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Latest Speed Skating News (2008/2009)

27 Nov 2008

Masters’ International CRITERION Erfurt/Germany with good Results

vs. At 22 – 23 November 2008 the 5^th Masters’ International CRITERION was held in Erfurt/Thuringia/Germany, the first International Masters’ Competition in the winter season. After the drawing Friday evening the participants had a common buffet where an intensive exchange of ideas took place for several hours. Both events were organized in a small hall in the Athletics Hall Erfurt. The competition start was on Saturday at 13.00 o’clock. The number of 84 competitors, 14 Ladies and 70 Men from 6 Nations (AUT 1, GER 33, NED 49, NOR 16, RUS 2, SUI 5) competed in the nice harmonic Gunda-Niemann-Strirnemann-Icehall of Erfurt. 107 Entries had been accepted originally so that 23 skaters were hindered to take part by illness, injuries, etc. (loss = 21 %). Good results were already reached early in the season. Geir Hestad/NOR, M 55, lowered the IMSSC Record 2008 in the Allround Competition 500/1500/1000/3000 m with 170,726 points. The competition was very well organized by the experienced organizing team and jury of the Thuringian Ice Federation. The ice had an excellent quality. You find the results of the competition on the website www.eisevents-erfurt.de/masters_5/ergeb_navi.html and the complete minutes under the link ”Officials (DOC)” also on this website.

10 Nov 2008

Correction IMSSC Records’ List 2008

vs. A correction had to be made in the IMSSC Records’ List 2008. Alf Gjølga/NOR did already set a new IMSSC Record 2008 for M 60 on 1000 m with 1:25,28 at 09.02.2008 in Hamar/NOR and not Kees Verdouw with 1:25,41 at 21.03.2008 in Heerenveen/NED, as unfortunately reported initially.

06 Nov 2008

Entry Lists REVIVAL and ALLROUND GAMES

vs. You can find the Entry Lists for the most of the Masters’ International Competitions easily on the Website of the IMSSG, see www.imssg.org/08-ann.html. The Entry Lists of the 3^rd Masters’ International REVIVAL/Baselga di Pinè/Italy and of the Masters’ International ALLROUND GAMES/Bjugn/Norway you find a bit more difficult on the Websites of the organizers, see also www.imssg.org/08-ann.html. To find the Entry List of the Revival/ITA, you have to click on the British flag on the Homepage of the Icerink Pinè, then on “competition” and then on “Entry List” in the row of the 3^rd Masters’ International Revival.

13 Oct 2008

Proposal “Masters’ World Championships” again rejected

vs. The ISU Council again rejected the proposal of the IMSSG to change the Names Masters’ International SPRINT SPRINT GAMES and Masters’ International ALLROUND GAMES into the names Masters’ WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS and Masters’ WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS at its Autumn Session at 3 – 5 Oct 2008 in Trento/ITA despite of a collection of 180 signatures of the competitors of the Masters’ Allround Games 2008 in Erfurt/GER in favour of such a change, initiated by the Thuringian Ice Federation.. A proposal for this change had already been made by the IMSSG as part of a proposal for the introduction of some Masters’ Rules into the ISU Rules last year. But this proposal was also rejected by the ISU Council at its Autumn Session 2008. In the most other International Sport Organizations Official Masters’ World Championships are accepted and organized officially, as at IAAF (Athletics), FINA (Swimming, Diving, Water Polo), ITF (Tennis) and UCI (Cycling)

13 Oct 2008

Budget IMSSG accepted

vs. The ISU Council accepted the the Budget 2009 for the ISU Masters’ Speed Skating Working Group (IMSSG) as proposed by the IMSSG at its Autumn Session at 3 – 5 Oct 2008 in Trento/ITA. The Budget contains contributions for the organizers of the Masters’ International SPRINT GAMES 2009 in Inzell/GER and the Masters’ International ALLROUND GAMES 2009 in Bjugn/NOR.

13 Oct 2008

Andrew Love appointed as IMSSG Member

vs. The ISU Council appointed Andrew Love/Salt Lake City/USA officially as Member of the International Masters’ Speed Skating Working Group (IMSSG) for America at its Autumn Session at 3 – 5 Oct 2008 in Trento/ITA. The other Members of the IMSSG are Jae-Seok Choi/Seoul/KOR for Asia, and Sven-Åge Svensson/Oslo/NOR and Volker Serini/Krefeld/GER (Coordinator) for Europe.

