 The 4th edition of the WMRA Youth Challenge was held on June 27 in Ostheim, located about 100 km east of Frankfurt.
Entrants included 16 and 17 years old girls and boys representing 11 countries. Boys competed on a 4,7 and girls on 3,0km kilometer loop up & down course. The race organization was excellent from the hospitality to the event logistics. There is no doubt that the friendships made at the event will remain in the memories of the young runners for quite some time. The Italian team dominated in the girls' race and the Russian team dominated in the boys' competition. In the boys' race Russian standout Rusakov Andrey repeated his success from 2008 when he won the 3rd edition of the Youth Challenge.
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 The second Balkan MR Championships was held in city of Teteven in the middle of Balkan Mountains.
Swen Arne Hansen, European Athletic vice president and WMRA Council members were representing the international athletic and mountain running family.
Runners from eight Balkan countries were competing in 4 standard categories: Junior women and men and senior women and men. It was a lap - up/down - course with the 4,3km long lap and 280m ascent/descent that has to be run once be the JW, twice by the JM and women and three times by the men. The course is not a technical one, but steep, demanding descent makes it hard especially for the runners that have to run it more times.
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