SLED DOGS AND SKI DOGS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BESSANS (HAUTE MAURIENNE VANOISE - SAVOIE - FRANCE) - JANUARY 29th to FEBRUARY 2nd 2019 - IFSS 2019
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SLED DOGS AND SKI DOGS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
BESSANS (HAUTE MAURIENNE VANOISE – SAVOIE – FRANCE)
JANUARY 29th to FEBRUARY 2nd 2019
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SUMMARY
Ifss World Championships…….What is it?.....................04
More than a century for the sport……………………………..06
Bessans, a historical land for sled dogs in France………..07
Program of the championships..…………………………………08
Race categories………………………………………………………….10
The canine athletes……………………………………………………12
The respect of the dogs first………………………………………14
The trails of Bessans..………………………………………………. 15
Lekkarod, a club, and a popular stage race…………………18
The teams of vonuteers……………………………………….......19
Lekka and Rod, les mascots….…………………………………….21
The logo of the 2019 IFSS World Championships………..22
The IFSS……………………………………………………………………..23
The FFST…………………………………………………………………….24
To know more……………………………………………………........25
Your contacts……………………………………………………………..25
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THE IFSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
…WHAT IS IT?
In 2019, Bessans will host the 18th edition of the world championships for
sled-dogs, ski-pulka and ski-joring. These winter sports are the only ones
where humans and dogs share the same effort, both physical and mental,
the human athlete being in post cases the limiting factor of a canine
performance that leaves spectators voiceless!
All the categories of our sport will be represented in Bessans, where more
than 300 teams are expected, regrouping around 1400 canine athletes
coming from more than 25 nations.
Races will include 1, 2 or 3 heats (one per day in the same category), but
also relays and combined races, all of that with a technical and security
organisation equivalent to those of such events in major sports.
A very dense program will be offered, races following races in a « non
stop » continuum from 8 am to 7 pm every day. This means a perfect
preparation of the different trails, and a top level marking (teams will
reach an average speed of 30/32 km/h on distances ranging from 8 to 38
kilometers).
Performance will be at its highest level, as the best teams on earth will be
here, coming from several continents. One should not miss the « mass
start » races, where all competitors start together, and the fantastics
relays !
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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FRANCE SINCE THEIR CREATION IN 1990 1990 SAINT MORITZ - SILS 1991 WINNIPEG 1992 BADMITTENDORF 1993 FAIRBANKS – ALASKA 1994 TODTMOOS 1995 LAKE PLACID – NY 1997 JOENSUU 1999 SILS 2001 MARQUETTE – MC 2003 TODTMOOS – BERNAU 2005 DAWSON CITY 2007 GAFSELE 2009 DAAQUAM – QUEBEC 2011 HAMAR OSLO 2013 NORTH POLE – ALASKA 2015 BERNAU – TODTMOSS 2017 HALIBURTON FOREST 2019 BESSANS - BONNEVAL 5
MORE THAN 100 YEARS OF SLED DOG SPORTS
To understand a sport, one must know its history
The first references to sled dog teams conpetitions can be found in the 19th
century in Canada. In Alaska, at the end of the 19th century, the Gold Rush
induced a strong demand for pulling dogs. Dogs were very important in the
daily life of gold miners at that time, and when the rush ended, they turned
their working sled dog teams to racing ones in order to keep their dogs
and…do something. Slowly the sled dog sport turned out to be more and
more important in all the snowy countries of the north american continent.
In 1932, the sled dog sport appeared at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid
(New York State). In Europe, the sport first developped in Scandinavia, where
ski-pulka with hunting dogs became popular in the 1930’s. The first club was
founded in Norway in 1936, quickly followed by numerous others in other
scandinavian countries.
In central and western Europe, the sport really started in the early 1960’s.
The first french race was held in february 1978, organised at La Schlucht Pass
(Alsace). In 1983 the national clubs from France, Switzerland, Germany,
Denmark, Sweden and Norway founded the European Sled Dog Racing
Association (ESDRA), in order to coordonate the development of the different
disciplines in Europe. The first european championship was set up in 1984 in
Sils/St Moritz (Switzerland).
