Kimolos Trail Running Race

The 1st Kimolos Trail running race was successfully organised, for the first time, on Sunday 3 June 2018. Besides the running routes, the Kimolos Trail event had an educational seminar and a movie night event.

The first race of theCycladesTrailCup 2018 was held in Kimolos island on 3rd June. The 1 st trail running race: Kimolos Trail had two routes, 21 and 9 kilometers long. The starting and finish line was the Chorio village and the 21km had a unique solidarity for runners. Besides the already difficult rocky terrain, the strong Aegean sun made the race even more hard for the participants.

Athletes form all around the world and many Greek islands had filled the registration form pretty early on. The total number of registrations reached the number 95, which is a lot for a small island of the South West Aegean Sea. Athletes from islands like Andros, Sifnos, Milos and Syros came to run alongside visitors from Italy, Ukraine, France, Canada and the Republic of Congo! On Sunday 3 June, 62 athletes started the race but only 50 reached the finish line on time!

The Ukraine-Russian athlete,RamanBurakov, was the big winner of the 21km trail race, by reaching the finish line at 2 hours and 38 minutes and winning for the first time a Cyclades Trail Cup race. Last year, in 2017, he sucesfully finished 5 out of 6 races of the series and was awarded 2nd place in the Cup.

The second place of Kimolos Trail was awarded toPanagiotis Kapsanisrepresenting myathlete and N.A.O. Kithiron and the time of 2 hours and 47 minutes. In the third place of the 21km race, came Evangelos Zigouris with the time of 2 hours and 53 minutes. In the women category,Maria Bisketzi from Syros island won the 21km race with the time of 5 hours and 20 minutes.Korina Stiakaki finished in second place with 5 hours and 30 minutes.

In the 9 km trail race, the first athlete at the finish line was MauroVespegiani from Italy with the time of 47 minutes. In second place,John Mallis from Milos island, representing Milos Runners and the time of 49 minutes. In third place of the 9km race, Valentinos Konstantis, representing Starttech Ventures, finished the race with the time of 53 minutes and 47 seconds.

In the women category of the 9 km trail race, in first place came the Italian-Greek,Valentina Makri with the time of 55 minutes. In second place cameAnastasia Mathioudaki with the time of 1 hour and 7 minutes and in third place,Stefania Malli and Matilda Patso finished together with the time of 1 hour and 8 minutes.

In a special category, the organizers awarded the 1st man and woman, local to Kimolos island. The first woman wasMaria Logotheti and the first manTheodoros Kotsonis with the time of 1 hour and 27 minutes and 1 hour and 7 minutes accordingly.

Every race and course offers score points for Cyclades Trail Cup, determined by the new CTC_PointSystem. The athlete that earns the highest amount of points by the end of the year will be the winner of Cyclades Trail Cup 2018.

TheKimolos Trail 21km awarded you83 points and theKimolos Trail 9km awarded you33 points. Considering thought that the sun was really hot that day, a 5% points will be awarded to each participant. This means that

every athlete of the 21km race will get 83 + 4 = 87 points and every athlete of the 9km33 + 2 = 35 points.