We Thank Our Partners Who Have Loyally Supported Us Over the Years, Not Only ﬁnancially but Occasionally Also with Sound Advice

We thank our partners who have loyally supported us over the years, not only ﬁnancially but occasionally also with sound advice.

Österreichischer Eisschnelllauf Verband / ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association

Dr. Hans Spohn President Werner Jäger Vice President

Supported by: Con tent

04 Foreword by the President of ASSA 06 Welcome Message 08 Innsbruck 1964 10 Innsbruck 1976 12 Universiade 2005 14 YOG Innsbruck 2012 16 Special Olympics 2017 Graz 18 Modernised Olympic Ice Rink 20 Austria’s National Speed Skating Team 22 Shorttrack in Austria today 26 Speed Skating in Austria today 32 This is also Part of Speed Skating in Austria 36 Sports and Culture 38 Sports and Culture Exhibition 40 Programme 41 The Organizing Committee / Oﬃcial Hotels 42 ISU Social Programme

WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 03 Foreword by the President of ASSA

Dear guests and sports fans, magical and unforgettable moments of sporting history, Games. Franz Klammer won, establishing him as the As the venue for the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed both in victory and defeat. My selection is by necessity in - greatest icon of Austrian sport to this day. Skating Championships Innsbruck 2017, ASSA Austria Speed 2017 marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the complete, subjective, and tinged with an Austrian bias, Skating Association is demonstrating its credentials as hosts ISU. Founding member Austria returns to the stage as a which means it also includes downhill skiers. 2005 Winter Universiade in Innsbruck: Austria in 1st for further major ISU events, aspiring to be chosen to host host for international speed skating events, as well as pro - place in the country rankings. the JWCs and European championships on the newly mo - udly presenting its modernised and updated speed skating 1964 Lidija Skoblikowa wins all the Olympic dis - dernised Olympic ice rink in Innsbruck. complex, completed last year after significant investment, tances in women’s speed skating, an achievement that 2012 The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in and with its newly constructed 400 m track which also bo - would only ever be matched by the great Eric Heiden. Innsbruck sees 1,022 athletes from 69 countries taking part In publishing this leaflet ASSA Austria Speed Skating Asso - asts a modern inline surface. Plenty of reasons for the Marika Kilius and Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, the re - in a total of 63 competitions, and with excellent perfor - ciation is one of the first to congratulate the ISU on its an - Österreichischer Eisschnelllauf Verband – ASSA Austria nowned German pair-skating stars and top favourites, are mances right from the start. niversary, and warmly wishes the organisation at least Speed Skating Association– to publish this information leaflet pushed into 2nd place by all-time greats Ludmilla and Oleg another 125 successful years at the pinnacle of skating. on the occasion of the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Protopopov. These, and many other major, memorable and, to some ex - Skating Championships Innsbruck 2017. Speed skating world power the Netherlands cele - tent, identity-forming moments are the result of the com - And last but not least: I wish all athletes, trainers and offi - brates its only ever Olympic win in figure skating with mitment to sport shown by Innsbruck and Tyrol. For this cials at the World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Cham - Let’s start with a brief look back: 1962, 1963, people wor - Sjoukje Dijkstra’s gold. our heartfelt thanks. pionships Innsbruck 2017 a memorable, sporting, ked on saturdays until 1.00 p.m., there were two weeks ho - Egon Zimmermann defends Austria’s honour as a successful, and above all accident-free world champion - liday a year. Even so, every weekend and during their nation of skiers, winning gold in the men’s downhill on the ships. May the best win, and subsequently look back on holidays, dedicated adherents of the sport made their way Patscherkofel. And so it should continue into the future. Speed skating, their victory as an important milestone in their skating ca - to Innsbruck from all across Austria, leaving their families not only in Innsbruck but throughout Austria. The consis - reers. And to all those who won’t walk away with medals, behind to focus on a single goal – preparing for the 1964 1976 The Bergisel is the scene of Austrian victories: tent development work being done in Innsbruck, with sup - ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association thanks you for ta - Winter Olympic Games. Whether supervising construction Austria wins gold and silver. The young Toni Innauer, one of port from Carinthia, has resulted in a young and powerful king part and greatly values your contribution to the sport. of the sports venues and the Olympic Village, or optimising the best ski jumpers of all times, can’t get over his defeat team for ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association, some of My thanks go to all the partners, sponsors, ISU officials, em - the organisational and logistical workflows, they were de - at the hands of Karl Schnabl. whom are already enjoying considerable international suc - ployees, volunteers, visitors, the city of Innsbruck, the pro - termined that Innsbruck would be indelibly marked in the Briton John Curry wins gold, marking a high point in cess. The Junior World Championships currently being held vince of Tyrol, the Olympiaworld Innsbruck, and the Olympic calendar as an unforgettable venue for the Winter figure skating history that, for me, has only ever been mat - in the country are also lending fresh impetus to the short Bundesministerium für Sport…I’m certain I’ll have omitted Olympic Games. The manner in which the city of Innsbruck ched by Torvill and Dean. trackers. And every year thousands of skating fans, especi - a few. You have all made an essential contribution to ensu - and the province of Tyrol have looked after their sporting The list of winners in the 10,000 m men’s speed ska - ally from the Netherlands, make their way to the Weissen - ring that the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating venues ever since pays homage to these men. ting includes Piet Kleine, Sten Stensen and Hans van Helden see in Carinthia where they compete in their long distance Championships Innsbruck 2017 will be a success. – a mini Who’s Who of speed skating at that time. championships. ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association has Innsbruck has always been a venue for important sporting And back on the Patscherkofel: no one was under officially designated two of these races Austrian Champion - Hans Spohn competitions, particularly following construction of the more pressure to succeed. His performance alone would ships. This leaflet intends to provide a little information President of ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association Olympic competition sites, and has provided the world with determine Austria’s success or failure in the Olympic about all these activities.

