Antonella Confortola Wyatt is an Italian former cross-country skier and mountain runner.
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 multiple times, Grand Raid, Western States and Hardrock.
Emanuela Brizio is an Italian female sky runner who won two Skyrunning World Cups.
Emelie Tina Forsberg is a Swedish athlete specializing in trail running and ski mountaineering. She has won repeated victories in different disciplines, including European and World Championships.
Skyline Scotland is a set of annual skyrunning races which take place on consecutive days in the mountains around Kinlochleven in Lochaber. The main races are the Mamores VK, the Ring of Steall Skyrace, the Ben Nevis Ultra and the Glen Coe Skyline.
Bruno Brunod is an Italian athlete, a bicyclist who began running late, when he was in his thirties. He is twice world champion of the Skyrunner World Series and holds numerous speed records for climbing and descending some of the highest mountains in the world, like the Matterhorn in 1995, broken only in 2013 by a professional 25 years younger than him, Kílian Jornet Burgada. As of 2016 his speed records for the Monte Rosa in 1997 and the Aconcagua in Argentina in 2000 remained unbroken. Brunod produces results like a professional athlete, but has retained the spirit and humility of an amateur, for which he is widely admired especially amongst fellow mountain runners.
In skyrunning, a vertical kilometer is an uphill mountain running race with an elevation gain of 1,000 metres. The Vertical Kilometer World Circuit also defines it as covering less than 5 km. Trekking poles, which are allowed as optional accessories, are often used in vertical kilometer races.
Francesco Puppi is an Italian male mountain runner and sky runner, world champion at 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships.
The Italian Vertical Kilometer Championships are the national championships in vertical kilometer, organised every year by the FIDAL from 2012.
Urban Zemmer is an Italian male sky runner, world champion in the vertical kilometer at the 2010 Skyrunning World Championships.
Philip Götsch is an Italian male sky runner, who won Skyrunning World Cup in the vertical kilometer in 2016.
The Italian Skyrunning Championships is the national championship in skyrunning, organised every year by the Italian Skyrunning Federation (FISKY) since 2003, with the patronage of the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF).
The 2008 Skyrunning European Championships was the 2nd edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunning European Championships, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation and was held in Zegama (Spain), took place on 25 May 2008, coinciding with the Zegama-Aizkorri Maratoia.
Pierangela Baronchelli is an Italian female sky runner, European champion (2007) and vice-European champion (2008) in the SkyRace.
The Italian Mountain Running Championships are the national championships in mountain running, organised every year by the FIDAL from 1976 (men) and 1980 (women).
The Italian Long Distance Mountain Running Championships are the national championships in long-distance mountain running, organised every year by the FIDAL from 2010.
Ultra Pirineu is an international skyrunning competition held for the first time in 2009 under the name Cavalls del Vent. It has been known as Ultra Pirineu since the 2014 edition. It takes place in Bagà, Spain, in September each year. The race has formed part of the Skyrunner World Series.
The Monte Rosa SkyMarathon is an international skyrunning competition held in Alagna Valsesia on Monte Rosa (Italy) which marked the origins of skyrunning.
Silvia Rampazzo is an Italian female long-distance runner and mountain runner who won the gold medal at individual senior level at the 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships.
Tommaso Vaccina is an Italian male mountain runner, world champion at the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships (2015).
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