Author: wmra_wp

“On next August 11, in Colombia, at the venue of the Canon of Chicamocha in Aratoca, Santader Region, there will be the 7. CONSUDATLE Mountain Running Championships, Continental event with an amount of about 15 millions of pesos (about 6.750,00 euros) like prizes.
Announced the presence of runners coming from eight South American Nations and in particular from&nbsp, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and, of course, host Country, Colombia.
The race will be valid also as selection race for the teams in preparation of the next 28. WMRA World Mountain Running Championships that will be held in Italy (Tem&ugrave, – Ponte di Legno, Vallecamonica) on next September 2, 2012.”
“Together the races valid for the Continental Championships there will run also races for &quot,Juvenil&quot, (athletes born in 1993 and 1994) and for &quot,Veteranos&quot, (athletes with more than 40 years).
The track of the race will be prepared at Aratoca, about 70 km. from the town of Bucaramanga.
&quot,Aratoca&quot, name comes from the Guane Indigenous expression &quot,Ana Toca&quot, meaning &quot,high above the river&quot,. This is a coffee growing region in close proximity (12km) to the breathtaking Chicamocha Canyon – nominated as one of the &quot,Seven New Natural Wonders of The World&quot,.
&quot,El Ca&ntilde,&oacute,n del Chicamocha&quot, – formerly covered by an inland sea – was formed 46 million years ago and reaches depths of 2,000m (6,562ft) in some locations (making it one of the world’s deepest gorges). It serves as a challenging location for adventurous hikes and multi-day river rafting adventures. It can also be seen &quot,from above&quot, via:&quot,Teleferico&quot, (cable car)-a 22-min, 6.3km scenic journey from canyon rim – to – river – to – canyon rim.
The race will be about 8 km, mainly uphill, the predicted temperature is around 19 degrees Celsius.
Each national senior team will be formed by maximum five runners and three of them will count for the team result. Also in the &quot,Juvenil&quot, category there will be a team list: maximum three athletes at the start of which two will count for the team result.
The men winner will receive 2 million of pesos instead the winner women will win one and half million of pesos.
The Colombian National Athletic Federation, together Olympic Colombian Committee and the Athletic League of Santander, by sport front, and Richard Aguilar Villa, Santander’s Governor, and the Administration of the National park of Chicamocha and Idesan, give a great support for the organization of the event and these people are waiting for organizing in the future a world event in this beautiful place.

News by Bruno Gozzzelino (WMRA President)

pictures:
on front page:
– map of the venue of the Chmpionships,
on second page:
– &quot,El Canon del Chicamocha&quot,.”

“The starting shot for the Harakiri Mountain Race was fired once again in Mayrhofen on the 5. August 2012.
Amateur athletes were given the opportunity to test their sporting prowess against the cr&egrave,me de la cr&egrave,me of the mountain sports scene.
270 athletes from over 20 nations travelled here to take on the challenge in wonderful weather conditions. Steep, steeper, steepest. The runners battled it out to the finishing line over a distance of 10.4 km and 1,170 metres in altitude. Last year’s winner in the men’s discipline, Azaria Weldemariam from Eritrea, retained his crown and won with a time of 52:02,30. Austrian Sabine Reiner won the women’s category with a time of 1:01:20,60. The Harakiri Mountain Race is part of the International Austrian Mountain Running Cup, tour stop of the WMRA Grand-Prix and Salomon Running Tour.
For the first time this year, Mayrhofen was also host to the Tyrolean Championships with a designated race route for junior athletes.”
“Top athletes such as Markus Kr&ouml,ll, Gerrit Glomser, Jonathan Wyatt, ski jump legend Andreas Goldberger, Antonella Confortola and Emma Clayton returned again this year to the popular sporting region of Mayrhofen in Zillertal.
Reason enough for many amateur athletes to test their mettle on the mountain the hard way. Pain and torment are guaranteed. Markus Kr&ouml,ll, who was running his final short distance mountain race, was overcome by the – as he calls it – goose bump atmosphere. Both he and ski legend Andreas Goldberger enjoyed the cheers at the finishing line and performed a lap of honour in the finishing area. Austrian race cyclist, Gerrit Glomser, who took part for a third time, was overwhelmed by this year’s Harakiri Mountain Race: &bdquo,Because of an injury I took it slowly this year and was able to enjoy running in the mountains with fantastic weather conditions even more.&quot,
For the very first time, the Harakiri Mountain Race was part of the Tyrolean Championships. With a remarkable time of 55:07,1, the undisputed Tyrolean men’s champion is Simon Lechleitner and Tyrolean women’s champion is Susanne Mair, with a time of 1:07:38,4.
The men’s track record of exactly 50:00 minutes remains firmly in the hands of Azarya Weldemarian from Eritrea. Austrian athlete, Sabine Rainer wins with the women’s benchmark time of 1 hour, 1 minute and 20 seconds. Top athletes and amateur runners will certainly be aiming to break that course record, guaranteeing an exciting race for next year.
The next WMRA Grand Prix is the World Mountain Running Championships in Ponte di Legno, Italy on September 2.

