ROUND 3 - DYNAFIT SKI TOURING COURCHEVEL - 28 December 2011

Duc and Bon Mardion confirm their positions as leaders.

Ski mountaineering is booming in Courchevel. A record turnout for the 3rd Dynafit Ski Touring Courchevel, with 94 participants! The success of this ski touring race, open to everyone, keeps growing. The discipline’s best specialists come to fight for the season record or to fine-tune their training. And ski touring enthusiasts come to improve their times, compare themselves with others or simply have a good time in an exceptional setting, by the light of a head torch.

William Bon Mardion of the Club Multi-Sports d’Arêches Beaufort won this new edition with a new record of 24min22s ahead of Xavier Gachet of the same club, who finished in 24min34s and took second place in the provisional overall standings. Cyrille Gardet of the Ski Team Crest-Voland completed the podium with a time of 26min47s.

Among the women, Stéphanie Duc of the Courchevel Sports Alpinisme club won in 32min40s and kept first place in the provisional overall standings, which she had held in the first edition with 32min14s. Emmanuelle Zanders of Team Isère Montagne came second with a time of 34min46s, which puts her in 3rd position in the provisional overall standings, and Céline Combaz of the same club took third place in 35min33s.

Catherine Dubois of team Dynafit (first in the Courchevel X-Trail 53 km in summer 2011) finished just off the podium in 38min34s.