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Zegama-Aizkorri
The Zegama-Aizkorri (also known a Zegama-Aizkorri Maratoia or Maratòn Alpina Zegama-Aizkorri) is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2002. It runs every year in Spain from Zegama up to Aizkorri (1551 m MLS) and finish in Zegama ( Basque Country) in May and consists of two races, a SkyMarathon (42.185 km) and from 2015 also a Vertical Kilometer both valid for the Skyrunner World Series. Winners All winners of marathon always disputed on the distance of 42.195 km. * Fastest time See also * Skyrunner World Series The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ... References External links Official web site {{Skyrunner World Series races Skyrunning competitions Skyrunner World Series Golden Trail Series Athletics competitions in Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emelie Forsberg
Emelie Tina Forsberg (born December 11, 1986) is a Swedish athlete specializing in trail running (skyrunning, mountain running) and ski mountaineering. She has won repeated victories in different disciplines, including European and World Championships. Ian Corless described Forsberg as: "Known for her incredible strength, endurance and break neck downhill running, she has also become an inspiration to men and ladies all over the world by her infectious passion and love of life which she daily shares via social media. No matter how hard the race, no matter how tough the conditions are, no matter how bad she is feeling, Emelie is guaranteed to provide a smile." Biography Childhood and youth Emelie Forsberg grew up in the small village Noraström in Kramfors Municipality, some north of Härnösand on Sweden's High Coast. Her father died when she was new-born and according to Forsberg her mother had a tough time combining work, studies and taking care of her two daughters. Orien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuela Brizio
Emanuela Brizio (born 10 September 1968) is an Italian female sky runner who won two Skyrunning World Cups (2009, 2010). Biography She started with the mountain running in 1999, at the age of 31, is considered among the greatest skyrunners of all-time, still active and winning at the threshold of 40 years, the ''Aquila di Aurano'' (''Aurano's Eagle''), as she is nicknamed, boasts its rich palmarès two World Cups (Skyrunner World Series) and 10 national titles at individual level. Achievements World Cup wins National titles *Italian Skyrunning Championships **Overall: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 (4) **SkyRace: 2011, 2014, 2015 (3) ** SkyMarathon: 2011, 2015 (2) **Ultra SkyMarathon: 2013 (1) Wins * Sentiero 4 Luglio SkyMarathon ** Half marathon: 2003 ** Marathon: 2004, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 (7) Other results * 2003: ** 1st, Mezzalama Skyrace * 2004: ** 1st, Zegama-Aizkorri, Spain ** 1st, Valposchiavo-Valmalenco, Italy * 2005: ** 1st, Valmalenco-Valposchiavo, Spai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stian Angermund
Stian Angermund, (born 27 August 1986) is a Norwegian trail runner and mountain runner who won the 2021 Amazing Thailand World Mountain and Trail Running Championships at the 40KM distance, He has also won the Salomon Golden Trail World Series in 2018 and 2021. Stian Angermund holds the record of the Zegama-Aizkorri trail race. Stian Angermund won two gold medals at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships held in Lleida (Spain), in the Vertical kilometer and SkyMarathon. Biography World Champion in Short Trail Running, November 2022 at the 2021 World Mountain and trail running championships. In 2017 he won the first edition of the Vertical Kilometer World Circuit. He also won two medals at the Skyrunning European Championships The Skyrunning European Championships are biennial (annual only the first three editions) skyrunning Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Mudge
Angela Mudge (born 8 July 1970) is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner. Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly. She has won the Scottish Hill Running Championships three times (1997, 1998, 2006),SHR championships page , SHR.UK.com the five times (1997–2000, 2008),List of Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Nilsson
Ida Nilsson (born February 8, 1981) is a Swedish long-distance runner who also competes in ski mountaineering. In 2003 – 2006 she won a total of ten gold medals in Swedish championships in track & field and cross country running, plus two NCAA gold medals. After many years away from training Nilsson won the Swedish championship in ski mountaineering in 2016 and a couple of months later won the prestigious Transvulcania ultramarathon. Childhood and youth Nilsson hails from Kalmar in the flat southern Sweden. She grew up in a sports family where both her father Carl-Gustaf ”Calle” and mother Katarina competed at an elite level. Two brothers, Marcus and David, and a sister, Johanna, have belonged to the Swedish national team in athletics. At the 2002 Swedish cross country championships the family walked home with four gold medals, one silver and one bronze. In 2001–2005 Nilsson studied at the Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA. She and her sister, Johanna Nil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Lightfoot
Ricky William Lightfoot (born 31 March 1985) is a British runner who has been a world champion in trail running and a medallist in the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge. Biography Lightfoot began competing in fell races at the age of fourteen after being inspired by his school caretaker Brian Taylor and was encouraged by his parents Robert and Kathleen. He has been sponsored by Salomon since 2008. Lightfoot is a member of Ellenborough AC. He has won several of the most prestigious fell races, including the Three Peaks Race, Wasdale, Borrowdale, Ennerdale, the Three Shires and Skiddaw. He won the Lakeland Classics Trophy series in 2007 and 2015. He has also competed domestically on other surfaces, winning the Brampton to Carlisle and Derwentwater 10 road races and the Cumbria Cross Country Championships. Internationally, Lightfoot won the Zegama-Aizkorri race in 2009 and finished third in that season’s Skyrunner World Series. He was also third in the World L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aizkorri
