World Cup points will be awarded at the foot of the Latemar mountain on Thursday. © Miha Matavz Photography / Miha Matavz

Carezza is ready: The snowboarders can come.

The countdown is on for the 15th Parallel Snowboard World Cup in Carezza Dolomites. The participants have arrived and are training, while the organizers are finalizing preparations. It all kicks off on Thursday!

16 December 2025

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The two competitions planned for the Karerpass, a women's and a men's parallel giant slalom, will take place this Thursday on the Pra di Tori slope. Qualifying starts at 9 a.m., followed by the finals from 12:45 p.m.

The magnificent panorama of the Rosengarten and Latemar mountains welcomed the athletes of the Parallel Snowboard World Cup, who arrived in Carezza Dolomites in recent days. This morning, the world's best snowboarders trained on the Paolina slope. "According to the weather forecast, temperatures should be just above freezing the day after tomorrow, when the World Cup races take place on the Pra di Tori, and the weather should be in our favor," commented the organizers of the 15th Parallel Snowboard World Cup in Carezza Dolomites. The organizing committee of the sporting event, which is once again being organized as a "Green Event" according to sustainable criteria, is currently working on the final details for the big day.

The 15th Parallel Snowboard World Cup in Carezza Dolomites will, as usual, consist of a parallel giant slalom for women and one for men. Qualifying begins on Thursday morning at 9:00 AM and will determine the 16 athletes who will compete in the knockout rounds at 12:45 PM. Following this, the day's winners will be determined in head-to-head matches and honored in the finish area after the race. Snowboard fans can watch the races live and free of charge in Carezza Dolomites. The finals will be broadcast live by television stations worldwide, including Rai Sport, ORF SPORT+, and Eurosport 2, as well as via live stream on Eurosport. Other television stations, such as Switzerland's SRF 2, will also broadcast highlights.

The sporting event will be preceded by two events the day before the races. On Wednesday, December 17th at 14 pm, the traditional gondola handover to the winners of the last edition will take place at the mountain station of the Hubertus cable car, near the finish line of the parallel giant slalom: Italian Jasmin Coratti and Bulgarian Radoslav Yankov will inaugurate the gondola named after them. In the evening at 18 pm, the opening ceremony of the stage will be held with the public bib draw, during which the starting numbers for the qualifying rounds will be awarded. "We invite all snowboard fans to participate in both events," say the organizers.

Italian dominance in the first races of the season

The sporting event in Carezza Dolomites is the third leg of the Parallel Snowboard World Cup, following Mylin (China) and Cortina d'Ampezzo. Three women's and three men's races, all parallel giant slalom, have taken place in Mylin and Cortina so far. Italian athletes have claimed first and third place in all three men's races: Maurizio Bormolini won the first race in Mylin and finished third in the other two. Mirko Felicetti won the second race in China, while Aaron March won in Cortina d'Ampezzo after finishing third in the first race in Mylin. Austrian Benjamin Karl, who finished second in the first and third races of the season, and German Stefan Baumeister, who finished second in the second parallel giant slalom in China, also reached the podium.

The first race of the women's World Cup saw another Italian one-two finish: Lucia Dalmasso took first place, Elisa Caffont second, and Bulgaria's Malena Zamfirova third. In the second race, Japan's Tsubaki Miki triumphed, joining Switzerland's Julie Zogg (2nd) and Austria's Sabine Payer (3rd) on the podium. Payer then went on to win the night race of the second stage of the season, held on Saturday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, where Canada's Kaylie Buck (2nd) and Czech Zuzana Maderova (3rd) also finished on the podium.

The program at the Karerpass:

Wednesday, 17th December 2025
14 p.m.: Gondola handover, mountain station of the "Hubertus" cable car (Pra-di-Tori slope, near the finish line of the race)
18 p.m.: Public Bib Draw in the heated tent at Karerpass

Thursday, 18th December 2025
9 a.m.: Start of qualification VISA FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup Carezza Dolomites, Giant Slalom Women and Men, Pra-di-Tori slope
12:45 PM: Start of the VISA FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup Finals in Carezza Dolomites, Giant Slalom for Women and Men, Pra-di-Tori slope
After the finals: Awards ceremony in the finish area on the Pra di Tori slope.