Si avvicina a grandi passi l'edizione 2015 del Tecnica-MaXi-Race, in programma tra il 28 e il 31 maggio 2015 ad Anecy (Francia): già registrati oltre 7000 runner da 51 diverse nazioni per partecipare a ben sette diversi format di gara.

Nel contesto della manifestazione avrà luogo la 5^ edizione dello IAU Trail World Championships.
Lo slogan: An event created by runners for all runners!

An event on the "rise" and increasingly international... Since its inception in 2011, the Tenica-MaXi-Race has grown at an extremely fast pace and has experienced a fivefold increase in the number of participants over just 3 editions.

This year the event will host the 2015 IAU Trail World Championships, welcoming a swarm of elite athletes from the four corners of the planet, as well as thousands of amateur enthusiasts happy to rub shoulders on the same trails with the world's best trail runners and discover the amazing ridgelines and summits high above Lake Annecy and the alpine town of Annecy-le-Vieux.

Seven open race formats around Lake Annecy. From 86km to 4km, the Tenica-MaXi-Race equals seven races that will take place from May 29 to 31, 2015. "Created by runners for runners", all race formats for this open event offer participating runners, elite or amateur, their distance of choice.

86 km, solo, as a two or four person relay team, in one or two days... 43 km for a half loop around the lake... 15 km exclusively for women... 850 m straight up...

There will be hundreds of families on the trails all along the course. Men, women, children, groups of friends or elite international runners, the Tenica-Maxi-Race brings together all of the key ingredients for a major trail race and represents one of the most important events at the beginning of the season.

Runners from all walks of life

Running for a cause? After the Marathon des Sables in 2014, Gilles wanted to continue to run to benefit the France Parkinson association (his father has suffered from Parkinson's disease for 7 years). With 10 marathons under his belt, he is running the Tecnica-MaXi-Race with two friends to discover the region, to meet other trail runners, and to bolster his own individual performance.

Running with friends? For the 15k, a group of 4 girlfriends from the ASPTT Charleville-Mézières athletics club have only recently started running. An idea, a fun challenge, and a spot at the starting line for the 15km Trail Découverte, their goal for the spring!

Running, an intergenerational connection? Six of them will participate in every race: Huges and his sister Amélie will run the Tenica-MaXi-Race. The beautiful landscapes around Lake Annecy and the opportunity to run the same course as the World Championships are their motivation. Héloïse, their friend, will run the Marathon Race, Aurélie, another friend, and Stéphanie, Hugues' wife, will run the Trail Découverte on Sunday for their first experience trail running. "They will also be our assistance crew for our race." Last but not least, Anaïs,Stéphanie's 10 year old daughter, will run the Kids' Trail in order to partake in the event. Only Saël, Hugues and Stéphanie's 2 year old son will sit this one out, he is just a bit too young!

Running as a couple? Couples in love who plan to run the Tenica-MaXi-Race together... for better or worse!

By the numbers

• 7000 registered runners
• 51 countries
• 400 volunteers
• 780 barriers
• 3.5km of banners
• 25,000 L of water and only 4000 bottles
• 6800 bottles of Gatorade
• 2800 bottles of Pepsi
• 180kg of peanuts, walnuts, and cashews
• 150 boxes of Quaker oats
• Record participation for the relays: 400 teams
• The Femina Race (100% for women): more than 300 women
• 68 years old, the oldest person participating in the Femina Race
• 80 years old for the event's oldest participant
• For the 86km Tecnica-MaXi-Race, 787 runners from 40 to 49 years old.
• For all races combined, 84% of registered runners are from France and 27.45% from the Haute-Savoie, the most represented French department.

Running in an exceptionally beautiful natural environment. Lake Annecy, located at 446 meters elevation, is the second largest glacial lake in France, and formed approximately 18,000 years ago. The Bornes Mountains rise steeply over the eastern shoreline, while on the west shore the Bauges Mountains rise more gently. The lake's southern end is a marshy area protected since 1974, when the Bout-du-Lac Nature Reserve was created. Unique flora and fauna live there. To the east is the Roc de Chère Nature Reserve, another of the area's major ecological sites where steep cliffs plunge into the lake's clear waters. These cliffs provide refuge to the crag martin and the peregrine falcon, as well as more than 560 flourishing species of flowers and plants.

In this exceptional natural setting, in the town of Annecy-le-Vieux, sports are ubiquitous. Paragliding, rock climbing, kayaking, sailing, rowing, hiking, and trail running to name a few. There are more than 40 sports clubs with a total of 6000 members. This athletic town hosts major sporting events, and well-known athletes live in the area, like Edgar Grospiron, three-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist in mogul skiing, Cyrille Mark, French acrobatic paragliding champion, Vincent Jay, gold medalist in the sprint biathlon, Sylvie Becaert, silver medalist in the biathlon relay at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and sprinter Chistophe Lemaitre, who was junior European and World champion in 2009, European Champion in 2010, European Team Champion in 2011, European Champion in 2012...

