The big Vinschger sports highlight casts its shadow ahead

2200 runners will complete the 15,3 kilometer circuit around Lake Reschen on Saturday. In addition to the Italian runners from no fewer than 30 provinces, Germany is the most represented nation with 444 runners, followed by neighboring Austria (156) and Switzerland (25).

Many runners are returning to the shores of Lake Reschen this year to improve their previous best times. One of them is Andrea Soffientini from Lombardy, winner of last year's edition with a time of 48:18 minutes; Also there is Michael Hofer from South Tyrol, who was the first to complete the round in 2020:49 minutes in 57. And then there is the German Konstantin Wedel, who holds the lap record with 47:23 minutes, and who knows whether he will manage to break his own record. “For me, the Reschenseelauf is one of the most beautiful races we have in Italy.” Hermann Achmüller With six wins and four second places, Hermann Achmüller is the champion who can also have a say in this new edition: “For me, the Reschenseelauf is one of the most beautiful races we have in Italy, every time I go back there I get goosebumps . There are many emotions that this event gave me, of course there were great successes, but also some defeats. Although it has developed into a race with more than 3.000 participants, it has managed to retain its family character. I have taken part more than 20 times and it is still a great thrill to be back on the starting line.”

Achmüller from Brixen is vice world champion in mountain running (marathon) and in the 100 km team marathon and also completed all marathon majors in Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and even New York in 2017. Emanuele Repetto, who stood on the first step of the podium in 2017 and finished third two years later, and Khalid Jbari, who signed the 2018 edition, will also be on the lakeshore.

Slovenian Helena Javornik, European cross-country champion in 2002, gold medalist in the marathon at the 12th Mediterranean Games and winner of the Vienna Marathon in 1995 and the Amsterdam Marathon in 2004, in which she also won the Reschenseelauf, will lead the women's race. Rosy Pattis is back at the start at Lake Reschen, and with her also Simone Raatz, who won the night edition in 2019 and took part for the first time in 2013. A year later, the German newlyweds Claudia and Thomas return to their love nest: Last year, both of them came to the start line in Graun in intimate clothes, exchanged vows in the town hall and then ran along the banks of South Tyrol's most fascinating lake.

The schedule calls for the start of the handbikers at 16.57:17 p.m., followed promptly at XNUMX p.m. by the start of the main race and the Just for Fun category, while the Nordic walkers will bring the end.

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The big Vinschger sports highlight casts its shadow ahead

The time has come next Saturday when the starting signal will be fired for the 22nd Reschenseelauf, one of the largest and most popular sporting events in the west of South Tyrol.

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