Endurance test on ice and snow: the 2007 FULDA Challenge

24th January 2007

Here she goes again: This Thursday, Isolde Holderied will travel to Canada’s Yukon Territory for the 2007 FULDA Challenge. The spectacular multi-discipline competition in North America’s perpetual ice is held for the seventh time this year.

16 competitors from around the world – four of them celebrities – will travel to Canada in late January to battle it out in the FULDA Challenge. In all the disciplines, courage, skill and stamina will be crucial – and, obviously, a good dose of racing speed. The programme features two car competitions contested with the Toyota RAV4 as well as other disciplines, demanding the competitor’s maximum power and stamina.

Team spirit, skill and a good sense of orientation will be significant and the same can be said when it comes to being a survivor. After all, the competitors won’t spend the nights in cosy hotel rooms but in a tent, in the open air, with temperatures reaching -50° C being anything but rare in the Canadian winter. As in previous years, Isolde is travelling to Canada to look after the athletes and the media representatives.

“Together with Hans-Joachim Stuck, I’m going to attend to the support of the entrants and hope to be able to provide them with some valuable advice,” says Isolde. “From I know from experience that the FULDA Challenge represents a major challenge and an exhausting competition, taking the competitors to their very limits. I’m looking forward to this trip to the Polar Circle.”

Qualification for the 2007 FILDA Challenge was held in early October 2006. Numerous participants met in Sulden at the Ortler to prepare for the extreme conditions. And now, eight teams from Germany, Canada, Austria, Poland and the Netherlands will make the trip to the Yukon Territory.

As was the case in recent events, this year’s FULDA Challenge will be contested by two celebrity teams: eight-time Olympic Canoeing Gold Medallist Birgit Fischer, speed skating legend Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann as well as former decathlete Frank Busemann and star comedian Wigald Boning are ready to meet the challenge represented by the 2007 FULDA Challenge.

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