04 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 05 Welcome Message

Last but not least, I wish the Skaters a lot of success. Let us top athletes from over 40 countries will be racing for the tion conditions. The city of enjoy their performances and give everybody a big round prized titles in the individual and relay competitions. It is Innsbruck and the organi - of applause. exactly five years ago that young athletes aged between 14 sers will be offering the I would like to wish you all a wonderful ISU World Junior to 18 demonstrated their talents at the Youth Olympic stars of tomorrow, their Short Track Speed Skating Championships in this celebra - Games in Tyrol, and today, as then, I am impressed by the trainers, supervisors, and tory year! power, performance and desire to win that these youngs - spectators from around ters display. the world a memorable Jan Dijkema I wish all competitors, their trainers, and the team of orga - event. And the internatio - ISU President nisers the very best and every success for the World Cham - nal sporting world will pionships, and trust that fans from around the world will again be focused on the enjoy this sporting spectacle here in the province of the province of Tyrol. Tyrol. I take this opportunity to Dear Skating Friends, wish all the athletes a suc - Herzlich Willkommen! Welcome! Deputy State Governor Josef Geisler cessful and injury-free world championships, and the Regional Minister for Sport spectators a unique speed skating experience. We hope the On behalf of the International Skating Union, it is a pleasure Austrian juniors of today will be the Olympic winners of to - for me to extend a warm welcome to all of you in Austria morrow and the years to come. for the 2017 ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships. It is an extra festive edition of the Cham - Yours, pionships because the ISU is celebrating its 125th anniver - Dr. Peter Mennel sary this year. Dear athletes and short track fans, General Secretary of the We have the opportunity to see the best Junior Short Track Austrian Olympic Committee Skaters in the world at the Olympiaworld Innsbruck. These It is a particular pleasure for me as General Secretary of the promising young Skaters are the Champions of tomorrow. Austrian Olympic Committee that the Innsbruck Olympia - I am sure this Event will be full of exciting performances, world will be the site of the 2017 ISU World Junior Short and I wish everybody a very joyful and memorable experi - Dear sports fans, Track Championships from 26 to 29 January, bringing this ence. young, dynamic and, above all, extremely appealing sport The ISU would like to thank the Österreichischer Eisschnell - 2017 is a year of major sporting events in Tyrol, and we are - a permanent fixture in the Olympic schedule since the lauf Verband. Compliments go to the Organizing Commit - delighted that our province will be hosting the ISU World 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville - to this Austrian tee, the officials and the many volunteers who have worked Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships from 27 centre of excellence. hard to make the event a success. I also would like to ex - to 29 January. Five years after the first Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, tend my gratitude to the media and sponsors for their in - The world’s junior speed skating elite will be competing in which saw Austrian athlete Melanie Brantner winning a terest and contribution to the promotion and development the heart of the Alps, with Olympiaworld in Innsbruck offe - bronze in the short track mixed relay, the venue is again of Short Track Speed Skating. ring the ideal setting for exciting competitions. Here 210 providing junior athletes aged 14 to 18 with ideal competi - 06 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 07 Innsbruck 1964

