International Trail Running Association

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International Trail Running Association
Formation1 August 2013;12 years ago (2013-08-01)
Type Sports federation
Headquarters Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Lausanne
Website itra.run

International Trail Running Association (ITRA) is the governing body for trail running. It was formed in 2013, emerging from the 1st International Trail Running Conference held in 2012. [1] [2] [3] Trail running was first recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (now World Athletics) in 2015 as a discipline of athletics. [4] [5] [6] ITRA has, among other things, developed a points system for ranking the difficulty of specific trail routes and tracking the performance of runners across races. [7]

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The first General Assembly was held on 3 March 2015 in Paris. The ITRA aimed to become the international reference organization for trail running and hoped that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF, now World Athletics) would recognize trail running as a separate discipline and the ITRA as its representative body. In 2015, during its Congress in Beijing, the IAAF officially included trail running as a discipline. [8] [9]

Since 2022 ITRA has been one of three lead organisations alongside the World Mountain Running Association and the International Association of Ultrarunners for the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, an event which is sanctioned by World Athletics. The WMTRC incorporates 4 trail races a Men's and Women's Short Trail held over a distance of 35-45km with no less than 1,500m of elevation gain, and a Men's and Women's Long Trail over a distance of between 75-85km. [10]

ITRA is currently headed by Janet Ng, a co-founder of the Hong Kong Trail Running Association. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ Staff writer (2024). "International Trail Running Association (ITRA)". UIA Global Civil Society Database. UIA.org . Brussels, Belgium: Union of International Associations. Yearbook of International Organizations Online. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "History". International Trail Running Association . Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "International Trail-Running Association (ITRA) - first conclusions". Run247.com (Press release). 9 July 2013. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "Trail running recognised as an official discipline of the IAAF". Run247.com (Press release). 21 August 2015. Archived from the original on 25 January 2018. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "IAAF Competition Rules 2016-2017" (PDF). International Association of Athletics Federations. 1 November 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2017. IAAF Congress in Beijing voted to change Article 2 of the IAAF Constitution to include trail running officially as part of the definition of 'Athletics'
  6. ↑ "IAAF Congress, Beijing, China, 19 August 2015 – Day 1 NOTES". Worldathletics.org (Press release). Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  7. ↑ Reade, Kirsty (2019-05-09). "Changes to ITRA Performance Index". RUN247. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
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  9. ↑ "IAAF Congress, Beijing, China, 19 August 2015 – Day 1 NOTES | PRESS RELEASE | World Athletics" . Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  10. ↑ "World Athletics Competition Rules (Rule 57)". World Athletics . 2025-09-09. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  11. ↑ "Hong Kong 100 organiser Janet Ng elected ITRA president". South China Morning Post . 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2023-04-25.


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