SKI MOUNTAINEERING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BOI TAULL 2023: PROGRAM & RACES PREVIEW

Posted by Héctor Rubio on February 28, 2023 in ismf, ismf skimo, ismf world cup, trail running spain | Leave a comment

SKI MOUNTAINEERING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BOI TAULL 2023: PROGRAM & RACES PREVIEW. Our SKI MOUNTAINEERING section celebrates the start this afternoon for some record World Championships.

Almost 300 athletes from 27 countries and five continents are ready for the 2023 ISMF Skimo World Championship. Let’s go with the last hour of the program.

Boi Taull 2023 . Trainings. Photo ISMF.

SKI MOUNTAINEERING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BOI TAULL 2023: PROGRAM & RACES PREVIEW

The biggest event of the 2022/23 calendar is finally here. The World Championships in ski mountaineering starts this evening with the opening ceremony.

Spain hosts the skimo World Championships after 19 years. The races will happen in the ski resort Boí Taüll, located in the heart of the Pyrenees. The week’s programme is intense, with five races in six days and just one rest day.

Registration indicates this will be a record-breaking World Championships, with 298 athletes starting in Boí Taüll, the most in the history of the ISMF World Championships ever. Even though 27 countries is not a new maximum, the World Championships never had five different continents before.

ISMF PRESIDENT: REGULA MEIER

“I have to admit that it is so rewarding for us at the ISMF to see large delegations from countries that do not have a long past in our sport, like China, and some other ones that have just arrived to ski mountaineering at its best, like Australia, Azerbaijan or Finland, to mention a few. We have been blessed this year with brilliant racing and superb organisation in all the events hosted so far. We know the bar will be even higher here in Boi Taull,” said Regula Meier, President of the International Ski Mountaineering Federation.

Photo: ISMF

SKI MOUNTAINEERING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BOI TAULL 2023: PROGRAM

There will be eight disciplines in Sprint, Individual and Vertical: Senior Men, Senior Women, U23 Men, U23 Women, U20 Men, U20 Women, U18 Men and U18 Women. Mixed Relay will have two categories: Senior Mixed and Youth Mixed. The Team race is only for Senior – Senior Men and Senior Women.

SPRINT RACE- TUESDAY 28. FEBRURAY

A busy week will kick off the Olympic discipline – the Sprint race. The shortest and most exciting race will be in the same place as last year’s Sprint at European Championships. The long track has a steep last section of the uphill followed by a tricky downhill to the finish line.

The youth categories will kick off the day in the morning. The final run of the U18 Women category will start at 10:43, followed by U18 Men, U20 Women, and the morning programme will end with the U20 Men final. For the first time, we will have a live stream from the finals of every youth category on http://tv.ismf-ski.org/.

The senior race will start with Women’s qualification at 11:40. The live broadcast will be from 12:10 when the quarterfinals begin.

VERTICAL RACE- WEDNESDAY 1. MARCH

After the sprinter specialists, it will be the turn of the vertical masters on Wednesday. The track is unique as it’s the same for all categories. It’s not steep until the last 200 vertical metres. The start is at 2020 m, and the finish at Coll de Roies at 2520 m.

The schedule of the day:

9:30 – U18 W, 10:00 – U18 M, 10:30 – U20 W, 11:00 – U20 M, 11:30 – Senior W, 12:00 – Senior M.

TEAM RACE- THURSDAY 2. MARCH

After four years, the team race returns to the World Championships programme. The race course will cover the entire perimeter of the Boí Taüll ski resort with spectacular ridges and technical descents. The longest and most technical of the week will have more than 2000 D+ for Senior Women (starting at 9:00) and 2500 D+ for Senior Men (starting at 9:30).

INDIVIDUAL RACE- SATURDAY 4. MARCH

After the first and only rest day of the week, the queen discipline will take on one side of the ski resort. Also, this event will be streamed live on http://tv.ismf-ski.org/ from 9:10.

The show will start at 9:15 with the Senior Women category. Senior Men will follow at 9:45. After the finish of both senior categories will come the youngsters. The live streaming on http://tv.ismf-ski.org/ will begin five minutes before the women’s start.

The longest track will have Senior Men, with four long uphills and downhills on less than 12,5 kilometres. The total denivelation is 1600 metres.

Senior Women and U20 Men will have the same course. Four uphills, 11 manipulations and 1380 metres of D+ on 11,4 kilometres. The U20 Women will have three uphills and 1040 D+, while both U18 categories will have the same track – two uphills and 950 D+.

MIXED RELAY – SUNDAY, 5 MARCH

The first and last discipline will be the Olympic one. The Mixed Relay in the Senior Mixed and Youth Mixed categories will conclude the 2023 World Championships. Each nation can race with up to two Senior and two Youth category teams.

The final of the Youth race is scheduled at 11:00. The seniors will have Final A and Final B. The live streaming will begin right before the Final A of the Senior Mixed category.

Boi Taull 2023 . Trainings. Photo ISMF.

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