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World Masters Mountain Running Championships

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ39091162 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World Masters Mountain Running Championships is an international mountain running competition contested by athletes of the members of WMRA, World Mountain Running Association, the sport's global governing body.

The first edition was held in 2001 with female competitors in six age-groups from 35 and male competitors in seven age-groups from 40.

Editions

Winners

Multiple Edition Winners

This table shows athletes that have won the most races, from 2001 until the 2016 edition.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “World Masters Mountain Running Championships” is open-knowledge reference entry. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Masters and Mountain, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Masters and Mountain is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “World Masters Mountain Running Championships” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.