European Mountain Running Championships

The European Mountain Running Championships is an annual international mountain running race. Inaugurated in 2002, it is organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA) in July each year. The venue for the championships is changed each year.

European Mountain Running Championships
Statusactive
Genresports event
Date(s)midyear
Frequencyannual
Inaugurated1994
Organised byEuropean Athletic Association

The history of the competition lies in the European Mountain Running Trophy, which was first held in 1994 in Quantin, Belluno, Italy. It was officially sanctioned by the World Mountain Running Association in 1995 and continued until 2001, at which point the EAA introduced the official European Mountain Running Championships.[1][2]

Exclusively a senior championships until 2009, the competition now features separate senior and junior (under 20s) races for both men and women. Medals are awarded on an individual and national team basis.[3] For the team competition, the finishing positions of each country's top three runners are combined, and the team with the smallest cumulative total wins the medals.[4]

The 2021 edition was cancelled.[5] A new competition was started in 2022, the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, which was described as the "forerunner" to the European Mountain Running Championships.[6] The Off-Road Running Championships was held in 2022 and 2024 and as of 2024, it is next scheduled to be held in 2026.[6]

Editions

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Edition Year Location Country Date Events
1st[7] 1994 Ponte nelle Alpi, Venice   Italy 13 July 4
1st 1995 Valleraugue, Gard   France 15 July 4
2nd 1996 Llanberis, Wales   United Kingdom 13 July
3rd 1997 Ebensee, Oberösterreich   Austria 6 July
4th 1998 Sestriere, Piemonte   Italy 15 July
5th 1999 Bad Kleinkirchheim, Kärnten   Austria 4 July
6th 2000 Międzygórze, Dolnośląskie   Poland 2 July
7th 2001 Cerklje, Gorenjska   Slovenia 1 July
8th 2002 Câmara de Lobos, Madeira   Portugal 7 July
9th 2003 Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige   Italy 6 July
10th 2004 Korbielów, Śląskie   Poland 4 July
11th 2005 Heiligenblut, Kärnten   Austria 10 July
12th 2006 Úpice, Hradec Králové   Czech Republic 9 July
13th 2007 Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées   France 8 July
14th 2008 Zell am Harmersbach, Baden-Württemberg   Germany 12 July
15th 2009 Telfes, Tirol   Austria 12 July
16th 2010 Sapareva Banya, Kyustendil   Bulgaria 4 July
17th 2011 Uludağ, Bursa   Turkey 9 July
18th 2012 Pamukkale, Denizli   Turkey 7 July
19th 2013 Borovets, Sofia   Bulgaria 6 July
20th 2014 Gap, Hautes-Alpes   France 12 July
21st 2015 Porto Moniz, Madeira   Portugal 4 July
22nd 2016 Arco, Trentino   Italy 2 July
23rd 2017 Kamnik, Upper Carniola   Slovenia 8 July
24th 2018 Skopje   North Macedonia 1 July
25th 2019 Zermatt   Switzerland 7 July
26th 2021

Medals

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All results at European Athletic Association web site.[8]

Year Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Tim-
1994   Andrea Agostini 41:09   Lucio Fregona 41:33   Fabio Ciaponi 41:43
1995   Helmut Schmuck 56:53   Antonio Molinari 57:25   Davide Milesi 58:00
1996   Jaime de Jesus Mendes 1:03:16   Thierry Breuil 1:03:32   Lucio Fregona 1:04
1997   Helmut Schmuck 49:46   Antonio Molinari 50:48   Peter Schatz 50:56
1998   Antonio Molinari 53:02   Andrew Pearson 53:44   Marco De Gasperi 53:58
1999   Antonio Molinari 52:17   Arnaud Fourdin 52:34   Richard Findlow 53:20
2000   Massimo Galliano 50:22   Richard Findlow 50:56   Antonio Molinari 51:03
2001   Antonio Molinari 49:47   Martin Bajcicák 50:01   Raymond Fontaine 50:14
2002   Alexis Gex-Fabry 56:37   Marco De Gasperi 56:55   Abdülkadir Türk 57:52
2003   Marco Gaiardo 1:06:05   Helmut Schmuck 1:07:13   Róbert Krupicka 1:07:31
2004   Marco De Gasperi 44:06   Florian Heinzle 45:05   Marco Gaiardo 45:10
2005   Florian Heinzle 1:11:36   Helmut Schiessl 1:12:16   Marco De Gasperi 1:12:35
2006   Marco Gaiardo 57:42   Selahattin Selçuk 57:50   Julien Rancon 57:59
2007   Ahmet Arslan 1:08:39   Marco De Gasperi 1:08:50   Marco Gaiardo 1:09.09
2008   Ahmet Arslan 50:01   Bernard Dematteis 50:29   Marco De Gasperi 50:57
2009   Ahmet Arslan 58:26   Marco De Gasperi 59:09   Sébastien Epiney 59:19
2010   Ahmet Arslan 46:14   Martin Dematteis 46:40   Marco De Gasperi 47:19
2011   Ahmet Arslan 58:08   Gabriele Abate 58:40   Bernard Dematteis 59:41
2012   Ahmet Arslan 49:46   Ercan Muslu 49:57   Ionut-Alin Zinca 50:19
2013   Bernard Dematteis 56:30   Alex Baldaccini 57:35   Ahmet Arslan 57:47
2014   Bernard Dematteis 56:10   Robbie Simpson 56:19   Martin Dematteis 56:32
2015   Johan Bugge 1:02:35   David Schneider 1:02:49   Alex Baldaccini 1:02:56
2016   Martin Dematteis 53:33   Bernard Dematteis 53:34   Ahmet Arslan 54:09
2017   Xavier Chevrier 1:02:51   Luis Saraiva 1:03:34   Francesco Puppi 1:03:35
2018   Bernard Dematteis 46:51   Cesare Maestri 47:18   Martin Dematteis 47:47
2019   Jacob Adkin 53:21   Stian Øvergaard 53:46   Xavier Chevrier 54:02

