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 From 32 nations from all around the World, master athletes will arrive in Bühlertal/Germany this Weekend, for the 12. World Masters Mountain Running Championships 2012.
1100 master athletes have registered for this great event. This means a new record in the entries and a further increase compared with last year's edition, in both, the number of entries and in the number of participating countries (Paluzza 2011: 1015 entries from 26 nations).
The LOC hopes to welcome more runners at the start than have ever participated in a World Masters Mountain Running Championship before.
228 of the registered starters are female and 872 male; one third of the participants come from outside of Germany; the largest starting field is registered in the M45 class, followed by M50 and M55. The starting gun will send off 227 runners together in the largest starting field, the start of the M45 / W45 class.
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 For the fourth year, the Monté du Grand-Ballon in France is welcome the WMRA Grand-Prix.
Ahmet Arslan (Turkey) the 5 times European champion and winner of the two last Grand-Prix has chosen the Grand-Ballon to begin his mountain season.
Just back from Ethiopia, he's coming on the top of the Vosges to test his form before the next european championship at home in Turkey.
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 The WMRA Annual meeting at Monaco was again a highlight to further establish the Sport of Mountain Running working with the infrastructure of the IAAF.
The Director of Marketing, Erhan Basoglu, has acquired substantial backing from sponsors who wish to share their passion with Mountain Running (further sponsorship backing will be announced soon). His contribution was applauded by the council members and the IAAF delegates.
All WMRA Council member work for WMRA as unpaid and passionate volunteers. All the money raised is used for mountain running activity and for this reasons WMRA Council unanimously decided:
1) the prize fund for the World Mountain Running Grand Prix 2012 will be doubled to $20 000 (exactly 18.000,00 euros), without asking nothing more than in the past years to the LOC of the races (WMRA will pay this prize found at the Final GP race in Turkey);
2) the contributions for the International Youth Cup 2012 will be increased to 300,00 euros for complete teams male and female (six athletes it means to receive 600,00 euros) and 100,00 euros for incomplete teams traveling internationally to the event.
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