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It’s the time of year that many uphill specialists look forward to – elite uphill specialists that is. The 26th World Mountain Running Championships are upon us this weekend and the fields are absolutely loaded with talent… Read more…
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At the 10th WMRA World Masters Champs former World champion (2000) Angela Mudge negotiated the Polish mountain mist, and the entire women’s field, to win the W40 crown. Mudge’s crown was a beacon in a relatively lean championships for the Home Nations… Read more…
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Hits Ebensee, Austria for another European classic – the Feuerkogel Berlauf. After last weekend’s event at Mayrhofen many will have stuck around for this one, so expect another loaded field including the likes of Jono Wyatt and Anna Frost… Read more…
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Tomo Sarf gives us the lowdown on rd2 of this years WMRA Grand Prix series – the Harakiri Berglauf in Mayrhofen. Men’s winner Ahmet Arslan smashed the course record into the bargain as he controlled the race on the steep stuff… Read more…
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The Venezuelan athletes dominated the 5th edition of South American Mountain Running Championships 2010, in the beautiful scenery covered in snow in the Cerro Arco, near the City of Mendoza, Argentina. Both races, men and women, were imposed athletes of Venezuela (Pedro Puente and Cruz Salazar, respectively). Read more…
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Take place this weekend in Bulgaria. A strong team for the UK will travel following the trials races a few weeks back, and with 26 nations represented it should be quite an event… Read more…
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Well the youth is all right and ready to go for the 5th WMRA International Youth Challenge to be held in Piemonte on June the 26th. Girls will face with a 3.5km circuit (/- 190 m), with the guys running a 5.0km circuit (/- 270 m)… Read more…
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The curtain raiser of the 2010 WMRA Grand Prix season saw a narrow win for France’s Julien Rancon in the men’s 13.2km mens race, with Marie-Laure Dumergues dominating the women’s event… Read more…
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This high-profile instance grabbed some headlines last year, that said trail, fell and mountain running appear to be relatively clean sports. Not resting on their laurels, the WMRA has recently meet to discuss Anti-Doping… Read more…
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Preparations for this year’s World Mountain Running Championships in Slovenia are well underway, and last week the local organising committee officially presented the 2010 plans… Read more…
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Some important changes were made to the council membership and to races under the auspices of the World Mountain Running Association at the council’s annual meeting, which took place on the 23rd of January in Monte Carlo. Read more…
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Andrea Mayr might be able to negotiate some of the world’s highest mountains with ease, however a collision with a car whilst riding her bike recently has caused the Austrian much more distress. Mayr was all set for an assault on the Obudu Ranch Mountain race last weekend when the accident occurred near her home, leaving her with a broken shoulder and head injuries… Read more…
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It was a wonderful day for all mountain running supporters in Morbegno, Northern Italy, at the famous Trofeo Vanoni Race. A total of 130 relay teams participated in the race, along with 50 women and 300 youth competitors in the junior race for a total of 740 runners. Read more…
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News that the newly-crowned World women’s mountain running champion Elisa Desco had tested positive for a (as yet unnamed) banned substance may come as a shock to many in the mountain running scene. Read more…
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Otherwise known as the Kaisermarathon (42,195 km), takes place in the beautiful village center of Söll. Further it goes via Scheffau, Ellmau, the Ski-region Wilder Kaiser towards the finish at the top of the Hohe Salve (1.829m sea level) Read more…
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After Saturday’s last race in this year’s series the final podium positions for the WMRA GP have been confirmed. Read more…
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The Smarna Gora race (forming part of the WMRA GP series for 2009) produced a thrilling finale to this years Grand Prix – the seven-race series which crosses the European continent taking in some classic routes and venues. The men’s race saw a huge tussle, with 55 seconds covering the first 6 runners… Read more…
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East African nations have clean-swept in the mens race at the 25th WMR Champs in Italy on Sunday (6th). Going one better, the Italian nation took all three medals in the women’s race, with Elisa Desco winning convincingly from compatriot Valentina Belotti. Read more…
