The OSJ Ontake SkyRace was an international

skyrunning Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running above where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons, and hands may ...

competition held for the first time in 2006 and till 2014. It ran every year in Nagano (

Mount Ontake , also referred to as , is the 14th-highest mountain and second-highest volcano in Japan (after Mount Fuji) at . It is included in Kyūya Fukada's 1964 book ''100 Famous Japanese Mountains''. Description Mt. Ontake is located around northeast ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

) in August. The race was valid for the

Skyrunner World Series The Skyrunner World Series is an annual international championship of skyrunning (high altitude endurance races) and the official International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) race circuit for mountain running. Each year the Skyrunner World Series pr ...

six times consecutively from 2006 to 2011.

Races

* ''OSJ Ontake SkyRace'', a

SkyRace Skyrunning is a sport of mountain running above where the minimum average incline is 6% over the total distance and at least 5% has an incline of 30% or more. The climbing difficulty does not exceed II grade UIAA. Poles, crampons, and hands may ...

(32 km / 1,800 m D+) * ''OSJ Ontake Ultra Trail'', an Ultra trail (100 km)

OSJ Ontake SkyRace

References

External links

Official web site
{{Skyrunner World Series races Skyrunning competitions Skyrunner World Series Athletics competitions in Japan Sports competitions in Nagano Prefecture

Races

OSJ Ontake SkyRace

See also

References

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