The history of MendelRace uphill from 2016 to today

All editions from 2016 until today

Key milestones since the premiere in 2016

Since its inaugural edition on April 9, 2016, the MendelRace Uphill has been part of the SouthTyrol.Mountain.Cup (Südtirol.Berg.Cup) racing series and a fixture on the South Tyrolean road cycling calendar. The first male winner was Andrea Zamboni (Bergner Bräu - Unterthurner) from Trentino, and the first female winner was Alexandra Hober (Athletic Club Merano) from Merano.

The DigiSprint powered by DigiPrint was first awarded in 2018, at that time as a prize for the fastest cyclist at the sprint line at the “Kalterer Höhe” intersection (after approximately 4 km of racing). Michael Spögler from Sarntal (ASC Sarntal Raiffeisen) won the first DigiSprint.
Nowadays, both the fastest man and the fastest woman are honored.


List of winners MendelRace

Men
year Gold Silber Bronze
2016 Andrea Zamboni (ITA) Michael Obrist (ITA) Jarno Varesco (ITA)
2017 Andrea Zamboni (ITA) Philipp Schäddel (GER) Maurizio Anzelini (ITA)
2018 Andrea Zamboni (ITA) Michael Spögler (ITA) Huseyin Celebi (TUR)
2019 Michael Spögler (ITA) Hans Peter Obwaller (AUT) Benjamin Koch (GER)
2022 Michael Spögler (ITA) Franz Wieser (ITA) Simone Capelli (ITA)
2023 Franz Wieser (ITA) Dennis Biederer (GER) Alessandro Sogne (ITA)
2024 Philip Götsch (ITA) Rene Pammer (AUT) Federico Nicolini (ITA)
2025 Philip Götsch (ITA) Franz Wieser (ITA) Rene Pammer (AUT)
2026 Quirin Haidl (GER) Philip Götsch (ITA) Christian Oberngruber (AUT)

 

Women
year Gold Silber Bronze
2016 Alexandra Hober (ITA) Marina Ilmer (ITA) Paola Raoss (ITA)
2017 Alexandra Hober (ITA) Julia Luck (GER) Lorna Ciacci (ITA)
2018 Monika Dietl (GER) Eva-Maria Gatscher (ITA) Lorna Ciacci (ITA)
2019 Christina Rausch (GER) Lorna Ciacci (ITA) Bianca Somavilla (AUT)
2022 Christina Rausch (GER) Rike Fänger (GER) Olena Barabash (UKR)
2023 Anna Plattner (AUT) Christina Rausch (GER) Alina Reichert (AUT)
2024 Anna Scheffler (GER) Annika Artinger (GER) Carmen Moser (ITA)
2025 Julia Sörgel (AUT) Carmen Moser (ITA) Evi Gudelius (GER)
2026 Julia Jedelhauser (GER) Melanie Geiger (GER) Julia Sörgel (AUT)

 

 

List of winners DigiSprint powered by Digiprint

  Men Women
2016 / /
2017 / /
2018 Michael Spögler (ITA) /
2019 Wolfgang Hofmann (GER) /
2022 Andrea Zamboni (ITA) /
2023 Lukas Stoiber (GER) /
2024 Rene Pammer (AUT) /
2025 Rene Pammer (AUT) Julia Sörgel (AUT)
2026 Philip Götsch (ITA) Julia Jedelhauser (GER)

MendelRace 2025

12/4/2025

Philip Götsch repeats his previous year's success with a record time - Julia Sörgel wins the Mendel Pass for the first time In a tough battle, the meranese rider only pulled away from his rival Franz Wieser in the final kilometre...
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MendelRace 2024

13/4/2024

Record-breaking day on the Mendelpass-Passo Mendola The MendelRace 2024 will be remembered as the day of records. Never before have the temperatures at the MendelRace been so high (21°C on the pass). Never before have there been so many...
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MendelRace 2023

15/4/2023

MendelRace 2023: New winners and new course records With almost 150 starters, the organisers - the Dynamic Bike Team from Eppan - have continued where they left off before Corona: the high number of participants confirms the popularity of the...
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MendelRace 2022

9/4/2022

Michael Spögler (ITA) wins solo at the Mendel Pass and defends his title / Christina Rausch (GER) also repeats her victory from 2019 The young "Sarner" asserts his supremacy on the Mendel Pass It was a long dry spell of 2...
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MendelRace 2021 - cancelled

17/4/2021

MendelRace 2021 unfortunately cancelled and postponed - new date not yet fixed It was already in the air, but since yesterday it is unfortunately a certainty. The amateur cycling race on the Mendel Pass/Penegal planned for Saturday 17 April,...
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MendelRace 2020 - cancelled

18/4/2020

MendelRace 2020 - canceled! Today, Saturday 18 April, would have been the day: Date for the opening race of the Südtirol.Berg.Cup Edition 2020 - the MendelRace. The weather in a TOP mood; about 150 athletes from home and abroad, ready...
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MendelRace 2019

6/4/2019

Michael Spögler dethrones serial winner Andrea Zamboni and crowns himself for the first time on the Mendel Pass - Christina Rausch fastest lady in new fabulous time In the previous editions of the cycling race up the Mendel Pass, the...
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MendelRace 2018

7/4/2018

Andrea Zamboni the undisputed king of the Mendel Pass; Monika Dietl new female winner It was the announced and eagerly awaited first showdown of the 2018 season. Or, as Andreas Pichler, president of the Eppan organisers Dynamic Bike Team, said...
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MendelRace 2017

8/4/2017

Andrea Zamboni and Alexandra Hober repeat winners on the Mendel Pass The MendelRace attracted a new record number of participants this year: Almost 160 athletes from Italy, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic and Slovenia came to...
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MendelRace 2016

9/4/2016

Andrea Zamboni and Alexandra Hober winners of the first MendelRace April does what it wants. True to the old saying, it wasn't certain until the very end whether the weather would hold. And it held: the first cycling race up the Mendel...
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