Scotland ended up in an excellent second place in general in the first six -nations cup in Wmra Trophy and the Vertical World Cup in Italy during the weekend.
Only the host nation headed the scottish visitors, with the Italians demonstrating their love for the mountain running through support in the hill, the atmosphere and the ceremonies of awards.
The men of Italy dominated the first day for the VK (4 km 1000m) where the three finalists ended up among the top four. Robbie Simpson Led Scottish men at home in 13th place in general, 36.46, with Rory Aberneshy (Running for Ochils) Only a second behind. Thomas Hilton It was the second counter and the first U20 and Ross Gollan It was the final counter in 26.
In the women’s event, Scotland dominated with Scout Adkin Have a brilliant race to finish second, 39.23, Kirsty Dickson He ran strongly to take the sixth and the Macdonald cat was 18. Paterson Island In his first VK he finished 2nd U20 and 20 in general.
The combined scores put Scotland second behind Italy.
On Sunday, the athletes ran in a course from top to bottom. The end order from day first changed considerably due to the rapid undulating race of 10 km before going to an steep climb and descending at the end.
Again, Scout had an excellent race to finish only seven seconds behind the winner in 1.46.20. Our women did not go so well in this difficult course with cats ending in 18º and Kirsty in 26 position placing them in third place for day two.
Robbie Simpson returned with style to the classic race above and down in eighth place, 1.36.50. Both Ross and Ewan Brown He had constant climb and won several places in the descent to finish in 13 and 27 respectively. This is men in third place for the day and Scotland in fourth place in general for the day.
Combining the scores of the vertical races and Tropheo Italia dominated to win with 56 points and hero of Scotland in the second of France with 87 and 93 points respectively.
With two second places for his name Scout he still leads the WMRA World Cup this year after the first three races.
Congratulations to all athletes for a strong team effort in Italy and their families, coaches and clubs.