News by Marion Pepeunig (LOC)

Photos:
on front page:
-&nbsp,winners men of the 4. Harakiri Mountain Run in Mayrhofen are celebrated at the awards ceremony.
on second page:
-&nbsp,always game for a laugh! Despite the exhausting run, Andreas &bdquo,Goldi&quot, Goldberger took the opportunity to perform a victory lap with Markus Kr&ouml,ll on his back in the finishing area.,
– winners women of the Harakiri Mountain Run in Mayrhofen are celebrated at award ceremony.
Source: TVB Mayrhofen-Hippach

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“Just a few days to go! On Sunday, 5. of August the Harakiri Mountain Running-race takes place in Mayrhofen for the 4. time.
The whole place is eagerly waiting for the athletes to arrive and the starting shot on Sunday at 10.00 a.m. in the center of Mayrhofen.
The cr&egrave,me de la cr&egrave,me of the international mountain running scene will meet to compete in the Mayrhofen – Hippach holiday region.”
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Already four days before the starting shot will be heart many of the best mountain runners are registered in the race and the amount speaks for&nbsp, itself.
Over 170 athletes will take part. Nearly 50 impressive names from about 20 nations are listed on the entry form.
For both men and women it will be hard work and a powerful run to reach a podiums place, because runners like the two-times winner of the silver medal at the World Championships in mountain running and last year’s Harakiri Race Winner Azerya Weldemariam from Eritrea, the mountain running legend Jonathan Wyatt from New Zealand or the well – known Kenyan Isaac Kosgei will be focused to fight up the hill.
Additional top runners like Simon Lechleitner, the best Austrian Harakiri runner, the Eritrean Abraham Kidane Habtom, Anders Kleist from Sweden, Julien Rancon from France as well as Gabriele Abate and Gerd Frick from Italy.
And in between Markus Hohenwarter, seven times national champion in Austria, Markus Kr&ouml,ll as the local champ and many more.
In the women&acute,s race it will be the same fight to finish in a top position. The favorites are the last year’s winner Antonella Confortola from Italy who has won the ISF Vertical Kilometer World Cup in Canazei as well as the ISF Vertical Chamonix, Emma Clayton from Great Britain who won the silver medal at the WMRA Grand Prix in France.
As in the men&acute,s race they are surrounded by many others top runners like Pavla Schorna – Matyasova from Czech Republic, Sabine Reiner and Susanne Mair from Austria, Matea Kosovelj from Slovenia, Valentina Belotti and Renate Rungger from Italy.
For the very first time, the Tyrolean Mountain Running Championships will be part of the Harakiri Mountain Race. The U16 and U18 categories for both men and women start at the Gsch&ouml,sswandhaus and consist of a shortened course. The general category starts together with Harakiri participants. Already over 70 runners are registered for the Tyrolean Mountain Running Championships.
The holiday region is looking forward to all top runners and also amateur athletes, who are willing to test themselves in this mountain contest. The run is definitely a suitable challenge for keen hobby athletes, with pain and suffering guaranteed, to be part of the experience and to compete with the world’s elite.
And one thing is sure, the 4th Harakiri MR – Race will make all hearts beat faster.

