World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships

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The World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (from 2004 up to 2014 the name was World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge),[1] is an annual international mountain running competition organised by the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA).

The race is a one-day long-distance running contest for both sexes which has individual and national team aspects. The host for the event changes on an annual basis, with the minimum requirements for the challenge being that the course is no longer than 45 kilometres (28 mi) in distance, includes an uphill ascent of at least 1.6 km (1 mile), and has a rough duration of between one hour and forty-five minutes and four hours for the elite men. The challenge does not take place on specially-made courses, but rather it is incorporated into pre-existing, traditional races.[2]

The competition was first held in 2004 on a course from Sierre to Zinal.[3] Since its inception, the challenge has been hosted at competitions including the Three Peaks Race in the United Kingdom, Switzerland's Jungfrau Marathon, and the Pikes Peak Marathon in the United States.[4] The event has significant variance in its level of participation: the 2007 race at the Jungfrau Marathon attracted over 4200 runners of fifty nationalities, while at the 2011 of the competition there were 405 runners representing a total of 18 countries.[5][6]

Editions[]

Edition Year Race Location Country Date Male Winner Female Winner
1st 2004 Sierre-Zinal Valais   Switzerland 8 August Mexico Ricardo Mejía Switzerland Angeline Joly
2nd 2005 Marathon du Vignemale Cauterets  France 24 July Germany Helmut Schiessl Australia Emma Murray
3rd 2006 Pikes Peak Ascent Manitou Springs, Colorado  United States 20 August United States Matt Carpenter Australia Emma Murray
4th 2007 Jungfrau Marathon Bernese Oberland   Switzerland 7 September New Zealand Jonathan Wyatt Norway Anita Haakenstad-Evertsen
5th 2008 Three Peaks Race Yorkshire  United Kingdom 26 April United Kingdom Jethro Lennox Czech Republic Anna Pichrtová
6th 2009 Söll  Austria 10 October Switzerland Marc Lauenstein Czech Republic Anna Pichrtová
7th 2010 Pikes Peak Ascent Manitou Springs, Colorado  United States 21 September United States Glenn Randall United States Brandy Erholtz
8th 2011 Podbrdo  Slovenia 18 June Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj United Kingdom Philippa Maddams
9th 2012 Jungfrau Marathon Bernese Oberland   Switzerland 8 September Austria Markus Hohenwarter United States Stevie Kremer
10th 2013 Szklarska Poreba  Poland 3 August Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj Italy Antonella Confortola
11th 2014 Pikes Peak Ascent Manitou Springs, Colorado  United States 16 August United States Sage Canaday United States Allie McLaughlin
12th 2015 Zermatt Marathon Zermatt   Switzerland 4 July Italy Tommaso Vaccina Switzerland Martina Strahl
13th 2016 Podbrdo  Slovenia 18 June Italy Alessandro Rambaldini United Kingdom Annie Conway
14th 2017 Premana  Italy 6 August Italy Francesco Puppi Italy Silvia Rampazzo
15th 2018[7] Ultramarathon Gorski Karpacz  Poland 24 June Italy Alessandro Rambaldini United Kingdom Charlotte Morgan
16th 2019 K42 Adventure Marathon Villa La Angostura  Argentina 16 November United States Jim Walmsley Romania Cristina Simion
17th 2020 Haría Extreme Lanzarote Haria  Spain 14 November

Winners[]

Individual[]

Men[]

Year 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2004 Mexico Ricardo Mejía Germany Helmut Schiessl United Kingdom
2005 Germany Helmut Schiessl Slovenia Switzerland
2006 United States Matt Carpenter United States United States
2007 New Zealand Jonathan Wyatt Italy Hermann Achmüller Italy Gerd Frick
2008 United Kingdom Jethro Lennox United Kingdom Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj
2009 Switzerland Marc Lauenstein New Zealand Jonathan Wyatt United Kingdom Ricky Lightfoot
2010 United States Glenn Randall Switzerland Marc Lauenstein United States
2011 Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj United Kingdom United Kingdom
2012 Austria Markus Hohenwarter Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj Kenya
2013 Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj United Kingdom Andrew Davies Romania
2014 United States Sage Canaday Eritrea United States
2015 Italy Tommaso Vaccina United States Italy Francesco Puppi
2016 Italy Alessandro Rambaldini Italy Marco De Gasperi Slovenia Mitja Kosovelj
2017 Italy Francesco Puppi Switzerland United States
2018 Italy Alessandro Rambaldini Czech Republic United States Joseph Gray
2019 United States Jim Walmsley Italy Francesco Puppi Spain

