Visa Chile Winter Series Kicks Off 2024/2025 FIS Alpine Race Season

Data offered by Nicolás Carvallo & Picture Credit score: Andrea Briceño 

The 2024/2025 season started with thrilling races in Chile on the first Visa Chile Winter Sequence Ford winter sports activities circuit. Held on the slopes of El Colorado, the occasion featured over 97 opponents from 17 nations. The good snow, spectacular sunshine, and a high-level race venue designed by the revered and skilled Chilean workforce coach Sebastián Cartes created the proper setting for the worldwide opponents.

These races marked the worldwide begin of the Worldwide Ski Federation (FIS) calendar for the 2024/2025 season. Among the many ladies, Britain’s Giselle Gorringe dominated, profitable each competitions. Thomas Mennen from the USA and Andorra’s Marc Fernandez Paez secured victories for the boys. Chilean athletes additionally shone, with the Holscher brothers, Diego and Kay, taking third place of their respective races. Their youthful brother, Tomas Holscher, excelled within the junior class. Chilean skier Matilde Pinilla additionally carried out impressively among the many ladies.

Beginning in El Colorado, the circuit will conclude in October at Corralco Ski Resort. It options 5 Olympic disciplines, with over 600 athletes from greater than 30 nations anticipated to take part. Athletes are incomes priceless FIS factors.

Upcoming Occasions:

La Parva Grand Prix: The subsequent occasion on the calendar is the La Parva Grand Prix, the place one of the best Alpine Ski athletes on the planet will collect for per week of pace competitions on a difficult course named “Barros Negro.”

The Nationwide Ski and Snowboard Federation organizes the Visa Chile Winter Sequence Ford, and Snow Animal produces it. The Nationwide Sports activities Institute and main model companions help the occasion.

Outcomes

Girls’s GS

July twenty fifth

July twenty sixth

Males’s GS

July twenty fifth

July twenty sixth