![]() ![]() It really well worked well for me,” said Njeru, winner at Fletta Trail, La Montee du Nid d’Aigle and Canfranc. ![]() It was a nice feeling to finish and defend the World Cup trophy. Like Kiriago, the win also confirmed Njeru’s status as world No.1 in the Valsir Mountain Running World Cup rankings. “I’m excited today as I hoped I win the World Cup and it all went well,” said Kiriago, who had also won at Fletta Trail, Sierre Zinal and Trofeo Nasego. Victory confirmed he had secured enough points to become overall World Cup champion. While the win was of course important, it also meant something far more significant for Kiriago. She established a 40-second gap on Philaries Kisang, also from Kenya and a podium finisher on five occasions in 2023, and maintained that margin all the way to the finish. Kipngeno, in fact, led for the first 5km.įor Njeru, however, it was a case of simply running away from her opposition. With the race held over two laps, both Kiriago and Njeru employed similar tactics to the ones they’d used to great effect all season on what was another hot day, seizing control as early as the first 5km.įor Kiriago that meant keeping things moving as he had compatriot Patrick Kipngeno, the world mountain running champion and multiple winner of World Cup races this year, tracking his every stride. Originally billed as a super-fast race with lots of downhill, the race was a much quicker 22km, reduced in altitude because of local conditions and the danger of forest fires, which ultimately resulted in a fantastic fast classic mountain running course. There’s been a long list of winners in that time that includes runners all over the world, but Njeru and Kiriago had been the most dominant runners throughout it all and so it proved once more in the final race of a fabulous Valsir Mountain Running World Cup and overall mountain running year. It all started in mid-June, in Broken Arrow, Lake Tahoe, USA and ended on this demanding, rugged coastal route. The third and final day of the Valsir Mountain World Cup Finalissima at Sky Gran Canaria provided a dramatic and fitting end to what has been a superb season as Kenyan duo Joyce Muthoni Njeru and Philemon Kiriago took the spoils on Sunday (15).
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