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Antonella Confotola, Italy and John Sombol, Kenya won the 5th WMRA Grand Prix race in Skaala Uphill in Norway. Sombol was only 5 seconds ahead of Jonathan Wyatt, New Zealand, five times World Trophy winner in mountain running. Read more…
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After our brief report on Sunday regarding the result of the race, a full report by Tomo Sarf is now live on the WMRA site. One very notable result from a British perspective was a great run for third place from winner of the GB Euro trial Adam Osbourne… Read more…
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No sooner has the Slovenian dust settled, with superb wins for Robert Krupicka and Anna Pichrtova, than the traveling Grand Prix circus hits Austria on Sunday (Aug 2), for the 1st Mayrhofen Harakiri Run for round 3 on this year’s GP championship… Read more…
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It was business as usual for Anna Pichrtova at the second round of the WMRA Grand Prix in the Kamniska Bistrica valley on Sunday. However, reigning champion and winner of the first round Jonathan Wyatt was beaten into second place by Robert Krupicka… Read more…
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The first part of the International Mountain running season has just finished with the European Championships held on July 12 in Telfes (AUT) with great success for the Turkish runners in individual races and for the Italians in team competition. Read more…
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Scot James Stevenson was the outstanding British individual performance at last weekend’s International Youth MR Challenge held in Ostheim, Germany. Although England packed two runners into the top 6 of the girls race they did not field a third runner, leaving them out of the team race. Read more…
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The British weren’t the only ones with their European Trials this weekend: The Irish were also hard at it on Saturday, running strictly uphill only to win a prized green vest to be worn at the European Mountain Running Championships in July. Read more…
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In what was only the second edition, the Balkan Mountain Running Championships took place last Sunday (31). The discipline is still pretty new to this part of the world, however it is encouraging to see the WMRA getting behind the region as it no doubt unearths some strong running talent… Read more…
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The results took a while to come through from last week’s WMRA Grand Prix opener in Grand Ballon, however by all accounts Jonathan Wyatt is already in the sort of form that saw him take the Series in 2008. The 5-time world champ didn’t have things all his own way it seems… Read more…
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The project aims to provide Federations officials and coaches with the knowledge and skills necessary to raise their competence in Mountain Running and recognise it as a modern and precious part of athletics which helps improve the athletes’ performances in all endurance races. Read more…
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The hills were alive this weekend as all four Home nations and Ireland saw fell race action. With many of the top runners over in Northern Ireland at Slieve Bearnagh it was an opportunity for some new, and not so new winners around the country. Read more…
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He was one of the enigmatic and galvanising figures in sports administration. He was a lover of the mountains, and of mountain racing. He brought the World Mountain Running Championships to fruition for 2009. He will be sorely missed. Read more…
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So, it seems like yesterday that the world’s top mountain runners were hanging up their race shoes and getting out their skis. But on the 8th of March the first race in the 2009 Skyrunner World Series Trials takes place in Mexico. Read more…
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Having worked tirelessly for 15 years as the WMRA President Danny Hughes will not live to see the inaugural World Mountain Running Championships in 2009, something which he had pushed the IAAF to recognise for nearly a decade, as he sadly passed away on Monday. Read more…
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Melissa Moon is no ordinary world champion. After twice winning the World Mountain Running trophy she went on to run 1500km across 16 countries in the Blue Planet run, a campaign for safe drinking water in Africa. But she isn’t stopping there… Read more…
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Okay, so it might appear that we are some kind of drugs crusade. No, we aren’t trying to be judge and jury to the world’s doping ills, but what we are trying to do is highlight a view that this has all gone on too long and the tipping point is nigh for the sports dopers. Read more…
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The WMRA has published this year’s calendar and at the same time hinted at much more in the way of news for 2009. In an email to MST they stated “Several news items are due to be published …visit the web page regularly to keep abreast of these.” So, why not bookmark it! Read more…
