Author: wmra_wp

“14. European Mountain Running Championships 2015 held at Porto Moniz (Portugal) have seen nine Nations took medals.
In the medal table the leader is Norway with 2 gold and 1 silver medals, followed by Germany with 2 gold medals, third Great Britain and Turkey with 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals each, fifth Italy with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, and sixth Austria with 1 gold. Other three Nations won medals: Czech Rep. 2 silver, Switzerland 1 silver and 1 bronze and France 2 bronze.
In the individual race are the&nbsp, European Mountain Running Champions 2015: Sarah Kistner (GER) in junior women, Stian Overgaard Aarvick (NOR) in junior men, Andrea Mayr (AUT) in senior women and Johan Bugge (NOR) in senior men.”
“The competition started with junior women race where German Sarah Kistner (2nd last year at the World M.R. Championships 2014) took the title with time of 21.26. Second and silver medal was Michaela Stranska (3rd last year at the World M.R. Championships 2014) from Czech Rep. who finished in 22.10, just few seconds in front of the French Elsa Racasan (8th at the European MR Ch last year at Gap) with time of 22.14.
39 junior women started and finished the race.
Kistner lead her German team to the European title: in fact, Germany won gold medals with 19 points, silver medal for Czech Rep. with 22 points, only one point better than bronze medallist team
of Turkey with 23 points. Nine teams finished in the team list.
In the junior men race, Norwegian Stian Overgaard Aarvick (5th last year in junio race at the World M.R. Championships) defeated with time of 48.17, two Turkish: silver medallist Abdullah Yorulmaz with time of 49.03 and bronze medallist Mustafa Goksel with time of 49.08.
41 junior men started and finished the race.
Turkey won European Teamm title with 15 points, in fornt of Italy silver medal with 19 points and Great Britain &amp, N.I. with 25 points. Nine teams finished in the team list.
Austrian Mayr Andrea (five time World Champion) for the fourth time became European Champion
with time 50.40. She dominated the race since the start and at the end the difference before all the other runers was very large: about three minutes! In fact Norwegian Eli Anne Dvergsdal who was silver medallist finished with time of 53.05 and British Emma Clayton kept bronze medal with time of 53.36.
52 senior women finished the race.
In the team senior women Great Britain &amp, N.I. Became European Champion with 18 points, silver medals was kept by Austria with 23 points and bronze medal was gained by France with 38 points.
Twelve teams finished in the team list.
Perhaps with surprise, Norwegian Johan Bugge (he was 17. at European M.R. Championsips 2013 and 51 at the World M.R. Championships 2012) is the European senior men Champio 2015. He won the title with time 1.02.35. He run always in the top position. For half part of the track with defending Champion Italian Bermard Dematteis, who lost position in last three kilometers of the track (finished seventh). Second and third were two runners who run very fast last part of the track, crossing over other athletes. So at the end, silver medals was kept by Swiss David Schneider with time of 1.02.49, just a few seconds in front the bronze medallist, Italian Alex Baldaccini (time of 1.02.56).
66 senior men finished the race.
Italy confirm, once more, European team title with 16 points. Italy has always won European team senior team at the European Championships since 2002 until this year! Second and silver medal was gained by Great Britain &amp, N.I. with 26 points, one points in front of Switzerland, third and bronze with 27 points.
Fiftheen teams finished in the team list.
Next year the 15. edition of the European Mountain Running Championships will be held in Italy, in the Town of Arco, near Trento.

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Edited from Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA)

Source of the pictures LOC
on front page:
– flower ceremony individual senior men,
on the second page:
– Sarah Kistner junior women champion,
– flower ceremony individual junior men,
– flower ceremony individual senior women.

