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New Zealanders at the 2003 World Mountain Running Championships

The championships alternates between 'uphill-only' and 'up-and-down' courses - with this year's to be an up-and-down course.

Junior Women 4.2km 285m climb/descent
Place	Name	YOB	Country	Time
1	Karrissa Hawitt	1986	ENG	17:24
2	Turkan Bozkurt	1984	TUR	17:48
3	Mateja Kosovelj	1988	SLO	18:00
4	Lucija Krkoc	1988	SLO	18:09
5	Natalia Nemkina	1988	RUS	18:23
6	Lisa Reisinger	1984	GER	18:31
7	Juliane Doll	1986	GER	18:42
8	Rachael Thompson	1986	ENG	18:50
9	Dominika Wisniewska	1986	POL	18:53
10	Iwona Bota	1985	POL	18:54
11	Manuela Fadda	1984	ITA	18:55
12	Dana Hastie	1985	NZL	18:56
13	Sarah Bereford	1985	NZL	18:58
14	Binnaz Uslu	1985	TUR	19:01
15	Sarah Blake	1985	SCO	19:13
16	Serena Pollazzon	1985	ITA	19:17
17	Jana Vladarova	1985	SVK	19:19
18	Carina Wasle	1984	AUT	19:28
19	Laura Meyer	1984	FRA	19:33
20	Lea Johanedisova	1989	CZE	19:34
21	Suzana Mladenovic	1987	SLO	19:38
22	Sara Dossena	1984	ITA	19:44
23	Katherine Ingram	1985	ENG	19:50
24	Cinthia Loup	1984	FRA	19:53
25	Asli Cakir	1985	TUR	19:59
26	Jana Pechkova	1985	CZE	20:02
27	Lucy Cant	1984	NZL	20:24
28	Patrycja Wegrzyn	1985	POL	20:42
29	Sophie Andrey	1984	SUI	21:18
30	Maggie McNanigal	1987	USA	21:28
31	Jindra Hylmarova	1984	CZE	22:11
32	Jessica Pitzer	1986	USA	22:11
33	Erika Ross	1987	USA	23:03

Junior Women - Teams
Place	Points	Country
1	7	SLO
2	9	ENG
3	13	GER
4	16	TUR
5	19	POL
6	25	NZL
7	27	ITA
8	43	FRA
9	46	CZE
10	62	USA

Junior Men 7.7km 600m climb/descent
Place	Name	YOB	Country	Time
1	Mitja Kosovelj	1984	SLO	35:41
2	Peter Lamovec	1984	SLO	36:01
3	Sedat Gunen	1988	TUR	36:06
4	Iain Donnan	1985	SCO	36:44
5	Alexis Traub	1984	FRA	37:10
6	Matthew Prosser	1985	NZL	37:34
7	Radoslaw Kleczek	1985	POL	37:45
8	Antonio Toninelli	1984	ITA	37:56
9	Ruggero Ghezzi	1985	ITA	38:01
10	Nicola Spada	1985	ITA	38:06
11	Thomas Dold	1984	GER	38:09
12	Pierre Fournier	1985	SUI	38:20
13	Mark Buckingham	1985	ENG	38:31
14	Martin Urbanovsky	1985	SVK	38:36
15	Shaun Krawitz	1985	NZL	38:38
16	Jaime Noriega	1984	MEX	38:42
17	Luca Orlandi	1984	ITA	38:43
18	Adem Pekdogan	1985	TUR	38:46
19	Konstantin Kostin	1984	RUS	38:52
20	Uros Tomec	1987	SLO	38:57
21	Christopher Doyle	1986	ENG	39:00
22	Julien Poupard	1984	FRA	39:01
23	John Newsom	1984	SCO	39:04
24	Vit Pavlista	1985	CZE	39:12
25	Markus Jahn	1985	GER	39:14
26	Jan Kalenda	1985	CZE	39:17
27	Graham Bee	1984	SCO	39:19
28	Hamdullah Gul	1984	TUR	39:22
29	Bartlomiej Chlosta	1984	POL	39:28
30	Stuart Hunn	1986	ENG	39:30
31	Sean O'hEigheartaig	1984	IRL	39:48
32	Craig Longmore	1984	IRL	39:53
33	Kyle Greig	1985	SCO	40:17
34	Markus Enders	1985	GER	40:22
35	Andrew Payton	1986	USA	40:27
36	Pierre Vincent	1984	FRA	40:29
37	Steve Pauritsch	1987	AUT	40:30
38	Eduardo Pasko	1984	USA	40:38
39	Lyndon McGoughran	1985	NZL	41:00
40	Rory Egelus	1987	USA	41:46
41	Michael Lyons	1985	IRL	41:57
42	Gwennael Berthiaud	1985	FRA	41:59
43	Hamish Clareburt	1985	NZL	42:05
44	Erdal Bulut	1984	TUR	42:15
45	Pavel Holec	1985	CZE	42:20
46	Kilian Haehlen	1985	SUI	42:25
47	Brett Wilson	1985	USA	42:33
48	Niall Sherlock	1984	IRL	42:43
49	Robert Little	1984	ENG	43:29
50	Andrej Cimpersek	1985	SLO	44:03
51	Ben McDonald	1986	WAL	44:13
52	Ian Williams	1985	WAL	45:13
53	Martin Moravec	1984	CZE	45:46
54	Heiko Baier	1984	GER	DNF
55	Sinuhe Fletes	1984	MEX	DNF

