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Rollerski World Cup in the city of Trento
Noeckler, Pellegrin and Orlandi
will take part in the competitions
The dream of having a Rollerski World Cup right in the city center of Trento will soon come true. As a matter of fact sturday 19th and Sunday 20th September, Trento and the Monte Bondone will be honored to host for the first time the double event valid for the maximum circuit.
At the beginning of the season the event had been planned as Italian Cup, but the cancellation of the competition scheduled in Bad Peterstal (Germany), forced the Federations to rethink the schedule and to choose among the aspirants the organization of APT Trento, Monte Bondone, Valle dei Laghi and ASD Charly Gaul Internazionale thanks to the excellent outcome of the organization of the last year Italian Cup Finals.
All of a sudden Trento and the Monte Bondone (the mountain of Trento), find themselves to be part of a great challenge: the organization of the World Cup and at the same time also the organization of the Italian Cup competitions.
This concept has been the core of the press conference in Trento, where the President of the O.C. Elda Verones together with the council members of the municipality of Trento Andrea Robol and Roberto Stanchina, the Nordic ski manager of the regional FISI Marco Zoller and the president of the regional FIHP Bernardo Trabalzini.
In the room also the athlete from Trento Alessio Berlanda, part of the Team Futura, who is in excellent physical conditions and ready to deal with his specialty, the sprint: “Having the chance to compete right in the city center of my city is a great opportunity. I’ll do my best and will fight for a great result and will be proud to compete with such high level athletes.
The sprint competition will be held Saturday afternoon in the city center of Trento. The course will be 165 meters and will be same for qualifications and finals for the so far 200 athletes representing about 10 Nations.
The competition of Sunday will have different starting points depending on the category; the senior World Cup will have a 8,5 km course, the junior a 4,7 km course.
The Trento and Monte Bondone competitions will be held just a week prior to the World Championship in Val di Fiemme, so that the challenges are even more significant, in order to define the settlement of the Italian Team, and for this reason will also be present important names such as the three athletes of the Fiamme Oro Dieter Noeckler, Mattia Pellegrin and Luca Orlandi.There will be present also the Italian specialist Emanuele Becchis, third in the general classification after the Swedish Robin Norum and the Norwegian Ragnar Bragvin Andresen, the sprint specialist Alessio Berlanda from Trento, Emanele Sbabo (eight position in the general classification), Richard Tiraboschi and Sergio Bonaldi. Among the women in the first places there are the sisters Lisa and Anna Bolzan. For the juniors there will be promising Francesco Becchis and Giulio Bezzi, Paolo Ventura Monica Tomasini from Trentino. In the Italian Cup will be present also Bruno Debertolis, winner of many winter gran fondos.
But also from an international point of view the cast of athletes will be brilliant; competitors from Belarus, France, Denmark, Latvia, Romania and Russia. There will be high level athletes such as Evgenij Dement’ev, gold medal in the pursuit and silver in the 50 km in Turin 2006.
Saturday at 1.30 p.m. in Via S. Croce in Trento will be held the sprint competitions, first the qualifications and finals of the World Cup and right after from 16.30 the qualifications and finals of the Italian Cup.
Saturday the classical technique uphill, from 9.30 a.m. the Italian Cup and from 10.30 a.m. the World Cup.
