Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships 2023 officially opens in Georgia’s ski resort Bakuriani
The Championship Village has also been opened in Bakuriani, which features Georgian entrepreneurs with various national products and cuisine from different parts of the country. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Bakuriani 2023 - the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships officially opened with a concert on Saturday in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani, which will run through March 5, hosting about 700 athletes from 42 countries competing in 30 categories for seven disciplines.
Photo via Ministry of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs
At the grand opening of the World Championship, Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili addressed the participants and visitors, calling the tournament a “truly historic event” and emphasising that Georgia was hosting the “high-level” tournament for the first time.
Davitashvili highlighted the important infrastructure projects and works carried out for the Championship, including the construction of a 29-km artificial snowmaking system with two reservoirs, new cable cars, and six new ski tracks. He stressed the infrastructure would be “useful for years” for the country and Georgia would be a part of the sporting events calendar of the International Ski Federation.
Photo via Ministry of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs
Sports Minister Thea Tsulukiani also addressed the audience and thanked the organisers, participants and supporters of the tournament on behalf of the Ministry. She noted the infrastructure in Bakuriani would serve both Georgian and foreign athletes for a “long time” and wished success to all participants of the Championship, especially to Georgian athletes.
Photo via Economy Ministry
The Championship Village has also been opened in Bakuriani, which features Georgian entrepreneurs with various national products and cuisine from different parts of the country, with the support of the Georgian National Tourism Administration.
Winners of Parallel Giant Slalom. Photo via Georgian Ski Federation
The qualifying and final stages of the World Championship are being held today in Parallel Giant Slalom and the Aerials.
The quality of ski tracks, infrastructure, and relevant equipment in Georgia’s ski resort of Bakuriani, arranged for the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships, is “identical” to European standards, Irakli Burchuladze, the Director of Georgian Mountain Trails Agency told agenda.ge on Saturday.
The Georgian Interior Ministry on Friday said police crews had been deployed in the ski resort of Bakuriani to ensure safety during the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships that started on Thursday.
Athletes from around the world on Thursday started their first official training in aerials, a freestyle ski discipline, as part of the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships running through March 5 in Georgia’s ski resort of Bakuriani.
Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski Federation, on Tuesday said he was expecting to see a “high-level hosting” of the upcoming Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani.
Brad Jay, a professional sports commentator and announcer at Eurosport, on Saturday recommended Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani, which is hosting the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championship, as an “amazing place” to visit.
In one of the first contests of the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships hosted in Georgia’s winter resort town of Bakuriani, Poland’s Oskar Kwiatkowski and Japan’s Tsubaki Miki earned gold in the Parallel Giant Slalom on Saturday.
A 13-member team of injured Georgian servicemembers will feature in the Air Force Trials - a Paralympic-style competitive event starting this month in the United States - for the first time, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
Brad Jay, a professional sports commentator and announcer at Eurosport, on Thursday expressed his gratitude toward the Georgian Mountain Trails Agency for the “amazing job” done in the country’s winter resort town of Bakuriani, which has been hosting the Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships.
Johan Eliasch, the President of the International Ski Federation, on Saturday said Georgia’s winter resort of Bakuriani had “a lot of potential” to host “more events” as part of the World Championships and praised the quality of ski slopes and snow in the resort.
Representatives of the International Ski Federation have described Georgia’s hosting of the ongoing FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani as “impressive”.
Georgia deserves a “round of applause” for the level of its hosting of the ongoing Freestyle Ski, Snowboard and Freeski World Championships in Bakuriani, Michel Vion, the Secretary General of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation, said in comments released by the country’s Mountain Trails Agency on Thursday.