The IX Olympic Winter Games hosted in Innsbruck in 1964 registered 1,073,000 spectators, hugely surpassing the numbers attending all previous Winter Games. The speed skating competitions alone attracted 69,500 spectators. 140 Olympia hostesses helped visitors from abroad wher- ever assistance with the language and local knowledge was required. The latest in electronics were used at the sporting venues, such as an IBM computer installed in the oﬃcial’s booth next to the ﬁnishing line for the speed skating com - petitions.

08 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 09 Innsbruck 1976

Skiing dominates the reporting in Austria’s media. Klammer wins gold on the Patscherkoﬂ. Double victory on the Berg - isel. And the Germans celebrate ‘Gold-Rosi’ Mittermaier. However, the most successful athlete at the Games is Rus - sian speed skater Tatiana Averina who wins 2 gold and 2 bronze medals. Norway’s Sten Stensen takes Olympic gold over 5,000 m, coming in second behind Dutchman Piet Kleine in the 10,000 m.

10 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 11 Universiade 2005

Veronika Windisch

The 2005 Winter Universiade took place in Innsbruck and Seefeld with Austria topping the medal table with 10 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze medals.

Fotocredit: Wulf Scherbichler

12 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 13 YOG Innsbruck 2012

Fotocredit: Wulf Scherbichler The 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games were the ﬁrst of their type. The premiere was a huge success: 1,021 athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 from 70 countries took part in the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games which were held in Innsbruck, Seefeld and Kühtai, and ran from 13 to 22 January 2012. A total of 63 medals were won over the nine days of com - petition. Team Austria, with its 81 athletes, was the largest delegation, followed by the USA (69), Russia (58) and Germany (55).

14 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 15 Special Olympics 2017 Graz

The Special Olympics World Winter Games Austria 2017 will take place in Styria (Graz, Schladming, Ramsau) from 14 to 25 March 2017. The participating athletes have already demonstrated admi - rable performances, enthusiasm and euphoria at the Pre- Games 2016.

Fotocredit: Wulf Scherbichler Sarah Schmölzer Emanuel Kern 16 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 17 Modernised Olympic Ice Rink

Fotocredit: Olympiaworld

First competition on the new ice rink – Regiocup 2016

18 Fotocredit: Simon Rainer WORLD JUNIOR S HORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2 017 | 19 Austria’s National Speed Skating Team

Austria’s national speed skating team is ➜ Young ➜ Excellently trained by Hannes Wolf (speed skating), Jurek Rokita (junior speed skating) and Ivan Pandov (short track) ➜ Lead by our ‘senior’ members Armin Hager (22), Linus Heidegger (21), and the exceptional athlete Vanessa Herzog (21), our skaters are notching up impressive results, also amongst the juniors. We believe the following count as much as sporting success: ➜ Team spirit ➜ A love of skating ➜ Friendship across borders with skating fans around the world ➜ The excellent training and opportunities to compete in Austria which we are delighted to share with our friends all over the world in the form of joint training and competitions.

We wish all ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships Innsbruck 2017 participants the very best of luck! TeilnehmerIn Verein Alter Wohnort Armin HAGER USC Innsbruck 22 Years Volders, Tirol Linus HEIDEGGER USC Innsbruck 21 Years Innsbruck, Tirol Vanessa HERZOG USC Innsbruck 21 Years Ferlach, Kärnten Philemon RAINER Eisschnelllaufclub Villach 21 Years Fresach, Kärnten Dominic ANDERMANN ASKÖ Eisring Süd 20 Years Wien Matthias WOLFGANG ASKÖ Eisring Süd 20 Years Wien Melanie BRANTNER ASKÖ Weiz 19 Years Weiz, Steiermark Viola FEICHTNER USC Innsbruck 18 Years Oberperfuss, Tirol Stefan HAAN Eislaufverein Wörthersee 18 Years Innsbruck, Tirol Mathias HAUER USC Innsbruck 18 Years Aldrans, Tirol Viktoria SCHINNERL USC Innsbruck 17 Years Götzens, Tirol Nicolas ANDERMANN ASKÖ Eisring Süd 17 Years Wien Gabriel ODOR USC Innsbruck 16 Years Grinzens, Tirol Heinrich LIU ASKÖ Eisring Süd 16 Years Wien

