Confirming the strong competitive vocation of the Vialattea slopes, the Women’s Alpine Skiing European Cup will stop in Sestriere on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 January 2024. As soon as the Christmas holidays are over, the tourists will make way for the athletes of the prestigious continental circuit who will compete in two giant slalom races.
Sestriere’s slopes are always open to host major international events, from the Alpine Ski World Cup, which saw its first race on the Sestriere slopes back in 1967, to the 1997 Sestriere Ski World Championships and the 20th Winter Olympic Games in Turin in 2006. Over half a century of history in the course of which the greatest champions on the world scene have been crowned.
The European Cup will be held on the Kandahar Giovanni Alberto Agnelli slope, the same slope that during the last winter season awarded the Piedmontese champion Marta Bassino, winner of the World Cup Giant Slalom.
The last edition of the European Cup took place in Sestriere in January 2016, with a giant slalom and a women’s slalom. On that occasion, Laura Pirovano stood on the third step of the giant slalom podium. Previously, the European Cup was held in Sestiere in the 2014, 2001 and 1997 editions.
In the 2014 edition, two giant slaloms and one slalom were staged, and it was the young Marta Bassino who came to the fore with a first and a second place in the giant slalom.
