McTaggart and Pott dominate mountain championships
Posted Tuesday, 21 June, 2005
18 June 2005 | 9.17pm
Scott McTaggart of the ACT and Vivian Pott of Queensland produced outstanding runs to dominate today’s Telstra Australian Mountain Running Championships on Mt Majura in Canberra.
McTaggart, a leading national steeplechaser for many years who has also represented Australia in the Ekiden Relay, clocked 57mins exactly for the 13.3 kms. Former national champion David Osmond of the ACT was 2nd in 60:40 and New Zealander Glenn Hughes third in 61:01.
Race organiser John Harding said, "McTaggart has stamped himself as a tremendous prospect for the World Championship in New Zealand on 25 September. His time was almost 2 minutes faster than New Zealander Phil Costley in the New Zealand Championships last month over the same distance and elevation gain. Costley is a former top ten place getter at the World Mountain Running Championships".
Pott ran 48:14 to win the women’s 9kms. International orienteer Hanny Allston of Tasmania was second in 49:22, 11 seconds ahead of ACT triathlete Kirra Rankin who ran despite a fractured rib suffered in a bicycle training fall two weeks ago. Pott was a supremely talented junior who won national under 20 titles in 1500m, 3000m, cross country and triathlon in 1993. She represented Australian at World Junior Cross Country and World Universities Cross Country.
Allston also won the junior women’s title over 4.5kms in 24:27, with ACT runners Kathleen Cross and Ashleigh Grey-Reitz filling the placings in 30:34 and 32:08.
The junior men’s championship over 9kms was won in 42:27 by NSW Central Coast runner Ben Guest, a national cross country medallist in his age group. Second in 42:55 was the ACT’s Scott Tomlinson, a world junior mountain running representative in 2004. Third in a surprising performance was AIS national junior race walking champion Adam Rutter of NSW who clocked 46:12 despite a tough training session yesterday.
Results:
Open men’s 13.3kms:
1 S McTaggart (ACT) 57.00, 2 D Osmond (ACT) 60.40, 3 G Hughes (NZ) 61.01. 4 S Brown (NSW) 61.28, 5 B Keem (NSW) 61.57, 6 B Revell (NZ) 62.40, 7 K Laws (VIC) 64.24, 8 J Dent (NSW) 64.58, 9 J Winsbury (ACT) 64.58, 10 G Graves (NSW) 65.58.
Open women’s 9kms:
1 V Pott (QLD) 48.14, 2 H Allston (TAS) 49.22, 3 K Rankin (ACT) 49.33, 4 E Murray (ACT) 50.05, 5 M Ponton (ACT) 52.32, 6 V Haverd (ACT) 52.15, 7 H Wichers (QLD) 53.50, 8 J Hosking (ACT) 55.42, 9 V Godfrey (ACT) 56.00, 10 A Williams (NSW) 57.37.
Junior men’s 9kms:
1 B Guest (NSW) 42.27, 2 S Tomlinson (ACT) 42.55, 3 A Rutter (NSW) 46.12, 4 M Chapman (ACT) 47.17, 5 B Glasson (ACT) 48.09, 6 A McGlew (ACT) 48.23, 7 I Reitman (VIC) 50.08, 8 M McCagh (WA) 51.29, 9 G Cassidy (TAS) 54.07, 10 J Baxter (NSW) 65.05.
Junior women’s 4.5kms:
1 H Allston (TAS) 24.27, 2 K Cross (ACT) 30.34, 3 A Grey-Reitz (ACT) 32.08.
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