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FIS Rollerski World Ski Championships gets underway in Val di Fiemme
Originally, roller skis were born to allow winter sports' specialists to train without any snow during off season. Today, from 24 to 27 September, world’s top roller skiers and a good bunch of Cross-Country skiers will gather in Val di Fiemme – Italy for the 2015 FIS Roller Ski World Championships.
It's all set on the Italian Alps to warmly welcome over 150 athletes from 20 nations all called to fight for gold medals in four spectacular events (Up Hill, Sprint, Team Sprint and Long Distance), one each day from Thursday to Sunday.
And for those who are not going to make it to Val di Fiemme, the Italian TV Rai Sport1 will broadcast the entire event on Wednesday 30 September afternoon, plus Eurosport, NRK and SVT channels will broadcast the events as well.
The upcoming FIS Roller Ski World Championships official program reads as follows: a 10.4km uphill Interval Start race from the town of Ziano di Fiemme up to Bellamonte - literally 'Beautiful Mountain' - on the very first day, and the opening ceremony afterwards at 9pm. Both the Sprint (Friday) and Team Sprint (Saturday) events will take place in Ziano di Fiemme, while the Long Distance competition (25km Men and 19k mWomen and Junior) is scheduled on Sunday together with a Special Car-Free Day named 'Fiemme Senz'Auto' and an Open promo-race for roller skiing and XC skiing lovers.Several side events are also scheduled during the weekend such as the Septemberfest on Saturday night.
Huge names already booked their bibs at the start of the upcoming races in Italy, from the current FIS Rollerski World Cup leaders Emanuele Becchis of Italy and Linn Sömskar of Sweden, to Robin Norum and Ragnar Bragvin Andresen who follow Becchis very close, and Sömskar's chasers Valiantsina Kaminskaya of Belarus and Ksenia Konohova of Russia.
The current Sprint World Champion Alessio Berlanda plus Russian Cross-Country superstars Nikita Kriukov and Evgenij Dementiev will also be part of the game, and so will Italy's XC skiers Pellegrino, Nöckler, De Fabiani, Vuerich and Stürz. In Junior Women's category, Russian Letucheva and Chvanova certainly are number one favourites, while on the men's side Marcus Fredriksson and Alfred Buskqvist embody the men to beat for the Italian national team and for the rest of the world.
Source: fis-ski.com
It's all set on the Italian Alps to warmly welcome over 150 athletes from 20 nations all called to fight for gold medals in four spectacular events (Up Hill, Sprint, Team Sprint and Long Distance), one each day from Thursday to Sunday.
And for those who are not going to make it to Val di Fiemme, the Italian TV Rai Sport1 will broadcast the entire event on Wednesday 30 September afternoon, plus Eurosport, NRK and SVT channels will broadcast the events as well.
The upcoming FIS Roller Ski World Championships official program reads as follows: a 10.4km uphill Interval Start race from the town of Ziano di Fiemme up to Bellamonte - literally 'Beautiful Mountain' - on the very first day, and the opening ceremony afterwards at 9pm. Both the Sprint (Friday) and Team Sprint (Saturday) events will take place in Ziano di Fiemme, while the Long Distance competition (25km Men and 19k mWomen and Junior) is scheduled on Sunday together with a Special Car-Free Day named 'Fiemme Senz'Auto' and an Open promo-race for roller skiing and XC skiing lovers.Several side events are also scheduled during the weekend such as the Septemberfest on Saturday night.
Huge names already booked their bibs at the start of the upcoming races in Italy, from the current FIS Rollerski World Cup leaders Emanuele Becchis of Italy and Linn Sömskar of Sweden, to Robin Norum and Ragnar Bragvin Andresen who follow Becchis very close, and Sömskar's chasers Valiantsina Kaminskaya of Belarus and Ksenia Konohova of Russia.
The current Sprint World Champion Alessio Berlanda plus Russian Cross-Country superstars Nikita Kriukov and Evgenij Dementiev will also be part of the game, and so will Italy's XC skiers Pellegrino, Nöckler, De Fabiani, Vuerich and Stürz. In Junior Women's category, Russian Letucheva and Chvanova certainly are number one favourites, while on the men's side Marcus Fredriksson and Alfred Buskqvist embody the men to beat for the Italian national team and for the rest of the world.
Source: fis-ski.com
