Skijoring

Skijoring or Skikjøring ( Norwegian Kjøring: Sports) is a winter sport in which a skier can pull a rope from a horse, sled dogs or a motor vehicle. Skijoring is since 1911 a part of horse racing in Arosa program. At the Winter Games in 1928 in St. Moritz, it was an Olympic demonstration event. To discipline with equestrian horse loose, see also horse racing, skijoring paragraph.

Events

White Turf

The most traditional event with skijoring is the White Turf in February on Lake St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine in Switzerland. On March 1, 1906 could be the minute 13 wobbly standing on skis driver of riderless, dahinpreschenden galloping horses from Postal Square in St. Moritz to Champfèr and pull back. The winner Philip Mark took with his Irish chestnut gelding flash for the 9950 meter trip in 20 minutes and 22 seconds in 1907 came on the frozen Lake St. Moritz first official horse race for the discharge; the skijoring is now in the bunch, run horse against horse, driver vs. driver. The key is to take off from the adjacent start boxes and the position battles to the first corner. In this first phase of the race, the lines get tangled easily; also can jump in all directions the thoroughbreds sometimes. Between cases there are in the later course of the race, for example, when a horse steps on the skis a driver inadvertently. 1965, for example, not a single rider crossed the finish line. Today colored skis are required to be better recognized by the horses in the snow. To help distinguish each rider is a racing color for the race bibs and the driver serving the protection flag ( is stretched between the two lines ) assigned. 2012 required the winner Adrian von Gunten in the second race ( prize money CHF 15,000 -. ) For the 2700 m long racetrack 3 min 5.4 sec

Oberharzer skijoring

At the beginning of each year, the so-called Upper Harz skijoring is organized in misery in the resin. Skiers of appropriate towing vehicles or draft animals on a specially prepared for the event obstacle course will be divided into two classes drawn ( motocross bikes, off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, quads, ATVs tradition class: horses, ponies engine class. . ). In the course of each race weekend, the event in recent years has been visited repeatedly by an average of 10,000 spectators.