Author: Elena
Company: Microsoft

Press Release 20 September 2014

FIS ROLLERSKI WORLD CUP IN ITALY
VAL DI FIEMME CELEBRATES WORLD'S BEST SPRINTERS

FIS Rollerski World Cup in Val di Fiemme (Italy): Sprint race day
Alessio Berlanda (ITA) and Ulyana Gavrilova (RUS) grab victory in Senior category
Vitaliy Smirnov (RUS) and Anna Bolzan (ITA) best Junior sprinters 
Team Sprint events scheduled tomorrow

Italian and Russian flags wave high tonight in Val di Fiemme (Italy). Homeboy Alessio Berlanda (ITA) and Ulyana Gavrilova (RUS) seized victory in the Sprint FT race that has taken place in Ziano di Fiemme this afternoon. Despite the rainy morning, a few minutes before the start the sun came out of the clouds and all the athletes could do their best in this very fast race. 
Berlanda got rid of the Italian Emanuele Sbabo in the final and grabbed his first gold in the 2014 series. Gavrilova kept at bay countrywoman Maria Privezentseva at the end, while Alena Prochazkova of Slovakia stepped in third.
Italy and Russia showed all their strength and...speed in Junior category as well as in Senior. Anna Bolzan (ITA) crossed the finish line for first in the final ahead of German Kira Claudi, while Vitaliy Smirnov of Russia dominated the men's event and the Russian Ilia Bezgin got the second spot.
Final day tomorrow for the 2014 FIS Rollerski World Cup with the Team Sprint race starting at 11am along a  2.4k long urban ring in Ziano di Fiemme town centre. 
Italy's Val di Fiemme will be hosting the Rollerski World Championships in 2015 and the three-day long event currently underway in the heart of the Dolomites surely represents an important test-event for athletes and  for the Nordic Ski Fiemme Organising Committee.
Info: www.fiemmeworldcup.com

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Results Sprint FT :

Ladies Junior
1 BOLZAN Anna ITALY; 2 CLAUDI Kira GERMAN SKI FEDERATION; 3 LETUCHEVA Olga RUSSIA; 4 FRINCIC Ana CROATIA; LIPATOVA Alena RUSSIA; CHVANOVA Tatiana RUSSIA; BRICALLI Nicole ITALY; GELMI Chiara ITALY; SOSKOVA Polina RUSSIA; VALLE Alessia ITALY

Ladies Senior
1 GAVRILOVA Ulyana RUSSIA; 2 PRIVEZENTSEVA Maria RUSSIA; 3 PROCHAZKOVA Alena SLOVAK SKI ASSOCIATION; 4 MOHLIN Elin SWEDEN; BROZNIC Nina CROATIA; SOEMSKAR Linn SWEDEN; KONOHOVA Ksenia RUSSIA; GRUSHINA Anna RUSSIA; WILLERT Tina GERMAN SKI FEDERATION;  BICOVA Karolina CZECH SKI ASSOCIATION

Men Junior
1 SMIRNOV Vitaliy RUSSIA; 2 BEZGIN Ilia RUSSIA; 3 HROVATIN Niki ITALY; 4 NISCHAKOV Andrey RUSSIA; BUSKQVIST Alfred SWEDEN; MITIN Alexey RUSSIA; LONGON Marco ITALY; BECCHIS Francesco ITALY; MOSELE Marco ITALY;  BERTHELSEN Mads Hannibal DENMARK

Men Senior
1 BERLANDA Alessio ITALY; 2 SBABO Emanuele ITALY; 3 JENSEN Ludvig Soegnen NORWAY; 4 ANDRESEN Ragnar Bragvin NORWAY; KARASEV Viktor RUSSIA; BECCHIS Emanuele ITALY;  CUNY Igor FRANCE; VORONIN Dmitriy RUSSIA; CLAUDON Romain FRANCE; SCHMIDT Christian-Alexander GERMAN SKI FEDERATION