Kipngeno and Adkin Win Collection – iRunFar

The 2024 Mountain Working World Cup completed with a pair of aggressive races in northern Italy. The Saturday, October 12 vertical kilometer (VK) race and the Sunday, October 13 path race marked the top of this yr’s 12-race sequence that spanned seven nations.

It was a becoming finish. Kenya’s Patrick Kipngeno (pre-race interview) and Joyce Muthoni Njeru gained the race, whereas Kipngeno and the U.Ok.’s Scout Adkin (pre-race interview) gained the sequence. Kipngeno and Adkin earned €5,000 for his or her world cup wins, a part of a €30,000 prize purse that paid cash 10 deep.

The World Mountain Working Championships occur each different yr. The occasion was contested final yr in Austria and can occur once more in 2025 in Spain. Absent a world championships occasion in 2024, the Mountain Working World Cup Finals tackle larger significance this yr. The World Mountain Working Affiliation administers each.

The Sunday, October 13 path race was contested as a part of the Val Bregaglia Path race. The course stretched 23 kilometers lengthy and with 850 meters of climbing and 900 meters of drop on a point-to-point course from Switzerland to Italy.

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You can even try our larger race protection from the VK race: 2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals VK Outcomes: Adkin and Elia Quickest to High

2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Males’s Race

Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya), this yr’s Sierre-Zinal fourth-placer, pushed to an early lead, however with 5 kilometers to go, Théodore Klein (France) was a fair larger shock chief. The 29-year-old Klein ran Sierre-Zinal this yr too, ending 205th. Name {that a} dangerous day although, his higher outcomes embody a 3rd at this yr’s European Off-Street Championships and a sub-30 minute 10,000-meter run as lately as 2021. Klein tremendously outperformed that Sierre-Zinal consequence right here.

Collection chief Patrick Kipngeno (pre-race interview) was proper with Klein although, and Kipngeno was in a position to draw back over the race’s closing phases. Kipngeno gained the race in 1:34:03, and gained the sequence too. He was third in yesterday’s VK race as a part of the weekend double.

Kipngeno raced seven occasions on the planet cup this yr. He gained each Damaged Arrow races firstly of the season, and gained the Vertical Nasego and Trofeo Nasego races in Italy too as a part of the world cup. He’s presently ranked second within the Golden Path World Collection forward of that sequence’s remaining subsequent weekend in Switzerland.

Paul Machoka (Kenya) ran down Klein earlier than the end too for a silver medal 1:34:22 end, and Klein was third in 1:34:53.

Kenya positioned 5 runners inside the highest 10 and Italy three inside the highest 10.

The highest U.S. finisher was Twelfth-place Liam Meirow in 1:37:51.

2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Males’s Outcomes

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:34:03 (pre-race interview)
2. Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 1:34:22
3. Théodore Klein (France) – 1:34:53
4. Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 1:35:24
5. Ross Gollan (U.Ok.) – 1:35:24
6. Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 1:35:26
7. Michael Galassi (Italy) – 1:35:47
8. Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 1:36:09
9. Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 1:37:33 (pre-race interview)
10. Luca Merli (Italy) – 1:37:34

Full outcomes.

2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Ladies’s Race

The ladies’s race seemed so much like so many different shorter path races this yr. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) went to the entrance early and led for all of it. She completed in 1:47:45, simply over a minute higher than everybody else. It wasn’t sufficient to seal the sequence win although, as she narrowly misplaced out to the day prior to this’s winner, Scout Adkin (pre-race interview) of the U.Ok.

Muthoni Njeru extremely contested 10 of the 12 world cup races. She earned wins at each Damaged Arrow races, Trofeo Nasego, and Šmarna Gora as a part of her world cup season. She’s anticipated to race the Golden Path World Collection remaining subsequent weekend in Switzerland too.

Second for the second-straight day was Kenya’s Philaries Jeruto Kisang (pre-race interview). She trailed Muthoni Njeru with a 1:48:51 end, and the VK race winner, and total world cup winner, Adkin, was third in 1:48:58.

There have been no U.S. girls within the race.

2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Ladies’s Outcomes

1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 1:47:45
2. Philaries Kisang Jeruto (Kenya) – 1:48:51 (pre-race interview)
3. Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) – 1:48:58 (pre-race interview)
4. Naomi Lang (U.Ok.) – 1:50:07
5. Susanna Saapunki (Finland, lives in Italy) – 1:52:08
6. Alice Gaggi (Italy) – 1:53:00
7. Beatrice Bianchi (Italy) – 1:53:36
8. Madalina Ioana Amariei (Romania) – 1:54:19
9. Eli Anne Dvergsdal (Italy) – 1:57:20
10. Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 1:57:37

Full outcomes.