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“The 12. WMRA Long Distance World Mountain Running Championships will be held on next 4. July at Zermatt.
For the first year the competition is a &ldquo,World Championships&rdquo, where individual and team title will be allocated. Until last year the competition, in fact, was called &ldquo,Challenge&rdquo,.
24 Nations are present at the competition and in total 114 athletes (62 men and 52 women) are ready to start for winning the&nbsp,WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running medals.
Slovenian Mitja Kosovelj (in the men race), Swiss Martina Strahl (in the women race) and USA runners are in the pool of the favorites for the titles but German, Russian and Italian athletes are ready to run a great race! A surprise could also always possible!”
In details the entry list show following distribution of entered runners:
Men (62): Switzerland (5), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2), Croatia (3), Czech Rep. (4), France (1), Germany (5), Hungary (3), Italy (5), Kenya (4), Malta (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (3), Romania (3), South Africa (3), San Marino (3), Russia (3), Slovenia (5), Ukraine (3), USA (4),
Women (52): Switzerland (5), Belarus (3), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1), Croatia (4), Czech Rep. (3), France (1), Hungary (3), Italy (5), Malta (1), Poland (2), South Africa (2), San Marino (1), Russia (4), Slovenia (3) Slovakia (1), Sweden (1), Ukraine (3), USA (5), Austria (3).
At this moment this kind of competition seems not to be the only one in the mountain running and other similar events are staged by different Organisation or Association: WMRA hopes that in the next future situation will be clarified in order to have a clear understanding onwhat event could be under WMRA authority and to avoid confusion on these matters.
The 12. WMRA Long Distance World Mountain Running Championships 2015 will be certainly well organised by staff of the Zermatt Marathon, and WMRA thanks for this not only LOC of Zermatt Marathon but also Swiss Athletic Federation.
At the event will attend on charge of WMRA following Officials: Wolfgang Munzel (WMRA Council member and WMRA Delegate to the Championships), Nancy Hobbs (WMRA Treasurer), Tomo Sarf (WMRA Council member) and Andrzej Puchacz (WMRA Council member).

Edited from Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA)

Source of the pictures&nbsp,LOC
on front page:
– logo of the event.

“More then two hundred athletes are entried to the 14th EAA Mountain Running Championships that will be run on next 4th July at Porto Moniz,&nbsp, a municipality located on the Portuguese island of Madeira. .
23 Nations will be present at the event, organised by FPA.
For the first time Denmark officially will partecipate to this Championships.
The races will be an uphill track.”
Italy’s Bernard Dematteis and Andrea Mayr of Austria will both be seeking their third consecutive wins in the senior races having both retained their individual titles last year in Gap.
Last year, in the teams result, Italy won the senior men’s and women’s as well as the junior men’s titles while Turkey was able to secure the women’s junior title to prevent an Italian clean sweep.
In the details the entries are the following (in the brackett number of&nbsp, athletes entired):
Men senior entries (69):Albania (1), Austria (3), Belgium (4), Czech Rep. (4), Denmark (1),&nbsp, Spain (4), France (4), Great Britain (4), Germany (4), Hungary (2), Ireland (4), Israel (2), Italy (4), Malta (2), Norway (2), Poland (3), Portugal (4), Roumania (2), Russia (4), Slovenia (3), Switzerland (4), Turkey (4)
Men&nbsp, junior entries (41): Belgium (1), Bulgaria (2), Czech Rep. (4), France (4), Great Britain (4), Italy (4), Norway (2),Poland (2), Portugal (4), Roumania (3), Russia (3), Slovenia (4), Turkey (4).
Women senior entries (55): Austria (4), Bulgaria (1), Czech Rep. (4), Denmark (1), Spain (4), France (4), Great Britain (4), Germany (4), Ireland (3), Italy (4),&nbsp, Malta (2), Norway (2), Poland (2), Portugal (4), Roumania (1), Russia (3), Slovenia (4), Turkey (4).
Women junior entries (38): Austria (3), Czech Rep. (4), France (4), Great Britain (4), Germany (4), Italy (4), Norway (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Russia (3), Slovenia (3), Switzerland (1), Turkey (4).
Many Officials from EAA will attend to the event.

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Edited from Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA)

Source of the pictures EAA
on front page:
– logo of the event.

