The WMA Council and President Margit Jungman would like to acknowledge the outstanding life and commitment to Masters Athletics of Karel Matzner, our thoughts are with his family and friends. ————————– On November 12, 2021. At the age of 92, the legend
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Dear athletes, The WMA council is pleased to announce that the Tampere LOC website will go online next weekend. The new website, www.wmatampere2022.com, contains the first essential information about the WMA World Championships in Tampere 2022 including the entry booklet. In advance
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The recent Championships were a great success where our very own president was a guest of honour and opened the event Margit stated afterward “What a great championship (more than 600 athletes from 21 member nations participated), very well organised by the
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The preparation for the upcoming WMA championships in Tampere, Finland is ongoing since the first site visit to prepare the championships taking place from 29.06 – 10.07.2022. Due to the Covid situation, the signature of the contract had to be postponed. The
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The mountain running world championship for participants aged 35 and over will take place – a year later than planned – as part of the Schlickeralmlauf in the village of Telfes in the Stubai Valley. Stubai Valley, 2021: The first major sporting
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We are sad to confirm the cancellation of the IAU event which included the WMA championships events too.
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM WORLD MASTERS MOUNTAIN RUNNING CHAMPIONSHIPS We’re pleased to say that we’ve received confirmation that the 2021 World Masters Mountain Running Championships is on. The event will take place, as planned, from 3rd to 5th September, at International Schlickeralmlauf in Telfes
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Last year, a group of Masters Athletes conceived a virtual competition to honor Toronto2020, our cancelled WMA Championship. We asked our MastersRankings.com, also known as World Masters Rankings, to help as we could not be directly involved at the time. WMA representatives helped where
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World Masters Athletics and LOC of Tampere have agreed on the dates for the upcoming WMA World Championships next year in Finland. WMA, the Athletic Federation of Finland and the city of Tampere will invite the masters family to compete and meet
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We are delighted to confirm World Athletics and World Masters Athletics have reached a historic agreement that will see masters championships held for the first time alongside the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia, next year. The World Athletics Council approved
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