Humphries, Vincent and Saw have top 30 runs in World Mountain Running Championships

World Mountain Running Championships, Premana, Italy, 30 July 2017

The Ugandans have been nick-named the extraterrestials by some of the European mountain runners after Ugandan runners took a clean sweep of the first 3 placings in the Senior Men’s World Championship and also took out the Junior Men’s and Women’s titles.

The course had the same distance and elevation gain as the Australian Championship course in Adelaide but was more technical in nature and slippery in places after overnight thunderstorms. The temperature was a very warm 29 degrees, adding to the challenge. The highest placed Australians were Elizabeth Humphries, 29th in the Senior Women, her best ever result, Tim Vincent, 20th in the Junior Men, and Chelsea Saw, 28th in the Junior Women. The Australian Senior Women’s team of Humphries 29th, Audrey Amiya-Hall 40th, Jasmine Sargeant 47th and Emma Kraft 48th, finished 9th in the teams competition.
In the Senior Men, Michael Chapman finished 61st, David Osmond 81st, Robin Whiteley 86th and Etienne Blumstein-Jones 89th. The team finished 20th. In the Junior Men, in addition to Tim Vincent 20th, Eligh Morris was 36th. 

Results Summary: World Mountain Running Championships, Premana, Italy, 30 July 2017
Senior Men’s 13 km
Pos.	Name	Country		Time
1	KIPLANGAT VICTOR	UGANDA		00:52:31
2	AYEKO JOEL	UGANDA		00:52:50
3	MUSOBO FRED	UGANDA		00:53:57
4	GRAY JOSEPH	USA		00:55:35
5	MAMU PETRO	ERITREA		00:55:45
6	CHEVRIER XAVIER	ITALY		00:55:47
7	DEMATTEIS BERNARD	ITALY		00:56:04
8	SMYTH PATRICK	USA		00:57:19
9	DOUGLAS ANDREW	GREAT BRITAIN		00:57:32
10	PENIN SURUM ROBER	KENIA		00:57:3
61	CHAPMAN MICHAEL	AUSTRALIA		01:07:01
81	OSMOND   DAVID	AUSTRALIA		01:11:25
86	WHITELEY ROBIN	AUSTRALIA		01:13:49
89	BLUMSTEIN-JONES ETIENNE	AUSTRALIA		01:15:38
Senior women’s 13 km
Pos.	Cognome Nome	Societa’	Naz.	Risultato
1	MURIGI LUCY WAMBUI	KENIA		01:01:26
2	MAYR ANDREA	AUSTRIA		01:02:44
3	TUNSTALL SARAH	GREAT BRITAIN		01:04:16
4	MATHYS MAUDE	SWITZERLAND		01:06:02
5	MCLAUGHLIN ALLIE	USA		01:06:06
6	ROCHE ADELINE	FRANCE		01:06:13
7	GAGGI ALICE	ITALY		01:07:12
8	BRACY ADDIE	USA		01:07:46
9	MARŠÁNOVÁ LUCIE	CZECH REPUBLIC		01:08:42
10	SCHORNÁ MATYÁŠOVÁ PAVLA	CZECH REPUBLIC		01:08:53
29	HUMPHRIES ELIZABETH	AUSTRALIA		01:14:20
40	AMIYA-HALL AUDREY	AUSTRALIA		01:18:43
47	SARGEANT JASMINE	AUSTRALIA		01:21:18
48	KRAFT EMMA	AUSTRALIA		01:21:58
Junior men’s 6.5 km
Pos.	Cognome Nome	Societa’	Naz.	Risultato
1	CHELIMO OSCAR	UGANDA		00:26:46
2	PATTIS DANIEL	ITALY		00:27:42
3	HULL TALON	USA		00:28:01
4	RUSU DORIN	ROMANIA		00:28:25
5	AYEKO ANTHONY	UGANDA		00:28:27
6	BÄ°NGÖL ABDULSELAM	TURKEY		00:28:30
7	LIMO JACOB	UGANDA		00:28:34
8	BULARDA GABRIEL	ROMANIA		00:28:40
9	CACHARD SYLVAIN	FRANCE		00:28:52
10	GARCEA ADRIAN	ROMANIA		00:28:54
20	VINCENT TIM	AUSTRALIA		00:29:57
36	MORRIS ELIGH	AUSTRALIA		00:32:30
Junior women’s 6.5 km
Pos.	Cognome Nome	Societa’	Naz.	Risultato
1	CHEBET RISPER	UGANDA		00:31:46
2	ATALAY BAHAR	TURKEY		00:33:02
3	GREGORY LAUREN	USA		00:33:33
4	HECICO ALESIA	ROMANIA		00:33:35
5	DOROFTEI GABRIELA	ROMANIA		00:34:44
6	MUNGULEYA ADHA	UGANDA		00:34:45
7	DALE SCARLET	GREAT BRITAIN		00:34:46
8	DAVIES HEIDI	GREAT BRITAIN		00:34:48
9	VARANO PAOLA	ITALY		00:34:50
10	PALUMBO LINDA	ITALY		00:35:09
28	SAW CHELSEA	AUSTRALIA		00:37:46