20 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 21 Shorttrack in Austria today

Fotocredit: Wulf Scherbichler The best of the upcoming generation of short track athletes meet each year at the Danubia Cup, last held in Austria, in Graz, in 2014 and 2015. This year the clash of schedules with the Junior Short Track World Championships preven - ted ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association from hosting the event. However, we look forward to meeting again, per - haps in the coming 2017/2018 season.

Heinrich Liu

22 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 23 Shorttrack in Austria today

Matthias Wolfgang (6)

Tobias Wolf (3)

Melanie Brantner

Nicolas Andermann

Dominic Andermann

Matthias Wolfgang Philemon Rainer

Heinrich Liu

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Linus Heidegger Viktoria Schinnerl Viola Feichtner

The Austrian national team places great importance in Fotocredit: ASSA sport, team spirit, friendship, tolerance and openness, and shared experiences. Suﬃcient grounds for a group detour to Venice, and to visit our training partner Francesca during a break in training in Italy.

Ignaz Gschwentner

26 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 27 Speed Skating in Austria today

Gabriel Odor Vanessa Herzog

28 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 29 Speed Skating in Austria today

Stefan Haan

Mathias Hauer

Viola Feichtner

Armin Hager 30 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 31 This is also Part of Speed Skating in Austria

Weissensee: The alternative Dutch Elfstedentocht is the world’s largest ice sports spectacle with 3,000 skaters competing in speed skating marathons over 50, 100 and 200 km on Weissensee in Carinthia. Held each year in late January since 1989. During the event ASSA Austria Speed Skating Association determines and oﬃcially recognises the national and inter - national women and men’s champions over the traditional marathon distance and over 200 km.

32 Fotocredit: Otmar Braunecker WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 33 This is also Part of Speed Skating in Austria

Ice skating on Carinthia’s frozen lakes is one of Austria’s tra - over, and oﬀers a stunning natural panorama. It has long ditional winter sporting pleasures. Due to its situation and since been discovered by our Dutch skating fans, and is a shallow depth, the Weissensee can be guaranteed to freeze ﬁxed part of their winter holiday plans.

34 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 35 Sports and Culture

O Sport, you are Beauty! explain, why sports became an essential part of those festi - One of the underly - trigger feelings of joy within us, the spectators and admirers. vals. In the run of the centuries the competition in sports ing principles that can Arts and sports are by far not the same but they are on the “O Sport, you are Beauty! You are the architect of that disciplines and the collective production and admiration of be observed in both is same “mission”: the performers get a chance to express edifice which is the human body and which can become ab - artworks as a form of praise became inseparable elements the immanent strive themselves and push themselves to unsuspected heights ject or sublime according to whether it is defiled by vile pas - of the Ancient Olympic Games. for more and better and at the same time the admirers perceive these heights sions or improved through healthy exertion. There can be results. Both artists as memorable and extraordinary experiences. Arts and no beauty without balance and proportion, and you are the When Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games to - and sportsmen try to sports represent distractions from the day-to-day life and peerless master of both, for you create harmony, you give gether with the “Olympic Thought” his main objectives for improve constantly to are – frankly speaking – fascinating, touching and beautiful. movements rhythm, you make strength graceful and you sure have been the peaceful competition of different nati - achieve targets they set endow suppleness with power.” ons and an increase in popularity of physical activity. How - for themselves. Besides ever, from 1912 until 1948 competitions in 5 artistic this inner struggle every Pierre de Coubertin, Ode to Sport, II. Verse disciplines were held as well: Architecture, Literature, artist and sportsman has Music, Painting and Sculpture. The “inventor” of the Mo - to fight every day, we dern Olympic Games himself was rewarded the Gold Medal should also consider the “expressive” function of arts and for literature in 1912 in Stockholm for his “Ode to Sport”, sports. Art is often said to treat the “deep human themes” At the first glance, sport and art don’t seem to have a lot in in which he praises sport as pleasure of the gods, justice, (without specifying what they are), our desires, dreams, common or to be closely related. The conceptions of a dia - peace, progress, honour, joy and beauty. Although those concerns and fears – sport in contrast seems to lack this phoretic physical and an artistic – often even regarded as artistic disciplines vanished after 1948, art stayed an impor - dispute. But why shouldn’t we express an emotion similarly “higher” – activity couldn’t be further apart. However, tant part of the Olympic Games, as the Games were often through a red spot on a canvas and a faultless axel jump? there has always been a bond, that connected arts and accompanied by exhibitions (for example in Innsbruck in Top-performances in sports can tell stories, expose latent sports – in fact, the parallels that can be drawn are nume - 1976, when Lore Heuermann had the exhibition “Bewe - wishes, criticise and improve, express feelings and most im - rous. gungszyklus”), displays of inventions and progress of the portantly fulfil desires just like an artwork can. However, hosting countries and not to forget architectural mile - there is one feature that inseparably ties arts and sports to - The origin of competitive and purposive sport that exceeds stones. gether: beauty. war-making or disputes between paramours lies some - where in the ancient world and is not easy to determine – Apart from these apparent historic bonds between arts and Without their aesthetics and beauty, sports and arts would the most famous early manifestation of it are undoubtedly sports we might as well ask, what characteristics draw them never play such an important role in our daily lives – think the Olympic Games, which took place from the 2nd millen - together? What do arts and sports have in common, what of the even touchdown of the skids, the extreme cornering nium BC until most likely 393 AD. Those festivals devoted emotions and impressions do they trigger in us? Neither and the mere movement of the bodies in Short Track. The to the worship of Zeus and Pelops consisted of religious, creating nor admiring artworks or (competitive) sports pleasure we experience watching a fair and thrilling compe - sportive and artistic events, competitions and celebrations seem to pose activities that are necessary to survive – but tition is the same pleasure we feel when listening to music, – the run with the torch to ignite the sacrificial fire might maybe for a satisfied life. reading a novel and looking at a painting – sports and art

