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FIS Marathon Cup updates: Dolomitenlauf, Marcialonga & Tartu Maraton
41st DOLOMITENLAUF
The 41st Dolomitenlauf is guaranteed. This year it will again take place in Obertilliach. The romantic mountain village offers excellent cross-country courses, where several national teams and amateurs started their training already.
The Dolomite Classic over 42/20 km takes place on January 17th whereas the 41st Dolomitenlauf, also over 42/20 km, takes place on Sunday January 18th. The Dolomitenlauf involves freestyle-skiing.
Obertilliach is ready to host such an international event, which is part of the Worldloppet as well as the FIS marathon cup. Our plan for the next few days is to perfectly prepare the course.
The OK-Team is responsible for our participants from more than 30 nations and all continents. Some of them came to Obertilliach days ago to prepare for the Dolomitenlauf. Once again we take our motto “Everybody is winner against himself” very serious.
On this year’s Dolomitenlauf Weekend, there is a special event that challenges the organization team. While 2,000 cross-country skiers make their way through the course, the new James Bond movie “Spectre” will be shooted in immediate vicinity of Start and Finish of the 41st Dolomitenlauf. With a bit of luck you might see Mister James Bond, Daniel Craig visiting the Dolomitenlauf. Unfortunately the “Dolomitensprint” will not take place this year because of the changing circumstances due to the shooting. The organizing committee decided to concentrate on the 41st Dolomitenlauf and the Dolomite Classic.
The participation in the 41st Dolomitenlauf might offer all James Bond Fans to meet him in the romantic filming location Obertilliach!
Registration and further information on www.dolomitensport.at
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MARCIALONGA MOVES CLOSER AND CLOSER
•Less than two weeks to 2015 Marcialonga in Italy
•Simen Østensen plus Aukland brothers confirmed their presence
•Seraina Boner vs. Smutna, Confortola and Kveli
•Snow cannons at full power to prepare the track
Italy’s most popular ski-marathon moves closer and in less than two weeks time – Sunday 25 January 2015 – almost 8.000 XC skiing lovers and long-distance superstars will be gathering in Val di Fiemme and Val di Fassa, at the foot of monumental Dolomites.
Last January’s winner Simen Østensen will be at the start all…skis blazing, and so will Anders and Jørgen Aukland and John Kristian Dahl who finished second last year right behind Østensen. The Swedes will certainly attempt to go over the eight place reached by Joergen Brink last January and climb the podium once again after missing it in the past three years. Svaerd, Ahrlin, Brink, Soedergren and Tynell are among the big names already registered. It is going to be a spectacular battle between them and the Norwegian neighbours. Lukas Bauer, Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Giorgio Di Centa are three further XC superstars who confirmed their presence and so did Czech Rezac, Norway’s Kjølstad, Berdal, Dammen, Pettersen, Callesen and Thomas Alsgaard, Finn Jauhojaervi plus the gold and silver medallists at last weekend’s Jizerska Padesatka in Czech Republic, Morten Pedersen and Petter Eliassen.
Katerina Smutna of Czech Republic won the Jizerska yesterday among the women keeping back her biggest rival Seraina Boner. They will face each other in Italy too next 25 January together with Annika Lofstroem, Laila Kveli and Italy’s Antonella Confortola and Sara Pellegrini.
During the past weekend, Val di Fiemme hosted the FIS Tour de Ski eventual legs and part of the Marcialonga track was involved in the event. ‘We are all very confident the track will be properly set in a couple of weeks time – Marcialonga OC President Angelo Corradini claimed yesterday – the Tour de Ski was an important test for us and we successfully passed it. The 2015 Marcialonga is definitely not in danger and if the weather won’t change and we won’t have any snowfalls before the race we might shorten a little the 70k track.’ According to Corradini words, several fragments of the track throughout Fiemme and Fassa valleys are skiable and some sort of an ‘emergency plan B’ is ready as well.
The 42nd Marcialonga di Fiemme e Fassa will go on TV live or delayed in many countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Czech Republic and Greece, thanks to Eurosport. RAI will cover it almost entirely live in Italy.
Info: www.marcialonga.it
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TARTU MARATON
Course of Tartu Maraton is in good condition one month before the start
35 days before the start of the 43rd Tartu Maraton the course is in good condition despite changeable weather conditons in Estonia.
„Today the snow conditions were very nice. There has been a lot of new snow lately and these are the best snow conditions we have had for the last two years,“ said the chief of course Assar Kütt who has been preparing the track over a month now.
According to the latest info a total of 5168 skiers have registered for the 43rd Tartu Maraton – 4258 for the longer 63km distance and 910 for the shorter 31km distance.
