Ekiden (駅伝) is a long-distance running multi-stage relay race, mostly held on roads.
The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the best known mountain marathons in the world, in full view of the famous Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss Alps.
Angela Mudge is a Scottish champion hill runner and skyrunner. Despite being born with birth defects in both legs, and finding track athletics not to her liking, she discovered her sport while a postgraduate student in Scotland in the mid-1990s, and developed rapidly.
Marc Lauenstein is a Swiss orienteering competitor and runner. He received a silver medal on the long distance at the 2005 World Orienteering Championships in Aichi, and again in Aarhus in 2006. He earned a bronze medal in 2005 as a member of the Swiss relay team.
Emma Jane Pooley is a British-Swiss athlete in multiple sports. A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races, she later transferred to endurance running, duathlon and triathlon, and was four-times world champion in long-distance duathlon. She competes in long-distance and uphill mountain running and has represented Switzerland at the world trailrunning championships.
Kílian Jornet is a Spanish professional long-distance trail runner and ski mountaineer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest trail runners of all time, he has won some of the most prestigious ultramarathons, including the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, Grand Raid, ̍Western States and ̍Hardrock.
The World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships, is an annual international mountain running competition organised by the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA).
Judith Wyder is a Swiss orienteering and ski orienteering competitor and runner.
Stevie Kremer is an American ski mountaineer and long-distance runner.
Sarah Chepchirchir is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road running competitions in distances ranging from 10K runs to the half marathon.
Sage Clifton Read Canaday is an American long-distance runner and ultramarathoner.
Isabelle Guillot is a French athlete, born in 1961, who is a specialist in Mountain trail running, who runs for the Blagnac Sporting Athletic Club. She began to run conventional distance running athletic competitions later, in 1986, while still a young teacher. She is Co-author of the book Courir Grandeur Nature.
Corinne Raux, born 16 August 1976 at Combourg, is a French duathlete who was duathon world champion in 2002. She also practiced the marathon successfully, taking 15th in the 2004 Athens Olympic marathon.
Noriko Higuchi is a female Japanese long-distance runner who specialised in marathon running. She won the Tokyo Marathon in 2011 in a career best of 2:28:49 hours and was Asian Marathon Champion in 2011.
Aurélia Truel is a French ultramarathon runner, who specialises in trail running. She came second at the 2013 IAU Trail World Championships in Llanrwst, Wales, and was part of teams that won the 2011, 2013 and 2016 Trail World Championship team events.
The 2019 Russian Athletics Championships was held from 24–27 July at the Olympic Stadium in Cheboksary. It was the seventh time that the capital of the Chuvash Republic hosted the event. The four-day competition featured 40 track and field events and was attended by 731 athletes from 72 regions of the country.
Helen Bekele Tola is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She finished second at the 2019 Tokyo Marathon, and third at the 2021 Berlin Marathon. She has also won the Annecy and Barcelona Marathons, as well as multiple other long-distance events. Born in Ethiopia, she now lives in Switzerland.
Francisco Sánchez Martínez was a Colombian long-distance runner who specialized in mountain running. He won the bronze medal at the 1991 World Mountain Running Trophy and won the Sierre-Zinal the same year.
The Golden Trail Series is a series of international trail races.
Nienke Brinkman is a Dutch long distance runner. She won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, which was her first international medal. Brinkman holds the Dutch national record in the event, a record she broke in only her second marathon race.