36 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 37 Sports and Culture Exhibition

Motion studies

The term ‘motion studies’ is equally at home in both worlds: video-based motion analysis has long since become an integral part of today’s sports training, and ﬁgurative ar - tists also require this knowledge in order to ‘correctly’ de - pict human motions. And just as athletes regularly train their bodies, so artists continually work on their graphic Lucia Kellner Hans Detlef Dupal Robert Floch Born 1932 in Vienna, graduate of the University Born 1943 in Vienna, doctor of medicine and Born in Vienna, long periods spent abroad in Germany skills. Both athletes and artists train individually as well as of Applied Arts Vienna. graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. and France. in groups. Team members encourage one another, and yet in the end everyone competes alone.

The motion studies exhibition on show in the vestibule on the north-west side of the Olympic ice rink during the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championship Inns - bruck 2017 presents six artists who often cooperate. They regularly meet to study the motions of a model, capturing these in drawings or paintings on paper. Their focus lies on precision and speed, developing and honing their own par - ticular artistic styles.

All the artists live and work in Vienna, although they exhibit regularly throughout Austria and abroad. Many of their works are held by private and public collections where they constitute part of our cultural heritage.

Bernhard H. Kratzig Hermann Härtel Günter Povaly Born 1943 in Pernitz, Lower Austria, Born 1943 in Klosterneuburg, graduate of the Born 1939 in Leoben, Styria, graduated in Opening of the exhibition: 26 January 2017, 8.00 p.m. trained as a commercial graphic designer and University of Applied Arts Vienna. arts education and painting from the Academy of Vestibule on the north-west side of the Olympic rink private studies in painting. Fine Arts Vienna.

38 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 39 Pro gramme The Organizing Committee Oﬃcial Hotels