The structuration of an International federation for Sled dog Sport (IFSS)
followed, with the same goal on on planet scale, and this allowed the
appearance of the sled dog sport in demonstration and exhibition for the
Olympic Games of Albertville (1992 France) and Lillehammer (1994 Norway).
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BESSANS: A HISTORICAL VILLAGE OF
HAUTE MAURIENNE VANOISE…
…THE FRENCH CAPITAL FOR BIATHLON AND SLED DOGS !
Bessans and Bonneval (village at the foot of the famous Iseran Pass where some of
the world championships trails will go) are among the nicest mountain villages of
France ! Bessans Has been known for a long time as a kind of epicenter for both
biathlon and sled dogs competitions, due to the quality of the trails and the
amount of snow, but since the early 1980’s it has been the reference site for the
french sled dog sport; the famous « Alpirod » was there in the 1990’s, and
since2015 the Lekkarod, that organises the 2018 world championships in the
name of the french federation FFST.
With its 350 inhabitants, Bessans remains a magic site, ancestral Savoie village,
with people fully passioned by their mountains, their nature, and the snow that
sometimes falls even too much in this area !
Reknown for its cross country skiing marathon, that hosts each year tens of
thousands of participants, but also for being a marvelous training site for
numerous national biathlon teams, Bessans is in the middle of magnificent
scenaris, as much as Bonneval, considered as one of the nicest villages of France.
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THE PROGRAM OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Tuesday Jan 29th: Opening ceremony
- Wednesday Jan 30th: Competitions Day 1
- Thursday Jan 31st: Competitions Day 2
- Firday Feb 1st: Competitions Day 3
- Saturday Feb 2nd: Competitions Day 4
Closing ceremony
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THE PROGRAM OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
DETAIL OF THE COMPETITIONS
Tuesday January 29th:
Opening Ceremony
Wednesday January 30th:
- Sled: Categories Sp4, Sp4j, Sp6, Sp8, MD6, MD12
- Ski-dogs: Categories PM1, PW1, PMJ, PWJ, MDSMW
Thursday January 31st:
- Sled: Categories Sp4, Sp4j, Sp6, Sp8, SpU, MD6, MD12
- Ski-dogs: Categories SM1, SW1, SMJ, SWJ, MDSMW
Medal ceremonies categories Pulka, Skijoring and Sp4
Mushers diner
Friday February 1st:
- Sled: Categories Sp4MS, Sp4j, Sp6, Sp8, SpU, MD6, MD12
- Ski-dogs: Categories CM, CW, CMJ, CWJ, MDSMW
Medal ceremonies categories Combined, Sp4MS, Sp4j, Sp6,
Sp8, SpU, MD6, MD12 and MDSMW
Saturday February 2nd:
- Ski-dogs: Categories SM2, SW2
- Relay: Skijoring 1 dog, Pulka 1 dog and Sp4
Medal ceremonies categories SM2, SW2 and Relay
Closing ceremony
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RACING CATEGORIES
SKIDOG
PULKA
4 DOGS
6 DOGS
8 DOGS
UNLIMITED
DISTANCES PER HEAT: 8 to 35 km depending on category
RELAYS BY NATIONAL TEAMS
10RACING CATEGORIES: A SMALL LEXICON
- Sp4: Sprint 4 dogs
- Sp4MS: Sprint 4 dogs Mass Start
- Sp4j: Sprint 4 dogs Junior
- Sp6: Sprint 6 dogs
- Sp8: Sprint 8 dogs
- Sp12: Sprint 12 dogs
- SpU: Sprint unlimited
- MD6: Mid Distance 6 dogs
- MD12: Mid Distance 12 dogs
- PM1: Pulka Man 1 dog
- PW1: Pulka Woman 1 dog
- PMj: Pulka Man junior 1 dog
- PWj: Pulka Woman junior 1 dog
- SM1: Skijoering Man 1 dog
- SW1: Skijoering Woman 1 dog
- SMj: Skijoering Man junior 1 dog
- SWj: Skijoering Woman junior 1 dog
- CM: Combined Man
- CW: Combined Woman
- CMj: Combined Man junior
- CWj: Combined Woman junior
- SM2: Skijoering Man 2 dogs
- SW2: Skijoering Woman 2 dogs
- MDSMW: Skijoering Mid Distance Man and Woman 2 dogs
11THE CANINE ATHLETES
SIBERIAN HUSKIES ALASKAN HUSKIES
NORWEGIAN HOUNDS GREYSTERS
EUROHOUNDS
12THE CANINE ATHLETES: PREPARATION
To be able to race on distances from 8 to 38 km at average speed faster than
those of human sprinters running 100 meters is linked to genetic capacities of all
these dogs, but not only ! It is also the result of a lot of very serious preparation
work done by their musher or skier. And dogs only run if they will to do so, and if
they find pleasure in it, as the human competitor only uses his voice to help them
or convince them to race! This « will to go » could not be obtained if one tried to
« force » the dogs to run. Dos perform only if they want to…and if they are
correctly prepared to !
This mental and physical preparation involves 3 different aspects that are closely
linked one with the other:
- The notion of game and happyness for the dog; all dogs love to run, love to pull
something, as long as they share it with their human companion or with other
dogs.
- The physical training, that must be regular and included into a progressive
training program and adapted to the type of competition; it is very often realised
off snow (with karts or bikes), very early in the morning (to avoid heat stress for
the dogs), and must stay funny and varied.
- The nutrition, particularly worked by scientific research since years, because
these dogs have very specific nutritional requirements, and not only in term of
energy. Feeding correctly a racing sled dogs means a perfect respect of his
physiology, but also use the correct nutrients in order to help enhancing the
performance and moreover prevent the eventual pathological problems. In the
« dog world », sled dogs could be compared as the Formula 1 cars for the public,
even of course if dogs will never be considered as machines !
13RESPECT OF THE DOGS FIRST
It is impossible to practice any of the sled dog sports without a perfect respect
of the animal and a very strong relationship between the musher or the skier
and his dogs.
And it goes the same way for a race organisation or a national federation, for
whom a complete respect of the animal welfare is a major issue. It explains that
the racing rules are very strict and enforced, as are the anti-doping controls that
will be performed during the world championships on both dogs and humans.
A very experienced team of 10 veterinarians, helped by veterinary students
from the 4 french national veterinary schools, will be on site 24/24 to help dogs
and mushers with any kind of problems appearing on a dog. Canine sport
medicine is now a fully recognised speciality among the european veterinary
medicine world (European College of Veterinary Sport Medicine and
Rehabilitation).
14THE TRAILS OF BESSANS
SPRINT: 8 km
SPRINT: 13 km
15THE TRAILS OF BESSANS
SPRINT: 16 km
SPRINT: 24 km
16THE TRAILS OF BESSANS
MID-DISTANCE: 37 km
17LEKKAROD
THE ORGANISING CLUB
Created in 2014 by a group of passioned people, led by Dominique
Grandjean, a world reknowed veterinarian, professor at Alfort
National Veterinary School (Paris, France), Lekkarod’s motto is « Our
dogs have a Heart ». Therefor it sounds logic that sled dogs try to
help their friends dogs who use their nose to help and save people on
a daily base: the Kdog project from the Curie Institute is pushed by
Lekka and Rod (early breast cancer detection by sniffing dogs), with
other projects running on cancers detection by the dog nose (colon,
prostate, bladder…). Lekkarod is also a partner of Mécénat Chirurgie
Cardiaque through the « Vets who have a heart». Since 4 years,
Lekkarod has grown up, and more than 70 international teams
entered the 2018 edition of this « special » stage race, based on the
« one welfare » concept…if dogs are happy, mushers are happy !
Lekkarod 2019 will take place from march 15th to march 24th in 2019.
Respect of Dogs and Humans
Respect of Nature and Environment
Ancestry and Competition
Science and Pedagogy
The key words of Lekkarod !
18AN ORGANISATION 100% MADE OF VOLUNTEERS
WHO ARE ALL EXPERIENCED ENTHUSIASTS
19THE TEAMS OF THE ORGANISATION
RACE DIRECTION
RACE MARSHALL VETERINARY TEAM SECRETARIAT MARKING
RACE JUDGES HUMAN MEDICINE SECURITY
TIMING SOCIAL RELATIONS PRODUCTION
MEDIAS MUSHERS PHOTOS-VIDEOS
ANIMATION RESTAURATION PARKINGS MERCHANDISING
MUSHERS
DOPING CONTROLS OFFICIALS OFFICES PARTNERS ENVIRONMENT
20THE MASCOTS
Lekka and Rod will be the mascots of the championships, both born in 2016.
Lekka is a small alaskan husky female, Rod is the nicest siberian husky. Ils
accompagneront les concurrents au quotidien avant, pendant et après la course !
Lekka signifie « chien » en vieux patois bessannais, Rod rend hommage à
l’Iditarod, la plus grande course de traineau au monde.
21THE LOGO OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE MOUNTAINS OF
HAUTE MAURIENNE VANOISE
THE FRENCH HEXAGON
THE 3 COLORS OF FRANCE
RACING HARNESSED DOG REPRESENTING
THE DIFFERENT RACE CATEGORIES
22IFSS
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION for SLEDDOG SPORTS
Created in 1985, the IFSS is the international structure that officially rules the sled
dog sports, including « snowland » and « dryland » competitions. IFSS is a member
of GAISF (General Association of International Sports Federations), that depends of
the IOC (International Olympic Committe), recently renamed « SportAccord ». The
IFSS works for the full winter Olympics recognition of the sports, as equestrian are
part of the summer. Since 2011 IFSS il also a member of IMGA (International Masters
Game Association).
The headquaters of IFSS is located in Brussels (Belgium) and its Chairwoman is the
swedish Helen Lundberg, assisted by personalities coming from the 5 continents. A
continental governing body is also organised.
37 countries are members of IFSS:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Tcheque Republic, Danmark,
Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Hongaria, Ireland, Italy,
Corea, Lettonie, Lituanie, Holand, New Zeland, Norway, Poland, Russia,
Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Andorra,
Argentina, Belarussia, Brasil, Estonia, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Mongolia,
Slovenia, Ukraine
23FFST
FEDERATION FRANCAISE des SPORTS de TRAINEAU
The « Fédération Française des Sports de Traîneau », of sk joëring and canicross
(FFST) is a non profit association that organises and develops the sports in France
since the 80’s.
With members and clubs spread into Régional Leagues and Department
Committees, the FFST has the following missions:
• Help the promotion and the education through sport activities.
• Promote the access for everybody to physical and sport activities.
• Train educators, trainers, and club managers.
• Organise and train the judges for the different disciplines.
• Enforce the respect of technical and ethical rules of the sport.
• Deliver the tittles of French Champion in the diffrent disciplines of the sport.
The FFST manages the organisation of all the french national championships.
Officially agreed by the french ministry of sports, the FFST represents sled dog
sports, le sk joëring, bikecross and canicross in the different official national and
international organisations.
The FFST is represented in the french national olympic committe and is a member
of IFSS.
70 Clubs dispatched over France
French Championships snow and dryland
World Cup competitions
Diplomas trainings 24TO KNOW MORE
- WORLD CHAMPS 2019 : http://ifss2019.com/
- IFSS : http://www.sleddogsport.net/
- FFST : https://www.ffst.info/
- LEKKAROD : http://www.lekkarod.com
- BESSANS : http://www.haute-maurienne-vanoise.com/
- WORL CHAMPS : ifss2019wc
- IFSS : sleddog.sports
- FFST : ffst.fr
- LEKKAROD : lekkarod
CONTACTS
- Organisation, Informations : Prof Dominique GRANDJEAN
dominique.grandjean@vet-alfort.fr
+33143967103 or +33610153080
- Veterinary informations: Dr Delphine CLERO
delphine.clero@vet-alfort.fr
+33143967204 ou +33613321013
- Images and media supports: Stéphane TRENTESAUX
stephanetsx@gmail.com
+33641671370
- Relations with partners: Clothilde LECOQ
clothilde.lecoq@yahoo.fr
+33619920418
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