# 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.
The history of the competition lies in the European Mountain Running Trophy, which was first held in 1994 in Quantin, Belluno, Italy. It was officially sanctioned by the World Mountain Running Association in 1995 and continued until 2001, at which point the EAA introduced the official European Mountain Running Championships.
Exclusively a senior championships until 2009, the competition now features separate senior and junior (under 20s) races for both men and women. Medals are awarded on an individual and national team basis. For the team competition, the finishing positions of each country's top three runners are combined, and the team with the smallest cumulative total wins the medals.
The 2021 edition was cancelled. A new competition was started in 2022, the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, which was described as the "forerunner" to the European Mountain Running Championships. The Off-Road Running Championships was held in 2022 and 2024 and as of 2024, it is next scheduled to be held in 2026.

## Editions

| Edition | Year | Location | Country | Date | Events |
| 1st | 1994 | Ponte nelle Alpi, Venice | Italy | 13 July | 4 |
| 1st | 1995 | Valleraugue, Gard | France | 15 July | 4 |
| 2nd | 1996 | Llanberis, Wales | United Kingdom | 13 July | |
| 3rd | 1997 | Ebensee, Oberösterreich | Austria | 6 July | |
| 4th | 1998 | Sestriere, Piemonte | Italy | 15 July | |
| 5th | 1999 | Bad Kleinkirchheim, Kärnten | Austria | 4 July | |
| 6th | 2000 | Międzygórze, Dolnośląskie | Poland | 2 July | |
| 7th | 2001 | Cerklje, Gorenjska | Slovenia | 1 July | |
| 8th | 2002 | Câmara de Lobos, Madeira | Portugal | 7 July | |
| 9th | 2003 | Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige | Italy | 6 July | |
| 10th | 2004 | Korbielów, Śląskie | Poland | 4 July | |
| 11th | 2005 | Heiligenblut, Kärnten | Austria | 10 July | |
| 12th | 2006 | Úpice, Hradec Králové | Czech Republic | 9 July | |
| 13th | 2007 | Cauterets, Hautes-Pyrénées | France | 8 July | |
| 14th | 2008 | Zell am Harmersbach, Baden-Württemberg | Germany | 12 July | |
| 15th | 2009 | Telfes, Tirol | Austria | 12 July | |
| 16th | 2010 | Sapareva Banya, Kyustendil | Bulgaria | 4 July | |
| 17th | 2011 | Uludağ, Bursa | Turkey | 9 July | |
| 18th | 2012 | Pamukkale, Denizli | Turkey | 7 July | |
| 19th | 2013 | Borovets, Sofia | Bulgaria | 6 July | |
| 20th | 2014 | Gap, Hautes-Alpes | France | 12 July | |
| 21st | 2015 | Porto Moniz, Madeira | Portugal | 4 July | |
| 22nd | 2016 | Arco, Trentino | Italy | 2 July | |
| 23rd | 2017 | Kamnik, Upper Carniola | Slovenia | 8 July | |
| 24th | 2018 | Skopje | North Macedonia | 1 July | |
| 25th | 2019 | Zermatt | Switzerland | 7 July | |
| 26th | 2021 | | | | |

## Medals

All results at European Athletic Association web site.

### Men

| Year | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Tim- |
| 1994 | Andrea Agostini | 41:09 | Lucio Fregona | 41:33 | Fabio Ciaponi | 41:43 |
| 1995 | Helmut Schmuck | 56:53 | Antonio Molinari | 57:25 | Davide Milesi | 58:00 |
| 1996 | Jaime de Jesus Mendes | 1:03:16 | Thierry Breuil | 1:03:32 | Lucio Fregona | 1:04 |
| 1997 | Helmut Schmuck | 49:46 | Antonio Molinari | 50:48 | Peter Schatz | 50:56 |
| 1998 | Antonio Molinari | 53:02 | Andrew Pearson | 53:44 | Marco De Gasperi | 53:58 |
| 1999 | Antonio Molinari | 52:17 | Arnaud Fourdin | 52:34 | Richard Findlow | 53:20 |
| 2000 | Massimo Galliano | 50:22 | Richard Findlow | 50:56 | Antonio Molinari | 51:03 |
| 2001 | Antonio Molinari | 49:47 | Martin Bajcicák | 50:01 | Raymond Fontaine | 50:14 |
| 2002 | Alexis Gex-Fabry | 56:37 | Marco De Gasperi | 56:55 | Abdülkadir Türk | 57:52 |
| 2003 | Marco Gaiardo | 1:06:05 | Helmut Schmuck | 1:07:13 | Róbert Krupicka | 1:07:31 |
| 2004 | Marco De Gasperi | 44:06 | Florian Heinzle | 45:05 | Marco Gaiardo | 45:10 |
| 2005 | Florian Heinzle | 1:11:36 | Helmut Schiessl | 1:12:16 | Marco De Gasperi | 1:12:35 |
| 2006 | Marco Gaiardo | 57:42 | Selahattin Selçuk | 57:50 | Julien Rancon | 57:59 |
| 2007 | Ahmet Arslan | 1:08:39 | Marco De Gasperi | 1:08:50 | Marco Gaiardo | 1:09.09 |
| 2008 | Ahmet Arslan | 50:01 | Bernard Dematteis | 50:29 | Marco De Gasperi | 50:57 |
| 2009 | Ahmet Arslan | 58:26 | Marco De Gasperi | 59:09 | Sébastien Epiney | 59:19 |
| 2010 | Ahmet Arslan | 46:14 | Martin Dematteis | 46:40 | Marco De Gasperi | 47:19 |
| 2011 | Ahmet Arslan | 58:08 | Gabriele Abate | 58:40 | Bernard Dematteis | 59:41 |
| 2012 | Ahmet Arslan | 49:46 | Ercan Muslu | 49:57 | Ionut-Alin Zinca | 50:19 |
| 2013 | Bernard Dematteis | 56:30 | Alex Baldaccini | 57:35 | Ahmet Arslan | 57:47 |
| 2014 | Bernard Dematteis | 56:10 | Robbie Simpson | 56:19 | Martin Dematteis | 56:32 |
| 2015 | Johan Bugge | 1:02:35 | David Schneider | 1:02:49 | Alex Baldaccini | 1:02:56 |
| 2016 | Martin Dematteis | 53:33 | Bernard Dematteis | 53:34 | Ahmet Arslan | 54:09 |
| 2017 | Xavier Chevrier | 1:02:51 | Luis Saraiva | 1:03:34 | Francesco Puppi | 1:03:35 |
| 2018 | Bernard Dematteis | 46:51 | Cesare Maestri | 47:18 | Martin Dematteis | 47:47 |
| 2019 | Jacob Adkin | 53:21 | Stian Øvergaard | 53:46 | Xavier Chevrier | 54:02 |