Thursday, January 26th All entries, hotel reservation and media accreditation requests, Participating Teams: as well as other inquiries should be addressed to: 08:00 * Oﬃcial Training ALPHOTEL 19:00 Opening Meeting Österreichischer Eisschnelllauf Verband Bernhard-Höfel-Strasse 16, Prinz Eugenstraße 12, A-1040 Wien A-6020 Innsbruck Friday, January 27th T: +43 (0) 512 344 333 10:25 * Qualifying Rounds 1500, 500, 1000 meters Ladies & Men Hermann Filipic F: +43 (0) 512 344 428 Qualifying Rounds 3000 meters Relay Ladies & Men Phone: +43 (0) 660 61 62 268 W: www.alphotel.com E-mail: oﬃ[email protected] Saturday, January 28th PENZ HOTEL WEST Peter Maurer Fürstenweg 183 10:10 * Ranking Finals 1500, 500 meters Ladies & Men Phone: +43 (0) 664 91 51 230 A - 6020 Innsbruck 13:30 Opening Ceremony E-mail: [email protected] T: +43 (0) 512 225 14 13:45 Semi-Finals & Finals 1500 meters Ladies & Men F: +43 (0) 512 225 14 124 Heats, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals & Web site W: www.penz-west.at Finals 500 meters Ladies & Men Semi-Finals 3000 meters Relay Ladies All information concerning the competition will be available at RAMADA INNSBRUCK TIVOLI Semi-Finals 3000 meters Relay Men the following event website: Olympiastrasse 41 A-6020 Innsbruck Sunday, January 29th http://www.shorttrackaustria.at T: +43 (0) 512 890 404 11:00 * Ranking Finals 1000 meters Ladies & Men F: +43 (0) 512 890 404 3140 13:30 Heats, Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals & Finals 1000 meters FB: Austrian Ice Racers W: www.ramada-innsbruck.at Ladies & Men https://www.facebook.com/Austrian-Ice-Racers-1506171922966039/ Super-Finals 1500 meters Ladies & Men Official's Hotel: Finals 3000 meters Relay Ladies & Men Live results will be available at the following website: Awards Ceremony http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/ GRAUER BÄR Universitätsstrasse 5-7 * The programme is subject to change depending on the final entry of Skaters. A-6020 Innsbruck T: +43 (0) 512 592 40 F: +43 (0) 512 574 535 W: www.innsbruck-hotels.at

40 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 41 ISU Social Programme

There has been a bridge over the river Inn – which gives the city its name – since 1180. The city first began to flourish in the Middle Ages, thanks to its geographical location on ancient trading routes and its mineral resources in Hall (salt) and Schwaz (silver). Emperor Maximilian I (1459- 1519) made his mark on the city with landmark structures including the famous Goldenes Dachl (Golden Roof) and Schwarze Mander, the bronze figures on Maximilian’s ce - notaph in the Hofkirche (Court Church). The magnificent houses in the old city with their arcades and decorative fa - cades are evidence of its citizens’ wealth. Numerous chur - ches are testament to Innsbruck’s tradition of religiosity, and Lucas Cranach the Elders’ (1472-1553) painting Maria Hilf (Mary of Succour) in the cathedral was the best known Marian image in the Alpine region; highly valued and fre - quently copied, versions adorn the facades of many houses Fotocredit: Hans Spohn in the old city.

42 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 43 ISU Social Programme

Fotocredit: Hans Spohn The ISU social programme oﬀers two guided tours with an art historian:

Walk through the city of Innsbruck to see the Goldenes Dachl, cathedral, Hofkirche and old city. Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 9.30 a.m.

Maria Theresia extended the Imperial Palace to its current famous Battle of Bergisel are captured in a giant panoramic But Innsbruck looks forward as well as back. Numerous con - Museum Tirol Panorama: size, lending the city an imperial visage. The Triumphpforte painting, executed in 1895 and almost 1000 m² in size, temporary and outstanding buildings have recently been Andreas Hofer and the Napoleonic Wars: (triumphal gateway), the palace gardens and the Anna pillar which is now housed in in the Museum Tirol Panorama. erected, including the university’s social and economic sci - panorama painting, view from Bergisel. are further impressive architectural works dating from this It is due to Innsbruck’s lofty alpine location that makes sport ences faculty, the new main railway station, the Bergisel ski Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 2.00 p.m. period. an integral part of the city’s identity. The surrounding spor - jump, and the Museum Tirol Panorama. Meeting point: bar/lobby at the Hotel Grauer Bär. Tyrol is unthinkable without Andreas Hofer, folk hero and ting venues are within easy reach of the city, especially leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the Napoleonic in - those erected for the Winter Olympic Games: the 9th in We would also be delighted to take you on a guided tour vasion. His tomb is in the Hofkirche , and scenes from the 1964, and the 12th in 1976. at a date of your choosing, where available. Please contact Sabine Fürnkranz, +43 676 911 1484.

44 WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 | 45 Für den Inhalt verantwortlich: 46 | WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 Österreichischer Eisschnellauf Verband