Gorgany Race 2007
Adventure Race, 30 June - 1 July

Starting 9am 30 June from Myslivka village, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine.
Finish at 3pm 1 July.

Team consisting of 4-6 people has to scale the route of about 90 km in the Gorgany region of the Carpathian Mountains and to pass through checkpoints.

Register before 19 June.

See more at: www.race.gorgany.com
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Official partner of the race is Lviv Tourist Information.

July  06,  2007 report
OJSC «Insurance Company «Universalna» sponsored non-commercial team competition in hiking – extreme-race «Gorgany Race 2007» having insured all participants of the event from accidents free of charge.

During two days – on June, 30 and July, 1 – over a hundred of participants in 14 teams from five Ukrainian western regions were surmounting difficulties of the mounting ridge Gorgany in Ukrainian Carpathians.

The winner of «Gorgany Race 2007» became the team PP from Nadvirna (Ivano-Frankivsk region), the runner-up became Lviv team Transit, the team Druids from Lutsk won the honorary ‘bronze’.

The competition consisted of two stages – technical one and the actual extreme-race. At the technical stage participants were required using climbing equipment to surmount the range of obstacles, which included downhill to ravine, different kinds of crossing the gorge and the river, efficient usage of climbing equipment. Teams started the race at intervals of three minutes, depending on the time spent on overcoming the technical contest stage.

The length of the itinerary, which came through the summits of Yayko-Ilemske, Moloda, Gropha and the ridge Arshytsia, amounted to about 90 km if take into account the altitude swing. Teams were to accomplish this distance in 30 hours. The other requirement to teams was to finish with their full complement, otherwise the result would not be scored. The itinerary was difficult, which is proved by the fact that only 6 teams out of 14 fulfilled the requirements.