Mezzalama Trophy Explained

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Date:April
Location: Aosta Valley
Type:Ski mountaineering
Est:1933
Homepage:Trofeo Mezzalama

The Mezzalama Trophy (Italian: Trofeo Mezzalama, French: Trophée Mezzalama, a.k.a. white marathon[1]) is an Italian high altitude ski mountaineering competition in upper Valtournenche and Ayas valleys, in Aosta Valley.

The Mezzalama Trophy, which belongs to the "big three of ski mountaineering" (French: les grandes trois de ski de montagne) besides the two other best-known and classical ski mountaineering events, the Patrouille des Glaciers and the Pierra Menta, is the highest alpine ski mountaineering competition of the world. The event in the Monte Rosa's massif was named in honor of the mountain guide Ottorino Mezzalama.[2]

The Mezzalama Trophy is a stage of La Grande Course that includes the most important ski mountaineering competitions of the season.

History

The Mezzalama Trophy Foundation was founded by friends of Ottorino Mezzalama in 1933 in his memory,[3] one of them was Mario Corti. The race was held every year from 1933 and to 1938. Entry was open only to men; the first female participant is presumed to be Paula Wiesinger, who had been invited to view the race in 1935. When Giusto Gervasutti withdrew due to injury, she put on his military uniform and cap and, wearing sunglasses, ran instead of him, but was discovered at a checkpoint.[4] The 1935 Trofeo Mezzalama was filmed by Mario Craveri in his film "Maratona Bianca".[5]

After 1938 the race was discontinued (except that in 1940 a platonic race was carried out under the name marcia nazionale Ottorino Mezzalama by the Ski Club Torino). Further races were held in 1971, 1973, 1975, and in 1978,[6] and the Mezzalama Trophy was revived as a regular biennial race with the eleventh race in 1997.[7]

In 1975, the Mezzalama Trophy was held as World Championship of Skimountaineering. 33 civilian teams, 12 mountain guide teams and 11 military teams participated in this event.[8] In that year, the first female team competed officially.[9] Together with the Pierra Menta and the Tour du Rutor event, the Mezzalama Trophy is part of the Trophée des Alpes (French for Alps' Trophy) series.

Editions and winners

The list shows the winning teams for each edition of the Trofeo Mezzalama.

In 1934, all competing teams were overtaken by the German reserve racer Anderl Heckmair, who started as a single racer one and a half hours after the teams left.[10]

EditionDateRankingMale teamsFemale teams
1stMay 28, 1933[11]  Luigi Carrel Antonio Gaspard Piero Maquignaz
2ndMay 19, 1934[12]  Alberto Chenoz Francesco Chenoz Bartolomeo Carrel
3rdMay 26, 1935[13]  Cap. Enrico Silvestri Serg. Carlo Ronc Alp. Attilio Chenoz
4thJune 13, 1936 Ten. Francesco Vida Serg. Carlo Ronc Serg. Luigi Perenni
5thJune 19, 1937 Ten. Giuseppe Fabre Serg. Luigi Perenni Alp. Anselmo Viviani
6thJune 11, 1938[14]  Aristide Compagnoni Severino Confortola Silvio Confortola
7thSeptember 11, 1971[15]  Gianfranco Stella Aldo Stella Roberto Stella
8thJune 1, 1973[16]  Gianfranco Stella Aldo Stella Palmiro Serafini
1st World Championship
9th edition on May 10, 1975[17] [18] 		Category: "civilian teams"
 Renzo Meynet Osvaldo Ronc Mirko Stangalino
Category: "military teams"
 Angelo Genuin Bruno Bonaldi Luigi "Gigi" Weiss
Category: "mountain guide teams"
 Oreste Squinobal Arturo Squinobal Lorenzo Squinobal
10thApril 29, 1978Category: "civilian teams"
 Rudolf Kapeller Karl Sinzinger Josef Hones
Category: "military teams"
 Mario Varesco Fabio Cavagnet Elvio Venturini
Category: "mountain guide teams"
 Arturo Squinobal Danilo Barell
11th1997[19]  Enrico Pedrini Omar Oprandi Bice Bones Brunella Parolini Fabiana Battel
12th1999[20]  Fulvio Mazzocchi Leonardo Follis Luciano Fontana Danielle Hacquard Véronique Lathuraz
13th2001[21] [22]  Ivan Murada Heinz Blatter Arianna Follis Alexia Zuberer
14th2003[23]  Rico Elmer Rolf Zurbrügg Cristina Favre-Moretti Arianna Follis Chiara Raso
15th2005[24]  Stéphane Brosse Patrick Blanc Guido Giacomelli Gloriana Pellissier Christiane Nex Natascia Leonardi Cortesi
16th2007[25]  Guido Giacomelli Jean Pellissier Florent Troillet Gloriana Pellissier Roberta Pedranzini Francesca Martinelli
17th2009[26]  Manfred Reichegger Matteo Eydallin Denis Trento Francesca Martinelli Roberta Pedranzini Laëtitia Roux
18th2011[27] [28]  Kilian Jornet Burgada William Bon Mardion Didier Blanc Francesca Martinelli Roberta Pedranzini Gloriana Pellissier
19th2013[29] [30]  Manfred Reichegger Damiano Lenzi Matteo Eydallin Laura Besseghini Raffaella Rossi Elena Nicolini
20th2015[31]  Matteo Eydallin Michele Boscacci Damiano Lenzi Emelie Forsberg Axelle Mollaret Jennifer Fiechter
21st2017[32] [33]  Matteo Eydallin Michele Boscacci Damiano Lenzi Emelie Forsberg Laetitia Roux Jennifer Fiechter

