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Worlds results - 1st day's racing

Sunday September 5 - Douglas Barry

Ireland finished a good 11th of 17 teams in the Junior Mens race at Sauze d'Oulx yesterday. The team event was won by the dominant Eriteans who had three runners in the first four. Amazing!! The best of the Irish was Colm Turner who finished in a good 23rd place and was 4th runner from Britain & Ireland

1. Haben Mohammed 45-16
23. Colm Turner 51-10
47. Niall Sheehan 53-10
57. Dan Mulhare 60-17

Full junior men's results on link below
Junior Men

The Irish women had a tougher time of it only managing to finish 17th of 19 teams. Italy won the team title and the individual gold medal. Rosita Rota Gelpi added yet another world title to her collection, but only by edging out Anna Pichrtova of the Czech Republic by a scant 10 seconds. Pichtova had the run of the day considering that less than two weeks earlier she had finished 28th in the Olympic marathon in Athens. Some recovery considering what that course did to Paula Ratcliffe! 38 year old Trish Sloan was best of the Emerald Islanders in 48th, and Beth McCluskey in 56th led in the Ireland team.

1. Rosita Rota Gelpi 50-27
56. Beth McCluskey 63-31
67. Orla Tuohy 66-17
69. Alwynn Shannon 66-24
71. Maureen Foley 67-30

Full senior women's results on link below
Senior Women

Slovenia took the Junior Women's team medals ahead of nine other teams but Russia's Jioulia Mochalova took the individual gold medal. Ireland did not send any runners to this event.

Full junior women's results on link below
Junior Women