Author: wmra_wp

“The seventh holding of the International Youth Cup takes place on June 24th in Glendalough in Ireland.
Glendalough is an old Irish monastic site and many of the competitors will be praying that their turn has come to mount the prize-winner’s podium particularly the countries who have already departed from the European football championships!
Nine countries will contest the event with 36 runners in the boy’s race and 33 runners in the girl’s race: Bulgaria, England, Italy, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Wales and hosting, Country Ireland.&nbsp,&nbsp,”
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Three of the top eight from 2011 will be contesting the boy’s race.
Konstantin Galiullin (RUS) will be hoping to better his silver medal but Nadir Cavagna (ITA) who was sixth in Slovenia and Tim Kovacic (SLO) who was eight will have other ideas. Patryk Lachowski (POL) was twelfth in 2011 and he has ran 8:59 for 3000m. The host country will be pinning their hopes on British and Irish under 16 champion Killian Mooney and Cillian O’Donovan who won the Irish schools 3000m championships in 8:54. Poland, Russia and Italy was the finishing order in 2011 and these countries are all sure to be prominent again as are the Welsh and Scottish.
The girl’s race looks more open. Only Clare McCarthy (IRL) finished in the top ten in 2011 and she recently won the Irish trials and competed in the European junior cross-country championships in 2011. Weronika Pyzik (POL) was a silver medallist in the Polish cross-country championships and the course should suit her. Russia won from Slovenia in 2011 and, while Slovenia may not be so strong away from home, the Russians with two teams will be hard to beat. Italy, Poland, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Wales all field full teams and will be dreaming of a place on the podium. In a race with all three runners to count, there is no recovery for a bad run or for a heroic first kilometre but then again champions must take a risk!
WMRA President, Bruno Gozzelino, and WMRA Secretary, Bashir Hussain, also WMRA Delegate to the event, and some other WMRA Council members (Raimondo Balicco and Tomo Sarf) will be present at the race.

News by Gerry Brady

Photos:
on front page:
– map of the venue (Glendalough)
on second page:
– Konstantin Galiullin (RUS),
– Clare McCarthy (IRL).”

“12 medals for Turkish team at 4. Balkan Mountain Running Championships 2012 held in the beautiful venue of Nova Zagora, in Bulgaria.
7 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze medals won by Turkish runners.
Gold medals were four in all the four team category and three individual titles!
Romania took the only one gold medal lost by Turkey and in total Romania was second in the medal table nation with 6 medals in total: 1 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze.
Hosting Country Bulgaria was happy for celebrating also 6 medals: 5 silver and 1 bronze.
In total seven Balkan Countries were present at the event: besides Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria also Albania FYR of Makedonia, Serbia and Greece sent their runners to the competition.”
“In the senior women race, Rumanian Denisa Jonela Dragomir became Balkan Mountain Running Champion 2012 with 42.24 (distance of the race 8,360km, elevation &plusmn, 500m) in front of Turkish runners Yasemin Can (silver, time 42.44) and Yagmur Tarhan (bronze, time 43.58).
In the senior men’s race Turkish Mehmet Akkoyun won the title of Balkan Mountain Running Champion 2012 with 53.18 (distance of the race 12.540km, elevation &plusmn, 750m) in front of Bulgarian Nikolov Kiril (silver, time 53.56). Third and bronze medal Ercan Muslu (again Turkey) finished in 56.00.
Runners by three different Countries won medals in junior women race: gold for Cesminaz Yilmaz (Turkey, time 20.12), silver for Mircheva Militca (Bulgaria,&nbsp, time 20.27) and bronze for Rus Rebecca (Romania: time 20.47), the distance of the race was 4.180 km, elevation &plusmn, 250m.
Turkey totally dominated the junior men’s race (distance 8.360km, elevation &plusmn, 500m) with its’ four athletes arriving on the top four positions. Turkish athletes offered a great show in this race: Serkan Demir was leading but at the end of the race he slowed down to let his teammate Suat Karabulak join him and get a national flag. They were running together the last 20 meters holding the flag in-between and made a genuine battle for the first position crossing the finish line almost simultaneously in 36.36 min. Finally Suat Karabulak was declared Balkan Mountain Running Champion 2012. Serkan Demir got the silver medal and the bronze went to Ozan Iskey one minute behind (time 37.39).
It was the first time for Albania to take part in Balkan Mountain Running championships. The team had some problems on the road to Bulgaria. They arrived to Nova Zagora during the night before the race. Numbed and exhausted by the long bus travel, having missed the final confirmations and technical meeting, having slept only a couple of hours that night, the athletes managed however to join the competition and perform at their best.
The Balkan Championships was very well organized by the Municipality of Nova Zagora and Bulgarian Athletic Federation. The event was attended by local dignitaries among whom representatives of the leading political parties in Bulgaria, regional governors, and of course ABAF President Dobromir Karamarinov who is also President of Bulgarian Athletic Federation and Chairman of European Athletics Mountain Running Commission and Galia Puhaleva, ABAF General Secretary and WMRA Council member.
The Municipality of Nova Zagora led by Mayor Nikolay Grozev and Deputy Mayor Galia Zaharieva made an excellent job in organising a high class Balkan event, adequately covering all aspects from board and lodging, through transportation services, social programme to the perfect race course. The event ended up with a splendid final banquet nearby the picturesque lake Zhrebchevo where the winners were awarded and participants had a loud and joyful party strengthening the bonds of friendship and partnership on the Balkans.

