MOUNTAIN RUNNING: The Yorkshire Dales has won the bid to stage the 2008 World Mountain Running Championships over its famous Three Peaks in 2008. The Three Peaks Race Committee, which organises the annual 24-mile, 2,500ft classic race over Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent, beat off hot competition from other European destinations to host the event. The Three 2008 Three Peaks Race will be run as the World Long Distance Mountain Running Challenge.
l Kirkby Stephen brothers Paul and Peter Brittleton are pictured here running the second leg of the British Fell and Hill Running Relay Championships hosted by Calder Valley at the Castle Carr estate, near Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire.
They were members of the six-man Helm Hill team that finished a disappointing 61st after the third-leg runners made a major navigational blunder that cost the team 36 positions.
Bingley won the event outright after Staveley's Rob Jebb and Ian Holmes gained three places on leg three and handed over to fourth-leg runner Alastair Brownlee just seconds after Horwich had got away.
The final Horwich athlete, Russell Maddams, was no match for Brownlee, who powered away to bring the Yorkshiremen home three minutes and 26 seconds ahead of Mercia. Horwich were third.
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