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

European Mountain Running Championships
Status	active
Genre	sports event
Date	midyear
Frequency	annual
Inaugurated	1994
Organised by	European Athletic Association

The history of the competition lies in the European Mountain Running Trophy, which was first held in 1994 in Quantin, Belluno, Italy. It was officially sanctioned by the World Mountain Running Association in 1995 and continued until 2001, at which point the EAA introduced the official European Mountain Running Championships.^[1][2]

Exclusively a senior championships until 2009, the competition now features separate senior and junior (under 20s) races for both men and women. Medals are awarded on an individual and national team basis.^[3] For the team competition, the finishing positions of each country's top three runners are combined, and the team with the smallest cumulative total wins the medals.^[4]

The 2021 edition was cancelled.^[5] A new competition was started in 2022, the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, which was described as the "forerunner" to the European Mountain Running Championships.^[6] The Off-Road Running Championships was held in 2022 and 2024 and as of 2024^[update], it is next scheduled to be held in 2026.^[6]

Editions

Edition	Year	Location	Country	Date	Events
1st[7]	1994	Ponte nelle Alpi, Venice	Italy	13 July	4
1st	1995	Valleraugue, Gard	France	15 July	4
2nd	1996	Llanberis, Wales	United Kingdom	13 July
3rd	1997	Ebensee, Oberösterreich	Austria	6 July
4th	1998	Sestriere, Piemonte	Italy	15 July
5th	1999	Bad Kleinkirchheim, Kärnten	Austria	4 July
6th	2000	Międzygórze, Dolnośląskie	Poland	2 July
7th	2001	Cerklje, Gorenjska	Slovenia	1 July
8th	2002	Câmara de Lobos, Madeira	Portugal	7 July
9th	2003	Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige	Italy	6 July
10th	2004	Korbielów, Śląskie	Poland	4 July
11th	2005	Heiligenblut, Kärnten	Austria	10 July
12th	2006	Úpice, Hradec Králové	Czech Republic	9 July
13th	2007	Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées	France	8 July
14th	2008	Zell am Harmersbach, Baden-Württemberg	Germany	12 July
15th	2009	Telfes, Tirol	Austria	12 July
16th	2010	Sapareva Banya, Kyustendil	Bulgaria	4 July
17th	2011	Uludağ, Bursa	Turkey	9 July
18th	2012	Pamukkale, Denizli	Turkey	7 July
19th	2013	Borovets, Sofia	Bulgaria	6 July
20th	2014	Gap, Hautes-Alpes	France	12 July
21st	2015	Porto Moniz, Madeira	Portugal	4 July
22nd	2016	Arco, Trentino	Italy	2 July
23rd	2017	Kamnik, Upper Carniola	Slovenia	8 July
24th	2018	Skopje	North Macedonia	1 July
25th	2019	Zermatt	Switzerland	7 July
26th	2021

Medals

All results at European Athletic Association web site.^[8]

Men

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Tim-
1994	Andrea Agostini	41:09	Lucio Fregona	41:33	Fabio Ciaponi	41:43
1995	Helmut Schmuck	56:53	Antonio Molinari	57:25	Davide Milesi	58:00
1996	Jaime de Jesus Mendes	1:03:16	Thierry Breuil	1:03:32	Lucio Fregona	1:04
1997	Helmut Schmuck	49:46	Antonio Molinari	50:48	Peter Schatz	50:56
1998	Antonio Molinari	53:02	Andrew Pearson	53:44	Marco De Gasperi	53:58
1999	Antonio Molinari	52:17	Arnaud Fourdin	52:34	Richard Findlow	53:20
2000	Massimo Galliano	50:22	Richard Findlow	50:56	Antonio Molinari	51:03
2001	Antonio Molinari	49:47	Martin Bajcicák	50:01	Raymond Fontaine	50:14
2002	Alexis Gex-Fabry	56:37	Marco De Gasperi	56:55	Abdülkadir Türk	57:52
2003	Marco Gaiardo	1:06:05	Helmut Schmuck	1:07:13	Róbert Krupicka	1:07:31
2004	Marco De Gasperi	44:06	Florian Heinzle	45:05	Marco Gaiardo	45:10
2005	Florian Heinzle	1:11:36	Helmut Schiessl	1:12:16	Marco De Gasperi	1:12:35
2006	Marco Gaiardo	57:42	Selahattin Selçuk	57:50	Julien Rancon	57:59
2007	Ahmet Arslan	1:08:39	Marco De Gasperi	1:08:50	Marco Gaiardo	1:09.09
2008	Ahmet Arslan	50:01	Bernard Dematteis	50:29	Marco De Gasperi	50:57
2009	Ahmet Arslan	58:26	Marco De Gasperi	59:09	Sébastien Epiney	59:19
2010	Ahmet Arslan	46:14	Martin Dematteis	46:40	Marco De Gasperi	47:19
2011	Ahmet Arslan	58:08	Gabriele Abate	58:40	Bernard Dematteis	59:41
2012	Ahmet Arslan	49:46	Ercan Muslu	49:57	Ionut-Alin Zinca	50:19
2013	Bernard Dematteis	56:30	Alex Baldaccini	57:35	Ahmet Arslan	57:47
2014	Bernard Dematteis	56:10	Robbie Simpson	56:19	Martin Dematteis	56:32
2015	Johan Bugge	1:02:35	David Schneider	1:02:49	Alex Baldaccini	1:02:56
2016	Martin Dematteis	53:33	Bernard Dematteis	53:34	Ahmet Arslan	54:09
2017	Xavier Chevrier	1:02:51	Luis Saraiva	1:03:34	Francesco Puppi	1:03:35
2018	Bernard Dematteis	46:51	Cesare Maestri	47:18	Martin Dematteis	47:47
2019	Jacob Adkin	53:21	Stian Øvergaard	53:46	Xavier Chevrier	54:02

