserschaften.pdf

 

 

The FINAL RESULT

The Nation cup: 1. Germany, 2. Slovakia, 3. Czech republic

4. France, 5. Austria, 6. Netherlands, 7. Poland, 8. Italy, 9. Belgium, 10. Hungary, 11. Denmark, 12. Romanie

 

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Saturday 12th of February, the World Championship continues. It is snowing constantly since early morning. The snow is very fine, therefore a real challange for mushers, dogs and organizers.

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Photos provided by Thomas Ackermann

Also today everything is very well organized.The second heat took off at 9 am as planned. Prime minister of Slovakia Mikulaš Dzurinda has accepted the invitation and assisted at the start line. President of Slovakia Ivan Gašparovič and minester of economy Ivan Mikloš have enjoyed the atmosphere of the race so much, they decided to be a part of it today as well.

There was at least 25 thousand people who came to support the mushers and enjoy the race.

Fresh snow has made the trail very soft and much tougher today. It is possible that by tommorow as much as 40 cm of snow will fall on to the trail. The ones winning this race will be really the top mushers.

The results after 2nd heat here

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On Thursday, 10th of February the 7th World Championship F.I.S.T.C. 2005 Sprint - Pure breads was officially opened. The Sleddog racing has come to Donovaly. Grand opening brought the history and the flavor of Alaska to Slovakia once again.

 

The Major of Donovaly Miroslav Daňo, Slovak minister of economy Ivan Mikloš, sponsors and F.I.S.T.C delegates have warmly welcomed all nations participating at this year's race. The organizers have prepared a wonderful show, which brought to us a look at the history of mushing and Slovak folklore.

 

There are 160 mushers competing and 650 dogs running this year. They are top mushers representing 12 countries. Donovaly has 120cm of snow and the trail is well maintained.

The first heat was at 9 am, Friday the 11th. Thanks to the organizers everything was well prepared and controlled at the Start and Finish. The president of Slovak republic Ivan Gašparovič was a guest of honor and personally assisted at the start line. This left the delegates of F.I.S.T.C. and many others highly impressed. The first day of the World Championship went very smooth. There were no complaints raised so far towards the first heat. Mushers were hugging their dogs and shaking each other's hands passed the finish line. The air was filled with healthy competition, excitement and barking of the dogs.

The race has began at 9am.

The best teams after 1st heat: result list

 

Information about race you can find also on http://schlittenhund.de

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Program:

10.02.2005:

09:00-15:00 Arrival of teams

10:00 -16:00 Dogcontrol and Vetcheck

17:00 Meeting of Delegates

19:00 Opening Ceremony

11.02.2005:

09:00 Start 1. Heat

18:00 Meeting of Delegates

12.02.2005:

09:00 Start 2. Heat

18:00 Meeting of Delegates

13.02.2005:

09:00 Start 3. Heat

15:00 Meeting of Delegates

16:00 Pricingceremony

Map of the trail

Trail profiles