Mountain Attack

The "Mountain Attack" is an annual Austrian ski mountaineering competition, carried out near Saalbach since 1999.

The competition is separated in a short distance and a long distance course, each offered for a female and a male racer class. There is a separate ranking of racers, older than 45 years. The marathon track passes six summits, and includes an altitude difference of 3,000 meters for the total ascent and for skiing down.

Best marathon racers

(since 2004: "Mountain Man")

year	participant	country	total time (h:min:sec)
1999	Omar Oprandi	Italy	3:05:39
2000	Fabio Meraldi	Italy	2:59:51
2001	Luciano Fontana	Italy	2:57:35
2002	Mirco Mezzanotte	Italy	2:52:01.0
2003	Martin Hornegger	Austria	2:45:05.0
2004	Andreas Ringhofer	Austria	2:40:28
2005	Andreas Ringhofer	Austria	2:39:42
2006	Guido Giacomelli	Italy	2:27:36.7
2007	Guido Giacomelli	Italy	2:32:00.0
2008	Andreas Ringhofer	Austria	2:30:51.7
2009	Guido Giacomelli	Italy	2:32:06.9
2010	Konrad Lex	Germany	2:36:27.0
2011	Kílian Jornet Burgada	Spain	2:33:32.0
2012	Kílian Jornet Burgada	Spain	2:17:14.22

Best female racer was Simone Hornegger from 2002 to 2006 (in a row), and from 2007 to 2009 Francesca Martinelli won the race in series. In 2010, Michaela Eßl placed first,^[1] in 2011 Mireia Miró Varela,^[2] and in 2012 Michaela Eßl^[3] once again.

External links

• Official site