Junior Men - Teams
Place	Points	Country
1	23	SLO
2	27	ITA
3	49	TUR
4	54	SCO
5	60	NZL
6	63	FRA
7	64	ENG
8	70	GER
9	95	CZE
10	104	IRL
11	113	USA

Senior Women 7.7km 600m climb/descent
Place	Name	YOB	Country	Time
1	Melissa Moon	1969	NZL	39:02
2	Angela Mudge	1970	SCO	39:41
3	Tracey Brindley	1972	SCO	39:59
4	Antonella Confortola	1975	ITA	40:27
5	Izabela Zatorska	1962	POL	40:54
6	Sylvie Claus	1971	FRA	40:56
7	Andrea Mayr	1979	AUT	41:02
8	Anita Ortiz	1964	USA	42:33
9	Patricia Farget	1965	FRA	42:41
10	Anna Pichrtova	1973	CZE	43:03
11	Cornelia Heinzle	1980	AUT	43:04
12	Radka Churanova	1977	CZE	43:05
13	Andrea Priestley	1965	ENG	43:06
14	Isabelle Guillot	1961	FRA	43:10
15	Barbara Kuncova	1982	CZE	43:13
16	Sandra Baumann	1971	AUT	43:23
17	Angela Serena	1977	ITA	43:25
18	Lyn Wilson	1971	SCO	43:30
19	Daniela Lehmann	1982	SUI	43:36
20	Vittoria Salvini	1965	ITA	43:41
21	Ludmila Melicherova	1964	SVK	43:45
22	Anne Buckley	1967	ENG	43:46
23	Stefanie Buss	1975	GER	43:55
24	Nikki Kimball	1971	USA	44:04
25	Angela Brand-Barker	1961	WAL	44:16
26	Isabelle Grenier	1967	FRA	44:35
27	Veronika Jurisic	1977	CRO	44:35
28	Patrizia Rausch	1972	AUT	44:50
29	Flavia Gaviglio	1963	ITA	44:59
30	Natalie White	1982	ENG	44:59
31	Sarah Devoy	1982	NZL	45:00
32	Meghan Day	1971	CAN	45:00
33	Louise Sharp	1972	ENG	45:00
34	Pavla Matyasova	1980	CZE	45:11
35	Carline Macdonald	1963	NZL	45:13
36	Belinda Wimmer	1975	NZL	45:53
37	Anica Zivko	1963	SLO	45:59
38	Sigrid Aas	1980	NOR	46:00
39	Kelli Lusk	1970	USA	46:05
40	Patricia Sloan	1966	NIR	46:37
41	Sylvia Corbett	1969	CAN	46:47
42	Jayne Lloyd	1964	WAL	47:36
43	Angela Jones	1966	WAL	48:00
44	Claire Townsend	1975	CAN	48:16
45	Mateja Sustarsic	1973	SLO	48:20
46	Louise Fairfax	1951	AUS	48:34
47	Alwynne Shannon	1961	NIR	48:51
48	Kari DiStefano	1958	USA	49:04
49	Jane Cahill	1982	IRL	49:22
50	Lindsay McLaren	1973	CAN	49:27
51	Ursa Trobec	1967	SLO	49:43
52	Sharon McBurney	1973	NIR	49:49
53	Emma Turner	1977	WAL	50:01
54	Nicola Cinnamound	1971	IRL	50:37
55	Roisin McDonneil	1961	IRL	51:04
56	Antonija Orlic	1977	CRO	51:06
57	Blaithin Hannon	1971	IRL	51:08
58	Meriana Weber	1966	MON	51:09
59	Violet Linton	1972	NIR	51:35
60	Alenka Zorn	1977	SLO	51:44
61	Zofia Wieciorkowska	1963	POL	54:03
62	Jelena Luksic	1980	CRO	54:10
63	Susan Clark	1961	AUS	54:28
64	June Petrie	1964	AUS	54:43
65	Irena Czuta-Pakosz	1966	POL	DNF
66	Danuta Marcyk-Teschner	1972	POL	DNS

