RECORD MARCIALONGA

There are 30 days left to the 38^th edition of Marcialonga and the 7.200 skiers are already in turmoil for next 30^th of January 2011. And the start list is richer than ever.

From Sweden: Björn Lind with  two gold medals at Torino 2006, Oskar Svärd and Jenny Hansson, winners of Marcialonga 2010, Jörgen Brink winner of Vasaloppet 2010, and last but not lest Fredriksson, Andreasson, Ahrlin, Tynell e Nyström.

From Italy: Fabio Santus , winner of the FIS Marathon Cup 2010, Bruno Carrara, Marco Cattaneo, Bruno Debertolis and probably Nicola Morandini will fight for the highest place on the podium together with Sabina Valbusa, bronze medal in Marcialonga 2000 and Veronica De Martin Pinter.

From Norway: beside the 2.930 skiers, there will be at the start line Thomas Alsgaard and the Aukland bros Anders and Jörgen

Many the events scheduled as frame of next Italian popular cross-country ski race: the “One Way Finish Climb Trophy” that will award the fastest man and lady on the Cascata climb among the first 400 at the finish; the 1^st edition of the Marcialonga Young that will give the opportunity to the competitors born between 1992 and 1996 to race over two lengths (9 km and 14 km) from Lago di Tesero up to the finish in Cavalese; the Marcialonga Stars and the MiniMarcialonga in Lago di Tesero on Saturday afternoon.

While waiting for the Marcialonga Story, the event that in 2013 will celebrate with
old-fashioned equipment the 40^th anniversary of the race, its organising committee promotes the creation of a Register of vintage cross-country skis, with the purpose of gathering news, data and pictures of skis constructed in different periods, but still functional. Another important issue for Marcialonga Story is represented by the Marcialonga & L’Eroica twinning. L’Eroica, well known bicycle foundation in Tuscany, holds the Heroic bike register, inspiration source for the Marcialonga register of cross-country skis

For its next edition, Marcialonga is still part of the Worldloppet and FIS Marathon Cup circuits, and also of the Combined event “Punto3 Craft”, together with the Marcialonga Cycling in May and the Marcialonga Running in September.

The record number of entries imply also a record number of services and volunteers, such as the Red Cross -  Local Committee Val di Fassa - Vigo Group, responsible for the management of First Aid and medical care during Marcialonga, with 110 volunteers, 25 practitioners and nurses, more than 30 ambulances along the entire race course.

And for those who want to try now the Marcialonga course, the tracks are almost completed, only the passages along the villages and the final climbing at Cascata are missing.