FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Bormio

1. The dream

It was 1st June 2000 in Melbourne, Australia, when the President of the International Ski Federation Gianfranco Kasper officially presented the organisers of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005: Bormio and Santa Caterina. The event would be returning to Valtellina exactly twenty years after the 1985 edition.
Five years have passed since then and during that time the Bormio World Championships’ dream has become reality. We have come to the end of this splendid adventure and writing this Final Report will enable us to reflect, and evaluate the organisational efforts we made before and during the event, as well as trying to provide the next Organising Committee with valid suggestions and reliable data.

2. The passion

The plan for the organisation of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships was devised many years before it actually occurred. A long series of events enabled Bormio and Santa Caterina to patiently take all the necessary steps in order to gain international faith and acknowledgement.
The driving force behind staging the second competition in Valtellina was the passion of a group of local businessmen, together with the essential backing of the Lombardy Region. Maurizio Gandolfi, Beppe Bonseri and Elia Dei Cas committed themselves to bringing the World Championships back to a place that is justly famous for its mountains and for the success of its champions.
Right from the start, from the World Cup race which has been held in Bormio since 1993, to the World Cup Finals held in 1995 and the Snow Festival in 2000, both the organisation and the location have shown the world their excellent qualities.

3. The Team

4.Heritage for the future

Now that the direct challenge is over, we find ourselves facing the World Championships’ most important juncture; ensuring a heritage for future generations. We need to manage an inheritance which was created in order to serve the peolpe ande the lands of Alta Valtellina.

Whilst preparing for the candidacy, we set ourselves various objectives. These logically included the goal of holding this significant event on our own snowy mountains. In the event of Bormio being assigned the World Championship, our objective also encompassed the objective of ensuring that they acted as a means of re-launching the area in order to benefit the entire population.

If we re-examine the objective which we set ourselves (see Strategy), we can see that:

- The international media drive was assured by massive television coverage (see correlated table), by press office activities (see Communications, Press &P.R.) and by TV and press advertising (see Marketing).

- The promotion of an innovative development programme for the territory which completely respected the environment was assured by the ISO 14001 certification (see “The initiatives in the environment field”)

- The re-lauch of the Santa Caterina ski area, the strengthening of Bormio’s ski area, their positioning amongst the most internationally-renowned resort together with the structures and infrastructures built by the town councils have all been assured by Act 166/02 (see”The Resources”) which made the considerable sum of 178.000.000 € available to the local institutions, of which 40.000.000 € was sourced through private funding.

The grants assigned to each individual body thanks to Act 166/02, the sums which they invested and the works which they realized are listed herein.

5. The Results

2005 World Championships
Women’s Races

Date	Event	Winner
30/01/05 »	Super G	Anja Paerson SWE Lucia Recchia ITA Julia Mancuso USA
04/02/05 »	Combined	Janica Kostelic CRO Anja Paerson SWE Marlies Schild AUT
06/02/05 »	Downhill	Janica Kostelic CRO Elena Fanchini ITA Renate Goetschl AUT
08/02/05 »	Giant Slalom	Anja Paerson SWE Tanja Poutiainen FIN Julia Mancuso USA
11/02/05 »	Slalom	Janica Kostelic CRO Tanja Poutiainen FIN Sarka Zahrobska CZE

2005 World Championships
Men’s Races

Date	Event	Winner
29/01/05 »	Super G	Bode Miller USA Michael Walchhofer AUT Benjamin Raich AUT
03/02/05 »	Combined	Benjamin Raich AUT Aksel-Lund Svindal NOR Giorgio Rocca ITA
05/02/05 »	Downhill	Bode Miller USA Daron Rahlves USA Michael Walchhofer AUT
10/02/05 »	Giant Slalom	Hermann Maier AUT Benjamin Raich AUT Daron Rahlves USA
12/02/05 »	Slalom	Benjamin Raich AUT Rainer Schoenfelder AUT Giorgio Rocca ITA

2005 World Championships
Team Event

Date	Event	Winner
13/02/05 »	Team Event	Bergmann, Ertl, Gerg, Eckert, Ertl, Neureuther Germany GER Goetschl, Hosp, Zettel, Raich, Walchhofer, Schoenfelder Austria AUT Jacquemod, Montillet, Pascal, Pequegnot, Bourgeat, Vidal France FRA