The 2009 European Mountain Running Championships

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 in July each year. The venue for the championships is changed each year....

were held on 12 July in Telfes im Stubai, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. They were that year's area championships for mountain running, held by the European Athletic Association

European Athletic Association

The European Athletic Association is the European governing body for the sport of athletics.- History :In 1932, during a meeting of the International Amateur Athletic Federation in Los Angeles, a special committee was designated by the Council with the task of reviewing the conditions for the...

. The 2009 edition saw the introduction of two under-20s competitions into the championships programme, complementing the usual men's and women's senior races. The men's race was 11 km long and featured a total climb of 1300 m in altitude, while the women's and under-20s men's competitions were over 9.5 km and scaled a height of 950 m. The women's junior competition was held over 4 km with a total climb of 400 m.

Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 runner Ahmet Arslan

Ahmet Arslan

Ahmet Arslan is a long-distance runner from Turkey competing in mountain running. He is five time consecutive champion of European Mountain Running Championships....

 retained his European title for a second time in the men's senior race, following wins in 2007 and 2008. In the women's senior race, Martina Strähl took the honours over home favourite Andrea Mayr

Andrea Mayr

Andrea Mayr is a female long-distance runner from Austria. She also competes in mountain running and cycling. She set her personal best in the women's marathon on April 19, 2009, winning the Vienna City Marathon...

. Italian athletes dominated the team competitions at the championships, taking the gold medals in the senior men's and women's races, as well as the men's under-20s event. Turkish runners topped the podium in both the under-20s contests; Yusuf Alici and Derya Altintas won the boys and girls titles respectively.

Men

Rank	Runner	Country	Time (m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
	Ahmet Arslan Ahmet Arslan Ahmet Arslan is a long-distance runner from Turkey competing in mountain running. He is five time consecutive champion of European Mountain Running Championships....		58:26
	Marco De Gasperi		59:09
	Sébastien Epiney Sébastien Epiney Sébastien Epiney from Nendaz is a Swiss ski mountaineer and long distance runner. Epiney started ski mountaineering in 2001.- Ski mountaineering :* 2004:** 3rd, World Championship vertical race...		59:19
4	Timo Zeiler		59:31
5	Raymond Fontaine		59:37
6	Martin Dematteis		60:04
7	Said Jandari		60:29
8	Emmanuel Meyssat		60:58
9	Riccardo Sterni		61:05
10	Javier Crespo		61:09

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
		17
		20
		32
4		45
5		48

• Total participants: 80 runners and 19 teams.

Women

Rank	Runner	Country	Time (m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
	Martina Strähl		54:39
	Valentina Belotti		55:28
	Andrea Mayr Andrea Mayr Andrea Mayr is a female long-distance runner from Austria. She also competes in mountain running and cycling. She set her personal best in the women's marathon on April 19, 2009, winning the Vienna City Marathon...		56:55
4	Renate Rungger		57:17
5	Natalya Leontyeva		57:29
6	Bernadette Meier-Brändle		57:36
7	Zhanna Vokuyeva		58:01
8	Kate Goodhead		58:34
9	Katie Ingram		58:37
10	Maria Grazia Roberti		58:40

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
		16
		19
		34
4		54
5		57

• Total participants: 64 runners and 16 teams.

Under-20s men

Rank	Runner	Country	Time (m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
	Yusuf Alici		50:29
	Xavier Chevrier		50:44
	Candide Pralong		51:39
4	Jakub Bajza		52:58
5	Scott McDonald		53:06
6	Didrik Tønseth		53:13
7	Michael Gras		53:28
8	Luca Cagnati		53:37
9	Jørgen Bye Brevik		53:51
10	Kelemu Crippa		53:54

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
		20
		26
		32
4		39
5		58

• Total participants: 59 runners and 14 teams.

Under-20s women

Rank	Runner	Country	Time (m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... )
	Derya Altintas		23:15
	Elif Karabulut		23:20
	Yasemin Can		23:29
4	Andra Ologu		23:39
5	Tatyana Prorokova		23:43
6	Gina Paletta		23:45
7	Ludmila Horká		23:51
8	Raluca Morjan		23:59
9	Victoria Graves		24:03
10	Kaja Obidic		24:15

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
		3
		12
		15
4		18
5		26

• Total participants: 38 runners and 14 teams.
• NB: The women's under-20s team competition was decided by the performances of each country's top two performers.

External links

• Official website at European Athletics