Sarah Webster wins particular person bronze and staff silver whereas GB males take staff bronze in Bengaluru
Whereas Nice Britain & Northern Eire’s cross-country runners had been profitable medals in Turkey, the GB & NI 100km staff had been profitable medals additional afield in India on Saturday (Dec 8), Adrian Stott studies.
In temperatures reaching nicely over 30C, each the women and men gained hard-earned staff medals, with Sarah Webster taking an outstanding particular person bronze medal.
Ladies’s race
Webster, together with the French duo of Floriane Sizzling and Marie-Ange Brumelot, traded locations within the early levels.
Webster made a break and at one level held a three-minute lead, however because the race progressed and the temperature rose she was handed firstly by Sizzling, the defending champion from the final championships in Berlin in 2022, then Brumelot.
The 2 French runners stayed robust to the top. Sizzling recorded 7:08:43 whereas Brumelot took silver in 7:12:22, main them to the staff title.
Webster held on for third in 7:19:18. GB and NI’s first particular person medal at a 100km world Championships since Jo Zakrzweski claimed bronze in 2016 in Spain.
Backed up by Melissah Gibson, who completed fifth in 7:35:27, and Julia Davis, ninth in 8:01:05, the GB & NI staff took the silver medals with USA third.
The brutal situations led to a number of runners dropping out with Britain’s Caroline Turner amongst them. She struggled within the scorching and humid situations and retired after 80km as soon as it was sure GB & NI had been going to have three finishers for the staff competitors.
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Males’s race
Japan’s Jumpei Yamaguchi, who got here into the race with the quickest time on this planet for 2024, lived as much as his repute, taking the boys’s title in 6:12:17. Seemingly unaffected by the difficult situations, his time was solely seven seconds exterior the championship report of 6:12:10 from Berlin in 2022.
As soon as the race had settled down after the early sparring, France’s Guillaume Ruel led for some time. An ankle harm pressured him to retire earlier than midway, leaving Yamaguchi to take management and, in a dedicated efficiency, was a snug winner from Antonio Aguilar of Spain, who took silver in 6:25:54.
Haruki Okayama of Japan took bronze in 6:37:54 with one other Japanese runner, Tomoya Watanabe, fourth in 6:37:55.
This ensured Japan comfortably took the boys’s staff title with a cumulative time of 19:30:09.
British bronze medallists
Spain, with Aguilar backed up by Felix Ponte in fifth and Manel Deli in seventeenth, took the silver medals.
The British males had been led residence by Alex Milne – a high 10 finisher on the 90km Comrades Marathon in June. Respectful of the situations, the Brits all ran nicely paced races, ending strongly with 5 runners within the high 20 greater than another nation.
Jarlath McKenna was ninth in 6:51:20, James Turner eleventh in 6:53:17, Joe Turner thirteenth in 6:53:43 and Chris Richardson sixteenth in 6:56;16. Dougie Selman completed somewhat additional again in twenty ninth in 7:22:48.
Within the World Masters Championship held inside the race, Sarah Webster took gold within the W45 class and Jarlath McKenna the bronze within the M40 class.
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