Senior Women - Teams
1	23	SCO
2	29	FRA
3	34	AUT
4	37	CZE
5	41	ITA
6	65	ENG
7	67	NZL
8	71	USA
9	110	WAL
10	117	CAN
11	133	SLO
12	139	NIR
13	145	CRO
14	158	IRL
15	173	AUS

Senior Men 11.5km 900m climb/descent
Place	Name	YOB	Country	Time
1	Marco De Gasperi	1977	ITA	50:29.7
2	Lflorian Heinzle	1982	AUT	51:16.0
3	Marco Gaiardo	1970	ITA	51:55.9
4	Andrew Jones	1978	ENG	52:10.1
5	Tim Davies	1977	WAL	52:46.2
6	Alexis Gex-Fabry	1973	SUI	53:02.8
7	Emanuele Manzi	1977	ITA	53:05.1
8	Helmut Schiessl	1972	GER	53:19.5
9	Ricardo Mejia	1963	MEX	53:35.7
10	Sebastien Epiney	1967	SUI	53:42.1
11	Simon Bailey	1980	ENG	53:56.1
12	Lloyd Taggart	1969	ENG	54:05.5
13	Claudio Cassi	1970	ITA	54:12.1
14	Markus Jenne	1976	GER	54:20.4
15	Paul Low	1973	USA	54:21.4
16	Henryk Szost	1982	POL	54:22.4
17	Alessio Rinaldi	1975	ITA	54:24.6
18	Timo Zeiler	1981	GER	54:28.7
19	Andrej Mesner	1977	SLO	54:30.0
20	Jean C. Dupont	1971	FRA	54:31.2
21	Simon Booth	1968	ENG	54:32.3
22	Regis Roux	1973	FRA	54:32.7
23	Georges Volery	1968	SUI	54:44.4
24	Georges Burrier	1979	FRA	55:05.0
25	Julien Rancon	1980	FRA	55:13.0
26	Andrew Lemoncello	1982	SCO	55:20.2
27	Max Frei	1977	GER	55:39.5
28	Phil Davies	1968	SCO	55:44.1
29	Bill Raitter	1970	USA	55:49.5
30	Jean-Yves Rey	1970	SUI	55:50.8
31	Tarcis Ancay	1970	SUI	55:54.1
32	Dave Rodgers	1967	SCO	55:55.4
33	Krzysztof Bak	1981	POL	56:01.3
34	Joze Ceh	1971	SLO	56:08.5
35	Tomas Perez	1978	MEX	56:11.3
36	Zdenek Zoubek	1969	CZE	56:16.6
37	Marco Agostini	1968	ITA	56:19.4
38	Graeme Bartlett	1968	SCO	56:22.5
39	Rudolf Reitberger	1971	AUT	56:25.7
40	Bostjan Novak	1970	SLO	56:47.2
41	Milan Madaj	1970	SVK	56:54.1
42	Benjamin du Bois	1975	AUS	56:57.8
43	Neil Carty	1966	NIR	56:58.3
44	Nicolas Pasquion	1973	FRA	57:10.1
45	Symonds Andrew	1981	ENG	57:16.3
46	Alaistair Snowden	1966	NZL	57:19.7
47	Claude Nicolet	1967	SUI	57:21.3
48	Bostja Hrovat	1976	SLO	57:32.3
49	Kenneth Myers	1979	CAN	57:33.3
50	Mike Wakelin	1968	NZL	57:36.8
51	Aled Rees	1972	WAL	57:38.1
52	Pedro Perez	1977	MEX	57:38.6
53	Paul McRae	1973	NZL	57:39.1
54	McKibbin Alan	1967	NIR	57:52.6
55	Seaton Meredith	1970	NZL	57:59.4
56	Franck Lelut	1976	FRA	58:04.2
57	Andrew Hunt	1974	WAL	58:05.7
