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World Trophy updated

Tue 11 September 2007 - Ian Taylor

Best wishes to the Northern Ireland team travelling this week to Switzerland to take part in the 23rd World Mountain Running Trophy being held in Ovronnaz. The team of 20 travels out on Thursday with all races on Saturday and returns on Sunday evening.

The full team is
Senior Men
Stephen Duncan (Omagh), Neil Carty (North Belfast), Des Woods (Mourne), Stephen Cunningham (Mourne), Paul Blaney (North Belfast), Gary Bailey (Mourne)

Senior Ladies
Fiona Maxwell (Mourne), Alwynne Shannon (Newcastle), Tricia Sloan (Newcastle), Frances Orr (Omagh)

Junior Men
Noel Collins (Omagh), Ciaran Collins (Omagh), Jason Wilson (Pegasus), Conor Moore (Omagh)

Junior Ladies
Michelle Sturm (Omagh), Kerry Iveston (North Down), Angela Speight (Omagh)

The team managers are Marty McVeigh, Barbara Brown and Bill McCausland. New team members this year are Paul Blaney, Frances Orr, Jason Wilson and Angela Speight. We are sure you will all do your best and be worthy representatives of mountain running in Northern Ireland.

Press Release from Brian Ervine

Mountain Runners head to Alps for World Championships.

Seventeen local athletes are heading to the Alps for the World Mountain Running Championships at Ovronnaz in Switzerland this weekend. Over 30 nations will be competing in the 23^rd running of the World event and Northern Ireland will be fully represented with teams in all four categories.

 

Neil Carty has been the top Northern Ireland runner at the last four World Championships and will be competing in the World event for the sixteenth consecutive time.  He is joined on the men?s team by Omagh Harrier Stephen, the Mourne Runners trio of Des Woods, Stephen Cunningham and Gary Bailey and his North Belfast clubmate Paul Blaney who makes his debut.

 

Fiona Maxwell, the British over 40 Champion and All Ireland Champion heads the women?s team and is backed up by the Newcastle AC pair Alwynne Shannon and Tricia Sloan and Omagh Harrier Frances Orr.

Track star Noel Collins leads his Omagh clubmates Ciaran Collins, Conor Moore and Jason Wilson of Pegasus AC on the junior men?s team while Omagh Harriers Michelle Sturm and Angela Speight join Kerry Iveston of North Down AC on the junior women?s team.  The Team Managers are Marty McVeigh, Barbara Brown and Bill McCausland.

 

The races take place on a steep and testing circuit with the men competing over a distance of 7.5 miles and 3000 feet of climb, the women and junior men race over 5 miles and 2000 feet climb while the junior women tackle 2.5 miles and 1000 feet climb.