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“Italy and Turkey divided gold medals at the 10th Youth International Cup 2015 at Smolyan: 2 gold medals (individual and team) for the Italian Boys and 2 gold medals (individual and team) for the Turkish girls.
Italian boy Daniel Pattis and Turkish girl Atalay Bahar took title at the Youth International Cup this year with a wonderful race for both them.
Turkey won also 3 silver and 3 bronze medals for a total of 8 medals (up a total of 12 medals distribuited).
Czech Rep with one silver medal (girls team) and Russia with one&nbsp, bronze ((boys team) also are in the medal table of the competition.
The Youth International Cup 2015 was very well organised by Bulgarian Athletic Federation, with wonderful support from the Municipality of Smolyan.
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“In the girls race Turkish teams started&nbsp, the team attack to the title in the middle of the first lap and nobody was able to follow Turkish runners.
Atalay Bahar, Junior Vice European Champion 2014 at Gap and 25th at the World Championships 2014 at Casette di Massa, triumphed with 18 minutes and 50 seconds), more than half minute&rsquo,s gap in front of second and third, both her team colleagues: Tunc Gulsun (with time of 19.27) and Palavan Gulican (with time of 19.34).
In the team girls Turkey team A won with better points possible (that is 6 point), in front of Czech Rep. with31 point and Turkey team B (with 38 points). 14 girls teams coming from 14 Nations finished the race.
50 girls run.
In the boys race first part of the competition saw Turkish runners still try to &ldquo,kill&rdquo, the competition, but Daniel Pattis kept second position and then in the second part of the race, he kept the leading position finished first in 24 minutes and 30 seconds. Second and third were two Turkish boys: Nurkan Dagtekin (with time of&nbsp,25.19) and Ahmet Alkadoglu (with time of 25.20).
Italy with Mirko Cocco (fifth), Samuele Nava (third last year at YIC 2014 and this year sixth) and Andrea Pranali (eighth) counted 12 points for winning team title in front of Turkey team&nbsp,A with14 points and Russia team A with 30 points. 17 boys teams coming from 15 Nations finished the race.
61 boys run.
For downloading results: http://smolyan2015.info/?page_id=173

Edited from Bruno Gozzelino (WMRA)

Source of the pictures LOC
on front page:
– Daniel Pattis,
on second page:
– Atalay Bahar.

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“15 Countries are coming to Smolyan, in the beautiful Rodopa Mountain, in Bulgaria: boys and girls coming from Czech, England, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, FYR of Makedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Turkey, Wales and hosting Bulgaria are ready to run for win the title of best youth mountain runner 2015.
61 boys and 50 girls are going to compete in the scenic landscape around the lakes of Smolyan.
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The Municipality of Smolyan headed by the Mayor Nikolay Melemov had invested a lot of efforts and devotion in securing the best conditions for the athletes in close cooperation with Bulgarian Athletic Federation presided by Dobromir Karamarinov, Senior Vice President of European Athletics and President the LOC.
Ion Sandu, President of Romanian Athletic Federation, and Krsto Serafimovski, President of Athletics Federation of FYR Macedonia are in Smolyan for seeing the competition in way to evaluate the possibility for organising international mountain running events in their Country on the next years.
WMRA will attend at the event with five persons: Bruno Gozzelino, President, Pierre Weiss, Acting Secretary, Erhan Basoglu, Council Member and also WMRA Delegate to the event, Andrzej Puchacz, Council Member, and Galia Puhaleva, Council Member, but also member of Bulgarian Athletic Federation (BAF), LOC Guest.

Edited from Galia Puhaleva (BAF and WMRA)

Source of the pictures LOC
on front page:
– logo of the competition,
on second page:
– view of Smolyan: around the lake there will be the races.

