The first of the three stages of the World Cup season has ended Italian Team first in the Overall Nations standing, Becchis in the lead (Sprint) For the Italian roller-skiers it is now time again for the Italian Nextpro Cup, then on to Kazakhstan

The time that separates Val di Fiemme from the great mid-September appointment with the Roller Ski World Championships is getting shorter and shorter: from September 12th to September 15th, the streets of Ziano di Fiemme and the ramps of Alpe Cermis will see the world's best roller-skiers being awarded their titles, with the races in Trentino valid also as ending events of the 2024 World cup season.

The first of the three seasonal stages of the Roller Skiing World Cup ended last weekend in the Latvian locality of Madona. At the start for the Italian Junior National Team there were Anna Maria Ghiddi, Maria Invernizzi, Chiara Agostinetto, Stefano Epis, Tommaso Tozzi, Giovanni Lorenzetti, Carlo Cantaloni and Francesco Chiaradia, while the senior included Alba Mortagna, Elisa Sordello, Maria Eugenia Boccardi, Tommaso Dellagiacoma, Emanuele Becchis, Matteo Tanel, Riccardo Lorenzo Masiero and Michele Valerio. After the first two days, which witnessed the successes of Anna Maria Ghiddi and Matteo Tanel in the Individual and Maria Invernizzi and Anna Maria Ghiddi in the Team Sprint, the satisfactions for the Italian Team were not absent even in the final two days, with nine podium placements for the National Team led by head coach Sbabo between the 200 m Sprint in free technique on Saturday July 20th and the Mass Start (15/20 km) on Sunday.

With the opening stage of the 2024 season in the bag, it is a pleasure to see that the Italian Team is leading the overall nations standing ahead of Latvia and Ukraine. The best Italian roller-skiers currently are Anna Maria Ghiddi, 2nd in the junior women’s overall ranking and 3rd in the Sprint one, Maria Eugenia Boccardi and Alba Mortagna, 4th the overall and Senior Sprint ranking respectively, and Emanuele Becchis, 1st in the Senior Sprint overall ranking ahead of the other Italian Michele Valerio. Riccardo Lorenzo Masiero and Matteo Tanel also did well, 2nd and 3rd overall among the Seniors.

The next appointment for the roller-skiing global elite will be in Schuchinsk, in Kazakhstan, from August 14th to August 18th with the second seasonal World Cup stage before heading to Val di Fiemme for the third and final stage of 2024. Mass Start, Sprint, Team Sprint and the iconic Uphill Mass Start Cermis Final Climb are the race formats that will be faced in Val di Fiemme.

This weekend, instead, the Italian roller-skiers will return on the track for the fourth stage of the Italian Nextpro Cup season with competitions scheduled for Saturday July 27th and Sunday 28th in the locality of Verrayes.

In Trentino, the preparations for the Roller Ski World Championships continue and the organizing committee Nordic Ski Val di Fiemme, led by the president Pietro De Godenz, is working to guarantee a spectacular and successful edition of the event. With the collaboration of the ApT Val di Fiemme and Cembra and the support of the municipalities of Cavalese, Predazzo and Tesero, the Fiemme association is instead proposing a show entitled ‘#roadto2026. Fiemme on the way to the Olympics' to immerse oneself in a mix of variety and music in the magical atmosphere of the Five Circles and Three Agitos of Milano Cortina 2026. The show will make its debut on Sunday July 28th in Tesero and will also be repeated on Wednesday August 14th in Cavalese and Sunday August 18th in Predazzo.

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