Vienna (Austria), Sunday 15 January 2012

The Eisbärlauf race series in Vienna, organized annually by the athletics club LCC Wien, consists of three running events in January, February, and March.

Each event offers a 7km run and a half marathon. The route is a 7km-loop in the Prater park. The course is completely flat, traffic-free, and AIMS-certified.

Last year, over 750 runners took part in the first race of the Eisbärlauf series.

The half marathon winners were Wolfgang Wallner (1:10:34) and, after a two-year doping ban, Susanne Pumper (1:19:43)

Country: Austria

Venue (Map): Wien-Prater

Date: 15 January 2012 (Sunday)

Distance: 7km; 21.1km (certified by AIMS)

Start time: 10.00

Start and finish: Prater Hauptallee, near Ernst-Happel-Stadion and Stadionbad

Entries: online (until 10 Jan 2012, payment by credit card) or in person in the race centre (12 and 13 Jan 2012, 16.00-21.00); late entries on the day (8.00-9.30)

Entry fees: 17 euros (until 13 Jan 2012), 20 euros (late entries on the day)

Deposit for the race number: 3 euros (fully refundable)

Timing: ChampionChip - use your own chip or rent a chip for 3 euros (30 euros deposit)

Race centre: LCC-Zentrum in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Sektor C/D, Meiereistraße 7, 1020 Wien

You get: feed station at the finish; entry into the post-race prize drawing; medal and T-shirt to participants in all three Eisbärlauf events

Showers, changing facilities, sauna: in the LCC Wien-Laufzentrum

Prizes: trophies to the best finishers in each category

Award ceremony: 13.30

Number of finishers 2011: 409 (7km), 359 (21km)

Event website (in German): lcc-wien.at

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