Top results from today's World Mountain Running Championships.  The 34th World Mountain Running Championships were held under clear skies and in the beautiful mountains above Canillo, Andorra.  

 WORLD MOUNTAINRUNNING CHAMPS: 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 and is a perfect location for the 2018 Championships.

On steep mountain tracks,  athletes from all over the world will battle it out in a discipline now growing to global level after the recent announcemtent of the co-operation between the WMRA / ITRA and the IAAF.  

The winners of Premana 2017 will be in the competition in Canillo 2018 as title-defenders making the races very exciting and bringing the element of winning both an uphill and up and down World title into the equation.  Very few runners in the history of Mountain Running have been able to win back to back.  For first time on an uphill only World Mountain Champs the distances will be equal for men and women.

Start lists for the upcoming World Mountain Running Championships to be held at Canilo, Andorra on 16 September:

START-LIST.pdf

Photo by Timo Zeiller 

Emotions from Sierre Zinal in Switzlerland and Round 3 from the World Cup of Mountain Running

With 3 rounds of the World Cup having taken place it's time to take a quick look at the rankings and recap so far.

As the athletics family continues to grow with an expansion into new territories, 2021 will be a major milestone year for the sports of trail and mountain running with the inauguration of the IAAF World Trail and Mountain Running Championships, a result of a unique partnership between the IAAF, ITRA and WMRA.