WMRA Calendar
The WMRA calendar of international mountain races for 2003 now appears on our web page.
It consists of those races which have registered as associate members of WMRA, including the Grand Prix races, the Masters championship, the European championship and the World trophy.
Decisions & Results
The WMRA 2002 congress took place in conjunction with the World Trophy races.
Full results of the races can be seen via the link on our web page to the Innsbruck web page. There is also a brief report on the IAAF web page also accessible via the link.
Congress agreed to some World Trophy rule changes and these now appear under ‘,Rules’, See sections 1.4, 1.5, 2.6. and 3.
Congress also accepted the bid of Sauze d’,Oulx (Italy) to stage the 2004 World Trophy on the first weekend of September.
WMRA council accepted the bid of the same city to stage the World Masters Mountain Running Championships on the last weekend of August 2004.
Any international mountain race organiser who wish their event to appear in the WMRA international calendar, as associate member races, should contact WMRA secretary Bruno Gozzelino before 14th October.
Agreement has been reached with international mountain race organisers that in 2003 there will be just one Grand Prix series ‘,The WMRA Grand Prix’, A WMRA working group has been set up to agree rule and races for inclusion in 2003.
Arrangements for future events
The contract for the 2003 Masters World Mountain Running Championship has been signed.
The event will take place in the Black Forest area of Germany (Harmersbach) on Saturday September 27th 2003.
WMRA council now will accept bids for the 2004 Masters championships for a decision to be taken later this year. Details of what is required in the bid documents may be obtained from the WMRA General Secretary.
Bids for staging the 2002 and 2003 European Mountain Running Championships should be submitted to the EAA on the following timescale:
Notify the EAA of your intention to bid before 15th April 2002. You should then be sent the formal EAA bid document for completion. The bid document should be returned to the EAA by 15th June.
The reason for taking bids for two years this summer is to ‘,catch up’, with the EAA requirement that bids should be received two years before the date of the event. No doubt the EAA will be making a formal statement on this matter. This notice is by way of letting visitors to our mountain running web site have some forewarning.
The 2002 Masters (previously Veterans) WMRC will be staged in Innsbruck (Austria) on Saturday September 21st following the World Trophy in the same city the previous weekend.
As many of you will be aware, the original intention was for this competition to be organised by Kitzbuhel (Austria). After months of trying to obtain agreement for the conduct of the event by the signing of the ‘contract of agreement’ by the Kitzbuhel authorities, we were informed by the Mayor of Kitzbuhel that they would not sign the agreement. Our attempts to discover reasons (conducted by our council member in Austria, Roland Herzog) and come to another agreement had no success.
Therefore on 30th January, with the need for a settlement becoming urgent, we received confirmation that Innsbruck were prepared to stage the event, using the World Trophy organisation, and that they agreed with the contract. WMRA council members were consulted and agreed unanimously to a change of venue. A few days after receiving the signed contract from Innsbruck we also received one from Kitzbuhel, but clearly too late. WMRA abides by the agreement with Innsbruck and we can now look forward to course proposals (uphill only!) and other necessary details. These will be posted on a web page and in other places in the near future.
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