The World Mountain Running Association made a visit to Meduno in Northern Italy last weekend, to take a look at the courses for the 2025 World Masters Mountain Running Championships.
We met with the organisers, Club Atletica San Martino, who are working closely with Meduno municipality and the local community to make it an unforgettable event. The area offers some varied terrain for racing and good transport connections for runners.
The 2025 event will take place from 28th to 31st August 2025 and there will be three race distances: uphill; classic and long distance.
The uphill race will be 5km with 800 metres of ascent and it will start in Meduno and finish on the summit of Monte Valinis. It will take place on Friday 29th August.
The classic race will be 14.1k and it will have 735 metres of ascent and 730 of descent. It will start and finish in Meduno, taking in a loop on singletrack, forest trails and a large section of hard-packed track from kilometres 6 to 11. It will take place on Sunday 31st August.
The long distance race will be 32k with 1705m of ascent and 1700 of descent. Like the classic race it starts and finishes in Meduno and for the first 11k it follows part of the classic route too. This longer route takes in a number of climbs and downhills that should test the runners. It will take place on Saturday 30th August.
Runners will be able to find information at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships 2025 website and it’s anticipated that the programme will be live on the site before the end of December.