News by Galia Puhaleva(WMRA)

Photos by LOC:
on front page:
– fighting finish junior men race.
on second page:
– Dragomir, winner senior women
– Winners junior women awarded by Galia Zaharieva-Deputy Mayor
– Dobromir Karamarinov with Bulgarian senior men team
– Mayor Nikolay Grozev during Opening Ceremony“

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The beautiful Bulgarian city of Nova Zagora is hosting the 4th Balkan Mountain Running Championship (up and down race) on 7 June 2012.
Over 120 participants from Albania, Greece, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Bulgaria are coming to Nova Zagora.
Junior and Senior athletes will run the slopes near Zhrebchevo dam.
The course consists of 4,2km laps.

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“Major part it is on open mountain trail, visible from the start/finish area.
More information about Balkan events can be found here: http://www.balkan-athletics.eu

News by Galia Puhaleva

Photos by LOC
on front page: poster of the event,
on second page: track design.”

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WMRA has recently&nbsp,published &quot,WMRA Newsletter 2012&quot, issue number 17 of its&nbsp,Annual Magazine.
This year – for the first time – the WMRA Newsletter is also available to download&nbsp,on the WMRA webpage. Click &quot,about us&quot,,&nbsp,followed by&nbsp,&quot,Newsletter&quot,.
As usual the Newsletter gives a summary of the activity for last year 2011 and previews the competition in 2012.
This year the WMRA magazine consists of 28 pages.
Every year 2000 printed copies of the magazine are produced with the support of the IAAF and is distributed free of charge to all the National Athletic Federation in the World (it means more than 200 Countries receive this magazine, plus all the IAAF Officials Council members and so on).
WMRA Council members also distribute the Magazine to all the LOC of the races held in 2011 and 2012 and to coaches and athletes at WMRA events.

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The WMRA Newsletter is an important document for recording events and developing the knowledge of mountain running worldwide.
It is also an opportunity for promoting the sponsors and supporters of WMRA.
The WMRA Newsletter was created under the Presidency of Danny Hughes in 1996 and continued to be compiled and edited following his death by his wife Norma.
Following a decision by the WMRA President Bruno Gozzelino it continues to be printed in Danny’s native County of Cumbria in Great Britain by John Barnes of Printexpress.
This year Adrian Woods replaced Norma Hughes in the production and editorial of this magazine, compiled in collaboration with the WMRA President and with the cooperation of all the WMRA Council members.
WMRA Is confident that this new service will be appreciated by everyone who has a love for mountain running!
For this reason WMRA is also considering publishing previous WMRA Newsletters of the past years to make them available on line in a downloadable PDF format for everyone to access.
In the meantime WMRA hope that more people will visit the WMRA webpage and enjoy reading the WMRA Newsletter 2012.

