Regulation

RACE AND COURSE

Vallecamonica Vertical is a mountain running race organized by the amateur sports association ATLETICA CIMA. This event is part of the “Valle dei Segni Mountain Cup” race circuit and, the 2025 edition, is one of the points races of this championship. The route is approximately 4 km long with a positive difference in altitude of 750 m (from 300 m to 1050 m above sea level). The race starts from Malegno, in via Sabbiolo n. 3, and arrives at the top of Colle dell’Oca (Monte Guna). The race is open to all Italian athletes of age in possession of a valid competitive medical certificate for athletics/ski mountaineering/mountaineering-skyrunning on the day of the race. The certificate must be uploaded in .jpg or .pdf format on the website indicated by the organization (ENDU Platform), in case of online registration, or in paper format together with the registration form. Foreign athletes of legal age are required to complete and deliver the document downloadable from the Race\Medical Certificate (The Race/Medical) Certificate page, filled in in all its parts.
The race will be held in any weather conditions*.
Participation in the race implies, by the registered competitors, acceptance in all its parts and without reservations of this regulation.

REGISTRATIONS

Registrations are open from May 15, 2025 to 24:00 on September 11, 2025, via the online procedure on the website www.endu.net (link on the “Registrations” page of this website), or by filling out a paper form available at the points indicated by the organization. There are different registration formulas:
– Registration for the competitive WITH GADGET.
– Registration for the competitive WITHOUT GADGET.
Both formulas include the race pack, consisting of goods offered by the sponsors and the post-race pasta party. Registration WITH GADGET gives the right to receive a pair of CAMP trail poles (SONIC ALU PLUS model) made in collaboration with the sponsor Faletti Mountain Store. The number of gadgets is limited and delivery is not guaranteed for all registered participants (who will therefore have to use the registration formula without gadgets when they run out).

INTERVAL
COMPETITIVE WITH GADGET
COMPETITIVE WITHOUT GADGET
From may 15  to june 30 
30 €
15 €
From july 1 to august 15 
35 €
20 €
From august 16 to september 8 
40 €
25 €
From september 9 to september 11
h 24.00
45 €
30 €

There is also the possibility of registering for the NON COMPETITIVE event. This event does not require participants to have a medical certificate (although it is always highly recommended), does not include timekeeping and allows the start within a certain time slot (consult the event planning on the poster and social platforms). It will also be possible to register for the NON COMPETITIVE event on the day of the race, at the Race Village.

The NON COMPETITIVE event also has two options: with pasta party (without
race pack and/or gadgets) and without pasta party.

Non competitive fee WITH pasta party: €15
Non competitive fee WITHOUT pasta party: €5
NON COMPETITIVE fees valid for the entire registration collection period.

FURTHER INFORMATION

  • The registered participant has the right to timekeeping, a personalized bib, assistance service, refreshment points at the halfway point and at the finish line.
  • The chip must be attached to the shoe and returned upon arrival at the designated collection point.
  • Upon arrival, it will be mandatory to return the chip (under penalty of a €10 fine for each chip not returned to the athlete or team).
  • Members can use the changing room, shower and bathroom services at the municipal gym in Malegno (Villaggio Gara).
  • At the Race Village it will be possible to collect: bibs; chips; race pack and gadgets.
  • The pasta party will be inside the Race Village and will take place after the end of the race.
  • Including transport service to the arrival of backpacks with spares (the backpack must be deposited at the Race Village within the time indicated by the organization).
  • The return for everyone is completely autonomous. The organization declines all responsibility for the return journey.
  • For group registrations by sports clubs, a fixed 10% discount is provided upon reaching 10 registered participants. No further discounts are provided. (For this type of registration, please contact the organization first).
  • The fees of the company that manages the online registrations may be added to the registration fee.
  • The complete list of registered participants will be available starting at 10:00 on September 13, 2025 on the website: https://www.vallecamonicavertical.it .
  • Registration is strictly personal, it cannot be transferred to third parties under any circumstances without the prior authorization of the organizing committee and in any case no later than September 10, 2025. The cost (administrative fee) for changing bibs is €5.
  • In no case will the registration fee be fully refunded, except in the event that is cancelled. In this case, the registration will be valid for the following year.

TIMING, BIBS AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

The timing will be managed internally, with chip-based technology, according to the information and conditions on their use published on the relevant website.
Failure or incorrect use of the chip by the competitor will result in their failure to be included in the ranking and the failure to attribute the time taken.
The bib must be worn on the chest or stomach and must always be visible in its entirety during the entire race. It must therefore be positioned over all clothing and in no case fixed elsewhere.
The athlete is required to have a front light turned on during the entire duration of the race and to use trail running shoes.
The use of poles is permitted.
It is mandatory for each competitor who is reached by another who asks for direction, to facilitate the overtaking of the competitor who follows.

PRIZES AND SCORES

1) The first 10 men and 10 women overall will be awarded.
2) The first three classified in the following categories (male and female) will be awarded:

SENIORES/JUNIORES (born 1991/2007)

AMATORI A (born 1981-1990)

AMATORI B (born 1971-1980)

VETERANS A (born 1964-1970)

VETERANS B (born 1963 and earlier)

The absolute prizes cannot be cumulated with those of the category.

3) A prize will be awarded to whoever sets the new course record (male or female)
Male Record: 26’ 37” – Andrea Prandi 09/21/2024
Female Record: 32’ 09” – Vivien Bonzi 09/21/2024
If, for unforeseen reasons, the course must be changed, no record will be awarded.

IMAGE RIGHTS

Each competitor expressly renounces the use of image rights during the test, as well as renounces any recourse against the organization and its authorized partners for the use made of his image.

PRIVACY INFORMATION AND CONSENT

The personal data provided will be processed using paper and electronic methods in compliance with current legislation and the principles of correctness, lawfulness, transparency and confidentiality. At any time it is possible to exercise all the rights indicated by the art. 7 of Legislative Decrete no. 196/2003, in particular the cancellation, rectification or data integration. The processing of personal data is ensured in compliance with EU GDPR 679/2016. With the registration the participant expressly authorizes the CiMa Athletic Association and the Mountain Community of Valle Camonica to resume, through television, cinema or other means, its image in the course of the event, recognizing the Association’s broadest right to record, reproduce, print it, publish it, project it, disseminate it and in any case use it by any means currently known or that will be invented in the future, without limits of time and space and to yield to one’s partners commercial and institutional rights to use the image also for promotional purposes and/or advertising.

ACCEPTANCE OF REGULATIONS AND DECLARATION OF RESPONSIBILITY

By registering, each competitor undertakes to accept and comply with these Regulations of the event and any modification, integration or new communication that may be published on the official website of the event is to be understood as an integral part of the same. Each competitor accepts the route, the technical indications and the organization of the race as described in this duly, freeing the organizers from any civil or penal liability for any accident or accident, for damage to people or things derived from him or deriving from caused by itself or by third parties connected or connected to the event.

NOTES

* The organizing committee reserves the right to modify-suspend-cancel the event in the event of particularly adverse weather conditions that could compromise the safety of athletes, the public or volunteers.