2013 European Mountain Running Championships

The 2013 European Mountain Running Championships were held on 6 July at Borovets in Sofia, Bulgaria. The competition featured four individual races: The men's race was 11.8 km long and with an ascent of 1152 m,^[1] the women's and junior men's races were 8.8 km long with an ascent of 1072 m.^[2][3] and the junior women's race was 3.5 km long with an ascent of 530 m.^[4]

In the men's race, Bernard Dematteis ended Ahmet Arslan's six year winning streak by finishing first, over a minute ahead of Alex Baldaccini who finished second and Arslan who finished third. In the women's race, Andrea Mayr won her second title, beating Valentina Belotti and by 1 minute 5 seconds and 1 minute 18 seconds respectively. In total 217 athletes from 27 countries participated.^[5]

Results[]

Men[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Bernard Dematteis	Italy	56:30
	Alex Baldaccini	Italy	57:35
	Ahmet Arslan	Turkey	57:47
4	Xavier Chevrier	Italy	58:01
5		United Kingdom	58:33
6		Spain	58:50
7		Czech Republic	58:52
8		United Kingdom	59:12

Women[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Andrea Mayr	Austria	51:49
	Valentina Belotti	Italy	52:54
		Slovenia	53:08
4	Elisa Desco	Italy	53:42
5		Italy	54:05
6		United Kingdom	55:16
7	Christel Dewalle	France	56:01
8		Switzerland	56:12

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