News by LOC Press Office

Photos:
On the front page:
– 4th Harakiri MR – Race Trophy (source: TVB Mayrhofen – Hippach)
On second page:
– last year’s winner Azerya Teklay Weldemariam (source: Norbert – freudenthaler.com)

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“A record number of 268 Runners from 16 countries gathered on the start line of the 14th Grintovec race in a beautiful valley of Kamniska Bistrica 25km north from Ljubljana.
The weather forecast was promising sunny hot day with lots of humidity and light west wind above 2000m – not too bad conditions for the top runners who had plans to attack women’s and men’s course records from 2006.”
“The three Eritreans and Ahmet Arslan from Turkey started with a high pace although nobody knew the difficult 10km course with almost 2000 m elevation, all the other runners respected the famous runners and run their own race up to the middle of the course, where the leading runners started to pay the price of the high pace in very hot weather.
Azeryra Teklay was the only one who could keep the pace but the others were one by one overtaken by the runners who had more respect to the steep course.
Arslan kept the second position, but Nejc Kuhar, who is a specialist for such steep courses, improved his position in the last part to reach bronze medal.
In the women’s race the situation was very similar – Mateja Kosovelj from Slovenia run the first part of the course with her normal pace for 45minutes races, in the upper part she was overtaken by Emma Clayton from GBR and later winner Iva Milesova from Czech Republic.
Emma was leading the women’s race up to some hundred meters before the finish, where she was not enough attentive and she tripped up and Iva used this moment to get the gold medal.
Both course records will remain a challenge for the next years, Anna Pichrtova and Jonathan Wyatt will stay on the top positions of the &quot,all times top results&quot,.
The organizers did a really great job, all the runners enjoyed the hospitality and excellent course preparation with lots of well supplied refreshing stations along the course.
The next station of the WMRA Grand Prix will be next Sunday in Mayrhofen/AUT.

Tomo Sarf for LOC

Photos by LOC:
on front page:
– winner Azeryra Teklay (Eritrea),
on second page
– Mateja Kosovelj (Slovenia)&nbsp,in action.”

“After the European and NACAC Mountain Running Championships, more than 200 runners from 17 countries have entered the 14th edition of &quot,The Grintovec Mountain running race&quot,, the second stage of 2012 WMRA Grand Prix, that will be held on Sunday 29. July in Kamnik, Slovenia.
There will lots of famous runners among the starters.”
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In the men’s division, Ahmet Arslan from Turkey, the six times European Champion will try to repeat his success from 2011. He will find his strongest opponents in the team from Eritrea.
Azeira Teklay, second from World Championships 2010 in Kamnik and Kidane Abraham, sixth places from the same competition will try to defeat the best European Mountain runner.
Local Nejc Kuhar, the winner of ISF &quot,Kilometer vertical&quot, in Canazei just a week ago and one of the best extreme skiers, will surely try to show his power on the home mountain in a WMRA event.
In the women’s division Denisa Dragomer from Romania and Emma Clayton from GBR will take the advantage of the absence 2011 winner Lucija Krkoc from Slovenia.
The weather forecast promises excellent conditions for the runners so the best will try to attack the course records.
In particular it will be possible that Arslan and the Eritreans can challenge the current record of 1:15:43 by Jonathan Wyatt from 2006.
Women’s record 1.31:50 set by Anna Pichrtova also in 2006 seems to remain unbeaten for this year.
In 2011 the organizer had to shorten the course due to the extreme weather conditions – during the race-time, the summit of the mountain got over 20cm of snow.
The details of the traditional course: the distance is 9.6km with a 1980 metre elevation.
This is a real mountain running race, held in pure, untouched nature.

Tomo Sarf for LOC

Photos by LOC:
on front page: IAAF Permit logo
on second page: Nejc Kuhar (SLO)

