The Serbian trail runner Jovica Spajić joins the Team Ferrino

Published by Mountainblog on 03/13/2019.

Ferrino welcomes Jovica Spajić inside its team of athletes giving him the role of international “ambassador” for the brand.

Jovica Spajić was born in a little village close to Priboj in Serbia, growing up surrounded by wonderful mountains, in one of the most suggestive region of Serbia. He’s black belt holder in Ju-Jitsu and Judo and he’s a member of SAJ, Special Anti-terrorism Unity, for the Serbian Ministry of Interior.

From 2012 he is the prominent athlete of the Ultramarathon Serbian Team and he has represented his country in the most important endurance trails in the world.

As an enthusiastic person for the outdoor, he persistently improves and acquires even more knowledge and skills thanks to several courses of mountaineering, free climbing, parachuting, survival in extreme conditions, topography and nutrition. He’s oddly tactical, mentally and physically trained.

All these experiences have permitted him to start the greatest and most extremes adventures that human body can tolerate, participating to the largest and hardest world races, where, beside to the physical skills, it’s very important to have a strong mind resistance (IAU Ultramarathon, Icarus

Florida Ultra Fest, Badwater, Atene World Trophy, Himalaya Ultra – The High, ago TAHOE, Jungle

Marathon, Namibia 2017, Endurance Run Moab).

His last big challenge has been the victory gained at Arrowhead 135 the past January 2019 (foot division). It’s about a winter race extremely hard in north of Minnesota, one of hardest endurance event in the entire planet, where while running temperatures reach -50 degrees.

During this adventure Jovica has used Ferrino products.

Has dressed the LYNX 30 and RADICAL 80+10 backpacks for the transport of the personal equipment and has passed that freezing nights using the DIABLE 1200 sleeping bag, able to protect from cold reaching extreme temperatures as -37°.

Ferrino is proud to count on an world-class athlete who represents completely the same

value of the enterprise: the capacity of living outdoor at 360°.

“During these Endurance Trails I live unforgettable moments, full of different emotions, made by highs and lows, tears and smiles. It’s necessary having beside an exceptional physic condition, also a strong mind stability,resistance to the stress and ability of movingfor days feeding yourself with lessfood or liquid, in a range of temperatures between -50 and+50 degree, without sleeping. InSerbia, many young people follow my results trying to realize their dreams”. – Jovica”.

Jovica is preparing himself for the Ultrakleka, a very importantserbian trail with 130km, but he has in his mind running the Iditarod 1000 in the 2020.

For more details about Jovica, his history and the races he has done, here you have an official presentation.

INFO: Ferrino

Backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, clothes and equipment: Ferrino is one of the oldest Italian outdoor company equipped with a wide section of products. Passion, challenge and fantasy are the elements that brings Ferrino to innovate, creating always new technologies, able to resist to any weather condition. All the products are developed with the cooperation of professionals of the sector, athletes and explorers, which Ferrino supports in their personal adventures, designing in that way incredible items which comply to real and specific needs. The product quality, handled by the brand ambassadors during the design, it’s further tested by clients, at the HighLab camps where they have the possibility to try for free tents, sleeping bags and other equipments, experiencing the emotion of sleeping in high altitude, becoming a tester for a night. Today Ferrino, almost 150 after its foundation, it’s spread in approximately 40 countries all over the world and it’s a reference for mountaineers, hikers, explorers, trail runners and outdoor enthusiasts. Founded in Turin in 1870, today Ferrino has around 60 employed and it’s still managed by the same Ferrino’s family – and Rabajoli. The possibility to cooperate with important people of world of the sport in the Alps has given Ferrino the chance to create high tech products, always maintaining that artisan touch and Italian style which makes each product a jewel to be proud of, both for the company and the user.

www.ferrino.com