Haría, Spain on the island of Lanzarote will host the 2020 World Mountain Running Championships and World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships on November 14-15. Building on the success of the recent world championship in Argentina, the 2020 event will combine the 36th edition of the “classic” distance races for senior (13 km) & junior… Read more »
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Jim Walmsley Takes Gold at World Long Distance Mountain Running Championship
Written by USA team staff member Jason Bryant. Photos by Nancy Hobbs and Andy Wacker. Videos by Nancy Hobbs. USA men’s team earns Silver medal; Emily Schmitz leads USA women to 4th place team result. Thirty-eight countries returned to the streets of Villa La Angostura on Saturday, November 16, to head into the surrounding mountains… Read more »
Joe Gray and Grayson Murphy Win Gold Medals in Argentina
Article written by Team USA staff members Jason Bryant, Nancy Hobbs and Paul Kirsch. Photos by Nancy Hobbs and Paul Kirsch. On Friday, Nov. 15, 38 countries converged in Villa La Angostura, Argentina for the 35th edition of the World Mountain Running Championships. It would be a great day for Team USA with three total… Read more »
Guide to following Team USA at the World Mountain Running Championships
[Editor’s Note: Updated with results from both races race. Scroll down for info on long distance race] Short Distance Race – Friday Today (Friday, November 15) the World Mountain Running Championships kick off in Villa La Angostura, Argentina with the short distance 14 km (750 meters of ascent & descent) race for senior athletes and… Read more »
2019 USATF Junior Mountain Running Team Announced
USA Track & Field’s Mountain, Ultra, Trail (MUT) Executive Committee has named the Junior US Mountain Running Team members scheduled to compete at the 32nd WMRA World Mountain Running Championships on Friday, November 15, in Villa La Angostura, Argentina. The Team features a mixture of former Youth (U18) and Junior (U20) Team members along with… Read more »
USATF Squad Announced for the WMRA Long Distance Mountain Running Championships
USA Track & Field’s Mountain, Ultra, Trail (MUT) Executive Committee is proud to announce members of Team USATF scheduled to compete at the 16th WMRA World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships on Saturday, November 16, in Villa La Angostura, Argentina. The 2019 USATF Long Distance Mountain Running Team is a strong group of experienced athletes… Read more »
USATF U18 Girls’ Mountain Running Team Earns Bronze
Colorado high school runners Samantha Blair (5th place), Madeleine Burns (7th place) and Maggi Congdon (18th place) took home the team bronze medal at the World Mountain Running Association’s (WMRA) U18 International Mountain Running Youth Cup in Susa, Italy today. The three standout cross country runners competed against elite 16-and 17-year-old off-road runners from 14… Read more »
USATF Youth Mountain Runners Race Through History in Susa Italy
A United States contingent of six athletes, two staff members and a small squad of supporters have arrived in the Susa Valley of Northwest Italy for tomorrow’s 14th edition of the World Mountain Running Association’s (WMRA) International WMRA U18 Mountain Running Youth Cup. This classic mountain running event will feature 90 of the best under… Read more »
American Sam Sahli joins Showdown in Italy’s Country of Mountain Running
Written by Alex Scolari, Corsa in Montagna. Photo above by Corsa in Montagna. American Sam Sahli recently competed in the Trail World Championships and several WMRA World Cup events and is scheduled to compete at Piz Tri Vertikal and FlettaTRAIL. ATRA executive director Nancy Hobbs is also treasurer of the World Mountain Running Association. Piz… Read more »
Team USA Announced for WMRA International U18 Mountain Running Cup
This year marks the 14th edition of the WMRA International U18 Mountain Running Youth Cup, and the third consecutive year that Team USA will have a full squad at the event. Held in Susa, a mountain village in the Piedmont region of Italy known for its roman monuments and proximity to Via Lattea in the… Read more »
Sahli and Arritola earn berths on Team USA at Broken Arrow Skyrace
At today’s Broken Arrow 26K Skyrace in Squaw Valley, CA, Sam Sahli, 24, Evergreen, CO, and Morgan Arritola (pictured above – photo by Michael Scott), 33, Ketchum, ID, edged out a competitive field to earn the final automatic spots on the USATF Long Distance Mountain Running Team scheduled to compete in Argentina on November 16…. Read more »
4th Annual Broken Arrow Skyrace hosts the world in Olympic Valley
Now in its fourth year, the successful Broken Arrow Skyrace has added a new element to the five day, four distance festival of off-road racing – the World Mountain Running Association’s (WMRA) World Cup. Located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and a stones throw from scenic Lake Tahoe, Broken Arrow’s challenging 26 km race will… Read more »
Südtirol Drei Zinnen Alpine Run joins the Mountain Running World Cup
Press release from the Südtirol Drei Zinnen Alpine Run and World Mountain Running Association (WMRA). Our executive director Nancy Hobbs is the WMRA treasurer. Above photo by wisthaler.com. On Tuesday, April 16 the organizers of one of the loveliest mountain runs of the world publicly announced the wonderful news: this year, the Südtirol Drei Zinnen… Read more »
2019 International U18 Mountain Running Cup – Team USA Selection
This year marks the 14th edition of the World Mountain Running Association’s International U18 Mountain Running Cup. This year’s course is an up/down hill circuit. Estimated distance is between 4.5 and 5.5 kilometers. Distance and course details will be included in upcoming weeks. Venue: Susa, Italy, located in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region…. Read more »
WMRA Announces the 2019 Mountain Running World Cup
In partnership with IAAF, the World Mountain Running Association has announced seven exciting races for the 2019 edition of it’s 21st annual World Cup. For the first time since 2003, there will be a US race in the series – the Broken Arrow Skyrace. Broken Arrow is an American Trail Running Association member event taking place… Read more »
Norway’s Bugge & Kenya’s Wambui Murigi win Smarna Gora Mountain Race
Story by Alex Scolari. Photos: Damiano Benedetto. Press release written on behalf of the World Mountain Running Association. The biceps of Johan Bugge inflates again, his “pose” under the arch of the finish-lines has now become an icon and the Norwegian today has been able to perform strongly again at the Smarna Gora in Ljubljana…. Read more »
Uganda Takes Mountain Running Championships in Andorra, Lucy Wambui (KEN) Wins Again
Press release & photos from Federació andorrana d’atletisme, Athletics Federation from Andorra. The World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) world championships were held for the first time in Andorra. Canillo has been the host city parish, hosting the 4 races of the world championships (senior, male and female and junior, male and female), where 39 countries… Read more »
Top American Mountain Runners Dig Deep to Climb High Mountains of Andorra
Ugandan runners sweep the senior men’s podium while Joe Gray leads the U.S. men finishing a solid fourth. While the U.S. senior women are first to finish all their runners in the top 30, it’s only good enough for a fifth place team result. This was the first World Mountain Running Championship since 2005 where… Read more »
The 2018 World Mountain Running Championships comes to Andorra
Press release written by: ALBERTO STRETTI for the World Mountain Running Association. LUCY MURIGI AND VICTOR KIPLANGAT TO DEFEND THEIR 2017 TITLES 40 nations are on their way to Sunday’s competition in Canillo, Andorra for the 34th World Mountain Running champs by WMRA/IAAF. It’s one of Europes smaller countries but it boasts very big mountains… Read more »
Top U.S. Mountain Runners Converge on Andorra for World Championships
For the first time ever, three of the sixteen U.S. team members racing at the World Mountain Running Championships are former world champions. Kasie Enman became the first U.S. female World Mountain Running Champion at the 2011 up/down-format event in Tirana, Albania. In 2016, Joe Gray won the uphill event in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria for… Read more »