09 Oct 2008

Altered Dates for Masters’ Competitions

vs. The dates of four Masters’ Competitions have been altered in the last time: 13^th Masters’ MASTER CUP in Berlin/GER, 7 – 8 Feb 2009 (instead of 14 – 15 Feb), 1^st Masters’ Sprint Games in Inzell/GER, 14 – 15 Feb 2009 (instead of 7 – 8 Feb), 6^th Masters’ LONG DISTANCE RACES in Heerenveen/NED, 17 Mar 2009 (instead of 18 Mar) and 2^nd Masters’ HEERENVEEN SPRINT in Heerenveen/NED 18 – 19 Mar 2009 (instead of 19 – 20 Mar). See announcements www.imssg.org/08-Ann-Inzell.pdf , www.imssg.org/08-Ann-Berlin.pdf , www.imssg.org/08-Ann-Heerenveen-LDR.pdf and www.imssg.org/08-Ann-Heerenveen-Spri.pdf .

07 Oct 2008

Quota OTHER NATIONS at Masters’ Sprint Games raised

vs. The Organizing Committee of the 1^st Masters’ International Speed Skating SPRINT GAMES decided to raise the quota of OTHER NATIONS from 10 to 25 entries. If there will be quota of Nations incompletely used at the deadlines of the entry procedure, the free places may be used to compensate for this increase. The measure became necessary because of the unexpected high number of entries of OTHER NATIONS. Nations’ Quota see below under 5 Sep 2008.

07 Oct 2008

Masters’ Age categories in USA and CANADA

vs. IMSSC age categories now are officially approved by US Speed Skating for metric long track, as Andrew Love reported, IMSSC Member USA. US Speed Skating officially recognizes the IMSSC Rules now in their constitution. Also Speed Skating Canada has changed to the IMSSC age categories, but the age definition seems still to be 1 year different, according to a report of Ross Hanham on the Canadian Masters’ Website http://mastersspeedskatingnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/speed-skating-canada-rule-changes.html .

01 Okt 2008

Announcements Published, Entries Possible

vs. The main part of the announcements of the Masters’ International Speed Skating Competitions is published now on this website and you can already make entries for these Competitions. The procedure of entering the competitions has altered for most of the Competitions. For these competitions Electronic Entries are possible or obligatory. You find the Electronic Entry Forms on this website, the procedure is simple. You fill in the Electronic Entry Form completely on your PC and send it to the organizer of the competition only by a click on the button “Submit”. You will get a confirmation by email that your entry did arrive at the organizer. You can find the Electronic Entry Forms also directly via this table: www.imssg.org/08-ann.html .

14 Sep 2008

Higher Nations’ Quota for the 18^th ALLROUND GAMES Bjugn/NOR 2009

vs. At the IMSSC Summer Session the head of the organizing committee of the 18^th Masters’ International Speed Skating ALLROUND GAMES, Mr. Ådne Røkkum, informed the participants of the session that the number of participants for the Allround Games in Bjugn can be increased from 200 to 220. From this new number of participants the number of possible entries can be increased from 235 to 259 (about 15 % loss of entered participants because of illness, etc). So the Nations Quota can be increased as follows (old quota in parantheses): CAN 13 (12), FIN 13 (12), GER 25 (23), ITA 13 (12), NOR 75 (68), RUS 19 (17), SUI 12 (11), USA 10 (9), OTHER NATIONS 16 (14), Sum 259 (235).

05 Sep 2008

Quota for 1^st SPRINT GAMES Inzell/GER 2009

vs. The 1^st Masters’ International Speed Skating SPRINT GAMES will be held at 14 – 15 February 2009 in Inzell/Germany. The quota for the number of accepted entries of the different Nations will be the following: CAN 14, FIN 11, GER 48, ITA 12, NED 66, NOR 43, RUS 18, SUI 13, Other Nations 10 (in sum 235 accepted entries).

27 May 2008

Master Cup Berlin/GER in February 2009

vs. As date for the 13^th Masters’ International MASTER CUP Berlin 07 – 08 Feb 2009 was just confirmed. The competition takes place in the icehall of the Sportforum in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The distances at the Allround Competition will be the same as at the Allround Games in Bjugn/NOR three weeks later. Men up to age group M 60: 500 m, 3000 m/1500 m, 5000 m; Men from age group M 65 and Ladies up to age group L 65: 500 m, 1500 m/1000 m, 3000 m; Ladies from age group L 70: 500 m, 1000 m/1500 m.