58	Phil Villeneuve	1973	CAN	58:16.4
59	Simon Taylor	1982	NIR	58:17.6
60	Eric Morse	1965	USA	58:26.1
61	Peter De La Cerda	1971	USA	58:31.5
62	Daniel Wosik	1980	POL	58:33.1
63	Colin Dignum	1966	CAN	58:42.9
64	Igor Mernik	1963	SLO	58:50.5
65	Jiri Zak	1971	CZE	58:56.9
66	Dusan Podrouzek	1974	CZE	59:06.4
67	Trond Flagstad	1970	NOR	59:17.3
68	Mark Jennings	1973	WAL	59:22.2
69	John Lenihan	1960	IRL	59:22.8
70	Steven Page	1974	AUS	59:27.2
71	John Winsbury	1975	AUS	59:34.5
72	Brian Ervine	1967	NIR	59:59.6
73	Alexander Rieder	1969	AUT	00:24.1
74	Ryan Leef	1973	CAN	00:29.1
75	Marjan Zupancic	1971	SLO	00:35.0
76	Rubin McRae	1973	NZL	01:01.5
77	Mark Roberts	1962	ENG	01:19.6
78	Scott Gall	1974	USA	01:58.5
79	Simon Gutierrez	1966	USA	02:01.4
80	Steve Bachop	1965	CAN	02:06.0
81	Kevin Laws	1971	AUS	02:11.4
82	Goran Cegar	1977	YUG	02:21.8
83	James McIntyre	1972	IRL	02:27.6
84	Stephen Smith	1981	NZL	02:47.5
85	Tom Blackburn	1965	IRL	03:07.3
86	David McNeilly	1980	NIR	03:14.0
87	Gareth Davies	1962	WAL	03:16.3
88	Frantisek Pechek	1953	CZE	03:57.8
89	Bernard Fortune	1969	IRL	03:59.8
90	Piotr Lupiezowiec	1977	POL	04:03.9
91	Katib Muhamad	1980	ISR	04:06.2
92	Alex Brennan	1973	NIR	04:48.8
93	Jonas Tetlie	1981	NOR	04:54.7
94	George Lonergan	1971	IRL	04:59.0
95	Paul Nolan	1971	IRL	05:05.0
96	Jurai Brugos	1976	SVK	05:19.9
97	Vladimir Juarez	1982	MEX	05:31.7
98	Ian Hallam	1972	CAN	05:49.3
99	Trond Bjorn Jensen	1960	NOR	06:18.0
100	Cohen Yizhak	1977	ISR	08:00.6
101	Lioshyn Andrei	1968	BLR	08:30.1
102	Piotr Uciechowski	1963	POL	08:31.7
103	Damir Cernic	1960	CRO	08:38.3
104	Vladimir Pechek	1957	CZE	10:00.8
105	Philip Zandotti	1968	MON	14:08.8
106	Roman Talikadze	1958	POL	19:13.9
107	Predrag Bosnjak	1961	CRO	19:15.1
108	Antonio Cuffaro-Piscitello	1967	MON	19:23.1
109	Girncarlo Giuliano	1966	MON	20:38.0
110	Mialik Siarhei	1967	BLR	20:41.8
111	Pale Zeljko	1958	CRO	27:38.7
112	Pavel Matejovsky	1965	CZE	29:59.6
113	Simankov Stanislav	1949	BLR	31:09.2
114	Dragan Jankovic	1961	CRO	32:23.4
115	Peter Buc	1964	SVK	39:34.1
	Bert Pelgrim	1956	AUS	DNS
	Markus Hohenwarter	1980	AUT	DNS
	Leopoldo Gutierrez	1972	MEX	DNS
	Alun Vaughan	1979	WAL	DNS

