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Wyatt Wins World Mountain Champs
New Zealand runner Jonathan Wyatt continued his remarkable record in the sport of mountain running this week by winning the World Mountain Running Championship in Sauze d'Oulx, Italy.
Ranked number one in the world by the World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) at the end of the 2003 Grand Prix, Wyatt has dominated world mountain running for over half a decade now, winning world titles in the sport in 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Incredibly the win came only one week to the day after the 2004 Olympic Marathon, where Wyatt finished a very credible 20th in the heat of Athens, on a course where many failed to even finish.
Based in Wellington, New Zealand, 31 year old Wyatt is the current New Zealand half-marathon record holder and 10,000m champion.
In recent years Jonathan has maintained a dual existence as both four time WMRA champion and track and road athlete, setting personal bests in the half-marathon (1:02:37, Christchurch Half Marathon, NZ) in 2002, and in 2003 the 10,000m (27:56.72, Inglewood, NZ) and the marathon (2:13.00, Hamburg, Germany).
The 2005 World Mountain Running Championship will be held on the notorious hills of Wyatt's home town of Wellington, New Zealand.