Women[]

2004 Switzerland Angéline Joly Colombia France Isabelle Guillot
2005 Australia Emma Murray Austria France Isabelle Guillot
2006 Australia Emma Murray United States United States
2007 Norway Anita Håkenstad Evertsen Russia Russia
2008 Czech Republic Anna Pichrtová United Kingdom Angela Mudge Australia
2009 Czech Republic Anna Pichrtová Russia New Zealand Anna Frost
2010 United States Brandy Erholtz United States New Zealand Anna Frost
2011 United Kingdom Philippa Maddams Republic of Ireland United Kingdom
2012 United States Stevie Kremer Austria United States
2013 Italy Antonella Confortola Italy Ornella Ferrara Poland
2014 United States Allie McLaughlin United States Morgan Arritola United States
2015 Switzerland Martina Strähl France Aline Camboulives Italy Catherine Bertone
2016 United Kingdom Annie Conway Italy Antonella Confortola Slovenia
2017 Italy Silvia Rampazzo United States Kasie Enman Romania
2018 United Kingdom Charlotte Morgan Poland Italy Silvia Rampazzo
2019 Romania Cristina Simion France France Blandine L'Hirondel

Team[]

Men[]

Year 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2009  Kenya  England  Scotland
2010  United States  England  Germany
2011  Scotland  Slovenia  England
2012   Switzerland  United States  Germany
2013  Italy
Emanuele Manzi
Tommaso Vaccina
  Czech Republic  Wales
2014  United States  Italy
Tommaso Vaccina
Xavier Chevrier
  Germany
2015  Italy
Tommaso Vaccina
Francesco Puppi
  United States  Kenya
2016  Italy
Alessandro Rambaldini
Marco De Gasperi
  United Kingdom  Germany
2017  Italy
Francesco Puppi
Alessandro Rambaldini
  United States  Czech Republic
2018  Czech Republic  United States  Italy
Alessandro Rambaldini

Emanuele Manzi
2019  Spain  United States  Italy
Francesco Puppi

Women[]

Year 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2009  Russia  Austria  Germany
2010  United States  Germany  Scotland
2011  England  Russia  Scotland
2012  United States   Switzerland  Austria
2013  Italy
Antonella Confortola
Ornella Ferrara
Ivana Iozzia 		 Scotland  England
2014  United States  Italy
Catherine Bertone
Antonella Confortola
Ivana Iozzia 		 Slovenia
2015   Switzerland  Italy
Catherine Bertone
Ivana Iozzia
  United States
2016  Italy
Antonella Confortola

  Slovenia  United Kingdom
2017  Italy
Silvia Rampazzo
Antonella Confortola
Stéphanie Jiménez 		 United States  Romania
2018  Austria  United Kingdom  Romania
2019  France  Spain  Romania

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "WORLD LONG DISTANCE MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHALLENGE / CHAMPIONSHIPS". wmra.ch. Retrieved 3 October 2017. World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge (2004-2014)/Championships (2015 on)
  2. ^ WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge Regulations. WMRA. Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
  3. ^ World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
  4. ^ World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge: Results . WMRA. Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
  5. ^ Hughes, Danny (2007-09-08). Wyatt dominates World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge …of course!. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
  6. ^ Kosovelj and Maddams take World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge titles. IAAF (2011-06-19). Retrieved on 2011-06-23.
  7. ^ "Montagna: Rambaldini bis mondiale" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 25 June 2018.

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