Scottish

Jonathan Wyatt won his fifth world mountain running title today and became the first ever runner to win both the unrelenting and undulating forms of the event. And he did it with seeming ease, with a winning margin of 2 minutes and 13 seconds. Jonathan's performance in the race produced a great deal of cheering in the Scottish women's ranks, almost inciting a Jonathan Riot. Third Kiwi and 31st overall was our own Ben Revell.

In the women's race, Kate McIlroy also opened up an unassailable lead first on Melissa Moon and then on Scotland's Tracey Brindley in the second lap. In doing this, Kate topped her cracker running season with a world title in her first international attempt at this form of running. Melissa finished seventh.

The run of the day may have come from Russian junior woman, Jioulia Mochalova. The Russian team arrived late last night and ran the course blind this morning. Jioulia led from start to finish, tossing aside lack of sleep and jet lag. At sixth, Ruth Croft was the top Kiwi.

Vedat Gunen of Turkey won the junior men's race from Mexican Juan Carlos Carera, who was third last year. The top Kiwi was Aaron Jackson in 19th spot.

The Italians won the men's and women's open team events. New Zealand was second in the men's event and fifth in the women's. In the junior women, Slovenia was a clear winner, while NZ was fifth. In the junior men, the winner was Turkey and NZ was eighth.

In the earlier open race (mistakenly called a "fun run"), competitors could choose to run one, two or three laps. Places were recorded on the finishing order with all events muddled together (below). Nine Scottish (or near Scottish) members competed in the two lap version with young Cameron Goldsmid first Scottish member home in 47:21.

The primary and intermediate school events over 1k and 1.6k depending on the school year had heaps of members of the J-team showing up.

Many Scottish members helped out in the event, marshalling, timekeeping, ferrying photographers up and down "Molehill Victoria," refereeing, team liaison, Mt Vic commentary (Mick Finn began at 7:30 and was still entertaining us at 3:50), and tail-end "charlie-ing". Great effort, Scottish!

Full results | Photos from Friday and Saturday and race day

Summary results

Senior Women 9.1km
Place	First Name	Surname	Country	Time
1	Kate	MCILROY	NZL	39:40
2	Tracey	BRINDLEY	SCO	41:42
3	Anna	PICHRTOVA	CZE	41:59
7	Melissa	MOON	NZL	43:21
40	Sarah	DEVOY	NZL	48:26
DNF	Anna	FROST	NZL	n/a

Senior Men 13.5km
Place	First Name	Surname	Country	Time
1	Jonathan	WYATT	NZL	53:23
2	Gabriele	ABATE	ITA	55:35
3	Davide	CHICCO	ITA	55:41
6	Dale	WARRANDER	NZL	56:24
31	Benjamin	REVELL	NZL	59:28
37	Michael	WAKELIN	NZL	59:47
48	Callum	HARLAND	NZL	1:00:41
49	Phil	COSTLEY	NZL	1:00:45

Junior Men 9.1km
Place	First Name	Surname	Country	Time
1	Vedat	GUNEN	TUR	36:48
2	Juan Carlos	CARERA	MEX	37:20
3	Martin	DEMATTEIS	ITA	37:28
19	Aaron	JACKSON	NZL	41:53
25	Matt	SINGLETON	NZL	42:18
35	Brendon	BLACKLAWS	NZL	43:55
DNF	Hayden	MACLAREN	NZL	n/a

Junior Women 4.7km
Place	First Name	Surname	Country	Time
1	Jioulia	MOCHALOVA	RUS	21:50
2	Mateja	KOSOVELJ	SLO	22:00
3	Hulya	ONGUN	TUR	22:46
6	Ruth	CROFT	NZL	23:45
15	Hayley	GREEN	NZL	24:15
17	Alice	MASON	NZL	24:21

Open event (some names are missing in the full results)

Finish order	First Name	Surname	Grade	Time	Laps
7	Paul	FORSTER (Kap)	M45	43:00	2
8	Barry	PROSSER (Oly)	M50	43:11	2
20	Cameron	GOLDSMID	M19	47:21	2
22	Andy	FOSTER	M40	47:56	2
27	Desmond	YOUNG	M45	49:11	2
30	Barrie	NEUMANN	M45	49:38	2
50	Phil	VALENTINE	M55	54:54	2
65	Rupert	WATSON	M55	58:17	2
76	Robert	STEPHENS	M60	1:00:11	2
96	Loretta	DESOURDY	W50	1:05:04	2
127	Brenda Ann	BURKE	W45	1:13:37	2
80	Tim	AUSTIN (Eng)	O	1:00:53	3
82	Daniel	CLENDON (WHAC)	O	1:02:24	3
84	Andrew	WYATT (Valleys)	M35	1:02:34	3
110	Greg	THURLOW	O	1:10:00	3
150	James	KAISER	O	1:24:54	3