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“The 9th NACAC Mountain Running Championships was hosted at Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver, Canada, on a rain-soaked morning.
While the weather forecast called for clearing skies, temperatures were in the upper 50s at the start with humidity at 94% amid cloud-filled overcast skies. The conditions at the finish line some 1100 meters up the mountain, were slightly cooler with rain showers filling puddles of water around the finish area, while mist rolled off the trees.
The 11 kilometer course included a variety of terrain from significant ascents to a few steep and technical descents, rocky hillsides with grades up to 40%, and some single track trails through forested areas and open green meadows.
The event was organized by the 5 Peaks Running Series which conducts a series of races in the various provinces of Canada.”
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Defending champions Team USA took the women’s gold medal for the eight time, and the Canadians repeated their men’s team win from 2011 when the NACAC event was held in Mexico.
Both individual gold medals were won by team USA with Joseph Gray winning for the fourth consecutive year and Brandy Erholtz winning for the women.
Last year’s defending NACAC champion Maria Dalzot was the third scoring member this year for Team USA while Amber Moran was second. Michele Suszek finished fourth for Team USA.
Canada’s top scoring woman, Laura Estey, finished fourth overall. Next up for Team Canada was Jessalyn O’Donnell in sixth followed by Syl Corbett in seventh.
The Canadian men’s team, led by James Gosselin, finished all their scoring squad members before Team USA’s second scoring finisher, Ryan Woods, crossed the line in fifth.
Woods was followed by Jared Scott in seventh and Tommy Manning in eighth.
Team Canada scored 9 points while Team USA scored 13.
Mexico was expected to compete, but there was a delay with Visas which prevented them from traveling to Canada.
Next year’s competition will be held in late June at Mount Cranmore in New Hampshire, USA on an up/down course.
Complete individual results are posted here:
http://www.raceheadquarters.com/results/2012/run/5PeaksCypressChampionship2012.html
Team’s Men:
1. Canada – 2nd, 3rd, 4th – 9 points
2. USA – 1st, 5th, 7th – 13 points
Team’s Women:
1. USA – 1st, 2nd, 3rd – 6 points
2. Canada – 5th, 6th, 7th – 18 points
Race photos are posted here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/111086436274184492529/2012NACACMountainRunningChampionships

News by Nancy Hobbsand Richard Bolt.

Photos by Nancy Hobbs
On front page:
– men race,
on second page:
– USA women team,
– Canada women team,
– men team’s podum.

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“On Saturday, July 21, the 9th NACAC Mountain Running Championships will be held at Cypress Mountain Ski Area in West Vancouver, Canada.
The site for this year’s event is the same venue which hosted some of the events for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The course is an approximately 11 kilometer mostly-uphill course with approximately 1,300 meters of climbing. The course map can be found here: http://www.trailhunger.com/course/47.”

According to event organizer Adrian Lambert, &quot,The course goes from Horseshoe Bay to Cypress Mountain on the Baden Powell Trail.
It’s quite steep in some sections, and is, at times, a single track, alpine trail. I’ve been told it’s an exciting, scenic, and enjoyable trail and I think it will be an excellent course for the NACAC Mountain Running Championships.&quot,
Teams from Mexico, Canada, and the United States are expected to compete.

News by Nancy Hobbs

Photo of the venue by LOC

“The 11. European Mountain Running Championships held in the historical setting of Pamukkale heritage site.
The terrain was tough and hot and the competitions were wonderful with many nations making the podium.&nbsp, The hosting country of Turkey and the LOC provided excellent accommodation and many runners complimented the wonderful hospitality of Turkish people in the streets as they paraded on Friday and prepared for the event near to Denizli.
The nations of Turkey (4 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze), Switzerland (1 gold), Great Britain (2 gold and 1 silver), Russia (2 silver and 1 bronze), Czech Republic (2 bronze), Romania and Germany (one bronze each) were awarded individual &nbsp,and/or team medals while team medals were also awarded to Italy (1 gold and 1 silver), France and Bulgaria (one bronze each).
21 Nations had runners in this event.”
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The men’s race was held in temperatures above 30 degrees involving an assent of ancient stairs and running through small forests.&nbsp, The 3 lap 12.2km event was expected to be dominated by the teams of Italy and Turkey over the 700m of mountain running.
Ahmet Arslan (TUR) again looked majestic as he controlled the race from the front to take his 6. European title ahead of his friend Ercan Muslu (TUR). In third place was Ionut Alin Zinca (ROU).
Close behind came the Italian team in positions 4 (Gabriele Abate), 5 (Marco De Gasperi) and 7 (Xavier Chevrier) which proved enough to win the team competition ahead of Turkey (19) and France (48).&nbsp,
The women’s race saw a strong start from the team from the United Kingdom (GBR) as Mary Wilkinson and Emma Clayton completed the first circuit the fastest. It was the second climb where the strongest runners came through and this was Monika Furholz (SUI) who came&nbsp,first, 9 seconds ahead of Nadezhda Leshchinskaia (RUS) with Pavla Schorna Matyasova (CZE) 4 seconds behind.
The winners of the team award were the United Kingdom (GBR) with 20 points as Italy just headed Russia with the same points.
The Junior Mens race saw another dominant display by Turkey with Individual Gold and Silver going to Ahmet Ozrek (TUR) and Mazlum Aydemir (TUR) who was 8 seconds behind. Anton Palzer (GER) took bronze medal.
Team awards saw Turkey again take the Gold medal with 9 points ahead of Russia (29 points) and the Czech republic with 30 points.
The Junior womens race saw a dominant winning display from Annabel Mason (GBR) who was proudly watched by her coach and father John Mason. Eytemis (TUR) was second with Cesminaz Yilmaz (TUR) winning the bronze medal. The team event saw 5 points for both GBR and TUR with Turkey taking the title as the last runner was in position 3 ahead of the GBR runner Melanie Hyder in 4. position.&nbsp, Bulgaria took the bronze team medals.