News by WMRA

In the photo:
Front page of Newsletter 2012.

“1.018 master finished the race at the 12. World Master Mountain Running Championships in Germany: never in the past editions more than one thousand runners arrived to the finish line in this Competition.
This record of runners with 802 men and 216 women at the end of the race signed the great success of this competition very well organized by LOC of Buhlertal.
The 9.4 kilometer mostly uphill course included a start on pavement through the town with a steep climb into the forested area of the mountainside with nearly 800 meters of vertical climbing. At the 11:00 a.m. start time (for category 70), temperatures were warm in the upper teens and by the final start group (35) the temperatures had reached over 20 with little breeze.”
“In total Germany won 20 gold medals of which 9 gold medals (exactly 50%) in the individual result with 4 men and five women in gold-medal position. Italy won 4 gold medals (individual: 2 men and 1 women and 1 team men), followed by the Czech Republic with 2 gold, one for men, one for women. One gold medal was one by Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland and Russia. In the team competition, Germany won 11 gold medals out of 12: Italy won 1 team gold medal in M45 category.
Finally the total medals won by Germany were 43 (20 gold, 13 silver and 10 bronze), in second position Italy with a total of 20 medals (4 gold, 11 silver and 5 bronze), third Czech Rep. with 5 medals ( 2 gold and 3 bronze), Switzerland was fourth also with 5 medals (1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze) followed by Slovakia, Austria and Russia with one gold. France (3 silver and 1 bronze), Ireland (1 silver and 1 bronze), Scotland (2 bronze), England and Norway (1 bronze each) also won medals: so at the end 12 Countries had athletes on the podium.
In the men categories Aurelio Moscato (ITA – M60), Leonid Tikhonov (RUS – M55), Claudio Amati (ITA – M50) confirmed the world title won last year in Italy, instead the new champions were Andrea Unterkircher (AUT – M75), Peter Lessing (GER – M70), Albert Anderegg (SUI – M65), Stefan Hinze (GER – M45), Carsten Brod (GER – M40), Matthias Hecktor (GER – M35).
In the women categories Maria Marcibalova (SVK – W75), Lilo Charlotte Plener (GER – W65), Blanka Paulu (CZE – W55), Marie-Luise Heilig-Duventaster (GER – W50), confirmed the world title won last year in Italy and Ivana Sekyrova (CZE – W40) last year was the winner in W35 instead this year won in W40. Ingrid Hoffmann (GER – W70), Annamaria Galbani (ITA – W60), Josefa Mathies (GER – W45) and Julia Brod (GER -W35) were the news champions this year.
Of the entrants starting at age 35 up to 75, just over 21% were women. The largest age group of participants was in the 45-49 age category. There were 31 countries represented in the entries.
Germany Hecktor posts fastest time at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships
Matthias Hecktor ran 42minutes 09 seconds to best a record field of 1013 finishers at the 12th World Masters Mountain Running Championships today in Buhlertal, Germany.
A lot of positive comments in favor of LOC arrived by the rummers.
Bruno Gozzelino, President, Nancy Hobbs, Treasurer, Wolfgang Munzel and Tomo Sarf , Council members attended to the event, together other VIP as German Margit Jungmann (IAAF Master Committee member and DLV representing) and Italian Pierluigi Migliorini (IAAF Master Committee member).
Always very good are relationships among WMRA and WMA also if this year none by WMA was present at the event.
Next year 13. Master World Mountain Running Championships will be held on August 31. 2013, at Janske Lazne, Czech Republik.

Results available on http://www.trackmyrace.com/fileadmin/data/pdf/results/running/11699/34142/df41d7088a1dc4add0cea36c0f10c515.pdf

News by WMRA

Photos:
on front page:
– alle the Master Champions (photo by Katrin K&ouml,nig)
on second page:
– start M35 (photo by Karsten Weis)
– Bruno Gozzelino&nbsp,thank LOC Staff&nbsp,Karl Preis with WMRA memorial medal (photo by Katrin K&ouml,nig),&nbsp,
– LOC Master Championships 2013 from Czech Rep. &nbsp,receive WMRA flag (photo by Katrin K&ouml,nig)”

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On race day, Thursday, May 17, the skies were a brilliant blue with temperatures hovering in the 60s at the men’s 3:00 p.m. start time in Willer Sur Thur, France, and 50s near the 1424-meter summit of Grand Ballon.
A much different weather pattern than the previous day when temperatures were just above freezing at the summit and a fresh dusting of snow blanketed the trail.
Last year’s WMRA Grand Prix Champion Arslan Ahmet, 26, Turkey, bested second-place finisher Gabriele Abate, 33, Italy, by just two seconds for the championship at La Montee du Grand Ballon.

