Fulda Tyres Arctic Challenge

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Italian Team Wins Gold

07.02.2005

Day seven of the Fulda Challenge was the final day of the 2005 event. The teams competed in one last activity before returning to Dawson City for the special winners ceremony and end-of-event party.

Event 10 - mountain run in the Tombstone Mountains

The long return journey (410km) from Eagle Plains to Dawson City was punctuated by one final event for the remaining eight teams of the 2005 challenge (UK and USA teams are no longer competing).

At the incredible location of the Tombstone Mountain range (accessed by the seemingly endless Dempster Highway) the competitors faced a race against time as they fought for the last few points in this year’s competition. Before the athletes commenced the 3km course, only one point separated the leading teams of Italy and Canada. Wearing snow shoes, the teams had to climb to the top of the snow-capped mountain, run across a ridge at the peak and then descend to the finish.

In the men’s race, Werner Haller once again finished in first place and collected the final ten points for Italy. Dirk Ostertag of the German Autobild team followed him home.

Canada’s Tamara Goppel won maximum points in the women’s competition, just ahead of runner-up Judith Lanthaler of Italy.

The day’s results meant that the Italian two-person team finished the seven-day annual arctic adventure at the top of the leader board. They were presented with a prize of two Klondike gold nuggets (one each) at an awards evening in Dawson City - held at Diamond Tooth Gerthies (the northern-most casino in the world).

In the individual competition, Tamara Goppel had the most points of any female athlete and received 1,500 euros. Judith Lanthaler of Italy was second, winning 1,000 euros, and third place finisher Anita Krenn of Austria won 500 euros.See All Event Posts