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15th WMRA Grand Prix 2013 at the start! Montée du Grand-Ballon at France wait Champions! - 23 May 2013

For the fifth year, the Montée du Grand-Ballon in France is welcome the 15 WMRA Grand-Prix next 2nd June in Willer-sur-Thur. This 33th race on the top of the Vosges is also this year and like in 2000, the French mountain running championship and the trail race for the Swiss team for the next European championship. The promise of a really high level race this year.
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WMRA Newsletter 2013 is published and it is now available in the WMRA webpage. - 22 May 2013

As usual, just before the beginning of WMRA season for the most important international races, the "WMRA Newsletter 2013", issue number 18 of its Annual Magazine, was published by WMRA.
Also this year the WMRA Newsletter is available to download on the WMRA webpage: Clicking "about us", followed by "Newsletter".
As usual the Newsletter gives a summary of the activity for last year 2012 and previews the competition in 2013. This year the WMRA magazine consists of 24 pages.

During the final day of meetings for the WMRA Council in Monte Carlo, the definition of mountain running was discussed at length which resulted in proposed language for a new rule to appear in the IAAF rule book: this new rule numbered 251 could replace actual rule 250.10.
It was agreed by the Council that there are extreme variations in conditions in which Mountain running is practiced worldwide.