Bid for 2017
Together with Switzerland's skiing federation, Swiss Ski, St. Moritz will be bidding to host the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships of 2017. For the Engadiners this would be the fifth World Championships event after 1934, 1948, 1974 and 2003.
Hugo Wetzel is President of the association "Alpine Sport Events St. Moritz/Engadin" (ASESE) that was founded for this purpose. He sees the St. Moritz bid as a logical sequel to the successful and widely praised FIS Alpine World Ski Championships of 2003 also run under his stewardship. According to him, a renewed bid would effectively leverage the competencies, know how and connections that were built up during the former event – giving the Swiss candidacy a good chance of success.
Hugo Wetzel further refers to St. Moritz' long-standing tradition and event strategy that tops its regular seasonal events with a major sports happening every 10 to 20 years. After two Olympic Winter Games – the only ones ever held in Switzerland – and four Alpine World Ski Championships (1934, 1948, 1974 and 2003), St. Moritz is looking to run the World Ski Championships for a fifth time – a feat that knows no equal elsewhere in the world, and which but serves to confirm the Engadiners' standing at the forefront of international winter tourism.
St. Moritz is determined to organise the ski world championships again after the successful event in 2003. The concept is based on the following three pillars:
- Sport and logistics
The attractive and tested slopes concept on the sunny hills of the Corviglia mountain, which ends in one single finishing area. The buildings and infrastructures, which are needed for this event, are all on site in the destination Engadin St. Moritz.
- St. Moritz
St. Moritz itself makes the difference – enthusiastic for sports, open minded, lively and glamorous, though never forgetting its roots.
- People
In the end, every event is shaped by the people who implement it. We can count on the expertise and motivation of our volunteers. Each one knows his or her duty and how to execute it.
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Birthplace of Alpine winter sport
St. Moritz was the birthplace of Alpine winter tourism (1864) and sport (1884).
Wintersport in St.Moritz
Neben Skifahren und Langlaufen bietet St. Moritz weitere Attraktionen an, die in dieser Dichte, Vielfalt und Qualität einmalig sind.
St. Moritz frome above
St. Moritz from a birds-eye view. All photos taken from a hot-air balloon.
FIS Alpine Skiworldcup
Thrilling races and fantastic scenes in short, ski racing at its very best!
