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The 2011 Salomon Trail Team

News Release / 17.02.2011

In 2010 the all-conquering Salomon Trail Team once again produced some amazing international performances. With wins at the Skyrunning World Team championships for both the men and women, a second straight Trans Alpine Run win for Andy Symonds and Tom Owens, silver medals for Rob Hope in the British Fell Championship series and Anna Frost in the Skyrunner World Series, topped off with Anna's superb win at The North Face Endurance Series 50 mile championships in San Francisco last December.

However, with Anna Frost returning to New Zealand 2011 is another year and STT manager Tim Lloyd has once again put together a team of athletes capable of taking on the world's best mountain, fell and trail runners.

"We have re-aligned the team a little this year, by creating a mix of our highly experienced champions and younger athletes capable of taking the Salomon name into some different spheres. Rob Hope, Angela Mudge, Tom Owens and Andy Symonds will once again focus on a programme of international and domestic races, with Ricky, Andy and Tom racing predominantly with the Salomon International team this season.

Rob Hope will no doubt be looking to regain that British title that he lost to Tim Davies last year, and with Angela returning to her Scottish base her programme will be a mixture of British fell races and international mountain and trail races. Nick Swinburn remains on the team, but will be focusing on shorter mountain events and his preparations for an Autumn marathon on the road and is currently in Kenya training - so we will see how much that helps Nick when he returns to sea-level!

A new addition to the team is Rob Samuel. He has been very good across disciplines over the last couple of years. Representing Wales on the road, at cross country and on the mountains. His career peaked last year when he won a place on the GB team for the World Mountain Running Championships in Slovenia. Rob is now running with a good group at Loughborough University currently and still only 25, so we see a bright future for him in mountain running, and he will also be doing some forest trail races this summer - which is a great medium to showcase the new XR Crossmax shoes from Salomon.

Unfortunately, the team was unable to sustain such a large group of runners and we had to make some changes in the team make-up and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Anna Frost, Natalie White and John Heneghan for their excellent contribution to our successes over the last few years. But for us 2011 is looking brighter than ever and I am confident that we have a team line-up that will bring even greater successes this year and some great exposure for the Salomon brand."

Full Salomon Trail Team line up for 2011;

Rob Hope
Ricky Lightfoot
Angela Mudge
Tom Owens
Ron Samuel
Andy Symonds
Nick Swinburn