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Arslan finished the 13.5-kilometer course in 59:28 to Abate’s 59:30. Said Arslan at the prize-giving ceremony, &quot,The course is very good. With 1200 meters (of elevation), there was a lot of downhill too. My specialty is uphill, but I’m a mountain runner so I must run both up and down.&quot,
Arslan led most of the way and even put some distance on eventual second-place finisher Abate, after 12 kilometers, but Abate chewed up some time in the final 500 meters of downhill, &quot,I know the Italians are very strong. I think I must run controlled at start. The first 6 kilometers was very fast, but for me it is ok today.&quot,
Italian Alex Baldaccini, 24, finished in third with a time of 1:01:12.
Arslan was recently training in Africa, &quot,I was in Ethiopia for training camp for three months. There were Ethiopian and Turkish runners. No racing, just training.&quot,
The next major race for Arslan will be the European Championships to be held in his home country in the town of Denizli the on July 7.
Valentina Belotti, 32, Italy, was the women’s champion with a time of 45:50 nearly four minutes faster than runner-up Emma Clayton, 24, Great Britain, timed in 49:11.
The women and junior men ran a slightly shorter course of 8.5 kilometers with 832 meters of vertical gain. Third place women’s finisher was another runner from the UK, Sarah Tunstall, 26, in a time of 49:42. The winning junior was 19-year-old Jean Favre, France, with a time of 53:07.
Runners from 13 countries participated in the event with 317 finishers in the men’s race, 54 in the women’s race and 3 finishers in the junior men’s division. The women and juniors’ race start preceded the men’s start by 15 minutes.
The organization was very good in the first 2012 WMRA Grand Prix at Grand Ballon under&nbsp,a lot of profiles, specially technical aspects.
Podium runners from previous world championships took the top honours with Arslan and Belotti being crowned champions.
WMRA Treasurer Nancy Hobbs, and WMRA Council members Wolfgang Munzel and Tomo Sarf were present at the event.
The next race in the five-race WMRA Grand Prix series is the 14th Gorski tek na Grintovec in Kamnik, Slovenia, on July 29.

News by Nancy Hoobs WMRA Treasurer

Photos by Nancy Hobbs, WMRA Treasurer
on front page:
– start women race,
on second page:
– men podium,
– womn podium.&nbsp,

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From 32 nations from all around the World, master athletes will arrive in B&uuml,hlertal/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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The races will start with an &quot,open race&quot,, that is not part of the World Championships for those who are younger than 35 years, at 10:40 am.
12. World Masters Mountain Running Championship 2012 is starting in B&uuml,hlertal, the town in the south western part of Germany, in the Black Forrest region, on next Saturday 19 May.
The starts will take place in the heart of the upper part of the town. Starting directly in front of local event hall in B&uuml,hlertal, there are already some not to easy hills to overcome while still on pavement, before the actual climb of the mountain begins. Turning into a steep gravel path, here begins the part which is most characteristic for the racetrack. After a short cross of a skiing-slope, the track finds its culmination in a rocky single track trail for the remainder of the course which totals 9.5 km with 776 meters of elevation gain.
The unexpected rush on the World Championship in the last days before the registration has closed provides extra work for the volunteers: 1100 bags with goods for the participants had to be packed! Each bag contains a bath towel, a bottle of wine, a small bottle of kirsch, and a lot of other things. This means a lot of work for the helpers and working till the evening hours.
B&uuml,hlertal will be prepared to host all the athletes from all over the world. 240 volunteers will ensure that everything runs
smoothly.
Bruno Gozzelino (Italy), WMRA President, Wolfgang Munzel (Germany), WMRA Council member and also WMRA Delegate for the event, Tomo Sarf (Slovenia), WMRA Council member, and Nancy Hobbs (USA), WMRA Treasurer, will attend to the event and Nancy Hobbs will run also the Championships!
There will be also a delegation from Jansk&eacute, L&aacute,zn&eacute, (Czech Republic) -&nbsp, where the 13. World Master Mountain Running 2013 will be held on 31. August 2013 – be present at the event. They will be promoting their next year’s race and of course, will receive the WMRA flag during the official closing ceremony on Saturday evening.

