European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships

Announcement from European Athletics:

The inaugural European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, an innovative continental championship that combines the disciplines of trail and mountain running, took place in El Paso on the Spanish island of La Palma in the Canary Islands on 1-3 July 2022.

The next edition will be held in Annecy, France from 31 May – 2 June 2024.

Not much more information about this is available at this point, but my guess is that they are trying position themselves on a two year cycle opposite of the World Mountain Trail Running Championships which were held last year in Innsbruck, Austria and are slated for 2025 in Canfranc-Pirineos, Spain.

An aside: the Innsbruck website is still up, but for how long? Then what happens with all the videos, results, and other historic information? There’s currently no website for the event in Annecy and I can’t find anything about Canfranc. This sport is still so young and there’s so little sorted out at this point. I hope things don’t get lost, or inaccessible.