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“Eritrean Petro Mamu and British Sarah Tunstall are the winners of the traditional race Grand Ballon, second stage of the 2015 WMRA World Cup.
Eritrean runner Petro Mamu was one of the favourites on the start line in Willer-sur-Thur. Finally he did not disappoint at the second WMRA event in 2015. When he crossed the finish line on the top of Vosges&rsquo,s, the stop watch was showing just 15 seconds more than in 2014 when he improved the course record for almost 2 minutes.
After 4km of the 13,4km long course with 1230m elevation gain that includes also 210 m of descent, he felt stronger than his closest opponents. Teklay, also second in 2014, was the only one who tried to follow him. At the end, he difference between the winner and the second was almost 2 minutes, and between the second and third was another 2 minutes.
Anyway, the men&rsquo,s field was very strong and colourful &ndash, seven countries were represented in top 10 and with one French in-between.
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“In the women&rsquo,s race Emma Clayton from Great Britain was the favourite on the paper, but another British runner, Sarah Tunstall had made a clear surprise: she won the race with decent advantage of more than one minute.
Merenyi Timea from Hungary,&nbsp,who finished 2nd in 2014, was third.
Runners from six countries finished on top 6 positions and the first French runner finished only on 6th position.
The women&rsquo,s course was 8,4km long with 820m elevation gain.
After the race, Sarah said, that she is also surprised that she beat her team mate Emma, who qualified for the British team for European Champs. She felt strong especially in the second part of the course, otherwise she is focused on longer races this year.
The men&rsquo,s race winner Petro Mamu, who faces with this course for the second time, liked the course, he thinks the course is not very difficult, because the declination does not change a lot, there are no really steep parts.&nbsp, The course is really runnable, which suits him.
The organizers from Athletic Club Thann chaired by the Jean-Alain Haan organized the 35 edition of this race with lots of enthusiasm. Experiences gained in all those years made their job easier, but every year they find ideas and energy to improve particular details. They were not satisfied with the smaller number of entered local runners.
Running conditions were pretty good for running: dry course and excellent temperatures for the runners were disturbed only high humidity in the middle part.
The next third stage of the World Cup will be the Grintovec race in Slovenia at the end of July.

Edited from Tomo Sarf (WMRA)

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Source of the pictures Tomo Sarf
on front page:
– winner men&nbsp,Petro Mamu&nbsp,,
on second page.:
– winner women Sarah Tunstall.

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“After Slovenia for the opening race of the WMRA World Cup last week-end in Ratitovec, the second race of the series will run at the Vosges in France.
The 35. Mont&eacute,e du Grand-Ballon is now a &quot,classic&quot, of the WMRA World Cup.
This Sunday 14th June, 400-500 runners are waiting in Willer-sur-Thur and some of the best world mountain runners like Petro Mamu (Eritrea) winner of the last World cup and at the Grand-Ballon last year (he beat the records of Jonathan Wyatt and Ahmet Arslan !), Azaria Teklay (Eritrea) winner at the Grand-Ballon in 2013, Robbie Simpson (Great Britain), 2nd&nbsp, at the last European championships in Gap and Andrew Douglas (Great Britain), winner last Sunday in Slovenia.
A strong race with 15 nations at the start in the men’s race. ”

By women, Emma Clayton and Sarah Tunstall (Great Britain) will find on their way, the Hungarian Timea Merenyi, 2nd last week in Slovenia or Iva Milesova ‘Czech republic) and Adela&iuml,de Pantheon, 2nd of the French mountain running championships.

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“Slovenian Lucija KRKO&#268, and Scottish Andrew DOUGLAS were the fastest runners at the first race of the 2015 Mountain Running World Cup.
Both were very strong in the last, steep 2km where the course takes the runners from the forest to open mountain meadows and also becomes more technical.
The winners are well known international runners: Lucija was the World Cup (Ex Grand Prix) winner in 2011 and several time World Ch. and European Ch. medallist and Andrew finished 2014 the World Champs in Italy on 21st position and 10th the European Championships in Gap. Also the second placed man and woman are runners with great reputation: Swiss David Schneider and Hungarian Merenyi Timea finished the World Cup 2014 on top 3 positions.
140 runners from 9 countries participated the race that had for the first time international character. ”
“Races for the kids were also organized as a part of the traditional race and more than 60 girls and boys run the short up&amp,down races in U12, U14 and U16 categories.
The race was also Slovenian national Championships and also Slovenian selection race for the European Championships.
The organizer, Athletic Club

