Juraj Valach doing finish
registration at the Mountain Run during the Oberstdorf
Shorttrack Summercamp
In memoriam Juraj
Valach
23-02-2021.
On
Monday 22 February Juraj Valach (Slovak Republic) has passed
away after 9 days of heavy suffering in hospital from
Covid-19. Juraj was a Super-volunteer who dedicated his life
for more then 20 years to Shorttrack Speedskating. He was
one of the founders of Speed Skating in Slovakia and has
been General Secretary of the Slovak Speed Skating Union.
Besides competition organiser he was also ISU Competitors
Steward. In this function he was working for many national
and international competitions in Europe and all over the
World. His last competition was the European Championships
of 22-24 January 2021 in Gdansk-Poland. Juraj was for many
years also one of the volunteers behind our website
Shorttrackonline.info and Co-organiser of the Oberstdorf
Shorttrack Summercamp. Besides the competition
administration of the running seasons he processed many old
competitions for the statistics in the database of
Shorttrackonline. As an example: in the normal situation a
competitors steward in general is doing 10 to 15
competitions in a season; In the past two seasons Juraj has
processed 108 Competitions for its results and statistics on
our website! We are very thankful for the great job he did
for our sport of Shorttrack. Our thoughts go out to his wife
Beata and his son and daughter Andrej and Alexandra.
10th edition of the
Oberstdorf Shorttrack Summercamp
21-02-2021.
The 10th edition of the Oberstorf Shorttrack Summercamp will
be held from 31 July - 7 August 2021. Participation in the
summercamp and shorttrack competition is open to Juniors,
Seniors and Masters. The Summercamp is NOT for beginning
skaters who have to learn to skate. Entry of skaters can be
done by the secretary of the club in the same way as skaters
normally are entered for competitions on the website
Shorttrackonline.info. The summercamp will have around 100
hours of ice time for training. Besides this a Welcome
Barbeque, Mountain Run, Triathlon, a Sportive Recreational
Event, a two days Shorttrack competition and a Closing
dinner will be held (if Corona measures allowe it).
Depending on the situation a special Corona protocol (approved
by the local government) will be used in order to guarantee
maximum safety.
Sebra
Sports sponsor of Overall Classification StarClass
In the past years the company SEBRA Sports has been an
important supporter and sponsor of the StarClass series. The
StarClass series consist of 3 competitions for the younger
category and 3 competitions for the elder category. The
overall result of 2 competitions out of 3 decides who
qualifies for the Europa Cup final. Besides this also an
Overall classification over all 3 competitions is made up.
The best 10 skaters of each age-category after 3
competitions received a SEBRA gift-voucher for buying all
kinds of skating materials. Besides a contribution of the
different Competition organizers SEBRA Sports paid a big
part of the costs of this Overall classification. We would
like to thank SEBRA Sports for their support to the
StarClass series.
