“The 13th edition of&nbsp, &lsquo,Gorski tek na Grintovec’ in Kamnik (SLO) uphill mountain challenge took place on Sunday 24th July 2011 in difficult conditions: for safety reasons the course was altered to protect the runners from severe weather on this exhausting course.
The organizer used the alternative course, actually just first 2/3 of the classic course, with still respectable 1200m elevation gain in just 6,0km and finish at &quot,safe altitude&quot, 1800m.
Stormy weather reduced the number of preliminary entered runners to half, but those determined to finish the tough course: they were coming from 13 countries. “
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Ahmed Arslan&nbsp, (TUR) was the expected winner of the men’s race in a time of 42:50 well ahead of the new WMRA Grand Prix leader David Schneider (44:26) in 2nd place.
Czech republic runner Robert Krupi&#269,ka was 3rd with Great Britain’s Orlando Edwards in 4th position.
The top Slovenian runner was Nejc Kuhar. David Schneider now has 200 points after 3 races in the WMRA Grand Prix.
The Women’s race also had a dominant winner in Lucija Krko&#269, from Slovenia (55:31) who was over 3 minutes ahead in winning this 3rd Grand Prix race. Lucija Krko&#269, is the new leader (200 points) of the women’s Grand Prix, which takes the best 4 races from a possible 6.
The WMRA must thank the local organizing committee who put on another wonderful event following on from last years’ world championship race, but in severe conditions that threatened the safety of the runners.
The 4th Grand Prix event moves on to Austria next Sunday on 31. July in Mayrhofen Harakiri Run.

News by Bashir Hussain and Tomo Sarf&nbsp,

Photos by LOC
In the front page: Lucj&#305,a Krkoc
In second page: Ahmed Arslan

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