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13 gen 2010

The Ice Climbing "Bigs"

The stronger athletes of the world at the Ice Climbing Stadium

The Ice Master is going to be a demanding and technical competition live on RAI networks.

Maurizio Gallo explained that the organizers have tried to build new and demanding routes in order to underline the technical ability of the athletes.

Daone Ice Master is the second stage of the World Cup circuit. The first of four competitions: the first part of the world circuit was in Kirov in Russia. The lead competition was dominated by Angelika Rainer from Merano followed by the Russian Liudmila Badalyan and by Markus Bendler from Austria followed by the Russian Alexey Dengin). The speed competition were won by Nadezda Shubina and by Maxim Vlasov, both of them are Russian.

The other two stages of the world circuit will take place on 22nd and 23rd in Saas Fee in Switzerland and the first week end of February the competition will end in Busteni, Romania.

The 9th Ice Master edition will host both the specialities and all the athletes of Kirov may be in Pracul. It’s official the presence of Markus Bendler who won 2007 and 2009 editions in the lead speciality, Park Hee Yong from Korea and the brothers Matevz and Jerney Vukotic from Slovenia, who dominated the last two editions ( 2008 and 2009 ) in the speed speciality.

In the sprint competition where athletes challenge for the 3rd trophy Cassa Rurale Adamello Brenta, Yevgen Kryvosheytsev ( among men ) from Ucraina is to follow with attention. Among women the French Stèphanie Maureau deserves attention.

Moreover there is the registrations of three Americans athletes, after 2 years of absence.

The Russian team is great and in Daone will be very large.

As usual, other athletes will enter few days before the competition.

There will be lots of qualified climbers which have to pay attention to new strong athletes like Angelika Rainer from Merano.

It’s not to forget the winners of the last edition, that is the Russian Maria Tolokonina, who in 2009 won both the specialities and the Russian Pavel Gulyaev, the king of the lead.