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World Mountain Running Trophy, 25 September 2005
Photos by Rowan Greig
Open Race – Loretta DeSourdy
Open Race – Peter Wrigley, followed by Brendan Quirke (VU)
Open Race - Cameron Goldsmith
Kids Run - at the start Florence Reynolds gets a good luck hug from dad Martyn
Scottish J-teamers on country name placard duty
Junior Women – 1st Jioulia Mochalova, Russia (centre), 2nd Mateja Kosovelj, Slovenia
(left) and 3rd Hulva Ongun, Turkey (right)
Junior Men - Vedat Gunen, Turkey
Senior Men - Ben Revell warming up before start
Senior Women – Melissa Moon coming down from the trig
The new World Mountain Running
Champions - Kate McIlroy and Jonathan Wyatt
Some snaps by Paul Rodway
Open event runner Loretta DeSourdy
passes through one of the views which make the 21st World
Mountain Running Trophy event unique - a course in the centre
of a city
The open race(s): Brenda Burke and
Greg Thurlow
Bob Stephens clearly enjoying one of the
gentle uphills
Jonathan Wyatt climbs back to the
summit
Melissa Moon heads back down to
Oriental Parade, with Port Nicholson as a backdrop
Kate McIlroy comes off the top of
the Mt Victoria trig for the last time.
SATURDAY: A day of final preparation
By Rowan Grieg
Work is progressing on setting up the course and start/finish areas for tomorrow’s big races – the ones we have been waiting for. Up at the trig I managed to talk and photograph some of the passing athletes and visitors taking one last look at the course and the magnificent views of the city that the top of Mt Vic offers. If the weather holds (and even if it doesn’t), we are in for one terrific event.
Members of the Irish Team Neil Carty (left) and Alan McKibbin (right) with master mountain runner Hubert Rodhammer from Austria (centre)
Checking out the course that sons Jono and Andrew will run tomorrow are parents, Gordon and Lynley Wyatt. Gordon and brother Roger were at one
time members of Scottish and Roger’s name is there for all to see on the club honours board for wining a National XC Champs Junior title and 1 mile track title.
From Poland Karol (left) who will run the Junior Men’s race and Tomasz Klisz who will do the 3 lap Senior Men’s race
Members of the Swiss team Sebastian Epiney (left) and Stephane Joly. Sebastian is a little concerned that the track on the uphill section may be too narrow in places for any passing to be done.
Members of the strong Italian team doing light training on Oriental Parade. Included in this group is Vitorria Salvari (right) and Antonio Molinari (2nd from right) who are both highly ranked in the Senior Women’s and Senior Men’s races respectively.
FRIDAY: The Parade of Nations
NZ Team at Midland Park before the
march of nations to Civic Square.
Ben Revell with his mum
The Turkish team
Kiwi Team Parade – Flag holders NZ Junior Men - Matt Singleton,
Brendon Blacklaws and Hayden McLaren
The team from Scotland with flag that looks as if it may have come from our clubrooms
Bob Stephens and Dave Lonsdale in Civic Square.. Colin Maclachlan (partly obscured) is to the right
and to the left is Marguerite Christophers.
Melissa Moon and her mother
Jono Wyatt enjoying the atmosphere
Martin Macdonald, the chair of the local organising committee, and Arthur Klap, event
organiser
Some of the 330 athletes representing their countries
Juan Carlos Carera – Mexico. 3rd in the 2004 World Mt Race Champs in the Junior Men’s grade and a favourite to win on Sunday.