Hutt Valley Harriers were represented amongst the placings in the 2013 New Zealand Mountain Running Champs, held in Wainuiomata on Saturday 13 April. The event also doubled as the Wellington Mountain Running Championships.
Vanessa Trompetter took out 1st place in the Women’s 45 age grade. Vanessa’s time was 1:00:19 for the 9km course and was also good enough for 2nd place in the Women’s 35-49 grade for the Wellington Mountain Running Championship.
Bill Trompetter took 2nd place in the Men’s 45-49 age in the NZ Championship in a time of 1:15:11 over the 12km course.
Marcus Smith took out 3rd place in the Men’s 50-54 age in the NZ Championship in a time of 48:43 over the 9km course.
Tim Robertson took out 3rd place in the Junior Men’s 9km NZ Championship in a time of 41:35. This time that also saw Tim take gold in the Wellington Mountain Championship.
Full results from the NZ Mountain Running Championships are on the Athletics NZ website.
Photo credit: Sharon Wray