Mountain Attack
{{Short description|Austrian ski mountaineering competition}}
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")
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! style="text-align: center; width:250px" | participant ! style="text-align: center; width:120px" | country ! style="text-align: center; width:70px" | total time |
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| 1999
| 3:05:39 |
| 2000
| 15px Italy | 2:59:51 |
| 2001
| Luciano Fontana | 15px Italy | 2:57:35 |
| 2002
| 15px Italy | 2:52:01.0 |
| 2003
| 2:45:05.0 |
| 2004
| 15px Austria | 2:40:28 |
| 2005
| Andreas Ringhofer | 15px Austria | 2:39:42 |
| 2006
| 15px Italy | 2:27:36.7 |
| 2007
| Guido Giacomelli | 15px Italy | 2:32:00.0 |
| 2008
| Andreas Ringhofer | 15px Austria | 2:30:51.7 |
| 2009
|Guido Giacomelli | 15px Italy | 2:32:06.9 |
| 2010
| 15px Germany | 2:36:27.0 |
| 2011
| 15px Spain | 2:33:32.0 |
| 2012
| 15px 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,[http://www.mountain-attack.at/engl_ma/set_ma_e.html 2010 Mountain Attack - results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414025230/http://www.mountain-attack.at/engl_ma/set_ma_e.html |date=2010-04-14 }} in 2011 Mireia Miró Varela,[http://www.mountain-attack.at/html/englisch/resultate_2011.html 2011 results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116144745/http://www.mountain-attack.at/html/englisch/resultate_2011.html |date=2012-01-16 }} and in 2012 Michaela Eßl[http://www.mountain-attack.at/html/englisch/resultate_2012.html 2012 results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119055028/http://mountain-attack.at/html/englisch/resultate_2012.html |date=2013-01-19 }} once again.
External links
- [http://www.mountain-attack.at/ Official site]