The 2013 European Mountain Running Championships were held on 6 July at Borovets in Sofia, Bulgaria. The competition featured four individual races: The men's race was 11.8 km long and with an ascent of 1152 m,^[1] the women's and junior men's races were 8.8 km long with an ascent of 1072 m.^[2][3] and the junior women's race was 3.5 km long with an ascent of 530 m.^[4]

In the men's race, Bernard Dematteis ended Ahmet Arslan's six year winning streak by finishing first, over a minute ahead of Alex Baldaccini who finished second and Arslan who finished third. In the women's race, Andrea Mayr won her second title, beating Valentina Belotti and Mateja Kosovelj by 1 minute 5 seconds and 1 minute 18 seconds respectively. In total 217 athletes from 27 countries participated.^[5]

Results

Men

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Bernard Dematteis	Italy	56:30
	Alex Baldaccini	Italy	57:35
	Ahmet Arslan	Turkey	57:47
4	Xavier Chevrier	Italy	58:01
5	Steve Vernon	United Kingdom	58:33
6	Enrique Meneses	Spain	58:50
7	Robert Krupicka	Czech Republic	58:52
8	Chris Smith	United Kingdom	59:12

Women

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Andrea Mayr	Austria	51:49
	Valentina Belotti	Italy	52:54
	Mateja Kosovelj	Slovenia	53:08
4	Elisa Desco	Italy	53:42
5	Renate Runnger	Italy	54:05
6	Emma Clayton	United Kingdom	55:16
7	Christel Dewalle	France	56:01
8	Bernadette Meier	Switzerland	56:12

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