Hot news: Ricky Lightfoot wins Skyrunner® in Zergama

Posted in At the Races by Matt Ward on Sun 24 May '09

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Lightfoot - superb win

In what must be considered his biggest win to date, Ricky Lightfoot surprised the former world champion Ricardo Mejia to take the first Sky race in Europe. The 24 year old Ellenborough runner took the win in the last kilometer…

In our report earlier this week Lightfoot didn’t get a look-in in the pre-race hype.

The International Skyrunning Federation site runs a super story documenting the detail of the racing, based in the Basque Country. See the report here.

We hope to have some exclusive and in-depth reaction from Maryport-man Lightfoot later in the week…

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