News by LOC

Photos:
&nbsp,– LOC of B&uuml,hlertal 2012, (photo by Katrin K&ouml,nig)
&nbsp,– Busy hands fill the gift bags for the participants, (photo by LOC)

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For the fourth year, the Mont&eacute, 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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He will find here in Willer-sur-Thur a high level race with three top italian runners: Gabriele Abate, Emanuele Manzi and Alex Baldaccini, the french runners Georges and Edouard Burrier, Adam Kovacs from Hungary (9th place at the last world championship) and also runners from Great Britain (Osborne, Mac Mullan, Lockyer, Hobbs), from Czech Republic (Skalsky), from Switzerland (Wenk).

By the women, this Mont&eacute,e du Grand-Ballon will be also a top race with at the start in Goldbach, Valentina Belotti (Italy), Emma Clayton and Sarah Tundstall from Great Britain, Bernadette Meyer-Br&auml,ndle (Switzerland) the winner of the race 2011, Ad&eacute,la&iuml,de Pantheon (France) and Skalnikova and Milesova from Czech Republic.

Tomo Sarf will attend to the race as WMRA Council member.

News and photos by Tomo Sarf
On front page: Gabriele Abate (ITA)
On second page: Emma Clayton (GBR)”

“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&nbsp, (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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Many ideas were shared to further develop our discipline at both grass roots and at elite levels. There were many discussions and updates on the major fixtures in Mountain running for 2012.&nbsp,
Post event reports for the major fixtures of 2011 were also discussed at length.
The WMRA Relay Trophy was established for 3 male and 3 female athletes: It is possible the first edition could be Trofeo Vanoni 2012, at Morbegno, Italy, or in 2013. Also CISM World Mountain Running Championships is another goal that WMRA has followed together with our friends in the Sport Military Association.&nbsp, The Work by the CISM President is applauded as is the work of many nations and particularly Serbia.
The calendar for 2012 has been live on this web site and is expected to be updated with fixtures for individual nations once they have been forwarded to the WMRA.
The future looks bright and exciting with organisation of the 2012 World Championships in Italy well under way. Raimondo Balicco was appointed Organisational Delegate&nbsp, with&nbsp, Tomo Sarf&nbsp, the Technical delegate.
The 2013 World Championships is geared to&nbsp, Poland (Organisational Delegate: Galia Puhaleva and Technical Delegate: Wolfgang Munzel).&nbsp,
Nigeria is trying for making a bid for the World Championships in 2014.
Wales (with support by UK) is interested for the organisation of the World Championships in 2015.
WMRA Council welcomed new IAAF General Secretary Essar Gabriel during the dinner on Saturday evening and thanked Paul Hardy and Sean Wallance-Jones (both IAAF Delegate) and David Okeyo (Chairman of IAAF Cross Country Committee) for their presence at the meeting and the IAAF for all support with Mountain Running in recent years.
Norman Wilson (IAU) was also acknowledged for his positive contributions and in particular for his work with the Commonwealth Championships.&nbsp, The next Commonwealth Mountain Running Championships may be in South Africa on 2013 and we are working hard to secure this as a successful bid.
A presentation was made to Norma Hughes for the excellent work over the years and in particular for the contributions for the WMRA newsletter.
Special greetings to Pierre Weiss, who resigned by IAAF General Secretary, after having supported Mountain Running for over 20 years! The WMRA hopes that Pierre Weiss will continue his excellent support for our sport and is always a great friend of the Mountain running community.
The WMRA thanks the work and the relationships with Federations and LOC that WMRA President, Bruno Gozzelino, is developing: for example,&nbsp, Albania or other LOC where nobody believed it possible to have a World Championships.
With technology improving all the time we can expect more expertise at our events and better media coverage to enhance the great work of our marketing guru, Erhan Basoglu.
It was stated that Federations should ideally bring massage therapists and photographers to share and promote our wonderful sport.
Finally WMRA President, Bruno Gozzelino, will follow also a new WMRA Constitution and Arbitration rules in order to make WMRA an even better structure regarding legal and administrative aspects: thank to the lawyer Huw Roberts (IAAF) for his support in this job.
During last weekend also the annual IAAF/WMRA Antidoping meeting was held in Montecarlo, where important aspects regarding this matters were discussed in presence of Gabriel Doll&egrave, and Thomas Capdeveille (both IAAF),&nbsp,Bruno Gozzelino, Tomo sarf and Sonja Ambrosy (from WMRA).&nbsp,
Finally, the WMRA is delighted to announce Nancy Hobbs (WMRA Treasurer) was&nbsp,awarded the USA Women’s Trailblazer Award for her outstanding&nbsp,contributions to the sport in January 2012.