“The 2015 NACAC (North American Central American Caribbean) Mountain Running Championships will take place at Cypress Mountain, http://cypressmountain.com/ located just north of Vancouver, BC, Canada, on Saturday, July 18.
Cypress Mountain Ski Area was one of the venues at the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympics.
This is the twelfth consecutive year that the NACAC Mountain Championship have been held, with the event rotating being the U.S., Mexico, and Canada http://mountainrunning.ca/ .”
“This is the fourth time for Canada to serve as host, having been the venue for the championships in 2007 and 2010, at Canmore, Alberta, and 2012 at Cypress Mountain.
Race is an up and down race
This year&rsquo,s race route will consist of up-and-down terrain to mirror the format of the World Mountain Running Championships which are up and down in odd-numbered years and uphill-only in even numbered years.
The course will include loops at the top of the ski hill, rather than running from Horseshoe Bay to the top which was the route when Canada hosted the event at Cypress Mountain in 2012.
The proposed course for the men’s race can be viewed at this link: http://5peaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Cypress-Enduro.pdf
Organizers suggest that the women&rsquo,s race will likely follow a similar route, but would cut off the first loop at the bottom (the Yew Lake loop).
According to race organizer Adrian Lambert, &ldquo,The course features some excellent terrain and should be a challenging course.&rdquo,
Both individual and team competition are staged, with nations competing head-to-head with one another.
Teams are comprised of up to four men and four women with the top two finishers scoring for their respective country.

Edited from Nancy Hobbs (WMRA)

