Ireland’s Sarah McCormack finished a fighting ninth in the women’s race at the World Mountain Running Championships in Betws-y-Coed, Wales. Uganda’s Sally Chesang, the women’s junior winner from last year when the race was uphill only, underlined her huge potential when she won the race from the British trio of Emily Collinge, Emma Clayton and Sarah Tunstall.
In the men’s race, Raheny’s Ian Conroy finished a respectable 24th – a big improvement on his 58th of last year on an uphill only course in Italy. Making it a Ugandan double was Fred Musobo. Ugandans have dominated the race for the past few years.
No Irish competed in the junior races, although Irish teams did compete in the British and Irish Junior International which served as a curtain raiser to the World Championships programme.
World Mountain Runnign Championships Betws-y-Coed (full result www.tdl.co.uk)
Women – Senior: 1 Stella Chesang (UGA) 37.52, 2 Emily Collinge (GB) 38.23, 3 Emma Clayton (GB) 38.33, 4 Sarah Tunstall (GB) 39.06….9 Sarah McCormack 40.02. Teams: 2 USA,
Junior: 1 Allie Ostrander (USA) 19.44 , 2 Michaela Stranska (CZE) 20.23, 3 Elsa Racasan (Fra) 20.31. No Irish.
Men – Senior (118 finishers): 1 Fred Musobo (UGA) 49.00, 2 Bernard de Matteis (Ita) 49.44, 3 Robbie Simpson (GB) 50.31. Irish: 24 Ian Conroy 53.50, 64 Killian Mooney 57.48, 65 Brian Furey 57.49, 67 James Kevan 57.52, 69 Tom Hogan 58.00, 75 Seamus Lynch 58.24. Teams – 3 Great Britain.
Junior: 1 Ferhat Bozkurt (TUR) 33.56, 2 Levi Thomet (USA) 35.50, 3 Mustafa Gokei (TUR) 35.53. Teams : 3 Great Britain. No Irish.
British & Irish Junior International Mountain Running Championships Betws-y-Coed, Wales
M20 8.9km (22 finishers)– 1 Daniel Lawton (England) 37.30. Irish: 13 Tadgh McGinty 40.42, 14 Ruadhan O Grada (DSD) 41.36, 20 Oisin Donnelly 45.56, 21 Naoise Leonard 47.03. N Irish: 22 James Millar 50.34. M17 4.7km: 1 Alfie Thompson (England) 18. 30. Irish: 15 Alex Hunter 20.29, 17 Cian McDonald 20.34, 25 Adam Phillips 21.28. N Irish: 12 Scott McKeag 19.58, 24 Aaron Harrison 21.18, 28 Joel Harrion 24.19. W17 4.7km (19 finishers): 1 Laura Stark (Scotland) 21.39. Irish: 17 Elaine Shannon 26.00, 18 Aine O’Connor 26.19, 19 Eva Roche 28.39
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