PROGRAM

Thursday, May 28

19:00: Opening ceremony for the 2015 IAU Trail World Championships

Location: along the shores of Lake Annecy

Race start times

The first to finish

Awards ceremony

Lo scorso weekend (tra il 28 febbraio e il 1° marzo 2015) si è tenuto il raduno della squadra nazionale di ultramaratona di 24 ore organizzato a Cantalupa (Torino) dall’Associazione Italiana Ultramaratona & Trail (IUTA), in vista dei Campionati del Mondo di 24 Ore, in programma a Torino l’11 e 12 aprile.

Gli atleti convocati sono stati sottoposti a test tecnici, sedute di allenamento intensive e visite mediche al fine di perfezionare la preparazione per i Campionati del Mondo.

Gli ultramaratoneti hanno anche “collaudato” il percorso ufficiale dei Mondiale che si correrà al Parco Ruffini di Torino, un percorso di 2000 metri particolarmente sfidante, che include anche un breve tratto in salita.

Durante la competizione di aprile gli atleti dovranno percorre i 2000 metri di tracciato per 24 ore, giorno e notte, senza sosta.

Gli atleti convocati al raduno sono stati: Daniele Baranzini, Federico Borlenghi, Diego Ciattaglia, Ivan Cudin, Nicolangelo D'Avanzo, Denis Lusi, Andrea Marcato, Tiziano Marchesi, Stefano Montagner, Nerino Paoletti, Paolo Rovera, Antonio Tallarita, Monica Barchetti, Monica Casiraghi, Sonia Lutterotti, Alica Nagyova, Laura Ravani, Sara Valdo e Luisa Zecchino.

Al raduno erano presenti anche Gregorio Zucchinali, presidente della IUTA e Stefano Scevaroli, coordinatore tecnico Fidal per l'ultramaratona e l'ultratrail, che - insieme allo staff tecnico IUTA - hanno osservato e seguito gli atleti durante i test e tutti gli allenamenti.

Le prove svolte nel corso del weekend serviranno allo staff tecnico anche per definire la squadra che gareggerà ai Mondiali.

Appuntamento quindi l’11 e  al12 aprile a Torino per Campionati del Mondo di 24 Ore.

Tutti i rappresentanti delle Federazioni nazionali IAU hanno ormai ricevuto The General Information Sheet (GIS), relativo al prossimo Campionato del Mondo IAU 24 ore (27^ edizione), cui è abbinato il 20° campionato Europeo 100 km, e che si svolgerà a Torino tra l'111 e il 12 aprile prossimi, con tutte le necessarie informazioni sulla gara, comprese quelle relative alle sistemazioni e alla logistica.
Questa la news, pubblicata sul sito della IAU il 17.01.2015 (che viene riportato per esteso con inclusi i link che rimandano alla lista degli iscritti, uomini e donne).

IAU 24H World and European Championships, Turin, Italy 11th/12th April 2015.

All IAU Member Federations have been sent the General Information Sheet and the PEF and FEF this afternoon -17th January – with the deadline for the return of the completed PEF by February 1st.

The General Information Sheet (see attached) contains all the information about the race, accommodation and time schedule. Each country will be sent the information about the travel grants which are available for their athletes. We are looking forward to seeing a great turnout of athletes in Turin and we and the Local Organising Committee are hoping that the Federations will respect the deadlines for the PEF February 1st and FEF ( March 1stth) so that the final details and accommodation can be worked out as soon as possible. The early birds will get the most choice!.

Also attached are the latest lists of qualifying 24H performances for travel grants for men and women

Sono stati pubblicati nell'apposita sezione dei Criteri di selezione (MODULI/NORMATIVE/CLASS) del sito web della IUTA (Italian Ultrarunning Trail Association) i Criteri relativi al Mondiale 2015 di Ultra Trail, che si svolgerà il 30 maggio  2015 in Francia ad Annecy.

