Swiss national team ski touring race
The Swiss national ski touring team (until 2008 the Swiss national ski mountaineering team ), the so-called SAC Swiss Team , is a selection of ski mountaineers made by the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) who take part in competitions organized by the SAC or the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC) have qualified.
The sport of ski touring races has a long tradition in Switzerland; the Patrouille des Glaciers is one of the most famous competitions in the sport. At the beginning of the 1990s, the national ski mountaineers together with those from France, Italy, Spain, Andorra and Slovakia founded the Comité International du Ski-Alpinisme de Compétition (CISAC). Switzerland first took part in 1993 with the Trophée du Muveran in the European Cup, which has been held since 1992, followed in 1995 with the Alpiniski des Dents-du-Midi race.
In 1997 the sport was integrated into the competitive sports department of the SAC. Since 2000 there has been a B-team for the next generation with appropriate training. After the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Swiss Olympic reassessed winter sports and ski mountaineering was assigned to category 3.
In 2002 the Swiss team won a total of six medals at the 1st World Ski Mountaineering Championships in Serre Chevalier and 20 medals at the 2nd World Championships in Val d'Aran in 2004, and in Spain they received the title of “Best Ski Alpinism Nation” in the world. The current head of the discipline is the mountain guide and ski mountaineer Rolf Zurbrügg . As head of the discipline, he is responsible for developing the concept and looking after the Swiss team. The organization of the national competitions remains the responsibility of the SAC Alpine Skiing Commission.
Alongside the Italian national team and the Equipe de France de Ski de Montagne , the Swiss Team is one of the most successful teams on an international level.
Former trainers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Six world championship medals, four European Cup victories ( memento from July 7th, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), hut short message.
- ↑ Claude Défago: The history of ski mountaineering ( Memento of July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )