The newly declared World sub-champion in half pipe, Queralt Castellet, will be present in the Sierra Nevada event.
From Wednesday 4th February until 14th February Granada and Sierra Nevada will host the Wold Winter Universiade. Organized by International University Sports Federation (FISU), the Universiade, which engages top sport university students, is one of the biggest winter sports event in the world, for almost 100 years
This year more than 2,000 athletes, university students from more than 50 different countries will attend the Universiade with 1,000 volunteers working. It will be broadcasted by more than 100 television channels from all over the world.
Sierra Nevada is ready for the Alpine Skiing, Snowboard and Freestyle competitions
The Andalusian ski resort has been thoroughly prepared to host the Universiade top level competitions.
The International Ski Federation (FIS) authorized the Universiade Track for all Alpine Skiing disciplines last season. An 800 meters distance of hard snow a very technical track with numerous changes that will demand the best of each athlete due to the varied orography. The beginning of the Universiade track allows the athletes to speed up, in the middle of the track they have to be very careful due to the terrain. Therefore there is no place for mistakes since athletes should have studied this track beforehand.
FIS Technical Delegate, Markus Malsiner, reported that last year for the 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup the ski track was already in perfect conditions so he predicted that athletes of the Winter Universiade Granada 2015, will make a spectacular performance in this track.
This ski track was especially designed to make easier the attendance of skier spectators to the ski alpine competitions and therefore facilitate the practice of skiing from the Borreguiles to the Pradollano areas.
In fact, the ski tracks Águila, the Maribel's tunnel and part of the El Río will be the three connections between Borreguiles – Pradollano, which will be permanently open during the Universiade.
As for the Snowpark Sulayr, it will held three different disciplines of snowboard and Freestyle Skiing. We can find here the longest jumps line and modules in Europe where it is also possible to link 50 modules (out of the 60 modules it has) in a single downhill. It joins together 4 sectors in line with 2, 2 kilometers of high level length. Moreover, in sector 3 there are snow jumps of 8, 10 and 12 meters. There is also a half pipe of 165 meters long, e meters high with an inclination of 32% on its deepest point.
Alpine Skiing:
Juan del Campo Hernández (Basque Federation)
Núria Pau Romeu (Catalan Federation)
Júlia Bargalló Granero (Catalan Federation) Mariona Boix Ferrer (Catalan Federation) Pol Carreras Torras (Catalan Federation) Joaquim Salarich Baucells (Catalan Federation)
Álex Puente Tasias (Catalan Federation)
Snowboard:
Elena García Serra (Catalan Federation) Queralt Castellet Ibáñez (Catalan Federation)
Freestyle:
Jorge Montoya Piris (Andalusian Federation)
Patricia Muñoz Ruíz (Andalusian Federation)
Elena Jaimez Farnham (Andalusian Federation)
