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16 Jan 2010

Markus Bendler was a confirm Chloe Graftiaux was a surprise bitter semi-finals for Herbert Klammer and Angelika Rainer

There was few surprises in the first competition day in Daone, in particular referring to men’s sector. In the lead competition went to finals the king Markus Bendler ( Austria ), who won in Daone in 2007 and 2009 and today he is the World Cup holder. He reached the semi – final route top very easily. It was a very selective circuit. with its 25 metres in height and 35 in width.

The Korean Park Hee Yong, every year he becomes more and more competitive, the Swiss Patrik Aufdenblatten and the very expert Yevgen Kryvosheytsev from Ukraine put their ice axes in the blue grip ( it shows the arrival ), too.

The Ukrainian Valentyn Sypavin and the Russian Stanislav Lobzov and Sergey Tarasov qualified for the final, too. Herbert Klammer, who represents Italy, was very unlucky. He is from the Aurina Valley he did a good competition in which he placed 9th, the one of the first excluded. He said: “ It was the head which made the difference and today it hasn’t worked properly!”.

Javier Bueno Berges, Alexey Tomilov and Nikolay Primerov did all right, but not enough to have the right to compete, on the circuit characterised by a crossing similar to the moon surface and by other two which remind to diamonds.

Also two Italians, Matteo Rivadossi and Kurt Astner, the “ghiacciatore” from Tures Valley, were out from the open.

Among women, it was very bitter for Angelika Rainer. In the semi – final she stopped by a hair from the final qualification, because of a mistake in the second part of a hard route full of traps but of course accessible to her. Rainer fell in one of these but she wasn’t the only one. Only four female athletes reached the top, lots of them stopped where grips became more insidious, others lower.

Among them there was the other Italian girl, Giulia Venturelli, the Italian winner in office, who left the scene after few metres. It’s was a failure for Rainer who was at the top of the World Cup rank, loosing the chance to increase her score: “ I lost the support on the last icy stretch before the dry – stone stretch. It’s an atypical stretch for a mountaineer and I lost the landmark and I felt down”.

The Belgian Chloe Graftiaux dominated the semi – final in 6 min and 40 sec and behind her there was the Korean Woon Jeong, detached from 9 sec. Anna Gallyamova from Russia and Lucie Hrzova from Czech Republic placed in the semi – final. Ludmilla Badalyan ( Russia ), Stephanie Moreau ( France ), Radka Petkova ( Bulgaria ) and the young Swiss Felicitas Feller qualified even without reaching the top.

Temperatures will be stable for all the competition with -8°. It’s very good for the competition!

Sunday’s program starts at 10.15 with women’s final. For men we have to wait until 14.15 pm. Then prizes will be given to athletes with the Fanfara like background.

Routes, one for men and one for women, will be 2 longer and more spectacular circuits than the others.