Segui il link

S'è concluso con la cerimonia protocollare delle premiazioni il 27°Campionato del Mondo IAU 100 km (IAU 100 km World Championships), a Doha, Qatar.
La gara si è disputata nell'Aspire Zone, su di un circuito di 5 km da ripetere 20 volte. Una partecipazione sfortunata per i colori italiani, che non ha consentito di cogliere i risultati attesi.
La competizione si è svolta prevalentemente in notturna, con la partenza - ora locale - alle 18.00 (16.00 ora italiana) del 21 novembre 2014. 
La temperatura non è stata troppo elevata: alla partenza, infatti si registravano 20° gradi.
Si sono svolti contestualmente anche il Campionato del Mondo 100 km Master e quello della GCC, cioè della confederazione degli Stati del Golfo.
Il Campionato del mondo si è svolto in maniera ineccepibile, con risultati di rilievo tecnico e con il record, registrato per la prima volta, di 13 uomini che hanno finito con tempi inferiori a 7 ore e 10 donne che hanno concluso sotto le 8 ore.
Al termine della cerimonia delle premiazioni è stato dato l'annuncio che Il prossimo campionato del Mondo 100 km si svolgerà a Winschoten in Olanda. 

Di seguito il report finale dal sito ufficiale della IAU e i link alle classifiche ufficialmente approvate, pubblicate con un certo ritardo a causa del ricorso presentato dalle squadra di Gran Bretagna ed USA, poiché alcuni membri della squadra femminile russa (ed uno di quella maschile) non indossavano durante la gara l'abbigliamento previsto dalle propria federazione nazionale.
Il ricorso, accolto e valutato dai giudici di gara, ha portato alla non validazione dei risultati della squadra russa sia in campo maschile sia in campo femminile, con una conseguente variazione nella classifica a squadre. 

King and Greenwood take IAU 100km World Titles! The 27^th IAU 100km World Championships took place on 21^st November 2014 in Doha Qatar. This was the first time the championships were held in the Middle East. The race was hosted on Aspire grounds in Doha and took runners around the facility in a 5km loop. 

There were two hundred athletes in the field representing thirty eight countries which was a record for the number of countries being represented at IAU world championships. There was also a Masters 100km Championships and the Inaugural 100km GCC Championships being run concurrently.

In the Men’s race, Max King (USA) won the world championships with a time of 6:27:43. Jonas Buud (SWE) finished in 2^nd place running 6:32:04 and Jose Antonio Requejo (ESP) finished in 3^rd place in a time of 6:37:01.

The starting men’s field was quite deep with three runners, Vasily Larkin (RUS), Steve Way (GBR) and defending champion Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) all having run within minutes of each other. The pre-race favorites were all in the running with Larking taking an early lead with Nojo Hideo (JPN). The chasing group contained Way, Calcaterra, Buud, King, Alberico Di Cecco (ITA) and ten other runners.

The race conditions were not too warm, with temperatures in mid to low 20 Celsius and it was brave move for Larkin to take the lead. As the race wore on, Larkin lost his lead to the chase group with King taking the lead around the 60km mark. Buud running his trademark race of chasing from the back started coming strong in the third quarter of the race to take command of the silver place. Requejo running most of the race with Asier Cuevas (ESP) faded for a couple of laps after the half way point but then picked up the pace to take the bronze medal.

In the team competition, United States of America won the men’s title with a combined time of 20:08:06. Japan won 2^nd place with 20:55:09 and Great Britain took third place with 20:57:01.

Ellie Greenwood (GBR) took the women’s race and became world champion with a time of 7:30:48. Chiyuki Mochizuki (JPN) finished 2^nd running 7:38:23. Joasia Zakrzewski (GBR) finished in the 3^rd place with 7:42:02.

The women’s field was as deep as the men’s field.  Defending Champions Amy Sproston (USA), Monica Carlin (ITA) and Irina Antrapova (RUS) all were having times within a couple of minutes of each other in the last three years. It was Rita Nordsveen (NOR) who took the early lead being familiar with the race course having run it three weeks back at the 50km World Trophy Final. The chase group behind her included all the pre-race favourites and Croatian trio of Marija Vrajic, Nikolina Sustic and Veronika Jurisic.

The lead was relinquished a few laps later when Sproston feeling strong took first place. She ran well until 100 km specialist Vrajic running in the pack behind Sproston took over the lead. Greenwood feeling strong took over the chase group and placed herself firmly as the leader around the 55km mark. She kept this lead until the very end. Mochizuki paced herself very well and took over the field in the later stages to claim second place. Zakrzewski with a second place finish recently at the Trophy Final ran the course well and finished in a strong third place.

In the team competition, Great Britain took the top honours with a combined time of 22:56:27. Japan took the silver medal with 23:22:32 and the United States of America took third place with 24:05:25.

A new record was also created with thirteen men finishing under 7 hours and ten women finishing under 8 hours.
An outstanding performance by the athletes in a very deep field.  The top 5 male and female athletes shared a total purse of $10,000.

Aspire hosted an outstanding championships.
They will be the site of the IAU 50km World Championships from 2015-2017.
Next year the 100km World Championships will take place in Winschoten, the Netherlands.

Nadeem Khan
Director of Communications
nadeem.khan@iau-ultramarathon.org