Rob Jebb takes 4th Three Peaks
Ricky Lightfoot - great run for second
After last year’s sojourn to international status normal business was resumed at the Three Peaks race on Saturday. Normal in terms of the winner too, as triple-winner Rob Jebb once again crossed the line at Horton well ahead of the competition.
With only legend Jeff Norman left ahead on 6 race wins, the Bingley runner – who has won the Three Peaks cyclo-cross race a record seven times – must surely have the Three Peaks fell race record tally in his sights too.
Up Pen-y-Ghent the only company Jebb had was in the form of neo-vet and course record holder, Andy Peace – and he was 18 seconds back. By Ribblehead the lead was over a minute to Ricky Lightfoot, as Peace had dropped back.
Jebby in command
From that point on Rob extended his lead over Whernside to Hill Inn so that by Ingleborough the lead was at four minutes. Lightfoot and a fast-finishing Karl Grey cut this back a tad coming into the finish at Horton, but were unable to get near to multi-champion Jebb.
Radcliffe AC runner Anna Lupton convincingly won the women’s race in 3:36:31, outside of any records but still a great time and good enough to finish 42nd overall amongst the 615 finishers – a full 17 minutes up on second-placer Hazel Robinson.
Anna Lupton
Full results now online at SPORTident
Images available to view at the fantastic Woodentops site, courtesy of Eileen and Dave Woodhead. Further reports / reactions will filter through as they become available.
