The 2013

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. ...

were held on 6 July at

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. The competition featured four individual races: The men's race was 11.8 km long and with an ascent of 1152 m, the women's and junior men's races were 8.8 km long with an ascent of 1072 m. and the junior women's race was 3.5 km long with an ascent of 530 m. In the men's race,

Bernard Dematteis Bernard Dematteis (born 24 May 1986) is an Italian male mountain runner and sky runner, two times senior individual European champion at European Mountain Running Championships. Biography He won 10 medals from 2008 to 2016 at the World Mounta ...

ended Ahmet Arslan's six year winning streak by finishing first, over a minute ahead of

Alex Baldaccini Alex Baldaccini (born 4 April 1988) is an Italian male mountain runner who won WMRA World Cup The WMRA World Cup is an annual series of mountain running competitions organised by the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) that runs from aroun ...

who finished second and Arslan who finished third. In the women's race,

Andrea Mayr Andrea Mayr (born October 15, 1979) is a female long-distance runner from Austria. She also competes in mountain running and cycling. She set her personal best (2:30:43) in the women's marathon on April 19, 2009, winning the Vienna City Maratho ...

won her second title, beating

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 Runni ...

and Mateja Kosovelj by 1 minute 5 seconds and 1 minute 18 seconds respectively. In total 217 athletes from 27 countries participated.

Results

Men

Women

References

{{European Mountain Running Championships European Mountain Running Championships

International athletics competitions hosted by Bulgaria Sport in Sofia