2009 World Mountain Running Championships

The 25th World Mountain Running Championships were held in Madesimo and Campodolcino, Italy on September 6, 2009. Around 315 athletes from 37 countries competed in this year's event.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Senior Men	Geofrey Kusuro  Uganda	Azeria Teklay  Eritrea	James Kibet  Uganda
Senior Women	Valentina Belotti  Italy	Maria Grazia Roberti  Italy	Sarah Tunstall  Great Britain
Junior Men	Xavier Chevrier  Italy	Muzaffer Bayram  Turkey	Alper Demir  Turkey
Junior Women	Yasemin Can  Turkey	Megan Morgan  United States	Angelika Mach  Poland
Team Senior Men	Eritrea	Italy	Turkey
Team Senior Women	Great Britain	Italy	United States
Team Junior Men	Turkey	Italy	Great Britain
Team Junior Women	Turkey	Romania	Poland

Men [edit] Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Geofrey Kusuro  Uganda 54:51 2 Azerya Weldemariam  Eritrea 55:45 3 James Kibet  Uganda 55:54 4 Bernard Dematteis  Italy 56:02 5 Zemichael Tesfamichael  Eritrea 56:08 6 Debesay Tsige Behlbi  Eritrea 56:17 7 Jean Baptiste Simukeka  Rwanda 56:17 8 Marco De Gasperi  Italy 56:20

Women [edit] Rank Athlete Country Time 1 Valentina Belotti  Italy 43:39 2 Maria Grazia Roberti  Italy 44:03 3 Sarah Tunstall  United Kingdom 44:23 4 Hülya Baştuğ  Turkey 44:57 5 Anna Pichrtová  Czech Republic 44:59 6 Katie Ingram  United Kingdom 44:59 7 Schanna Wokujewa  Russia 45:21 8 Mateja Kosovelj  Slovenia 45:23

• WMRA website