African “Ubuntu” at the Golden Trail Championship
Polish athlete, Bartlomiej Przedwojewski, swept to an exciting victory ahead of American Jim Walmsley on Day Two of the Golden Trail Championship on Faial Island in the mid-Atlantic, while Swiss athlete Maud Mathys turned the tables on Swede Tove...
Golden Trail Series 2021 Season preview
The recent launch of the 2021 Golden Trail World Series has cut through COVID uncertainty and created new year excitement amongst the world’s best trail athletes, who can look forward to another year of high quality competition in some...
“Super Pole” Przedwojewski and Switzerland’s Mathys take overall honours in the Golden Trail Championship,...
Sunday 1st November is All Saints Day in the USA and whether that influenced the outcome of the final day of the Golden Trail Championship - The Azores Trail Run – on the Island of Faial, we'll never know. However,...
Golden Trail World Series attracts African runners from across the continent
Leading South African trail athlete, Meg Mackenzie, is set to race the Olla de Nuria in the Pyrenees Mountains next Saturday (13 June 2021) – the first race of the 2021 Golden Trail World Series (GTWS) - while several...
Top US trail athletes eye Africa
Two American athletes who enjoyed outstanding success at the recent Golden Trail Championship on the Island of Faial in The Azores may soon be racing on the African continent.
Jim Walmsley and Rachel Drake arrived in The Azores with formidable...
Golden Trail Championship, The Azores, Day 2 Results
Golden Trail Championship
Day Two 25km on Faial Island
Results
Men: 1 Bartlomiej Przedwojewski (Pol) 1:56:03; 2 Jim Walmsey (USA) 1:56:48; 3 Stian Angermund (Nor) 1:57:; 3 Elhousine Elazzaoui (Mor) 1:57:54; 5 Oriol Cordona (Sp) 1:59:11; 6 Frederic Tranchand (Fr) 1:59:28; 7 Remi...
Elazzaoui chasing Golden Trail World Series podium position at DoloMyths in Italy
The DoloMyths Run will celebrate its 25th anniversary tomorrow (Saturday 25 July) as the Golden Trail World Series (GTWS) reaches the half-way mark following the season opener at Zegama in Spain in May and the Mont Blanc Marathon three weeks ago.
The already...
Elhousine strikes gold in Italy
Thirty-one-year-old Moroccan trail athlete, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Pini Mountain Racing), raced to his first Golden Trail World Series win with an emphatic victory in the lung-busting DoloMyths 22km Trail Race in Italy over the weekend (Saturday 15 July).
Elazzaoui chose one...
South Africa’s Mackenzie and Rorich to take on world’s best in Azores
Following the successful return to international track and road running competition in recent weeks, trail running is set to follow suite, with an important international event scheduled to take place on the Portuguese Azores Islands at the end of...
Far from African shores: The Azores hosts Golden Trail Championship
The Azores islands in the north Atlantic are dramatic. From fishing villages to green pastures and hedgerows of blue hydrangeas, lake-filled volcanic calderas and terraced tea plantations, they offer an almost bewildering array of views and terrain. One island,...