The Turkish Mt Olympus (Mt UDU) is the chosen venue for their bid to stage the 2006 world Trophy.
The Turkish Athletic Federation have lodged a bid with WMRA to stage the 2006 World Mountain Running Trophy which will be uphill only races. The athletes village would be situated high on the mountain side of Mt Olympus at an altitude of 1,900m The mens course starts in the town of Bursa, at the foot of the mountain, and the other courses start at appropriate points on the mens route. The proposals have been inspected by WMRA technical and organisational delegates and received their approval. Now WMRA congress meeting in Sauxe d’Oulx in September 2004 will decide on the venue for 2006.