The Schlickeralmlauf is again part of the WMRA World Cup: third stage in 2016.
The 28th International Schlickeralmlauf on July 31st 2016 in Telfes in the Stubai Valley is the third stage of the WMRA World Cup race series this year.
The Schlickeralmlauf in Telfes in the Stubai Valley manifests its importance as an International mountain running event.
On 31st of July 2016 the run will – once again – be an official stop on the Mountain Running World Cup tour.
Around the climax on Sunday, the Telfer Wiesen Run, the children runs and the charity run will again take place the day before, on 30th of July 2016.
The Schlickeralmlauf has helped the idyllic location Telfes in the Stubai Valley on nearly 1,000 meters above sea level to prominence in the world and represents a fixed date in the racing cal-endar of every ambitious mountain runner.
Not infrequently, the number of inhabitants of the small village has doubled in recent years by the visitors and participants in mountain running major events: such as Mountain Running World Championships in 1990 and 1996, Masters World Mountain Running Championship in 2014 or European Mountain Running Championship in 2009.
Back to the roots.
This summer boasts a special feature of the Schlickeralmlauf again: It’s once again part of the World Cup of mountain runners and is the third race in the series for 2016.
fFor connoisseurs of the scene that is not surprising. In 1996 a so-called Mountain Running Grand Prix was initially set in Telfes and continued later then under the patronage of the WMRA (World Mountain Run-ning Association) and the European Athletics Association (EAA).
Since then the Schlickeralmlauf always had a fixed place at the Grand Prix races and kept these twelve consecutive years long. Also when the Mountain Running Grand Prix series gained the status of an "IAAF Permit" by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in 2004. Telfes received this permit four times since then, was originally characterized even the first official IAAF event in Tyrol ever and this year the circle closes again.
Namely, when the WMRA World Cup race series on July 31st 2016 returns to Telfes in the Stubai Valley – 20 years after its founding. And then the Schlickeralmlauf will carry the IAAF Permit for a fifth time.
Routes and participants.
The International Schlickeralmlauf starts in the center of Telfes in the Stubai Valley and from there the track leads either over 7.5 km and 650 altitude metres to the Schlickeralm or over 11.5 km and 1,100 altitude metres to the Kreuzjoch mountain station in the hiking center Schlick 2000.
Also in 2016 a bunch of well-known mountain running athletes participate at the Schlickeralmlauf.
For example, the female record winner Andrea Mayer from Austria, who already has her ticket for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this year, Susanne Mair (AUT), who won the Schlick-eralmlauf last year, Petro Mamu from Eritrea, who still holds the fastest time record on this track with 54:55 min. and Isaac Kosgei from Kenia, who ran the second fastest time up to the Kreuzjoch in 2013 (57:03 min.).
Edited from Telfes Media
Source of the pictures (Media Telfes):
on front page:
- finish area last year;
on second page:
- Mamu (ERI) leader at this moment of WMRA W. Cup 2016.