Literature

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.newspower.it/comunicati/Aosta/CartellaStampa/texts/Mezzalama/cronologia.doc Le tappe dealla leggendaria "maratona bianca"
  2. http://www.mountains2b.com/210-Trofeo_Mezzalama_2007_16_Auflage_des_Klassikers_-,e_58616,r_6961.htm Trofeo Mezzalama 2007: 16. Auflage des Klassikers am 29. April
  3. Web site: Presentation . 2009-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081006175323/http://www.euroski-on-line.com/presto.htm . 2008-10-06 . dead .
  4. http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/paula-wiesinger/ Paula Wiesinger
  5. http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/montagna/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=68&ID_articolo=978&ID_sezione=135&sezione= Trofeo Mezzalama, il fascino di una leggenda che si rinnova
  6. http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/public/depliants/mezzalama2007.pdf La rinascita degli anni Settanta
  7. Web site: Trofeo Mezzalama (Mezzalama Trophy) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120216190802/http://www.newspower.it/comunicati/Aosta/CartellaStampa/texts/Mezzalama/cronologia.doc. NEWSPOWER Trento . 2012-02-16 . 2016-05-31 . live.
  8. http://www.planetmountain.com/News/2005/04/Mezzalamacronologia.pdf Le tappe della leggendaria “maratona bianca”
  9. Giuseppe Martelli: altre notizie degli alpini bolognesi romagnoli (Italian), November 15, 2005.
  10. http://cms.alpenverein.de/download_file.php?id=298&showfile=1 Trofeo Mezzalama - Ein Hochgebirgswettlauf der Sonderklasse
  11. http://www.ferrino.it/upload.2009/site/Pdf/mezzalama-storia-1933-2007.pdf Rielaborazione storia libro Camisasca
  12. http://www.portfolio.planetmountain.com/portfolio/news/slide/slideeng.lasso?idnews=34&image=2 The winners of the 1934 edition
  13. Web site: Centro Addestramento Alpino ::: ASIVA . 2012-03-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111024174943/http://www.asiva.it/CentroAddestramentoAlpino_1_0_158.aspx . 2011-10-24 .
  14. http://www.fondoitalia.it/personaggi/Compagnoni_Fratelli.html Compagnoni Aristide, Severino e Ottavio
  15. http://www.webalice.it/giulorma/mezzalama_ottorino.htm
  16. http://www.fondoitalia.it/personaggi/Stella_Gianfranco.html Gianfranco Stella
  17. https://web.archive.org/web/20170809172431/http://www.old.inalto.org/magazine/trofeo_mezzalama_2005_04.shtml Albo d'oro
  18. http://www.fondoitalia.it/personaggi/Genuin_Angelo.html Genuin Angelo
  19. http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1997/maggio/04/Cavalcata_leggenda_Trionfo_Skyrunners_ga_0_970504362.shtml Cavalcata da leggenda Trionfo da Skyrunners
  20. http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1999/aprile/25/Forestale_record_trionfa_nel_Mezzalama_ga_0_990425626.shtml La Forestale da record trionfa nel Mezzalama
  21. http://www.newspower.it/comunicati/Mezzalama/AlbodoroMezzalama.rtf Men's best three and best women since 1997
  22. Web site: 2001 Trofeo Mezzalama . 2009-04-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110409083613/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2001.pdf . 2011-04-09 . dead .
  23. Web site: 2003 Trofeo Mezzalama . 2009-04-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110409082605/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2003.pdf . 2011-04-09 . dead .
  24. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409083654/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2005.pdf 2005 Trofeo Mezzalama
  25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110409083339/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2007.pdf 2007 Trofeo Mezzalama
  26. http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/mezzalama_i.asp 2009 Trofeo Mezzalama
  27. http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2011-uomini.pdf 2011 Trofeo Mezzalama - men results
  28. https://web.archive.org/web/20110515155409/http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/Trofeo%20Mezzalama/Mezzalama2011-donne.pdf 2011 Trofeo Mezzalama - women results
  29. http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/XIX_Trofeo_Mezzalama_Classifica_Maschile.pdf 2013 Trofeo Mezzalama - men results
  30. http://www.trofeomezzalama.org/classifiche/XIX_Trofeo_Mezzalama_Classifica_Femminile.pdf 2013 Trofeo Mezzalama - women results
  31. Web site: Classifica Trofeo Mezzalama 2015 Femminile - Women . https://web.archive.org/web/20150626114318/http://grandecourse.infoedro.net/classifiche/classifica_live_mezzalama_2015_F.html . La Grande Course . 2015-06-26 . 2016-05-31 . live.
  32. Web site: Classifica XXI Trofeo Mezzalama 2017 Maschile - Men . https://web.archive.org/web/20170611141304/http://grandecourse.infoedro.net/classifiche/classifica_live_XXI_Mezzalama_2017_M.html . La Grande Course . 2017-04-22 . 2017-06-11 . 2017-06-11 . live.
  33. Web site: Classifica XXI Trofeo Mezzalama 2017 Femminile - Women . https://web.archive.org/web/20170611141203/http://grandecourse.infoedro.net/classifiche/classifica_live_XXI_Mezzalama_2017_F.html . La Grande Course . 2017-04-22 . 2017-06-11 . 2017-06-11 . live.

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