Next 12. European Mountain Running Championships 2013 will be held on 6. July at Borovets, Bulgaria: at the end of the proze ceremony Memhet Terzi, Presidente of Turkish Athletics Federation, trought Christian Milz, EA General Director, passed the flag to Dobromir Karamarinov, Bulgarian Athletis Federation.

Results and photographs available on LOC website

News by Bashir Hussain

Photos by TAF:

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“The eleventh edition of the European Mountain Running Championships gets under way in Turkey on Saturday 7th July.
More than 170 athletes from 21 countries will compete to be the European Mountain Running Champion in the Senior and Junior events.
The venue is in a beautiful and healthy Turkish setting, with the warm weather expected to add to the endurance test of mountain running as they conquer the challenging terrain of Denizli – Pamukkale.
The course of the championships will pass through the remains of the ancient Greco-Roman and Byzantine city of Hierapolis in Pamukkale, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.”
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In the men senior race, Ahmet Arslan (TUR) will be looking to extend his domination of European titles in recent years as he aims for his sixth title in the men’s race. The Italian world champion team is expected to offer the most likely challenge through Marco De Gasperi (ITA), Bernard&nbsp, Dematteis (ITA), Gabriele Abate (ITA) and, former World Junior Champion 2009, Xavier Chevrier (ITA). Ionut Zinca (ROU) who placed 7th in Albania 2011 could also feature.
In the women senior race, Pavia Schorna (CZE) is expected to feature prominently having placed 4th in the World championships, but will be tested by Elena Rukhlyada (RUS) the Silver medalist from the same world championships along with other prominent women like Mateja Kosovelj (SLO), Antonella Confortola (ITA), Emma Clayton (GBR) and Sarah McCormack (IRL).
Team titles will be hotly contested with the host nation of Turkey expected to feature. Italy has strong men’s and women’s squads with France, Slovenia, Russia, Great Britain and Poland also capable of topping the podium.
Karagoz Adem (TUR), World champion last year in Albania, is the favorite in the junior men race together all the other three Turkish runners, always very strong in this&nbsp, category. Cesare Maestri (ITA), fifth at the World Championships 2011, will lead the group of runners who will try to defeat the favorite Turkish athletes.
Once time more, two Turkish junior women are in the leading position for gaining the victory in the category: Yilmaz Cesminaz (TUR), Vice World Champion 2011 and Eytemiz Sevilay (TUR), 3. In the European Championships and 4. In the World Championships last year, are waiting for the gold medal, but a surprise could arise from all the other runners starting by Russian, Polish, Rumanian and Irish athletes.
Team podium in the junior races is not easy to preview!
The course will be on a repeated lap of approximately 4 km with a climb of 240m on each lap.
The junior women will complete 1 lap, the junior men and senior women complete 2 laps while the senior men will look complete 3 laps that will have 100m of stair climbing on each lap as they pass through the historical site.
During the event will be held the Annual Meeting of the European Mountain Running Commission, with Chairman the BAF President, Dobromir Karamarinov (BUL).
The European Athletics could present with its President Hans Jorg Wirz /SWI) and other important Officials
Bruno Gozzelino (ITA),&nbsp, (also World Mountain Running Association President) and Wolfgang Munzel (also WMRA Council member), are EA Mountain Running Commission members and will attend along with delegates from the European Athletics Association and Turkish Athletics. But also all the other WMRA members will be present in Turkey with their National Team: Bashir Hussain (GBR), Raimondo Balicco (ITA), Tomo Sarf (SLO), Galia Puhaleva (BUL) and of course Erhan Basoglu (TUR).
Further details along with previous results can be found on the excellent website provided by the LOC under the direction of TAF President, Mehmet Terzi (TUR).
http://www.denizli-pamukkale2012.org/2nd_language/index.html#

News by Bashir Hussain

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The 7th staging of the WMRA International Youth Cup was held in Glendalough Ireland.
This was the first occasion that Ireland hosted a major international mountain running event and it represented a further stage in the development of mountain running for this younger age group (16-17 year olds).
Nine countries entered the competition with Ireland, Russia, and Wales fielding two boys teams and Ireland and Russia entering two girls teams.