Source of the pictures (LOC):
on front page:
– map of the venue.
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“The annual winter meetings of the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA), an association under International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) patronage, whose membership in 2014 included 43 dues-paying nations, concluded in Monaco, today, Sunday, January 25, highlighted by lively discussion among its council members.
Representing Italy (Bruno Gozzelino, President), France (Pierre Weiss, acting General Secretary), USA (Nancy Hobbs, Treasurer), Bulgaria (Galia Puhaleva, Council member), Germany (Wolfgang Munzel, Council member), Slovenia (Tomo Sarf, Cuncil member). Turkey (Erhan Basoglu, Council member) and Poland (Andrzej Puchacz, Council member) and, but more importantly the sport of mountain running internationally, WMRA&rsquo,s eight-member council covered an aggressive agenda in three days of meetings.
On charge IAAF, Paul Hardy, General Director, attended to the whole WMRA Council meeting, instead Essar Gabriel, IAAF General Secretary, gave a IAAF contribution at the meeting explaining the IAAF policy and program for next future.
At the WMRA Council meeting was present also Dobromir Karamarinov, as European Athletics Representant.
The agenda was packed with a myriad of topics from contracts to promotion, and included a recap of 2014 events as well as a focus to the future of the sport.
In addition to the full council meetings, several working groups met during this weekend.
In these sessions, finances and budget were addressed, as were regulations for the various WMRA-supported competitions.
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“New regulations about competition: a thorough assessment of the regulations for competitions to include the WMRA World Mountain Running Championships, the WMRA International Youth Cup, the WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships and the WMRA/WMA World Masters Mountain Running Championships were discussed. Numerous updates were made to the documents, which will seek final approval electronically by the WMRA Council in the coming weeks, except – of course – the WMRA World Mountain Running Championships regulations that need approval by next WMRA Congress 2015.
WMRA Council decided that new regulations will be operative for all WMRA events starting on year 2017, also if some new rules could work starting since on next year, 2016.
17th World Cup 2015: Details of the World Cup 2015, a series of independently organized events, which started in 1999 as the WMRA Grand Prix, are still under review with a new program on tap for the coming year including events in Europe (with possible new Nations like Spain)&nbsp,and potentially one event in the United States.
WMRA Council&rsquo,s goal is to stage final calendar of World Cup 2015 enter the end of February.
In the next time, as soon as possible, WMRA will circulate to all Federations and potential LOC of World Cup races a letter with regulations of 17th World Cup 2015 and condition for sending application&nbsp,with any other useful info.
2015 – 2016 &ndash, 2017 – 2018 WMRA competitions: after a recap of a successful 2014 event calendar, the Council reviewed a report from technical delegate Tomo Sarf who visited Betws Y Coed, Wales, 2015 host of both the masters and the world mountain championships. The back-to-back events on the weekends of September 12 and 19 respectively, will include a full week of mountain running activities. Planned as part of the program are coaching seminars, which the WMRA has agreed to partner with the local organizing committee to promote and support.
In addition to previously awarded competitions for 2015, including venues in Switzerland for the Long Distance with the Zermatt Marathon, and Bulgaria for the Youth Cup, the Council confirmed at this weekend&rsquo,s meeting in Monaco, Podbrdo, Slovenia to host the 13th WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships on June 18, 2016. A bid from the Czech Republic to host the 11th WMRA International Youth Cup in 2016 was considered and, pending course evaluation and approval, the bid will be confirmed.
The World Mountain Running Championship in 2016 will be hosted by Bulgaria which was approved by the WMRA Congress in September 2014. The event will be held on an uphill course in Sapareva Banya on September 4. On hand at the meetings in Monaco to discuss the event was Bulgarian Federation President Dobromir Karamarinov who, along with Bulgarian WMRA council member Galia Puhaleva gave a report about plans for the event. European Mountain Running Championships was already fixed on July, 2nd in Italy, at Arco (Trento), instead WMRA is waiting more info about the other Area Continental Championships (NACAC, CONSUDATLE and AAC).
Looking ahead to 2017, there is interest from Sesto Pusteria, Italy, to host the 33rd World Mountain Running Championships which will be run on a course with both uphill and downhill terrain (whereas in even-numbered years, the course for this event is a mostly uphill route). For the Youth Cup, there was interest from Austria and Slovenia. The WMRA/WMA Masters Mountain Running Championships received declaration of interest from Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain.
RFEA is interest also for staging the World Mountain Running Championship in 2018, like Canada.
Anti-doping matters: from a separate anti-doping meeting with IAAF Officials, it was deemed that the sport of mountain running has a positive trend &ndash, in a good way. This is the result of statistics gleaned from three years of tests and data collected specific to mountain running. In 2014, all doping control tests were negative from WMRA mountain running competitions. This is not to say that anti-doping will take a back stage in this niche area of athletics, but rather remain as an important aspect of the sport with continued testing and analysis of data.
Development of mountain running: despite very small budget, WMRA always goes on developing discipline of mountain running worldwide. Interesting and important contacts are on progress with some Nations (like for sample China and Spain) or Area Continent (like for sample NACAC) or other Athletics Association (like for sample AASSEE or CISM or Commonwealth) in order to stage mountain races in some part of the world where this beautiful discipline of athletics still not exist or is a the beginning of the development.
WMRA website, Facebook, Twitter and newsletter: in an effort to provide a better social media platform, the Council discussed an overhaul of the website with the hopes of better integration with its Facebook and Twitter channels. In 2014, there were 81,680 unique visitors to the WMRA website with the biggest traffic in the month of September which is the time of the World Mountain Running Championships. Statistics for the Facebook page, which debuted in January 2014, has nearly 2800 followers. Twitter, which also debuted last year @WMRAMountainRun presently has more than 500 followers.
Another avenue of promotion is the annual newsletter, of which nearly 2,000 will be produced and distributed by spring in hard copy fashion. A .pdf version will also live on the WMRA website.
Miscellaneous: during a joint session with the International Association of Ultrarunning (IAU), led by the IAAF&rsquo,s General Secretary Essar Gabriel, a connection between mountain, ultra and trail running was discussed. As such, there has been a decision by the IAAF that this niche area of sport &ndash, trail running &ndash, is indeed a branch of athletics. In 2015, a definition of trail running will be developed, with the potential of a new rule to be considered by the IAAF Council and Congress during their meetings in April and August respectively. If accepted, this new rule would be part of the IAAF Competition Rule Book. A task force has been created, chaired by David Bedford, IAAF Road Running Commission Chairman.
A new partnership between the U.S.-based Council for Responsible Sport and Athletics For A Better World powered by IAAF was discussed. This global effort is designed to stimulate social and environmental responsibility programs at competitions of all levels from fun runs to world championships. The WMRA pledged its commitment to this effort.
Conclusion: the next meeting of the WMRA Council is scheduled in Betws Y Coed for morning Thursday September 17, two days prior to the World mountain running championships.
The WMRA Congress meeting will follow on Friday, September 18.

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Edited from Bruno Gozzelino and Nancy Hobbs (WMRA)

Source of the pictures (Nancy Hobbs, WMRA):
on front page:
-&nbsp,a moment of WMRA Council meeting,
on second page:
– Essar Gabriel, IAAF General Secretary,
– WMRA and IAU Officials together in a meeting.

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