This week, Athletics Canada introduced new host cities for the 2025 and 2026 editions of a number of Canadian championship sequence. Québec Mega Path (QMT) was chosen because the host for the 2025 and 2026 Canadian Mountain Path Working Championships (50K brief path and 80K lengthy path occasions) and Défi des Couleurs in Monte Saint Anne will host the Vertical and Basic Up & Down occasions in October 2024, 2025 and 2026. (The 2024 Canadian Mountain and Path Working Championships 30K brief path and 50K lengthy path occasions can be held in Squamish, B.C. in August.)
Quebec Mega Path to host 30K brief path and 50K lengthy path occasions
Set in opposition to the picturesque trails of Côte-de-Beaupré and Charlevoix, the Canadian Mountain and Path Working championships will unfold throughout the QMT weekend, scheduled from July 3-6 for the 2025 version.
The celebrated competitors encompasses a 50K brief path championship and an 80K lengthy path championship. QMT, famend for its difficult and scenic routes, will present a becoming backdrop for these championships, attracting each native athletes and elite members from throughout the nation.
Common director and founding father of QMT, Jean Fortier, expressed enthusiasm about internet hosting the Canadian Championships in a press launch on Monday, emphasizing the recognition of path operating within the area and the need to showcase the great thing about the native terrain and the distinctive ambiance of the QMT occasion. Fortier believes that holding these championships is not going to solely profit the area but in addition contribute to enhancing the occasion’s visibility on a nationwide scale.
Chris Winter, director of Protected Sport at Athletics Canada, recommended QMT’s distinguished standing, citing its current inclusion within the World Path Majors. Winter highlighted the occasion’s enchantment to elite athletes and leisure runners alike. “Athletics Canada additionally feels that for the continued progress and improvement of the game, you will need to transfer these Canadian championships across the nation, and having held the championships in Squamish, BC in each 2023 and 2024, we had been very excited by the prospect of internet hosting these championships in Québec the place mountain and path operating has an enthusiastic following.”
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Défi des Couleurs to host Vertical Ok and Basic Up & Down occasions
Défi des Couleurs, held over the Canadian Thanksgiving lengthy weekend in Mont Saint Anne, Quebec, is without doubt one of the largest path operating occasions in Canada and would be the host of the Vertical and Basic Up & Down mountain operating occasions in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