Women

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Year Gold Time Silver Time Bronze Time
1994   Nives Curti 30:28   Anna Baloghová 30:57   Lucy Wright 32:17
1995   Eroica Spiess 1:05:17   Cristina Moretti 1:05:20   Carolina Reiber 1:07:32
1996   Isabelle Guillot 53:09   Maria Grazia Roberti 53:22   Nives Curti 53:59
1997   Eroica Spiess 49:26   Carol Greenwood 50:06   Isabella Crettenand-Moretti 50:22
1998   Rosita Rota Gelpi 34:58   Flavia Gaviglio 35:47   Pierangela Baronchelli 36:14
1999   Izabela Zatorska 55:37   Angela Mudge 57:18   Johanna Baumgartner 57:34
2000   Izabela Zatorska 33:38   Birgit Sonntag 33:53   Rosita Rota Gelpi 34:17
2001   Svetlana Demidenko 56:30   Angela Mudge 57:08   Catherine Lallemand 57:28
2002   Svetlana Demidenko 39:59   Catherine Lallemand 41:05   Anna Pichrtová 42:01
2003   Catherine Lallemand 43:48   Angela Mudge 44:01   Antonella Confortola 44:30
2004   Anna Pichrtová 34:50   Andrea Mayr 36:27   Rosita Rota Gelpi 36:43
2005   Andrea Mayr 1:07:42   Anna Pichrtová 1:09:38   Angéline Joly 1:10:44
2006   Anna Pichrtová 41:28   Mateja Kosovelj 42:12   Vittoria Salvini 43:32
2007   Anita Håkenstad Evertsen 51:45   Anna Pichrtová 52.34   Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu 52:05
2008   Elisa Desco 40:00   Constance Devillers 40:18   Sarah Tunstall 40:48
2009   Martina Strähl 54:39   Valentina Belotti 55:28   Andrea Mayr 56:55
2010   Marie-Laure Dumergues 39:13   Valentina Belotti 39:29   Elena Nagovitsyna 39:44
2011   Martina Strähl 48:44   Antonella Confortola 49:09   Lucija Krkoč 49:25
2012   Monika Fürholz 39:54   Nadezhda Leshchinskaya 40:03   Pavla Schorná Matyášová 40:07
2013   Andrea Mayr 51:49   Valentina Belotti 52:54   Mateja Kosovelj 53:08
2014   Andrea Mayr 39:43   Mateja Kosovelj 40:53   Sabine Reiner 41:03
2015   Andrea Mayr 50:40   Eli-Anne Dvergsdal 53:05   Emma Clayton 53:36
2016   Emily Collinge 43:41   Alice Gaggi 44:08   Sara Bottarelli 44:24
2017   Maude Mathys 49:30   Sarah Tunstall 50:51   Andrea Mayr 51:43
2018   Maude Mathys 52:32   Anaïs Sabrié 56:41   Emma Gould 57:48
2019   Maude Mathys 1:00:18   Andrea Mayr 1:01:19   Christel Dewalle 1:02:48

See also

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References

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  1. ^ European Mountain Running Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-01-10.
  2. ^ EA European Trophy (1995-2001)/European Championships (2002 on): Results, World Mountain Running Association, archived from the original on February 20, 2017, retrieved March 13, 2013
  3. ^ Arslan and Strähl rule mountains in Telfes im Stubai. European Athletics (2009-07-13). Corrected on 2017-03-21.
  4. ^ 2009 European Mountain Running Championships Results. European Athletics (2009-07-12). Retrieved on 2010-01-10.
  5. ^ "Cinfaes 2021 European Mountain Running Championships cancelled". European Athletics. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  6. ^ a b "European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  7. ^ This first edition was an unofficial edition.
  8. ^ "Event: EUROPEAN MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS" (PDF). european-athletics.org. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
List of champions
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