OROSLAVJE THE STORY

FIS Rollerski World Cup 2006

Oroslavje (Croatia)

23.-25.06.2006.

First race, Bistra 23.06

This years season of FIS Rollerski World Cup has been opened with up hill race in Bistra. In very warm conditions, racers in five categories were on race track. Organisers, Municipality of Bistra and Ski club Oroslavje have been preparing race track in total lenght of 6.200 meters. The track was extremly demanding. For the race it was more than 80 competitors entries, but chalenge of hot day and demanding race track excepted 57 competitors from eight countries. The race had mass start, and first on the start were ladies.

In junior female category first three places were taken by Germans; Louis Wolf, Julia Kockritz and Theres Wolf. Winner of the senior female category was Viviana Druidi from Italiy. Second was Kelime Aydin from Turkey and third Erika Bettineschi from Italy. In junior male category the winner was Glauco Pizzutto from Italy who beat Sebastian Bach from Germany on second place and Izzet Kizilarslan from Turkey on third. Alfio Di Gregorio showed the best form in the first World Cup race by winning it. Second and third were also Italians Valerio Theodule and Christiano Ivaldi. In the masters race, the winning place had gone to Hungary to Laszlo Miskolczi who beat Italian Stefano Corradin and Russian Leonid Golobkov.

Second race, Oroslavje 24.06

First time in FIS Rollerski World Cup we had one team sprint race. Two members of the team were driving around centre of the town in lenght of two kilometers. We saw really well races. In each race, leading group was formed and in tactical battle for better final position competitors had very tight results. All races were decieded in last meters in final sprint. Junior male, junior female and senior female were driving tree laps, senior male, five.

Junior and senior ladies were in one race. In senior female category winner was Italy 2 (Anna Rosa, Erika Bettineschi) in front of Russia 1 (Marina Firsova, Elena Ektova) and Italy 1 (Mateja Bogatec, Viviana Druidi). In junior female category winner was Germany 1 (Luis Wolf, Julia Kkritz), second was Germany 2 (Theres Wolf, Theresa Monreal) and third was Croatia (Maja Vuk, Marina Kovacec). With only one second better time, Italy with brothers Pizzutto, Folco and Glauco, was better than Germany 2 (Sebastian Bech, Sten Kaiser). Third was Germany 1 (Markus Erler, Kenny Assan). The smallest margin was in the senior male category. At the end winner was Italy 1 (Alfio Di Gregorio, Jules Pession) in front of Italy 2 (Emmanuele Sbabo, Eugenio Bianchi) and Russia 1 (Igor Glushkov, Nikolay Bolshakov). The margin was only 26 hundreds of a second.

Third race, Oroslavje 25.06

Hot morning and 180 meters long race track in the city center was waiting rollerski competitors in the last race of World cups first stage in Croatia. After we had repeated sprint qualifications, best 16 in female and male category were in the final. As we expected Bogatec family, Mateja and David, was quickest in qualifications. At the end in female category the winner was Mateja Bogatec (Italy) who beat compatriot Anna Rosa with 42 hundreds od a second. In B final german junior Julia Kkritz (with that result winner in junior female category) beat Marina Firsova from Russia. In male category we had complete Italian dominationa with four competitors in semi finals. In final race, small surprise. We expected David Bogatec's win, but Alessio Berlanda was faster for 28 hundreds of a second. In B final Emanuele Sbabo was better than Simone Paredi for only small 8 hundreds of a second. When results in senior and junior category were separated, winner in junior category was Folco Pizzutto from Italy.

That's the end of the this years FIS Rollerski World Cup race in Oroslavje, Croatia. Organizers are satisfied with the job they have done, and we belive that guest are also pleased with three days in Croatia. Thanks all for your cooperation and see you next year.