{"id":58081,"date":"2025-05-12T15:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sloveniadownhillcup.si\/2025\/dh-planina-20chocolate-downhill-cup-gre-prvic-na-dolenjsko\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T13:21:01","slug":"dh-planina-20chocolate-downhill-cups-first-time-in-dolenjska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sloveniadownhillcup.si\/en\/2025\/dh-planina-20chocolate-downhill-cups-first-time-in-dolenjska\/","title":{"rendered":"DH Planina: 20chocolate Downhill Cup\u2019s First Time In Dolenjska!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Slovenian Downhill Cup starts this weekend in Planina v Podbo\u010dju with a race organised by the newly founded 35 Crew. Four minutes of action on a wild new course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And not just the 20chocolate Downhill Cup, as the Slovenian Downhill Cup has been called for the last three seasons. It’s hard to count all the venues that have hosted this race series in the 32 seasons since 1993. But there has certainly never been one in Dolenjska region in southeastern Slovenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend, in cooperation with the Slovenian Cycling Federation and the 20chocolate Downhill Cup organizing team, the members of the newly founded Three Five club, otherwise known as the 35 Crew, will change that. The crew, headed by Ga\u0161per Kodri\u010d, has been a fixture in downhill races for many years as members of other teams. The idea of organising a race on the local Planina trails also sped up the founding of the club, which had been on their minds for quite some time. So the Slovenian downhill family got a new team as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Planina? Podbo\u010dje? Four Minutes of Action on Gorjanci!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DH Planina is a new race in the series, so it’s only fitting to write where we’re heading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planina v Podbo\u010dju is a village in the eastern part of the Gorjanci mountain range, in the municipality of Kr\u0161ko, right on the border with Croatia. There are more than enough hills for downhill racing here. They also had a ski lift a few years ago, but of course there is no chairlift or gondola, so shuttles will take care of the uplift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course has a 500 metre elevation drop, just a little less than the World Cup course in Maribor. It is about three kilometres long, and only the fastest riders are expected to reach the finish line in less than four minutes. There will also be some seriously attractive sections where it’s sure to be loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team area and the race office are close to the start, and the awards ceremony is also there. The finish is on the road to Stojanski vrh. So it is a \u2018reversed\u2019 venue, similar to Sljeme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Track With Gal Jev\u0161enak Kodri\u010d and the Jure\u010di\u010d Brothers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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