Kärnten läuft
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Kärnten läuft is an annual half marathon
road running
race around the lake Wörthersee. It starts in Velden am Wörther See
and ends in Klagenfurt
. It has been held every year since 2002 and typically takes place in August.
Prior to the launch of the competition, a local athletics club, the Klagenfurter Leichtathletik Club, held the Klagenfurter Marathon in the region. It hosted the Austrian national championship race in 1999 and 2001. It was disbanded upon the creaton of the Kärnten läuft.
It is one of the most prominent half marathon competitions in Austria, alongside the Mondsee Half Marathon.
Half marathon
A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...
road running
Road running
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events would be classified as long distance according to athletics terminology, with distances typically ranging from 5 kilometers to 42.2 kilometers in the marathon. They may involve large numbers of runners...
race around the lake Wörthersee. It starts in Velden am Wörther See
Velden am Wörther See
Velden am Wörthersee is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Situated at the western shore of the Wörthersee lake it is one of the most popular holiday resorts of Austria....
and ends in Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt
-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...
. It has been held every year since 2002 and typically takes place in August.
Prior to the launch of the competition, a local athletics club, the Klagenfurter Leichtathletik Club, held the Klagenfurter Marathon in the region. It hosted the Austrian national championship race in 1999 and 2001. It was disbanded upon the creaton of the Kärnten läuft.
It is one of the most prominent half marathon competitions in Austria, alongside the Mondsee Half Marathon.
Past winners
Key:| Year | Men's winner | Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... ) |
Women's winner | Time (h Hour The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds... :m Minute A minute is a unit of measurement of time or of angle. The minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour or 60 seconds. In the UTC time scale, a minute on rare occasions has 59 or 61 seconds; see leap second. The minute is not an SI unit; however, it is accepted for use with SI units... :s Second The second is a unit of measurement of time, and is the International System of Units base unit of time. It may be measured using a clock.... ) |
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| 2011 | 1:02:25 | 1:08:02 | ||
| 2010 | 1:02:44 | 1:13:36 | ||
| 2009 | 1:03:56 | 1:15:19 | ||
| 2008 | 1:00:59 | 1:12:33 | ||
| 2007 | 1:03:09 | 1:10:32 | ||
| 2006 | 1:05:33 | 1:10:40 | ||
| 2005 | 1:02:35 | 1:11:45 | ||
| 2004 | 1:03:47 | 1:15:59 | ||
| 2003 | 1:03:32 | 1:12:49 | ||
| 2002 | 1:06:27 | 1:13:41 |
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