FasterSkier · December 6, 2004
FIS Marathon Cup Skiers Getting Ready To Duke It Out In La Sgambeda, Italy
The snow has been falling for two days in Livigno and more than 1000 skiers including some of the World’s best marathon skiers are entered for the upcoming La Sgambeda FIS ski marathon in Italy December 12. The race is a part of the FIS marathon Cup.
Many international skiers are already in the Spoel Valley preparing for the upcoming event.
 Here are some of the international skiers that have entered so far:
In the past weeks' the tourist board announced the official members of the long distance national teams enrolled in the 15th edition of La Sgambeda, such as Italy (Cristina Paluselli, Lara Peyrot, Gianantonio Zanetel, Roberto De Zolt, Silvio Fauner, Marco Cattaneo, Pierluigi Costantin and Ivan Margaroli), Norway (Havard Skorstad, Rune Torseth and Anders Hallingstad), Sweden (Sofia Lind, Staffan Larsson, Henrik Eriksson and Mattias Svahn) and Spain (Juan Jesus Gutiérrez, Diego Ruiz e Vicenç Vilarrubla) and today the La Sgambeda starting list grows quickly with Russia, Switzerland and The Czech Republic.
.</p><p>The Czech Republic is represented by Daniel Slechta, 3rd at KoenigLudwig Lauf two years ago, and by Patrik SÃla and Irena Tomsova.</p><p>The interest for La Sgambeda is greatly increasing, especially toward these and more upcoming cross-country-skiers, competing to collect the first important points for the overall list of FIS Marathon Cup 2005. But what to say about the amateurs, their interest in La Sgambeda has increased in 15 editions and at 10 days away from the start, already 950 people have enrolled and 98 are women.<br />
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