### Women

| Year | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 1994 | Nives Curti | 30:28 | Anna Baloghová | 30:57 | Lucy Wright | 32:17 |
| 1995 | Eroica Spiess | 1:05:17 | Cristina Moretti | 1:05:20 | Carolina Reiber | 1:07:32 |
| 1996 | Isabelle Guillot | 53:09 | Maria Grazia Roberti | 53:22 | Nives Curti | 53:59 |
| 1997 | Eroica Spiess | 49:26 | Carol Greenwood | 50:06 | Isabella Crettenand-Moretti | 50:22 |
| 1998 | Rosita Rota Gelpi | 34:58 | Flavia Gaviglio | 35:47 | Pierangela Baronchelli | 36:14 |
| 1999 | Izabela Zatorska | 55:37 | Angela Mudge | 57:18 | Johanna Baumgartner | 57:34 |
| 2000 | Izabela Zatorska | 33:38 | Birgit Sonntag | 33:53 | Rosita Rota Gelpi | 34:17 |
| 2001 | Svetlana Demidenko | 56:30 | Angela Mudge | 57:08 | Catherine Lallemand | 57:28 |
| 2002 | Svetlana Demidenko | 39:59 | Catherine Lallemand | 41:05 | Anna Pichrtová | 42:01 |
| 2003 | Catherine Lallemand | 43:48 | Angela Mudge | 44:01 | Antonella Confortola | 44:30 |
| 2004 | Anna Pichrtová | 34:50 | Andrea Mayr | 36:27 | Rosita Rota Gelpi | 36:43 |
| 2005 | Andrea Mayr | 1:07:42 | Anna Pichrtová | 1:09:38 | Angéline Joly | 1:10:44 |
| 2006 | Anna Pichrtová | 41:28 | Mateja Kosovelj | 42:12 | Vittoria Salvini | 43:32 |
| 2007 | Anita Håkenstad Evertsen | 51:45 | Anna Pichrtová | 52.34 | Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu | 52:05 |
| 2008 | Elisa Desco | 40:00 | Constance Devillers | 40:18 | Sarah Tunstall | 40:48 |
| 2009 | Martina Strähl | 54:39 | Valentina Belotti | 55:28 | Andrea Mayr | 56:55 |
| 2010 | Marie-Laure Dumergues | 39:13 | Valentina Belotti | 39:29 | Elena Nagovitsyna | 39:44 |
| 2011 | Martina Strähl | 48:44 | Antonella Confortola | 49:09 | Lucija Krkoč | 49:25 |
| 2012 | Monika Fürholz | 39:54 | Nadezhda Leshchinskaya | 40:03 | Pavla Schorná Matyášová | 40:07 |
| 2013 | Andrea Mayr | 51:49 | Valentina Belotti | 52:54 | Mateja Kosovelj | 53:08 |
| 2014 | Andrea Mayr | 39:43 | Mateja Kosovelj | 40:53 | Sabine Reiner | 41:03 |
| 2015 | Andrea Mayr | 50:40 | Eli-Anne Dvergsdal | 53:05 | Emma Clayton | 53:36 |
| 2016 | Emily Collinge | 43:41 | Alice Gaggi | 44:08 | Sara Bottarelli | 44:24 |
| 2017 | Maude Mathys | 49:30 | Sarah Tunstall | 50:51 | Andrea Mayr | 51:43 |
| 2018 | Maude Mathys | 52:32 | Anaïs Sabrié | 56:41 | Emma Gould | 57:48 |
| 2019 | Maude Mathys | 1:00:18 | Andrea Mayr | 1:01:19 | Christel Dewalle | 1:02:48 |