| Wednesday, May 20 2009 - 2nd Balkan Mountain Running Championships |
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The second Balkan MR championships will be held on Sunday, 31. May in the Bulgarian city of Teveten, about 100km east from Sofia. Runners will compete in 4 categories on up-down course. Junior women will run the 4 km long lap with 300m elevation once, women and junior men 2 times and men three times. Bulgarian Athletic federation as organizer is expecting runners from 9 Balkan countries. 1st Balkan Championships was organized in 2008 in Bulgarian spa resort Sapareva Banya - the venue of European MR Championships 2010.
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| Wednesday, May 20 2009 - GP opening at the Grand-Ballon (21st May 2009) |
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The first scoring event of the WMRA Grand-Prix 2009 will be held at the Grand-Ballon Race in France on May 21st.
This is a season-opening race where top runners like race favorite Jonathan Wyatt assess their fitness and French citizens prepare for their National Championships.
The New Zealander is back on the top of the Vosges after his first success here in 2004 when he set a course record (58:19) on the 13,5km route that offers more than 1241m of elevation gain. Defending champion Emmanuel Meyssat is in good form having just won the second race of the French Mountain Cup in Seyssin-St-Nizier.
Meyssat will lead a solid French team with Julien Rancon, Said Jandari and Edouard Burrier. Two other runners to watch are Robert Krupicka (second last year at Sierre-Zinal) and Tarcis Ancay, the Swiss winner of Sierre-Zinal 2006. In the women's race a duel is expected between Anna Frost of New Zealand and last year's winner and course record holder (46:42 over the 8,5km and +830m course) Martina Strahl of Switzerland.
Last week volunteers from the local organizing committee were working to remove snow from the race course. Near the finish line the snow was piled between 1,50 to 1,80m high!
Tomo Sarf
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