The 2021/22 WÜRTH MODYF ISMF World Cup season gets to the heart with its fourth stage

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The 2021/22 WÜRTH MODYF ISMF World Cup season gets to the heart with its fourth stage

For the occasion, the worldwide ski mountaineering athletes will come back to Italy, in Valtellina, the province in the middle of the Alps. Two pre-European Championships competitions are scheduled, an Individual and a Sprint race, which will assign very important and valuable points for the Overall and Specialties rankings.

Lausanne, 2 February 2022 – Returning from the ISMF stage held in Morgins, Switzerland, the competitors from 14 different countries will already stop over for another leg, whose official ceremony will take place this evening at 17:30 in Sondrio, in the central Piazza Garibaldi.

Compared to what was planned at the beginning of the season, the classic Valtellina Orobie race will not be staged, due to the lack of snow. For the first competition, tomorrow’s Individual race, given the impossibility of setting the track on the Meriggio’s slopes, the Local Organising Committee in accordance with the ISMF Technical Jury has opted for the Palù ski area. Very steep and spectacular couloirs have been prepared here, with two off-piste descents, one of which inside the wood.

The show is assured also in Caspoggio, where a Sprint race is programmed for the morning of Saturday 5 February on a track already tested some years ago, which is rather steep and muscular. A ski stadium of great effect and a race that promises to be very hard will be the common thread for the competing athletes. It is expected to be an engaging occasion also for the spectators who will be present on the spot.

The President of the Local Organising Committee, Mr. Gianluca Cristini, affirms: “Thanks to the great availability of the Funivie al Bernina Company and to the active collaboration of Consorzio Turistico Sondrio Valmalenco and Unione dei Comuni della Valmalenco, we are able to guarantee the fulfilment of the planned races, despite the recent changes in relation to the race tracks due to the insufficient snowfall of this winter. I would also like to thank the main sponsors of the 35° Valtellina Orobie ISMF World Cup stage, such as Edison, Creval-Crédit Agricole and Valmalenco Tourist Destination, without whom it would not have been possible to hold such event”.

The Sprint race (only for the Senior category) will be live streamed on the official ISMF website through the following link.

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Roberto Cavallo, Event Director, rcavallo@ismf-ski.org, +39 335 5745945

About the ISMF
Founded in 2007, the International Ski Mountaineering Federation ISMF is the global governing body for ski mountaineering competitions. Since 2016, the organization is officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee IOC. Its main goals are the promotion, regulation and development of the ski mountaineering sport worldwide. Based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the ISMF’s membership consists of 40 national mountaineering or ski sports federations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The ISMF organizes ski mountaineering World Cups events and World Championships. For the first time, ski mountaineering has been a medal sport at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne Switzerland and has recently been included in the programme of the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026.

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