Senior Men - Teams
1	24	ITA
2	48	ENG
3	67	GER
4	69	SUI
5	91	FRA
6	124	SCO
7	141	SLO
8	165	USA
9	181	WAL
10	193	MEX
11	201	POL
12	204	NZL
13	228	NIR
14	244	CAN
15	255	CZE
16	264	AUS
17	326	IRL
18	435	CRO

21 September - Melissa Moon has regained the title of World Champion with a win in the senior women's event (results above)

20 September - The World Mountain Running Congress held on the eve of the championships has decided that Wellington will host the 2005 World Mountain Running Championships. The NZ Capital was favoured over the English city of Manchester for the event.

19 September - News from Girdwood (courtesy Mike Wakelin): The 5 days we've had here have been clear and sunny but winter's coming and the days start at 0 deg and slowly climb to 15 deg (in the sun) in the arvo. Race day forecasts are cloudy and some wet but probably no snow. The courses are looking tough, starting nr town at ~100m asl they climb the mostly gravel ski trails, and 1 or 2 narrow grassy tracks. Fir trees on the lower slopes become alpine herbfields at the top at 700m asl, just below the Alyeska glacier. The long steep up and flying downs will be a killer on the legs. Carline MacDonald has arrived as an 11th hour replacement for an injured Moana Burt.

18 September - A pre-departure interview with Melissa Moon in online: http://www.coolrunning.co.nz/articles/2003a002.html

7 September - The New Zealand Community Trust today announced a $25,000 support package for the NZ Mountain Running team as it prepares for departure to Alaska and a tilt at retaining its status as one of the two top nations in one of the sport's toughest disciplines. "The NZ Community Trust is has been instrumental in the development of the mountain running squad over recent years" commented Athletics NZ General Manager John Stewart. "Apart from direct support of the team to the worlds each year and our national championships in Wellington this year, they have invested heavily in the future of the sport through assisting with funds for the preparation of our bid to host the 2005 worlds" he added.

7 September - Jonathan Wyatt's domination of the mountain running scene during his tour in Europe has continued, with another win and another course record, this time in the Jungrau Marathon. He ran 2h 49m on the course, which includes a rise of 1850m in the last 17km. more info

2 September - following a number of adjustments, an updated listing of the NZ team has been posted (see below). Also the event timetable has been corrected.

20 August 2003 - In his lead up to the world champs, Jonathan Wyatt has won the 14.3km Matterhornlauf in Switzerland, a race that included a 1001m vertical climb with Europe's tallest peak as a backdrop, in a race record 1hr 01min 59sec. more info

29 July 2003 - Athletics NZ announced that Colorado-based Rubin McRae is a late addition to the New Zealand team. McRae joins his twin brother in the squad following outstanding runs over 10km road and mountain events recently. Former Wellington and NZ Mountain representative athlete, Hayden Prosser, now also based in Colorado, has been placed on stand-by as team reserve. Prosser has spent a difficult first year in the USA and has only recently shaken off injury problems to return to good form in regional events from his Western State College base in Gunnison.

29 July 2003 - Athletics New Zealand announced the addition of a number of runners to the NZ team. Senior Men: Seaton Meredith, Paul McRae, Alistair Snowden; Senior Women: Belinda Wimmer, Katie Urquhart; Junior Men: Lyndon McGoughran.

05 September 2003 - Event organisers have confirmed event times as follows:

Local Time	NZ Time	Event
20 Sep 11.30am	21 Sep 7.30am	Junior Women 4.2km 285m climb/descent
20 Sep 1.00pm	21 Sep 9.30am	Junior Men 7.7km 600m climb/descent
20 Sep 2.30pm	21 Sep 10.30am	Women 7.7km 600m climb/descent
21 Sep 9.00am	22 Sep 5.00am	Juniors, Men & Women Open (non-championship)
21 Sep 11.30am	22 Sep 7.30am	Men 11.5km 900m climb/descent