News

29 dic 2009

ICE MASTER WORLD CUP 2010

In January Daone Valley is doubling

It’s playing host to the difficulty and race Cup

Daone Ice Master World Cup doubles and it is more and more international. Last days became official the piece of news that the UIAA ( the international Federation, which gathers mountain’s sports ) has assigned the organization of the World Race Cup to the prestigious Ice Climbing Competition.

January 16^th and 17^th 2010 is being two days of competitions particularly full with the typical difficulty Competition, thanks to whom the suggestive Daone Valley has been known worldwide, and the race.

« The piece of news – said Romolo Ghezzi, the organizing Committee’s president – has been welcomed enthusiastically by our team, which is composed of many, precious volunteers from all the Giudicarie Valleys. It will spur our organizing capacities. In fact, as soon as Placido Corradi, the responsible for the volunteers, got the piece of news, he gathered his team starting to plan some variations to the traditional structure, following Maurizio Gallo’s instructions, the team Manager».

The 2010 Ice Master World Cup edition is playing in Pracul on the structure which hosted the last sport-events.

Next winter the ice stadium is moving and the new location is being in Nimes, a very close area to Pracul between the Chiese River and the road.

Here will be built a permanent structure, where will be organized summer sport-events.

Next January edition is paying attention to the developing of new techincs.

« December 9^th – told the general Manager Riccardo Milani – is taking place a meeting between the organizing Committee and the UIAA in order to fix the features of the new structure and the new competition’s courses.

Recently the ice climbing has been changing, favoring more and more the dry tooling specialty, crossing on resin panels and on granite grips, which are beside the traditional ice strokes. For the occasion the athletes’ representative is explain all the ice climbing equipment innovations.

In fact, last year the regulations didn’t allow the use of the back of the climbing iron and somebody disagreed».

Daone’s competition is among the top World Cup Competitions and in 2010 the 2^nd of four competitions. The Kirov competitions in Russia is opening the circuit where the race is taking place from January 7^th to 9^th and the following week end it’s the turn of the Ice Master in Daone.

January 22^nd and 23^rd the ice climbing is taking place in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the competition is ending in Busteni in Romania.

The UIAA decided that the European championship under 18 will be competed the same week end of the Ice Master World Cup in Saas Grund and the race in Busteni.

The main protagonists is being the last World Cup edition’s winners, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina, who won in 2009 both the competitions, the Austrian Markus Bendkler, the difficulty Cup’s leader and the Russian Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the race.

They are experienced climbers, who have to pay attention to the emerging young, in particular to Angelika Rainer from Merano, who placed second in the last difficulty World Cup’s edition, few points down from Tolokonina.