The World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (from 2004 up to 2014 the name was World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge),^[1] is an annual international mountain running competition organised by the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA).

The race is a one-day long-distance running contest for both sexes which has individual and national team aspects. The host for the event changes on an annual basis, with the minimum requirements for the challenge being that the course is no longer than 45 kilometres (28 mi) in distance, includes an uphill ascent of at least 1.6 km (1 mile), and has a rough duration of between one hour and forty-five minutes and four hours for the elite men. The challenge does not take place on specially-made courses, but rather it is incorporated into pre-existing, traditional races.^[2]

The competition was first held in 2004 on a course from Sierre to Zinal.^[3] Since its inception, the challenge has been hosted at competitions including the Three Peaks Race in the United Kingdom, Switzerland's Jungfrau Marathon, and the Pikes Peak Marathon in the United States.^[4] The event has significant variance in its level of participation: the 2007 race at the Jungfrau Marathon attracted over 4200 runners of fifty nationalities, while at the 2011 of the competition there were 405 runners representing a total of 18 countries.^[5][6]

Editions

Edition	Year	Race	Location	Country	Date	Male Winner	Female Winner
1st	2004	Sierre-Zinal	Valais	Switzerland	8 August	Ricardo Mejía	Angeline Joly
2nd	2005	Marathon du Vignemale	Cauterets	France	24 July	Helmut Schiessl	Emma Murray
3rd	2006	Pikes Peak Ascent	Manitou Springs, Colorado	United States	20 August	Matt Carpenter	Emma Murray
4th	2007	Jungfrau Marathon	Bernese Oberland	Switzerland	7 September	Jonathan Wyatt	Anita Haakenstad-Evertsen
5th	2008	Three Peaks Race	Yorkshire	United Kingdom	26 April	Jethro Lennox	Anna Pichrtová
6th	2009	Kaisermarathon	Söll	Austria	10 October	Marc Lauenstein	Anna Pichrtová
7th	2010	Pikes Peak Ascent	Manitou Springs, Colorado	United States	21 September	Glenn Randall	Brandy Erholtz
8th	2011	Gorski Maraton	Podbrdo	Slovenia	18 June	Mitja Kosovelj	Philippa Maddams
9th	2012	Jungfrau Marathon	Bernese Oberland	Switzerland	8 September	Markus Hohenwarter	Stevie Kremer
10th	2013	Maraton Karkonoski	Szklarska Poreba	Poland	3 August	Mitja Kosovelj	Antonella Confortola
11th	2014	Pikes Peak Ascent	Manitou Springs, Colorado	United States	16 August	Sage Canaday	Allie McLaughlin
12th	2015	Zermatt Marathon	Zermatt	Switzerland	4 July	Tommaso Vaccina	Martina Strahl
13th	2016	Gorski Maraton	Podbrdo	Slovenia	18 June	Alessandro Rambaldini	Annie Conway
14th	2017	Giir di Mont	Premana	Italy	6 August	Francesco Puppi	Silvia Rampazzo
15th	2018[7]	Ultramarathon Gorski	Karpacz	Poland	24 June	Alessandro Rambaldini	Charlotte Morgan
16th	2019	K42 Adventure Marathon	Villa La Angostura	Argentina	16 November	Jim Walmsley	Cristina Simion
17th	2020	Haría Extreme Lanzarote	Haria	Spain	14 November

Winners

Individual

Men

Year
2004	Ricardo Mejía	Helmut Schiessl	Billy Burns
2005	Helmut Schiessl	Anton Vencelj	Daniel Bolt
2006	Matt Carpenter	Galen Burrell	Zac Freudenburg
2007	Jonathan Wyatt	Hermann Achmüller	Gerd Frick
2008	Jethro Lennox	Tom Owens	Mitja Kosovelj
2009	Marc Lauenstein	Jonathan Wyatt	Ricky Lightfoot
2010	Glenn Randall	Marc Lauenstein	Rickey Gates
2011	Mitja Kosovelj	Tom Owens	Robbie Simpson
2012	Markus Hohenwarter	Mitja Kosovelj	Hosea Tuei
2013	Mitja Kosovelj	Andrew Davies	Ionut Zinca
2014	Sage Canaday	Azerya Teklay	Andy Wacker
2015	Tommaso Vaccina	Andy Wacker	Francesco Puppi
2016	Alessandro Rambaldini	Marco De Gasperi	Mitja Kosovelj
2017	Francesco Puppi	Pascal Egli	Tayte Pollman
2018	Alessandro Rambaldini	Robert Krupička	Joseph Gray
2019	Jim Walmsley	Francesco Puppi	Oriol Cardona Coll
2021	Stian Angermund	Francesco Puppi	Jonathan Albon
2022	Stian Angermund	Thomas Roach	Luca Del Pero

Women

Year
2004	Angéline Joly	Maria Rodriguez	Isabelle Guillot
2005	Emma Murray	Marion Kapuscinski	Isabelle Guillot
2006	Emma Murray	Danielle Ballengee	Keri Nelson
2007	Anita Håkenstad Evertsen	Yelena Kaledina	Zhanna Malkova
2008	Anna Pichrtová	Angela Mudge	Angela Bateup
2009	Anna Pichrtová	Evgeniya Danilova	Anna Frost
2010	Brandy Erholtz	Kim Dobson	Anna Frost
2011	Philippa Maddams	Karen Alexander	Helen Fines
2012	Stevie Kremer	Sabine Reiner	Kim Dobson
2013	Antonella Confortola	Ornella Ferrara	Anna Celińska
2014	Allie McLaughlin	Morgan Arritola	Shannon Payne
2015	Martina Strähl	Aline Camboulives	Catherine Bertone
2016	Annie Conway	Antonella Confortola	Lucija Krkoč
2017	Silvia Rampazzo	Kasie Enman	Denisa Dragomir
2018	Charlotte Morgan	Dominika Stelmach	Silvia Rampazzo
2019	Cristina Simion	Adeline Roche	Blandine L'Hirondel

Team

Men

Year
2009	Kenya	England	Scotland
2010	United States	England	Germany
2011	Scotland	Slovenia	England
2012	Switzerland	United States	Germany
2013	Italy Emanuele Manzi Tommaso Vaccina Massimiliano Zanaboni	Czech Republic	Wales
2014	United States	Italy Tommaso Vaccina Xavier Chevrier Massimo Mei	Germany
2015	Italy Tommaso Vaccina Francesco Puppi Massimo Mei	United States	Kenya
2016	Italy Alessandro Rambaldini Marco De Gasperi Fabio Ruga	United Kingdom	Germany
2017	Italy Francesco Puppi Alessandro Rambaldini Luca Cagnati	United States	Czech Republic
2018	Czech Republic	United States	Italy Alessandro Rambaldini Daniele De Colo Emanuele Manzi
2019	Spain	United States	Italy Francesco Puppi Gabriele Bacchion Luca Cagnati

Women

Year
2009	Russia	Austria	Germany
2010	United States	Germany	Scotland
2011	England	Russia	Scotland
2012	United States	Switzerland	Austria
2013	Italy Antonella Confortola Ornella Ferrara Ivana Iozzia	Scotland	England
2014	United States	Italy Catherine Bertone Antonella Confortola Ivana Iozzia	Slovenia
2015	Switzerland	Italy Catherine Bertone Ivana Iozzia Francesca Iachemet	United States
2016	Italy Antonella Confortola Francesca Iachemet Debora Cardone	Slovenia	United Kingdom
2017	Italy Silvia Rampazzo Antonella Confortola Stéphanie Jiménez	United States	Romania
2018	Austria	United Kingdom	Romania
2019	France	Spain	Romania