43rd Tartu Maraton takes place on the 15th of February 2015.
The 41st Dolomitenlauf is guaranteed. This year it will again take place in Obertilliach. The romantic mountain village offers excellent cross-country courses, where several national teams and amateurs started their training already.
The Dolomite Classic over 42/20 km takes place on January 17th whereas the 41st Dolomitenlauf, also over 42/20 km, takes place on Sunday January 18th. The Dolomitenlauf involves freestyle-skiing.
Obertilliach is ready to host such an international event, which is part of the Worldloppet as well as the FIS marathon cup. Our plan for the next few days is to perfectly prepare the course.
The OK-Team is responsible for our participants from more than 30 nations and all continents. Some of them came to Obertilliach days ago to prepare for the Dolomitenlauf. Once again we take our motto “Everybody is winner against himself” very serious.
On this year’s Dolomitenlauf Weekend, there is a special event that challenges the organization team. While 2,000 cross-country skiers make their way through the course, the new James Bond movie “Spectre” will be shooted in immediate vicinity of Start and Finish of the 41st Dolomitenlauf. With a bit of luck you might see Mister James Bond, Daniel Craig visiting the Dolomitenlauf. Unfortunately the “Dolomitensprint” will not take place this year because of the changing circumstances due to the shooting. The organizing committee decided to concentrate on the 41st Dolomitenlauf and the Dolomite Classic.
The participation in the 41st Dolomitenlauf might offer all James Bond Fans to meet him in the romantic filming location Obertilliach!
Registration and further information on www.dolomitensport.at
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MARCIALONGA MOVES CLOSER AND CLOSER
•Less than two weeks to 2015 Marcialonga in Italy
•Simen Østensen plus Aukland brothers confirmed their presence
•Seraina Boner vs. Smutna, Confortola and Kveli
•Snow cannons at full power to prepare the track
Italy’s most popular ski-marathon moves closer and in less than two weeks time – Sunday 25 January 2015 – almost 8.000 XC skiing lovers and long-distance superstars will be gathering in Val di Fiemme and Val di Fassa, at the foot of monumental Dolomites.
Last January’s winner Simen Østensen will be at the start all…skis blazing, and so will Anders and Jørgen Aukland and John Kristian Dahl who finished second last year right behind Østensen. The Swedes will certainly attempt to go over the eight place reached by Joergen Brink last January and climb the podium once again after missing it in the past three years. Svaerd, Ahrlin, Brink, Soedergren and Tynell are among the big names already registered. It is going to be a spectacular battle between them and the Norwegian neighbours. Lukas Bauer, Tord Asle Gjerdalen and Giorgio Di Centa are three further XC superstars who confirmed their presence and so did Czech Rezac, Norway’s Kjølstad, Berdal, Dammen, Pettersen, Callesen and Thomas Alsgaard, Finn Jauhojaervi plus the gold and silver medallists at last weekend’s Jizerska Padesatka in Czech Republic, Morten Pedersen and Petter Eliassen.
Katerina Smutna of Czech Republic won the Jizerska yesterday among the women keeping back her biggest rival Seraina Boner. They will face each other in Italy too next 25 January together with Annika Lofstroem, Laila Kveli and Italy’s Antonella Confortola and Sara Pellegrini.
During the past weekend, Val di Fiemme hosted the FIS Tour de Ski eventual legs and part of the Marcialonga track was involved in the event. ‘We are all very confident the track will be properly set in a couple of weeks time – Marcialonga OC President Angelo Corradini claimed yesterday – the Tour de Ski was an important test for us and we successfully passed it. The 2015 Marcialonga is definitely not in danger and if the weather won’t change and we won’t have any snowfalls before the race we might shorten a little the 70k track.’ According to Corradini words, several fragments of the track throughout Fiemme and Fassa valleys are skiable and some sort of an ‘emergency plan B’ is ready as well.
The 42nd Marcialonga di Fiemme e Fassa will go on TV live or delayed in many countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Czech Republic and Greece, thanks to Eurosport. RAI will cover it almost entirely live in Italy.
Info: www.marcialonga.it
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TARTU MARATON
Course of Tartu Maraton is in good condition one month before the start
35 days before the start of the 43rd Tartu Maraton the course is in good condition despite changeable weather conditons in Estonia.
„Today the snow conditions were very nice. There has been a lot of new snow lately and these are the best snow conditions we have had for the last two years,“ said the chief of course Assar Kütt who has been preparing the track over a month now.
According to the latest info a total of 5168 skiers have registered for the 43rd Tartu Maraton – 4258 for the longer 63km distance and 910 for the shorter 31km distance.
43rd Tartu Maraton takes place on the 15th of February 2015.
Source: fis-ski.com