News edited by Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA President)&nbsp,and Bashir Hussain (WMRA General Secretary)

Photos by Nancy Hobbs (WMRA Treasurer)
on front page: from left: Norma Hughes, Raimodo Balicco (WMRA Director of Competition), Bashir Hussain (WMRA Secretary), Paul Hardy (IAAF), Erhan Basoglu (WMRA Director of Marketing), Wolfgang Munzel (WMRA Director of Organisation), David Okeyo (Chairman of IAAF Cross Country Committee), Galia Puhaleva (WMRA At-Large Director), Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA President), Nancy Hobbs (WMRA Treasurer), Sean Wallance-Jones (IAAF) and Tomo Sarf (WMRA Director of Development).
on second page:
– Norma Highes and Bruno Gozzelino
– Nancy Hobbs with Women’s Traiblazer Award

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“The WMRA is delighted to announce like venue of the 28. World Mountain Running Championships 2012 the villages of Tem&ugrave, (1.144 m.s.l.) and of Ponte di Legno (1.258 m.s.l.) and the experienced LOC under the direction of mr. Innocente Agostini, father of Andrea Agostini winner of the World Junior men title in the 5. World Mountain Running Trophy on 1989 at Die (France). FIDAL – just a few days ago – sent official application bid for this event.
The candidate venue has previously held many high quality national competitions and will again prove an outstanding host with the support of event sponsors that include, among others, Lombardia Region and Comunit&agrave, Montana Valle Camonica. ”
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This is the seven time that World Mountain Running Championships will be held in Italy and this is a record: other Italian edition were San Vigilio Marebbe (1985), Morbegno (1986), Valle di Susa (Susa, Bardonechia e Chiomonte: 1992), Arta Terme (2001), Sauze d’Oulx (2004) e Valchiavenna (Campodolcino e Madesimo: 2009).
The date of the 28. World Mountain Running Championships is planned for 2. September 2012 and will feature uphill racing over distances of 13km for Men, 7.9km for Women and Junior Men and 4.1 km for Junior Women. With Hotels and the race venue being all in the town of Ponte di Legno, the 2012 World Mountain Running Championships will see a great competitions from the best athletes. Tonale pass – the place where the races will finish – is located at 1.884 meters sea level.
This Italian candidature was born thanking an idea by WMRA Council member, Raimondo Balicco.
WMRA Council, following decision by WMRA Congress in Tirana, has already approved this Italian candidature and during next WMRA Council meeting on next 14. January 2012, the WMRA Organisational Delegate and the WMRA Technical Delegate will be appointed.
In the meantime, WMRA remind that 29. World Mountain Running Championships 2013 is already staged on 8. September 2013 in Krynica – Zdr&oacute,j, Poland.

Printed by Bruno Gozzelino and Bashir Hussain (WMRA)

Photos:
– in front page: Tonale pass (by LOC W. Ch. 2012)
– in second page: logo of the event (by LOC w. cH. 2013)”