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SKI – TRAIL Tannheimer Tal – Bad Hindelang in Tannheim, Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Fantastic event in one of the most beautiful valley of Austria
The skaters had fun

On Sunday morning the presenter welcomed all competitors and spectators with the words ‘God seems to be from Tannheim’. And that was true. After a hurricane had destroyed the build ups at start and finish the sun with temperatures just below the freezing point changed the Tannheimer Tal into a picturesque winter scenery.
The Tannheimertal offered very good snow conditions and well prepared tracks. A lot of people decided to come to the Tyrol.
The tracks were fast, very fast. The 55km distance was run by the fastest skaters in just a little bit more than 2 hours in spite of the 5km steep incline from Unterjoch to Oberjoch (150 m height difference), that drew on the skaters’reserves.
The Czech Jiri Rocarek, the winner of the classic race on Saturday was also the fastest of the skating race. He finished in 2.11.45 hours and Kristian Mehringer (Fischer Subaru – Team) finished second place, 16 seconds after Jiri Rocarek. Florian Schönbrunner (Fischer Racing Team) came third, just one second after Kristian Mehringer.
Best women achieved excellent running times. It took Tanja Erler (Rossignol) 2.34.54 hours to win the race. About three and a half minutes later Sabrina Schairer, the winner of yesterday’s classic race finished second today. Barbara Häsch (Rossignol) crossed the finishing line about one minute later.
At 10.15 there was the starting signal for the 35km distance race. An almost endless line of skaters was dragging on. It seemed that most runners preferred the shorter easier course.
Markus Enders from Garmisch – Partenkirchen finished in 1.26.27 and was the lucky winner of the short distance. Andreas Möse (Sport Team Buhler), the winner of the Sprint ranking in Zöblen, which was fought out after 4km, came in second. Markus Meister (Salomon Team) finished third.
Carmen Schindler (Skadi Loppel Team) crossed the finishing line first. It took her 1.43.36 hours. She was more than two and a half minutes faster than Regina Danner (Salomon Nordic Team), second place and Antje Weidling (VSC Klingenthal), third place.
About 500 competitors (incl. Mini – Skitrails) took part on Saturday and about 800 competitors took part on Sunday.
The reasons for a great response were on the one hand the excellent organisation by Michael Keller and his team and on the other hand the nice atmosphere in the beautiful Tyrolian holiday area of the Tannheimer Tal.

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SKI TRAIL Tannheimer Tal - Bad Hindelang, January, 24th 2009

MINI SKI – TRAIL of the cross country younger generation

The second MINI SKI – TRAIL started in the afternoon. Nearly 200 children and schoolchildren from the Ausserfern and the Allgäu had to run a 2km or a 4km distance course. The young racers from the Allgäu proved that their instructors did a good job.
It was a great highlight to watch the power of the youngest and how they made the final effort to reach the finish line. Great performances and abilities were demonstrated. The MINI – SKI TRAIL was a real ski party.The children were rewarded with 24 pairs of cross country skis and ski bags, they had the chance to win more nice prizes in a raffle as well.

Best conditions at the cross-boarder cross-country race for all classic race competitors:
13th SKI-TRAIL Tannheimer Tal – Bad Hindelang, January, 24th 2009

The cold temperatures in the nights of Friday and Saturday made a perfect preparation of the tracks. Since 5 o’clock in the morning hard working because of snowfall during night was worth to have the best conditions for all competitors of the 14km and 25km classic race.
The consequences of the fast tracks and no problems with waxing let the runners finishing the race very fast.
Jiri Rocarek, from the Czech Republic, was the winner and it took him 35, 26 minutes for the 14km distance. Not even one minute later Erwin Haas, a very experienced cross country skier finished second place. In the end spurt Marko Hömke from Team Rossignol lost the fight against the routine Erwin Haas and finished third place.
Johanna Fässler of SC Scheidegg was the fastest woman. She took 44, 58 minutes for the 14km distance.
Around 100 competitors were taking part in the short distance. Around 200 chose the 25km classic race.
The 25km distance with much more slopes and hills was considered to be hard.
The Austrian Johann Eder and Rico Schaller of VSC Klingenthal were fighting for the win. Eder was the lucky winner because his skis crossed just a little in front the finish line. His running time was 1.09.21 hours.Andreas Möse of Sport Team Buhler was third place. His running time was 1.09.40 hours.
Nearly 2 minutes in front of Kerstin Drexler (TSG Leutkirch) Sabrina Schairer of Salomon Racing Team won the 25km classic race in 1.23.58 hours. Carolin Haibel from Durach finished the race third place.
With more than 300 starters of both classic races the organizer achieved a record of participants.