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The course was set against a backdrop of the Upper Lake in Glendalough which is framed by the Spink and Camaderry mountains with an old mining village to the west and a historic monastic site to the east.
All of the countries trained on the course on the day before the race giving the athletes and managers an introduction to Wicklow midges and to the ever changing Irish weather.
Over breakfast on Sunday, the sun emerged and with it a day of fine weather for the runners and spectators.
Children from the local Gaelic Athletic Association club acted as flag bearers for the short opening ceremony which was presided over by the President of WMRA Bruno Gozzelino.
The girls had a short run-in of 110 metres followed by two laps of 1660m each for a total distance of 3540m with 190 metres of ascent. At the end of the first lap Ksenia Makhneva (RUS) led by around 10 metres from Sarah Hodgson (ENG) and Clare McCarthy (IRE). Caitriona Graves (SCO) was in fourth followed by Sara Jesenko (SLO), Chiara Spagnoli (ITA), Alina Subbotina (RUS B), and Weronika Pyzik (POL). The pace was fast and was likely to bring the steepish climb into play on the last lap for anyone who started too fast. Emerging into the finishing run-in Pyzik had moved through from eight into the lead with Hodgson and Makhneva on her heels. Despite a fierce battle up the home straight Pyzik held on for a narrow win from Hodgson with Makhneva two seconds behind the winner. Attention turned to the team tallymen as they marked off the first Irish runner in fifth, an Italian in eight, another Irish runner in tenth, a Russian in eleventh, an Italian in thirteenth, and the vital third Irish scorer in fourteenth.
With the calculations done the host country had won by eight points from Italy (37) and Russia (37) and it felt as though the sun was emerging even more to bathe the valley in sunshine.
The pictures of the leading girls were hardly taken when the boys were called to the starting line. They had three laps covering a total of 5200 metres. The 2011 silver medallist Konstantin Galiullin (RUS) was the favourite but in this age group there are many unknown athletes in the shadows. Six runners were bunched together at the end of the first lap with Galiullin leading from Nadir Cavagna (ITA), Yemanebehran Crippa (ITA), Gwynant Jones (WAL), Patryk Lachowski (POL), and Andrew Lawler (SCO). The first Irish runner Killian Mooney was ten metres back after recovering quickly from a fall on the first lap. At the end of lap two, the race was down to two runners as Crippa and Galiullin had gone clear and were still looking like they had kept something for the last lap. James Hall (ENG) had worked his way through from ninth to third, ahead of Cavagna, and ominously the third Italian runner, Danilo Gritti, had moved through from tenth to fifth. The places remained largely unchanged on the final lap except for Crippa opening a clear winning margin of 21 seconds from Galiullin and Cavagna.
The Italian runners were convincing winners of the team title with an exceptionally strong performance. Bulgaria had four points on Ireland at the end of the second lap and they maintained this to take the silver medals ahead of the host nation.
Bruno Gozzelino, John Foley (Chief Executive of Athletics Ireland), the WMRA technical delegate Bashir Hussain, and the President of the Irish Mountain Running Association Dermot Murphy Helped by Raimondo Balicco and Tomo sarf, other two WMRA Council memembers present at the event) presented the individual and team trophies.
Six of the nine nations stood on the podium after a closely contested competition.
Only four points separated the fourth to sixth teams in the boy’s race, and only four points separated the fourth to seventh placed teams in the girl’s race.

Photos of the event can be seen at the following webpage:
Girls and Boys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24280411@N06/sets/72157630287100706/
Girls: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24280411@N06/sets/72157630287405326/
Boys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24280411@N06/sets/72157630287683618/

News by Gerry Brady

Photos by Gerry Brady:
on front page:
– Crippa (ITA) winner boys,
on second page:
– Pyzik (POL) winner girls,
– Ireland Team girls: gold medal,
– Italy Team boys: gold medal.

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