Staff Kenya struck gold and silver this morning in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on the inaugural World Mountain and Path Working Championships (WMTRC). Patrick Kipngeno received the boys’s traditional uphill 8.5 km race (round 1,000m of vert) in 46:51, together with his compatriot Philemon Kiriago taking second in 48:24.
The inaugural WMTRC is a collaboration between World Athletics, the World Mountain Working Affiliation (WMRA), the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) and the Worldwide Path Working Affiliation (ITRA).
Kipngeno went into the race as a favorite after dominant performances in the course of the Mountain Working World Cup circuit, the place he received the distinguished Thyon-Dixence and completed second at Sierre-Zinal. Kipngeno received by a cushty margin of a minute and a half forward of Kiriago, who solely began mountain operating in the course of the pandemic. Spain’s Alejandro Garcia settled for bronze in 49:03.
Kipngeno and Kiriago will hope to duplicate their efficiency after they participate within the traditional up-and-down 11.2 km race on Sunday.
Alexandre Ricard of Squamish, B.C., was the highest Canadian finisher, cracking the highest 10 in 50:04. Remi Leroux of Quebec completed 4 spots again of Ricard for 14th, in 50:56, serving to the Canadian males’s crew to a seventh-place end total.
Within the girls’s race, Allie McLaughlin of Staff USA received gold in 55:15, solely every week after successful the Golden Path World Collection Finals in Madeira, Portugal. Austria’s Andrea Mayr took silver in 55:41 whereas ultratrail runner and two-time Golden Path World Collection champion Maude Mathys was third in 56:00.
McLaughlin, 32, was in a pack late with Mayr and Mathys, and made a transfer with one kilometre to go and by no means regarded again to win her second World Mount Working particular person title. (In 2014, she was the world champion within the long-distance race).
Allie McLaughlin led @USATF to a girls’s crew title, whereas Kenya’s Patrick Kipngeno adopted his World Cup win with a worldwide gold on the primary day of the inaugural World Mountain and Path Working Championships in Chiang Mai 🇹🇭 on Friday.
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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) November 4, 2022
They’re all entered for each of the mountain races in Chiang Mai, so will conflict once more within the traditional up-and-down race on Sunday.
Kerri Labrecque of Ottawa was the lone Canadian lady within the race, ending thirtieth, in 1:04:59.
Greater than 900 athletes from 46 member federations are collaborating in 5 races for women and men, together with one for U20 athletes.
You’ll be able to view the outcomes from the World Mountain and Path Working Championships right here.
