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The World Championships of Ski Mountaineering are biannually held ski mountaineering competitions. [1]
| This article needs to be updated.(August 2018) |
The World Championships of Ski Mountaineering are biannually held ski mountaineering competitions. [1]
The events were originally sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC). The first official world mastership of the ISMC was carried out in the "International Year of Mountains" (2002), declared by the United Nations. [2] The championship was held in Serre Chevalier, France, from January 24 to January 27, 2002. Prior the Italian Trofeo Mezzalama was held as "World Championship of Ski Mountaineering" with the classes "Civilians", "Soldiers" and "Mountain guides" in 1975. [3] Because the ISMC merged into the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) in 2008, the next championships were sanctioned by the ISMF. [4] In 2011, the originally planned 9th edition of the European Championships of Ski Mountaineering at last was held as 6th edition of the World Championships. [5]
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| Medalist teams of the 1975 Trofeo Mezzalama | ||||
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| "civilian teams" |  |  Renzo Meynet | Osvaldo Ronc | Mirko Stangalino [6] |
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| "military teams" | | Angelo Genuin | Bruno Bonaldi | Luigi "Gigi" Weiss [6] |
| | Gianfranco Stella | Aldo Stella | Leo Vidi [7] | |
| | Willy Bertin | Felice Darioli | Fabrizio Pedranzini [7] | |
| "mountain guides" | | Oreste Squinobal | Arturo Squinobal | Lorenzo Squinobal [6] |
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Further venues of the ISMC World Championships were the Aran Valley (Spain) in 2004, the Italian Province of Cuneo in 2006, and Portes du Soleil (Switzerland) in 2008. [9] The World Championships are supported by the national organizations of the carrying out countries. [10]
The disciplines are rated by gender and age groups. In 2002, only individual and team (2 racers) races were held and rated, added with a combined ranking. At the 2004 championship a relay event and a vertical race competition were added. The men's relay teams were of four racers and the women's teams of three. In the following years all relay teams were of four ski mountaineers. In 2006 the relay race was canceled because of bad snow conditions, and consequently there was no combined ranking. At the 2008 World Masterships a long-distance race was added. [11]
The national squads are often mixed with up an coming athletes of the "Espoirs"-level. Some nations do not have squads with enough racers for all disciplines. [12]
(by point-awarding system) [13]
| year | venue | 1. | 2. | 3. | disciplines | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| individual | team | combination | relay | vertical race | long distance | |||||
| 1st 2002 | Serre Chevalier, FRA |  FRA | ITA |  SUI | X | X | X | – | – | – |
| 2nd 2004 | Aran Valley, ESP | SUI |  ITA | FRA | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 3rd 2006 | Province of Cuneo, ITA | ITA | SUI | FRA | – | X | – | X | X | – |
| 4th 2008 | Champery, Portes du Soleil, SUI | ITA | FRA | SUI | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| 5th 2010 | Gran Valira, AND | ITA | FRA | SUI | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 6th 2011 | Claut, ITA | FRA | SUI | ITA | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 7th 2013 | Puy-Saint-Vincent, Pelvoux, FRA | ITA | FRA | SUI | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 8th 2015 | Verbier, SUI | ITA | FRA | SUI | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 9th 2017 | Tambre - Piancavallo, ITA | ITA | SUI | FRA | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 10th 2019 | Villars-sur-Ollon, SUI | SUI | ITA | FRA | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 11th 2021 | Comapedrosa La Massana, AND | ITA | SUI | FRA | X | X | X | X | X | – |
| 12th 2023 | Boí Taüll, ESP | X | X | – | X | X | – | |||
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