2020 Asia Trail Master Candidate Races
The following events below have been granted Asia Trail Master Candidate Race label for the upcoming season 2019. This means the events are in pole position to become an ATM points race, if a slot opens up in the country in question.
Event organisers can always apply for Asia Trail Master membership and enjoy all the promotional and marketing benefits this entails. Please contact us on info@asiatrailmaster.com for further details.
Brisbane Trail Ultra
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
6/7 July 2019
100 miles, 100 km, 60 km, 30 km
Brisbane Trail Ultra Festival is set in the stunning Brisbane Rainforest Hinterland starting 8km from the Central Business District of the City. Enjoy beautiful virgin rainforest trails whilst being challenged on this wilderness course trough sub tropical rainforests, gorges, eucalyptus woodlands and grasslands.
60% of the course is on single trails, with amazing views and vivid wildlife. This is one trail, ultra adventure you don’t want to miss. With the city so close by, you can plan a long weekend for the whole family!
Registration till 1 July 2019
Labuan Bird Park Eco Ultra Marathon
Labuan Island, Fed Territory of Labuan, Malaysia
7/8 September 2019
70 km (50 km, 30 km also available)
New runable trail race on the island west off the coast of Sabah. The Labuan Bird Park Eco Ultra Marathon features a combination of natural trails, beach trails and road (25%).
Registration open via Racematix .
Solang Sky Ultra
Solang Valley, Manali, India
6 October 2019
60 km (3400 hm), 30 km and 10 km also available
First ever Indian event to join the ATM community. This breathtaking race of 60 km takes place in the north of the country at high altitude. It is quite remote, but your efforts will be highly rewarded. Shashwat Rao, a regular competitor in our championship, is one of the technical advisers.
Registration via the website .
The Great Malaya Trail
Taman Negeri Kenaboi, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
19/20 October 2019
100km (6611hm), 50km (3311hm), 30km and 16km also available
100KM starting line: Kem Ghafar Baba, Kampung Kemensah, Selangor.
50KM starting line: Pangson Trail Head, Selangor
16KM and 30KM: Taman Negeri Kenaboi, Negeri Sembilan
For the first time this type of race in Malaysia
This is total trail event with ratio 95% trail and 5% road.
We will go through 3 states for 100KM and 50KM categories.
16KM and 30KM will run in Negeri Sembilan only.
For 100KM we will face 6 mountains and some parts of them twice.
We will cross countless of stream and river all the way the trail.
We will also see countless beautiful raw waterfall all the way through the track.
We have average of 6600-meter (+-) elevation gain for 100KM, 3000-meter (+-) elevation gain for 50KM and 1500-meter (+-) elevation gain for 30KM.
This is the 1st race with such elevation we have in a Malaysian trail race.
EcoTrail Putrajaya
Putrajaya, Malaysia
26 October 2019
80km (900 hm), 50km (600 hm), 30km (280 hm),15km (100hm)
First ever EcoTrail-branded event in Asia, hosted by Putrajaya, a planned city and the federal administrative centre of the Malaysian capital. The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya because of overcrowding and congestion in the former. Since then, Putrajaya has been the venue for many international sporting events and EcoTrail is the next in line. The technical organisation is in the hands of Ten Senses, who brought you TMMT.
“Trail running comes to the city” is the main slogan of EcoTrail. Start and finish will be in the city centre, and from there the course will lead through parks, forests, hillsides and along rivers and lakes. This is a very runable race that will please the road runners who like to get a taste of off-road running.
SRT Ultra
Pune, Western Ghats, India
8 December 2019
53 km (2320hm) - 25 km (1000hm) -11 km (700hm)
Second 2020 ATM Candidate Race in India after Solang Valley, but SRT Ultra takes place in the south of the large country.
The SRT stands for Sinhagad, Rajgad and Torna: three historic forts on an ancient route that are protected monuments of the Maharashtra State Archeology Department. The event takes place in Western Ghats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is famous for the Maratha empire of the 17th century India. The ultra marathon takes place in the south-west of the town of Pune which is known as the Sahyadri mountain range. The longest distance category will be 53 km with 2320 elevation gain. The beauty of the SRT Ultra Marathon course is that it is a point-to-point route, without any loops. So every moment will be a new experience in the heart of the Sahyadri mountains. Runners will pass through evergreen mountains, dense forests with abundance of flora and fauna.
SRT Ultra is highly challenging in the sense that almost 70% of the marathon route comprises of technical trails, rocks, mud, scree, grass & roots, at an average altitude of 1000 metres. The SRT Ultra not just involves mountain running, but also considerable amount of climbing, which is encountered while ascending as well as descending one of the most pristine locations in Pune.
Bolaven Trail
Pakse, Laos
Tad Fane Resort
21/22 December 2019
100 km (4900hm), 60 km (3000hm) ,39 km (1800hm), 16 km (300m)
Third event set up by Green Step & Teelakow, following V Trail and UT Luang Prabang. This is Laos, expect a technical jungle mountain trail with a pinch of adventure.
Registration as usual via www.teelakow.com
2019 Candidate Races
