Future ski calendar with cross-border races?

Not yet in 2021 or 2022, but as early as 2023, the speed start of the Alpine Ski World Cup season could take place on the Matterhorn. As the Swiss Ski Association announced on Thursday, a corresponding cross-border project is taking shape and should be ready in Zermatt/Cervinia in autumn 2023. Meanwhile she writes Tiroler Tageszeitung that the 2021/22 racing calendar provides for a balanced number of speed and technical races.

World Cup races on the Matterhorn will be possible because a track is currently being built from Testa Grigia to the Klein Matterhorn, the broadcast said. The piste builder is the Swiss Olympic downhill champion Didier Defago, and there have already been inspections by Bernhard Russi and the FIS race directors. Speed start in 2023 on the Matterhorn? “The races on the Matterhorn would be the first cross-border races in the history of the World Cup – with start and finish in different countries,” said Swiss Ski. The start of the men's downhill is at Gobba di Rollin (at 3.899 m altitude) in Switzerland, the finish is at Laghi Cime Bianche (2.814 m) in Italy. The planned dates would be between the start of the season in Sölden (two giant slaloms) in mid/end of October and the slaloms in Levi in mid-November.

“The races on the Matterhorn would bring numerous advantages for skiing.” Urs Lehmann Urs Lehmann, President of Swiss-Ski, advocates a speed start on the Matterhorn. © AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI

“The races on the Matterhorn would bring numerous advantages for skiing. On the one hand, the gap between the start of the World Cup in Sölden and the first speed races could be shortened, and on the other hand, speed athletes from all over the world would have the best training opportunities in the heart of the Alps in advance," said Urs Lehmann, President from Swiss-Ski, who is running for FIS President.

The coming calendar should be more balanced This looks at the near future of the Alpine calendar Tiroler Tageszeitung in their Thursday edition. This should be ready for 2021/22 and approved by the Council of the World Association on June 4th.

It will include 18 speed and technical races for women and men as well as the parallel competition in Lech/Zürs. The balance between the fast and the technical disciplines had long been demanded, especially by the speed riders, in order to give them the chance to compete for the big crystal ball.

As in the past season, but due to corona, there will again be two downhill runs on the men's side in Kitzbühel. Followed by the slalom on the Ganslernhang. In Wengen, too, the downhill skiers are supposed to race twice over the Lauberhorn route. No combinations are intended.

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Future ski calendar with cross-border races?

There will be a calendar for the coming World Cup season in which the speed aces will also get their money's worth. In the future there could even be World Cup races with start and finish in different countries.

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