 Kamnik, 25. July - In excellent weather conditions LOC tested the Championships course.
Courses were recognized as challenging, containing all elements necessary for a top level event. According to the results achieved, the following World Championships winning times could be expected:
- junior women: 22 min
- junior men: 44 min
- women: 50 min
- men 57 min
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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, in the area of the Precordillera in the Andes. In this year this area has got the greatest precipitation of snow in the past 40 years.
Both races, men and women, were dominated by athletes of Venezuela (Pedro Puente and Cruz Salazar, respectively).
It is important to underline that this is the 5th edition of the South American Mountain Running Championships.
In fact the other four edition were held: on 19th August 2006, the 1st CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships in Cali (Colombia), on 12th August 2007 the 2nd CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships in Caracas (Venezuela), on 27th July 2008, the 3rd CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships in Caleu - Valle del Elqui (Chile) and on 1st August 2009 the 4th CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships in Quito (Ecuador).
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 The 5th CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships 2010, in the year of Bicentenary of Argentina will be held on 18th July 2010 in Mendoza.
At the moment six nations sent their entries. So Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina will be participating to the Championships.
Juan Alberto Scarpín, President of the Argentinean Athletic Federation, underlined the fact that inside the Federation the Mountain Running Commission was created in 2008 and Argentina, like other South America federation, and first of all CONSUDATLE, with its President Roberto Gesta de Melo, are trying to support - always more - the development of this activity in South America.
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