Women

Year	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time
1994	Nives Curti	30:28	Anna Baloghová	30:57	Lucy Wright	32:17
1995	Eroica Spiess	1:05:17	Cristina Moretti	1:05:20	Carolina Reiber	1:07:32
1996	Isabelle Guillot	53:09	Maria Grazia Roberti	53:22	Nives Curti	53:59
1997	Eroica Spiess	49:26	Carol Greenwood	50:06	Isabella Crettenand-Moretti	50:22
1998	Rosita Rota Gelpi	34:58	Flavia Gaviglio	35:47	Pierangela Baronchelli	36:14
1999	Izabela Zatorska	55:37	Angela Mudge	57:18	Johanna Baumgartner	57:34
2000	Izabela Zatorska	33:38	Birgit Sonntag	33:53	Rosita Rota Gelpi	34:17
2001	Svetlana Demidenko	56:30	Angela Mudge	57:08	Catherine Lallemand	57:28
2002	Svetlana Demidenko	39:59	Catherine Lallemand	41:05	Anna Pichrtová	42:01
2003	Catherine Lallemand	43:48	Angela Mudge	44:01	Antonella Confortola	44:30
2004	Anna Pichrtová	34:50	Andrea Mayr	36:27	Rosita Rota Gelpi	36:43
2005	Andrea Mayr	1:07:42	Anna Pichrtová	1:09:38	Angéline Joly	1:10:44
2006	Anna Pichrtová	41:28	Mateja Kosovelj	42:12	Vittoria Salvini	43:32
2007	Anita Håkenstad Evertsen	51:45	Anna Pichrtová	52.34	Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu	52:05
2008	Elisa Desco	40:00	Constance Devillers	40:18	Sarah Tunstall	40:48
2009	Martina Strähl	54:39	Valentina Belotti	55:28	Andrea Mayr	56:55
2010	Marie-Laure Dumergues	39:13	Valentina Belotti	39:29	Elena Nagovitsyna	39:44
2011	Martina Strähl	48:44	Antonella Confortola	49:09	Lucija Krkoč	49:25
2012	Monika Fürholz	39:54	Nadezhda Leshchinskaya	40:03	Pavla Schorná Matyášová	40:07
2013	Andrea Mayr	51:49	Valentina Belotti	52:54	Mateja Kosovelj	53:08
2014	Andrea Mayr	39:43	Mateja Kosovelj	40:53	Sabine Reiner	41:03
2015	Andrea Mayr	50:40	Eli-Anne Dvergsdal	53:05	Emma Clayton	53:36
2016	Emily Collinge	43:41	Alice Gaggi	44:08	Sara Bottarelli	44:24
2017	Maude Mathys	49:30	Sarah Tunstall	50:51	Andrea Mayr	51:43
2018	Maude Mathys	52:32	Anaïs Sabrié	56:41	Emma Gould	57:48
2019	Maude Mathys	1:00:18	Andrea Mayr	1:01:19	Christel Dewalle	1:02:48

See also

• World Mountain Running Championships
• World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge
• NACAC Mountain Running Championships
• South American Mountain Running Championships
• Commonwealth Mountain and Ultradistance Running Championships