SKYRUNNING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS READY TO RE-START: 9-11 JULY, VALL DE BOI

Posted by Héctor Rubio on April 8, 2021 in isf, isf races, trail running spain | 1 Comment

SKYRUNNING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS READY TO RE-START. Some good news to kick off the year’s sporting calendar. The Skyrunning World Championships and Youth World Championships are back with teams from no less than 29 countries participating across the two events. After the 2020 postponements, the championships are confirmed, and athletes are raring to get back in the mountains to compete.

Daniel Osanz, Gold Medal in 2019. Photo: FEDME

SKYRUNNING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021: 9-11 JULY, VALL DE BOI, PYRENEES.

The postponed 2020 Skyrunning World Championships will take place on July 9-11, 2021 in Vall de Boí in the Spanish Pyrenees, site of the 2016 World Championships. The bi-ennial World Championships will celebrate their sixth edition. The summer season of skyrunning 2021 heats engines with these two important confirmed world events, but we will have more news with the 2021 Skyrunning European Championships to be held in Portugal in November.

WORLD SKYRUNNING 2021: RETURNS TO THE CATALAN PYRENEES, VALL DEL BOI.

Athletes will face each other in three skyrunning disciplines: VERTICAL, SKY and SKYULTRA. World titles and 27 individual and official team medals will be awarded, as well as a combined title based on the best results of the Vertical and Sky races. The World Cup will feature some 185 athletes from 25 countries, who are part again, as happened in the previous edition of the 2016 World Cup, of the corpoative event of the Catalan brand Buff Mountain Festival.

The event is located in the magnificent Vall de Boí, a spectacular natural territory, close to the National Park of Aigstortes and Estany de San Maurici, and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, surrounded by peaks of 3,000 m and 200 mountain lakes. In 2019, the BUFF® Mountain Festival attracted 3,000 athletes and 15,000 spectators.

FEDME, the Spanish Mountain Sports Federation and ISF member for Spain, will sanction the events and oversee them with their referees. The organisation will be in the capable hands OCI Sport, with whom the ISF has collaborated on a number of high-profile events. WADA anti-doping tests will be carried out at the Championships.

WORLD SKYRUNNING 2021: 9-11 JULY PROGRAMM

The races will begin on Friday, July 9, 2021, with the VERTICAL discipline on the Buff Epic Trail VK, a 2.8 km vertical kilometer that will warm the atmosphere. The next day it will be SKYULTRA’s turn with the Buff Epic Trail 68K, while the Skyrunning World Championships will conclude on Sunday, July 11, with the Buff Epic Trail 42K, the scene of the SKY discipline.

YOUTH SKYRUNNING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Only two weeks to take a deep breath before diving into the 2021 Youth Skyrunning World Championships to see future skyrunning stars emerge at the spectacular venue at L’Aquila near Rome, Italy on July 30 and August 1, 2021. After the postponement of the 2020 events, the fifth edition of the Youth  Championships will see 187 athletes from 26 countries aged between 15 and 23 years-old battle for the 54 medals at stake.

On Friday, July 30 the young skyrunners will line-up for the VERTICAL discipline at the Gran Sasso Vertical Run, a 3.8 km race with 1,000m vertical climb that tops out at 2,130m altitude. After one day of rest the young runners will face the tough Gran Sasso SkyRace® – 23 km long with 2,369m vertical climb. The Youth A category, 15-17 year-old athletes will run on a reduced course. The 2019 Youth Championships saw a record number of nearly 200 young athletes from 28 countries compete with thirteen countries taking home medals.

The Youth Skyrunning World Championships are held annually with a view to developing and promoting the sport for the future. FISky, the Italian ISF member, will sanction the events and oversee them with their referees. WADA anti-doping tests will be carried out at the Championships. The skyrunning 2021 summer season is already heating up with these two important world events confirmed. More news to follow with the 2021 Skyrunning European Championships which will be held in Portugal in November.

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Post by Héctor Rubio for Trailrunningspain