Let a cross-country skiing guru take care of it

The beginning of May marks the start of the 2022/2023 season for local winter sports athletes. At the start of the new training year, the Italian winter sports association FISI announced the national squads. Traditionally, there is a change in the teams after the Olympic four-year cycle, as was the case this year for the cross-country skiers.

Alfred “Freddy” Stauder from Toblach has extended his one-year contract as technical director and will therefore continue to pull the strings for the cross-country skiers. The big news is the signing of Markus Cramer as coach of the World Cup team. The successful German coach looks back on an extremely successful time with part of the Russian national team around world champion Sergei Ustiugov, but had to end his work in Russia due to Russia's exclusion from international sports.

There was already a collaboration with the German last season, in which the two strongest Italian cross-country skiers, Federico Pellegrino and Francesco De Fabiani, completed large parts of the season preparation with the Russian team in order to be exposed to greater competition in training.

Michael Hellweger has firmly established himself in the national team. © on

The Sarnen sprint specialist Michael Hellweger is part of the “Milan-Cortina 2026” group, which is intended to be brought to the top of the world with a view to the Olympic Games in four years. The up-and-coming Val Venosta Sara Hutter is also part of the same Italian national team project. She is the youngest athlete on the team.

Michel Rainer, who lives in Gsies, remains the technical manager of the rollerski department. The only South Tyrolean in the national skiroll team is the reigning skiroll world champion Matteo Tanel from Branzoll. Italy's national squad 2022/23 Coaching staff Technical director: Alfred Stauder (Dobbiaco) ; Coordinator/Trainer World Cup: Markus Cramer (Winterberg/Germany) ; Technical Manager Skiroll: Michel Rainer (Gsies)

Team World Cup

Herren: Francesco De Fabiani, Davide Graz, Federico Pellegrino, Giandomenico Salvadori, Paolo Ventura

Damen: Anna Comarella, Caterina Ganz, Greta Laurent, Lucia Scardoni

Team “Milan-Cortina 2026 "

Herren: Mikael Abram, Elia Barp, Alessandro Chiocchetti, Martin Coradazzi, Simone Daprà, Michael Hellweger (Sarntal) , Simone Mocellini

Damen: Martina Bellini, Federica Cassol, Martina Di Centa, Francesca Franchi, Sara Hutter (Prad) , Nicole Monsorno, Cristina Pittin

Team “under observation”

Michele Gasperi, Francesco Manzoni, Luca Sclisizzo, Giovanni Ticcò, Stefania Corradini

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Let a cross-country skiing guru take care of it

The successful German coach Markus Cramer is moving to Italy. There are only two South Tyrolean athletes left in the national cross-country skiing squad.

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