2012 European Mountain Running Championships

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2012 European Mountain Running Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition11th
Date7 July
Host cityDenizli, Turkey Turkey
Distances12.2 km +700m– Men
8.3 km +470m– Women
8.3 km +470m– Junior men
4.4 km +240m– Junior women

The 2012 European Mountain Running Championships were held on 7 July at Pamukkale in Denizli, Turkey. They were that year's area championships for mountain running, held by the European Athletic Association in conjunction with the Turkish Athletic Federation. The competition featured four races, with senior and junior races for both men and women. A total of 163 runners from 21 nations started the competition. The men's race was 12.2 km long and featured an ascent of 700 m.[1] The women's and junior men's races were 8.3 km long comprising a rise of 470 m.[2][3] The junior women's race was 4.4 km over a hill of 240 m.[4] Ahmet Arslan from Turkey took his sixth consecutive men's title,[1] while Swiss Monika Furholz won the gold medal in senior women's[2] category. Italian senior men's and British senior women's teams were the champions.[5] In the junior men's category, Turkish Ahmet Özrek became the champion.[3] Annabel Mason from United Kingdom was the gold medalist in junior women's race.[4] Turkish junior men's and junior women's teams took the gold medals in team ranking.[5] The event was dominated by the host nation Turkey, which won in total eight medals (four gold, three silver and one bronze) in six categories. It was the senior women's race, at which Turkey was not able to win any medal.

Results

Men

Rank Athlete Country Time (h:m:s)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Ahmet Arslan File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 49:46
File:Silver medal icon.svg Ercan Muslu File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 49:57
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Ionut Zinca File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 50:19
4 Gabriele Abate File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 50:33
5 Marco De Gasperi File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 50:49
6 Julien Rancon File:Flag of France.svg France 51:00
7 Xavier Chevrier File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 51:23
8 Simon Lechleitner File:Flag of Austria.svg Austria 51:26
Teams
Rank Team Points
File:Gold medal icon.svg File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 16
File:Silver medal icon.svg File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 19
File:Bronze medal icon.svg File:Flag of France.svg France 48
4 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 56
5 File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain 60
6 File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 64
7 File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 65
8 File:Flag of Portugal.svg Portugal 69
  • Totals: 49 starters

Women

Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Monika Furholz File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland 39:54
File:Silver medal icon.svg Nadezhda Leschinskaia File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 40:03
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Pavla Schorna Matyasova File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 40:07
4 Mary Wilkinson File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 40:10
5 Veronica Perez File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain 40:21
6 Emma Clayton File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 40:27
7 Antonella Confortola File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 40:54
8 Sarah McCormack File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 40:55
Teams
Rank Team Points
File:Gold medal icon.svg File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain 20
File:Silver medal icon.svg File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 30
File:Bronze medal icon.svg File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 30
4 File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 31
5 File:Flag of Spain.svg Spain 64
6 File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 65
7 File:Flag of France.svg France 78
8 File:Flag of Ireland.svg Ireland 85
  • Totals: 47

Junior men

Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Ahmet Özrek File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 35:18
File:Silver medal icon.svg Anton Palzer File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 36:26
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Vitaly Lagushin File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 36:42
4 Rodion Reshetnikov File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 36:52
5 Yetkin Tunçtan File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 37:04
Teams
Rank Team Points
File:Gold medal icon.svg File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 17
File:Silver medal icon.svg File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 28
File:Bronze medal icon.svg File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 29
  • Totals: 39 starters

Junior women

Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
File:Gold medal icon.svg Annabel Mason File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 20:25
File:Silver medal icon.svg Sevilay Eytemis File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 21:14
File:Bronze medal icon.svg Çeşminaz Yılmaz File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 21:45
4 Melanie Hyder File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 22:25
5 Marinela Nineva File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 22:31
Teams
Rank Team Points
File:Gold medal icon.svg File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 5
File:Silver medal icon.svg File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 5
File:Bronze medal icon.svg File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 12
  • Totals: 28 starters

Medal table

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey 4 3 1 8
2 File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom 2 1 3
3 File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy 1 2 3
4 File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland 1 1
5 File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia 1 2 3
6 File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany 1 1
7 File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg Bulgaria 1 1
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic 1 1
File:Flag of France.svg France 1 1
File:Flag of Romania.svg Romania 1 1
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg Slovenia 1 1
Total 8 8 8 24

Participation

A total of 21 nations had athletes, which took part in the 2012 Championships.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "European Trophy/European Championships - Results - Details-Men individual". World Mountain Running Association. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "European Trophy/European Championships - Results - Details-Women individual". World Mountain Running Association. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "European Trophy/European Championships - Results - Details-Junior Men individual". World Mountain Running Association. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "European Trophy/European Championships - Results - Details-Junior Women individual". World Mountain Running Association. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "European Trophy/European Championships - Results - Details-Teams". World Mountain Running Association. Retrieved 2013-09-01.