Marcialonga

Gallery: Marcialonga Story 2021

The Marcialonga Story event is taking place the day before the race day. Participants celebrate the traditional history of cross-country skiing and Marcialonga with skiing 12 km with wooden skies and historic outfits. ? newspower.it

2000 skiers marching from Moena to Cavalese this weekend

The 48th Marcialonga is just around the corner. Two days to go until the Italian Worldloppet race will take place on Sunday 31 January. With many restrictions due to the pandemic. The event will be held ‘behind closed doors’, but there will be around 2000 participants from 24 different countries. In addition to Italy with […]

Marcialonga and Tartu Maraton get permission to take place

The pandemic made this winter very uncertain for race organizers and skiers. Which races can take place, which not, which alternatives are offered? The races depend on the local authorities and they change regulations continuously. Many organizers wait for final decisions, while two Worldloppet member races got positive answers. Marcialonga will take place under special […]

This is how the Marcialonga looks like in 2021

Really? A popular ski race taking place? YES! The organizers of the Italian Marcialonga have confirmed the marathon taking place on the 31st of January. The team is working with high pressure, to ensure maximum safety fo the athletes and snow seems like no problem in 2021. Obviously there will be some changes due to […]

Finally security from Italy: No doubts for Marcialonga 2021

With the mountain peaks in Val di Fiemme painted in white our minds start to fly to the next winter season and to Marcialonga 2021. But will it take place? What if I can not enter Italy? Finally we have received good news from Italy: The 48th Marcialonga will take place! Already now, the organizers […]

37. Marcialonga memories and memorabilia

by Jim Beckner – My wife’s name is Marcia. So when it came to considering which ten Worldloppets we would attend to garner our Masters gold pin it was a no-brainer that we would take in Italy’s Marcialonga. Gotta do it! As she declared, “If there’s a loppet which is my namesake I’d better ski […]

36. A Global Family

by Silvio Carcano, Alessandro Carcano and Maria Rita Chini – Global skiers and 3 times masters – This is the story of an Italian family, a mother, Maria Rita, who buys almost by chance a Worldloppet Passport with her two sons Alessandro and Silvio, but in the end they all conquered the prestigious Worldloppet Global […]

34. Good loppets but too early

By Timo Hakulinen – I got married in 1985, and the honeymoon trip was made to the USA. My wife liked this destination very much, but I had another idea behind this, too: On the same journey I could, with the completion of the American Birkebeiner, get my Worldloppet passport fully stamped. This is what […]

33. Memories of Worldloppet ski

by Brendon Hyde, Gold Master n.2095 – After skiing the Australian Kangaroo Hoppet for 10 years my first European Worldloppet tour was planned for 2003. I started training along park pathways in the Oz summertime using cross-country roller skis where I gave local kangaroos a bit of a fright since they all quickly hopped away. […]

31. Marcialonga 1992

By Carlo Brena, director of the Cross-country skiing magazine SciFondo, Italy –  It happened that, after the teenager-time with the usual ups and downs – sometimes beyond the limits of caution – Stefano and I found ourselves to share a new dimension of our friendship: the sweat dripping from our foreheads, the heavy breath after […]

29. Following the steps of the “Ancient Patriarchs”

by Lino Davarda, Global Skier n.251 – I started to practice cross-country skiing following some accidents I had while practicing downhill skiing that limited my sport activity. First, I followed a friend who was taking part to the first edition of Marcialonga and then I tried to ski myself the 70 km on Nordic skis, […]