Visit Flickr to see beautiful pictures of the competition by photographer Carlota Caldeira.

In the seventh edition of the Gelato World Cup countries from all five continents competed for the world title. The overall winner in 2016 was Italy, followed by Spain and Australia. Gelato Team USA scored high in individual disciplines of the competition. They won first place in ice sculpture. Ice carving and ice sculpture is one of the seven elements the team has to perform during the four-day culinary competition. The team also secured a 3^rd place in the Mystery Box Gelato Challenge. The team had several 4^th and 5^th places and came in 7^th in the overall classification. Fourteen countries qualified and were accepted by the organizers, but Germany withdrew on short notice.

The Gelato World Cup (Coppa del Mondo della Gelateria), is organized every two years by Gelato & Cultura and Sigep – Rimini Fiera in conjunction with Co-Gel Fipe Confcommercio, and was one of the most awaited events of the 37th Sigep-International Exhibition of Artisan