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WORLD MOUNTAIN RUNNING ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER 2006 Issue No 11 March 2006 Jioulia Mochalova Vedat Gunen (Russia) (Turkey) Jonathan Wyatt Kate McIlroy (N. Zealand) (N. Zealand) 2005 WORLD MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONS WORLD MOUNTAIN RUNNING ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL Two thousand and six marks the start of my fourth 4-year period as the shorter distance World Trophy . In this, we have received the support president of WMRA. of the organisers of the world’s most prestigious mountain races, Sierre- When I took over on the retirement of our first president, Angelo de Zinal (SUI), Cauteretes (FRA), Pikes Peak (USA), and Jungfrau (SUI). Biasi, in 1993, (Gap) the international mountain running movement was This year, 2006 sees the introduction of the first bi-annual European still in its infancy and the workload was relatively light. Our competition Masters championships in cooperation with EVAA. schedule was just one event‚ the World Trophy. Over the past 12 years we have tried to show that, It is tremendously encouraging to see the results of the although European countries are in a large majority, we work of WMRA since then. are a movement with worldwide interest as our World In 1995, we staged our first European Trophy event, Trophy was granted to Isle de la Reunion, Malaysia, USA, which evolved into the present European Championship and New Zealand in 2002 after some years of negotiation with EAA. WMRA received $15,000 in financial support from In 1997, we introduced a junior womens category to IAAF in 1993. Today, thanks to the excellent working the World Trophy, and at the 2005 Congress we voted relationship and cooperation with IAAF, we receive in favour of a reserved place for a woman on the $50,000.
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