Mountain Attack

The "Mountain Attack" is an annual Austrian ski mountaineering competition, carried out near Saalbach since 1999.

The competition is separated in a short distance and a long distance course, each offered for a female and a male racer class. There is a separate ranking of racers, older than 45 years. The marathon track passes six summits, and includes an altitude difference of 3,000 meters for the total ascent and for skiing down.

Best marathon racers

(since 2004: "Mountain Man")

year participant country total time
(h:min:sec)
1999 Omar Oprandi Italy 3:05:39
2000 Fabio Meraldi Italy 2:59:51
2001 Luciano Fontana Italy 2:57:35
2002 Mirco Mezzanotte Italy 2:52:01.0
2003 Martin Hornegger Austria 2:45:05.0
2004 Andreas Ringhofer Austria 2:40:28
2005 Andreas Ringhofer Austria 2:39:42
2006 Guido Giacomelli Italy 2:27:36.7
2007 Guido Giacomelli Italy 2:32:00.0
2008 Andreas Ringhofer Austria 2:30:51.7
2009 Guido Giacomelli Italy 2:32:06.9
2010 Konrad Lex Germany 2:36:27.0
2011 Kílian Jornet Burgada Spain 2:33:32.0
2012 Kílian Jornet Burgada Spain 2:17:14.22

Best female racer was Simone Hornegger from 2002 to 2006 (in a row), and from 2007 to 2009 Francesca Martinelli won the race in series. In 2010, Michaela Eßl placed first,[1] in 2011 Mireia Miró Varela,[2] and in 2012 Michaela Eßl[3] once again.

References

  1. ^ 2010 Mountain Attack - results Archived 2010-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ 2011 results Archived 2012-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 2012 results Archived 2013-01-19 at the Wayback Machine