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Are you familiar with ITRA?<br />
ITRA stands for the International Trail Running<br />
Association<br />
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PRESENTATION AND OBJECTIVES<br />
On September 3rd 2012, the 1st International<br />
Trail running conference was held in Courmayeur,<br />
Italy with more than 150 delegates (race<br />
organisers, manufacturers, journalists and elite<br />
athletes) who came from 18 different countries<br />
around the world.<br />
This was the first time that so many players in the<br />
field of trail-running were were gathered. This<br />
conference allowed all the participants to see<br />
the diversity of points of view and to understand<br />
the necessity for trail-running to be organised<br />
as a discipline, in its own right, while taking into<br />
account the different approaches on the different<br />
continents: America, Asia, Africa Oceania and<br />
Europe.<br />
Divided in 5 working groups, 50 volunteers (race<br />
organisers, athletes, federation representatives,<br />
manufacturers, journalists, coaches...), from 13<br />
different countries on the 5 continents, worked<br />
together around a virtual round table.<br />
Uniting their cultures and points of view to<br />
accompany this discipline in full evolution,<br />
they have worked on writing an ethical charter,<br />
proposing an international definition of trailrunning,<br />
and the setting up of a policy for health<br />
matters and anti-doping. They founded a basis<br />
for a reasonable management of top-level<br />
athletes and reflected upon the creation of an<br />
international ranking system.<br />
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These conclusions laid down the foundations for<br />
the practice of trail-running, and established the<br />
basis on which to create an association wanting<br />
to bring together all the actors of trail-running<br />
worldwide, around shared values and principles.<br />
This is how the International Trail-Running<br />
Association (ITRA) was born in July 2013,<br />
driven by the passion for trail-running and the<br />
enthusiasm of its founding members.<br />
The International Trail-Running Association is<br />
open to all players in the field of trail-running<br />
and wishes above all to be a place for meeting,<br />
listening and exchanges.<br />
The main objectives of the ITRA are:<br />
• To develop and promote trail-running as a<br />
discipline in its own right, accessible to all,<br />
rich in its diversity of cultures and venues of<br />
practice;<br />
• To promote its sporting ethic which relies<br />
heavily on strong values (authenticity,<br />
humility, fair-play, equity, respect and<br />
solidarity) with not only all the players in<br />
trail-running but the general public as well;<br />
• To contribute to the improvement of the<br />
quality of the organisation and the security<br />
of participants;<br />
• To promote the preventative actions<br />
concerning health matters and above all<br />
to do everything possible to fight against<br />
doping;<br />
• To contribute to a better practice of respect<br />
for the environment and to promote<br />
sustainable development at the heart of<br />
trail-running;<br />
• To allow all its members to express their<br />
feelings and to be heard at an international<br />
level;<br />
• To maintain constructive relationships and<br />
to collaborate with national trail-running<br />
associations and national and international<br />
federations;<br />
• To promote and collaborate in the<br />
organisation of championships or of<br />
continental or world trail-running circuits<br />
which will reinforce the international<br />
visibility of trail-running and produce<br />
valuable recognition to elite athletes.<br />
WWW.I-TRA.ORG<br />
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ITRA!