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The 2010
*Totals: 80 starters, 78 finishers, 19 national teams.
*Totals: 64 starters, 60 finishers, 13 national teams.
Team Rankings Junior Women
. 2010 European Mountain Running Championships. Retrieved on 2010-07-06.
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European Mountain Running Championships
The European Mountain Running Championships is an annual international mountain running race. Inaugurated in 2002, it is organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA) in July each year. The venue for the championships is changed each year.
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were held on 4 July in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria
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. They were that year's area championships for mountain running, held by the European Athletic Association
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in conjunction with the Bulgarian Athletic Federation
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. The competition featured four races, with senior and junior races for both men and women. The 2010 competition featured an uphill–downhill course format. A total of 237 runners from 24 nations started the competition and two further nations (Norway
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and Greece
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) were present as observers.Eight Nations on the podium at the 9th European Mountain Running Championships: reportWorld Mountain Running Association
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. Retrieved on 2010-07-06.
The men's race was 12.2 km long and featured an ascent and descent of 685 m on each of its three laps. The women's and junior men's races were 9 km long comprising two laps with a rise and fall of 495 m. The junior women's race was one lap of 4.6 km over a hill of 235 m.
Ahmet Arslan took his fourth consecutive men's title by some distance, while Italians Martin Dematteis
Martin Dematteis (born 24 May 1986) is an Italian male mountain runner and sky runner, one time senior individual European champion at European Mountain Running Championships (2016).
He won a bronze medal in the sport of athletics at senior level ...
and Marco De Gasperi completed the podium and helped Italy
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retain its undefeated streak in the men's team competition. The 2010 Grand Ballon
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race winner Marie Laure Dumergues took the women's title continuing her good form in a breakthrough year. Valentina Belotti
Valentina Belotti (born 4 April 1980) is an Italian female mountain runner, world champion at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.
Biography
At individual senior level she won 4 medals (1 gold and 3 silver) at the World Mountain Runnin ...
was the women's runner-up for a second year running and Elena Nagovitsyna was the bronze medallist. Hüseyin Pak won the junior men's race while Denisa Dragomir was the women's junior champion.
Results
Men
*Totals: 80 starters, 78 finishers, 19 national teams.
Women
*Totals: 64 starters, 60 finishers, 13 national teams.
Junior men
*Totals: 59 starters, 58 finishers, 15 national teams.Junior women
*Totals: 39 starters, 38 finishers, 12 national teams.. 2010 European Mountain Running Championships. Retrieved on 2010-07-06.
Participation
A total of 24 nations had athletes which took part in the 2010 Championships. On top of this, Norway and Greece had observers present. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *References
External links
Official website
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European Mountain Running Championships
The European Mountain Running Championships is an annual international mountain running race. Inaugurated in 2002, it is organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA) in July each year. The venue for the championships is changed each year.
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European Mountain Running Championships
The European Mountain Running Championships is an annual international mountain running race. Inaugurated in 2002, it is organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA) in July each year. The venue for the championships is changed each year.
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International athletics competitions hosted by Bulgaria