“Success for Slovenian runners on their home soil: Nejc Kuhar and Karmen Klan&#269,nik were the fastest among 220 runners from 14 countries.
The weather forecast for the day of the race was promising a major change &ndash, after almost one month of African summer heat, rain should come during the night before the race and chill the air for more than 20deg &ndash, and the meteorologists did not make a mistake.
It was a drizzly day with slippery rocks all along the way from the Kamniska Bistrica valley to the Grintovec summit.
The runners had to climb for almost 2000m in less than 10km.
Everybody who knows what does it mean has a respect to this race and to all the runners who beat this challenging course.
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“The Grintovec race was a part of the World Cup for the sixth time and traditionally also a part of Slovenian Mountain Running Cup.
In the men&rsquo,s division, the two Kenyan runners pushed very fast just after beginning &ndash, they are both fast runners and the first 2 km are not so steep. Only European vice champion Schneider and Nejc Kuhar, Slovenian expert for such steep courses, could follow, but with small delay.
At the end of the road /after 2km/, the advantage was almost one minute, but on the steep part to the Saddle Njorge paid the price of the fast beginning: he was caught by the 2 followers.
In the second part Kuhar destroyed the experienced Suisse runner with some rhythm changes and caught the leading Kenyan runner about 1km to the finish.
He was stronger it this steep part and crossed the finish line in excellent time 1:19:57.
So he had realised his dreams: after third place in 2012 and second places in 2013 and 2014, he finally won this demanding race.
In the women&rsquo,s division, the race was decided in the last half kilometre, where local Karmen Klan&#269,nik felt stronger than second placed Hungarian Timea Merenyi, who is leading in the World Cup ranking.&nbsp,
The next stage of the 17th edition of the WMRA&nbsp,World Cup 2015&nbsp,will be Leogang. AUT on the 6th September 2015.

Edited from Sarf Tomo (LOC)

Source of the pictures LOC
&nbsp,on front page:
&nbsp,- the two winners, Nejc Kuhar and Karmen Klan&#269,nik,
&nbsp,on second page:
&nbsp,- last kilometer of the race,
&nbsp,- Hungarian Timea Merenyi, at this moment leader in the women World Cup 2015.

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