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<h2>European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships</h2>
<p>The European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships is the forerunner to the European Mountain Running Championships and&nbsp;combines the disciplines of trail and mountain running with races for both elite and recreational athletes.</p>
<p>The first edition of the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships took place in El Paso on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands on 1-3 July 2022 and the 2024 edition took place in Annecy, France from 31 May-2 June 2024.</p>
<p>At the 2024 edition, France topped the medal table thanks to their exploits in the trail races in which the swept all eight medals. The French took clean sweeps in both the individual races and the team titles as well.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The 2026 edition is due to take place in Slovenia.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>Five-time European champion Maud Mathys will lead the Swiss challenge at the European Off-Road Championships in Annecy, France on 31 May-2 June.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>The remarkable 37 year old won both the classic hill race and the up and down race at the inaugural edition of these championships two years ago in El Paso on the island of La Palma, Spain, adding to three titles previously won at the European Mountain Running Championships.</p>
<p>An off-road icon, she is a four-time winner of Switzerland&rsquo;s famed Sierre-Zinal mountain running race and a former champion at the Marathon di Mont Blanc, so has pedigree in the French Alps.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Also in the team is Dominik Rolli who took silver in the senior men&rsquo;s classic hill race and bronze in the up and down race two years ago.</p>
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<li><a href="https://swiss-athletics.ch/de/blog/2024/05/03/28-laeuferinnen-und-laeufer-fuer-offroad-em-selektioniert/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full team</a></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Portgual have confirmed the selection of 18 athletes for the second edition of the European Off-Road Running Championships taking place in Annecy, France 30 May-2 June.</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Iberian nation has a proud history of endurance running especially on the track and roads - and hosted two editions of what was formerly the European Mountain Running Championships -&nbsp;but will be seeking to improve upon their results at the last edition of the championships in El Paso, Spain where their best placing was seventh in the senior men&rsquo;s classic hill team standings.</p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://fpaportalonline.blob.core.windows.net/portalfpa-public/2024/05/Convocatoria-Campeonato-da-Europa-Off-Road-Annecy-2024-ATUALIZADA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full team</a></li>
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Portugal announce team for European Off-Road Running Championships

<p><strong>With one month to go until the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships in Annecy, France the host nation have named a strong team that is expected to challenge for medals in many of the races.</strong></p>
<p>The second edition of the championships brings together the continent&rsquo;s finest mountain and trail runners on the spectacular courses in the French Alps across three days on 31 May-2 June.</p>
<h2>Proven winners in French team</h2>
<p>Nearly 500 runners are expected to compete over ten challenging disciplines on mountainous and trail terrain in senior and U20 male and female classes. And the host nation will be there in force with a full quota of competitors across all disciplines.</p>
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<p>All eyes with be on hometown runner Benjamin Roubiol, gold medallist in the long trail event at the 2023 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Innsbruck, Austria.</p>
<p>Few runners in Annecy will know the contours of the course quite like Roubiol. European bronze medallist from the 2022 event in El Paso, La Palma, Spain Thomas Cardin is also in the French team.</p>
<p>In Blandine L'Hirondel and Clementine Geoffray, France also has two proven winners.</p>
<p>L&rsquo;Hirondel is defending champion in the women&rsquo;s trail race whilst Geoffray was the women&rsquo;s short trail winner at last year&rsquo;s World Mountain and Trail Running Championships The trail races are a leg sapping 62km skirting the mountainside of the shimmering Lake Annecy.</p>
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<p>Th&eacute;odore Klein and N&eacute;lie Cl&eacute;ment were the men's and women's senior race winners at the French Mountain Running Championships in Brian&ccedil;on on Sunday (28) and both will boldly take on the vertical and up-and-down disciplines with a single rest day in-between.</p>
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<p><strong>Chris Broadbent for European Athletics</strong></p>

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