Aizkorri or Aitzgorri (, meaning in Basque 'bare stone', literally 'red stone') is a massif, the highest one of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain) with 1,551 m AMSL at its highest point (peak Aitxuri, meaning 'white stone'). The massif is formed by a crest of limestone summits aligned north-west to south-east all in a row at the south of the province of Gipuzkoa, namely Artzanburu, Andreaitz, Arbelaitz (1,513 m), Iraule (1,511 m), Aitxuri, Aketegi (1,549 m) and Aizkorri (1,528 m). Despite its slightly lower height, this summit is the most popular one. The Aizkorri massif is one of the most conspicuous geological formations on the Basque Mountains range. The mountain range is delimited at either end by the Biozkornia and San Adrian passes. On the one end the massif stretches west to the Aloña massif, on the other one to the Altzania massif (highest summit Aratz). The major Madrid-Irun railway cuts its way through the northern steep slopes of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rémi Bonnet
Rémi Bonnet (born 3 March 1995) is a Swiss male ski mountaineer, mountain runner and sky runner, who won 2015 Skyrunner World Series in the Vertical Kilometer. He is also the winner of the 2018 Zegama-Aizkorri race. Selected results Skyrunning ;2015 * Champion, Skyrunner World Series ( Vertical Kilometer) * 1st The Rut 25K * 1st Lantau 2 Peaks * 1st Limone Extreme Vertical Kilometer ;2017 * 2nd Dolomites Vertical Kilometer References External links Rémi Bonnetprofile at Association of Road Racing Statisticians Rémi Bonnetprofile at Red bull Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks of Austria, Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With 38% market share, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2019. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwid ....com Rémi Bonnetweb site 1995 births Living people Swiss sky runners Swiss mountain runners Swiss male ski mountaineers Skyrunning World Championships winners Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maite Maiora
Maite Maiora Elizondo (born 20 June 1980) is a Spanish female sky runner and trail runner, who won gold medal at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships in SkyMarathon, the final ranking of Sky Extreme and overall title of the 2017 Skyrunner World Series and bronze medal at the 2015 IAU Trail World Championships held in Annecy. Biography In skyrunning she won also silver medal at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships in Vertical Kilometer, bronze medal in Vertical Kilometer at the 2015 Skyrunning European Championships held in Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc ( frp, Chamôni), more commonly known as Chamonix, is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France. It was the site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924. In 2019, it had .... 2017 SWS Victory Overall race by race. References External links Maite Maioraprofile at All-Athletics Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Maiora, Maite 1980 births Living people Spanish sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadei Pivk
Tadei Pivk (born 20 July 1981) is an Italian male sky runner, who won two Skyrunning World Cup in the SkyRace (2015, 2016). Biography He won 2015 Skyrunner World Series and 2016 Skyrunner World Series in SkyRace category. Selected results National titles * Italian Long Distance Mountain Running Championships ** Long distance mountain running: 2013 *Italian Skyrunning Championships **Overall: 2010 **SkyRace Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running up to or exceeding where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons and ...: 2013, 2014 ** SkyMarathon: 2012, 2015, 2016 References External links Tadei Pivkprofile at Nortec {{DEFAULTSORT:Pivk, Tadei 1981 births Living people Italian sky runners Italian male mountain runners 21st-century Italian people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oihana Kortazar
Oihana Kortazar Elizondo (born 29 June 1984) is a Spanish female sky runner who won gold medal at the 2011 Skyrunning European Championships in SkyRace and the overall title of the 2011 Skyrunner World Series. References External links Oihana Kortazar profile at Myskyrunning.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Kortazar, Oihana 1984 births Living people Spanish sky runners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zegama
Zegama, popularly known as "The shadow of Aizkorri", is a town and municipality in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. Nature and culture Zegama's main characteristic is its natural location as the last Gipuzkoan town up the valley of river Oria, very close to the Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park, in which the highest mountain in the Basque Autonomous Community can be found, the popular Aizkorri summit (1,528 m), located at the same name mountain range towering over the whole area. The Oria river, the longest one in the province of Gipuzkoa, rises in several springs and their corresponding streams flowing down the dramatic slopes of the valley that merge in a main stream before the nucleus of the town. The southern Otzaurte hamlet (IPA: /o'tsaurte/) stands on the dividing line of the waters running onto the Mediterranean watershed and those flowing north to the Atlantic through the Oria river. The hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
