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 tip of this 12 months’s 12-race collection that spanned seven international locations.
It was a becoming finish. Kenya’s Patrick Kipngeno (pre-race and post-race interviews) and Joyce Muthoni Njeru received the race, whereas Kipngeno and the U.Ok.’s Scout Adkin (pre-race and post-race interviews) received the collection. 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 12 months. The occasion was contested final 12 months 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 12 months. 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 too try our outcomes article from the VK race: 2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals VK Outcomes: Adkin and Elia Quickest to High
Runners line up for the beginning of the Val Bregaglia Path race, as a part of the 2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals. Picture: World Mountain Working Affiliation/Nancy Hobbs
2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Males’s Race
Kenya’s Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya), this 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal fourth-placer, pushed to an early lead, however with 5 kilometers to go, France’s Théodore Klein was a good larger shock chief. The 29-year-old Klein ran Sierre-Zinal this 12 months too, ending 205th. Name {that a} unhealthy day although, his higher outcomes embrace a 3rd at this 12 months’s European Off-Highway Championships and a sub-30 minute 10,000-meter run as just lately as 2021. Klein significantly outperformed that Sierre-Zinal end result right here.
France’s Théodore Klein leads the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path at 16 kilometers into the race. He was a tempo pusher all race, and finally completed in third. Picture: iRunFar/Sarah Brady
Sequence chief Patrick Kipngeno (pre-race and post-race interviews) was proper with Klein although, and Kipngeno was capable of draw back over the race’s closing phases. Kipngeno received the race in 1:34:03, and received the collection too. He was third in yesterday’s VK race as a part of the weekend double.
Kenya’s Patrick Kipngeno wins the 2024 Bregaglia Path, in doing so securing his victory on the 2024 Mountain Working World Cup. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Kipngeno raced seven instances on this planet cup this 12 months. He received each Damaged Arrow races in the beginning of the season, and received the Vertical Nasego and Trofeo Nasego races in Italy too as a part of the world cup. He’s at present ranked second within the Golden Path World Sequence forward of that collection’s last subsequent weekend in Switzerland.
Kenya’s Paul Machoka ran down Klein earlier than the end too for a silver medal 1:34:22 end, and Klein was third in 1:34:53.
Paul Machoka runs in second early on within the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path, the identical place during which he’d finally end. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
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
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:34:03 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 1:34:22
- Théodore Klein (France) – 1:34:53
- Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 1:35:24
- Ross Gollan (U.Ok.) – 1:35:24
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 1:35:26
- Michael Galassi (Italy) – 1:35:47
- Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 1:36:09
- Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 1:37:33 (pre-race interview)
- Luca Merli (Italy) – 1:37:34
Kenya’s Josphat Kiprotich leads the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path early within the race. He went on to take fourth. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
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 12 months. Kenya’s Joyce Muthoni Njeru went to the entrance early and led for lots of it. She completed in 1:47:45, simply over a minute higher than everybody else. It wasn’t sufficient to seal the collection win although, as she narrowly misplaced out to the day past’s winner, Scout Adkin (pre-race and post-race interviews) of the U.Ok.
Joyce Muthoni Njeru of Kenya celebrates a win on the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path. In a really shut Mountain Working World Cup, she took second behind world cup winner Scout Adkin. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
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 Sequence last subsequent weekend in Switzerland too.
The U.Ok.’s Scout Adkin working late within the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path, on her approach to third place within the race, however a win on the Mountain Working World Cup. Picture: iRunFar/Sarah Brady
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 general world cup winner, Adkin, was third in 1:48:58.
There have been no U.S. girls within the race.
Philaries Jeruto Kisang of Kenya takes second on the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path. This end secured her a 3rd place within the Mountain Working World Cup this 12 months. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
2024 Mountain Working World Cup Finals Path Ladies’s Outcomes
- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 1:47:45
- Philaries Kisang Jeruto (Kenya) – 1:48:51 (pre-race interview)
- Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) – 1:48:58 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
- Naomi Lang (U.Ok.) – 1:50:07
- Susanna Saapunki (Finland, lives in Italy) – 1:52:08
- Alice Gaggi (Italy) – 1:53:00
- Beatrice Bianchi (Italy) – 1:53:36
- Madalina Ioana Amariei (Romania) – 1:54:19
- Eli Anne Dvergsdal (Italy) – 1:57:20
- Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 1:57:37
Susanna Saapunki, a Finnish runner residing in Italy, working close to the lead in the course of the 2024 Val Bregaglia Path. She went on to take fifth. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