08 May 2008

Date of the 1^st SPRINT GAMES Inzell/GER

vs. The date for the 1^st Masters International SPRINT GAMES in Inzell/Germany was confirmed yesterday by the Head of the Organizing Committee, Mr. Hubert Graf. These Games will be held at 14 – 15 February 2009. The number of 235 Entries will be accepted until the deadline of entries (then by experience we will have 200 competitors). After the ice speedway races in Inzell at 29 Jan – 1 Feb 2009 speed skating training again will be possible from Wednesday 04 Feb 2009 in the evening. At 05 – 13 Feb 2009 training will be possible in the morning, afternoon and evening. At the competition days 14 – 15 Feb 2009 speed skating training will be restricted to limited training times, as then indicated in the entrance hall of the icestadium.

03 May 2008

Minutes of the 28^th IMSSC Session 2008 Erfurt

vs. The Minutes of the 28^th IMSSC Session 2008 in Erfurt have been issued now and can be read also at this website under http://www.imssg.org/08-session-28th-erfurt-minutes.pdf . In these minutes you find a lot more about the 28^th IMSSC Session in Erfurt 2008 than the information given below.

03 May 2008

The News ICEOVAL 2008

vs. From the next season there will be changes in the Masters’ Speed Skating News ICEOVAL 2008. The Announcements of Masters’ International Competitions will not be issued in ICEOVAL in the future but only on the Masters’ Websites. The participants of the Masters’ International Competitions of the last season will not receive automatically and free ICEOVAL 2008. But ICEOVAL 2008 can be subscribed (yearly fee 10 EUR). All information given in ICEOVAL will also be available in the Masters’ Websites www.imssg.org and www.imssc.org .

03 May 2008

New Masters’ International Competitions in 2008/2009

vs. Besides the SPRINT GAMES and ALLROUND GAMES there are planned a lot of Masters’ International Competitions for 2008/2009 as every year (see Masters’ International Competition Calendar 2008/2009 at this Website). New is the exchange of the Masters’ International GRISHIN MEMORIAL against the Masters’ International RUSSIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. The 28^th IMSSC Session 2008 in Erfurt decided this change because it is much more interesting for foreign participants, who have along journey and additional work for getting visa, to have a competition with four distances in two days instead of a competition with only two distances at only one day. New may also be a Masters’ International Competition in Salt Lake City/USA. Andrew Love will clear up the possibility.

03 May 2008

1^st Masters’ SPRINT GAMES 2009 in Inzell/GER

vs. The introduction of Masters’ International SPRINT GAMES was decided at the 28^th IMSSC Session 2008 in Erfurt/GER. These Masters’ International SPRINT GAMES shall be held every year in another country. The 1^st Masters’ International Sprint Games will take place in Germany: 2009 Inzell/GER (2 days).

03 May 2008

Masters’ Allround Games 2009 - 2011

vs. The places for the Masters’ International Allround Games in the coming years are as follows:

2009 Bjugn/NOR 200 participants (3 days).

2010 Innsbruck/AUT 200 participants (3 days).

2011 Calgary/CAN 300 participants (4 days).

The places Innsbruck 2010 and Calgary 2011 were decided at the 28^th IMSSC Session in Erfurt/GER 2008. The change of the name “Masters’ Games” to “Allround Masters’ Games” was

necessary because of the introduction of additional Masters’ Sprint Games from 2009. Kolomna/RUS as place for the Games 2010, as decided by the IMSSC in 2007, was cancelled because of reasons described in the Minutes of the 28^th IMSSC Session Erfurt 2008. See this website.

03 May 2008

Nations Quota for the Games in Bjugn/NOR 2009

vs. At the 28^th IMSSC Session in Erfurt/GER 2008 the quota of the participating nations were decided: CAN 12, FIN 12, GER 23, ITA 12, NED 57, NOR 68, RUS 17, SUI 11, USA 9, Other Nations 14 (Sum of possible Entries 235). The entries of the contries GER, NED, NOR, RUS, SUI will be made over the IMSSC Members of these countries, who will carry out the necessary selection of the participants. The entries of the other countries will be made by the Organizer of the Games according to the dates of the entries.