British runner excels in Austria as Timothy Kibett takes the boys’s race at this Golden Path World Collection occasion
On a wet morning amid the towering peaks of the Pitzal Valley and alongside one of the vital alpine and rugged programs on the 2025 Golden Path World Collection calendar, Timothy Kibett (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) and Naomi Lang (United Kingdom – Salomon) claimed their first-ever GTWS victory on the Salomon Pitz Alpine Glacier Path.
The course was shortened to 20km and 1000m of elevation acquire as a consequence of excessive situations on the highest level of the route.
Caroline Kimutai (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners), Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya – Run2gether On Path), and Religion Kiplagat (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) set a powerful tempo within the opening loop. Nevertheless, the race dynamics started to shift after that first section. It was at this level that Lang and Malen Osa (Spain – Salomon) labored collectively from behind to catch the lead trio and break free. By 5km, the duo held a 45-second lead over a chase group led by Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway – Lillomarka o-lag).
On the day’s solely climb – because of the course being shortened – the entrance group bunched up once more, with Lang, Osa, Kimutai, Kiplagat, Benjaminsen, Kisang, and Maria Fuentes (Spain – Kailas) all working inside a minute of each other. Every thing pointed to the technical and demanding Tyrolean downhills between the course’s highest level and on the 14km mark in Mandarfen—begin and end line—because the decisive stretch. By the tip of the descent, Lang had opened up a one-minute hole over Osa and a two-minute lead over Kiplagat and Benjaminsen.
On the ultimate loop, Lang held her benefit to cross the end line in first place, with Osa securing second and sealing a 1–2 for Salomon. Kiplagat couldn’t keep the tempo and was finally handed on the end line by Benjaminsen and Fuentes.
Lang thus claimed her first Golden Path World Collection victory. “The race began out actually quick and I made a decision to not go along with the entrance runners,” she mentioned. “When the course obtained extra technical throughout the first loop, I went with Malen Osa and we labored collectively. Having a team-mate and room-mate there was improbable. On the climb, I gave it every little thing as a result of it was the one actual ascent of the race, so the plan was to carry on till the highest. Kiplagat and Kimutai caught up with me, and on the descent I simply went for it and tried to open up a niche. I’m actually pleased to have taken the win within the sequence and to come back again like this after my race in Noli, which didn’t go so nicely for me.”
The boys’s race additionally kicked off at a blistering tempo, with seven runners reaching the 5km mark in beneath 20 minutes. It was throughout the uphill part that some gaps started to type, although as many as ten athletes have been nonetheless inside a minute of one another on the highest level of the course. Main the pack have been Kibett, Taylor Stack (USA – Brooks), Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya – Run2gether On Path), Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners), and Dan Curts (USA – Brooks).
Identical to within the girls’s race, the downhill part proved decisive. Again in Mandarfen after the descent, Kibett held a one-minute lead over Stack and Kiprotich. Behind them, Saoli and Kiplimo have been almost two minutes again.
The ultimate loop in the end sealed the rostrum. Kibett maintained a powerful result in safe the win, whereas Kiprotich overtook Stack within the battle for second place. No additional modifications occurred behind them, with Saoli and Kiplimo rounding out the highest 5.
“I need to thank my whole workforce as a result of they helped me obtain this victory as we speak. I wouldn’t have executed it with out them. The preparation main as much as this race was wonderful,” mentioned Kibett.
Girls’s outcomes
Naomi Lang (United Kingdom – Salomon) – 1:49:51Malen Osa (Spain – Salomon) – 1:50:20Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway – Lillomarka o-lag) – 1:52:28María Fuentes (Spain – Kailas) – 1:53:30Faith Kiplagat (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) – 1:53:49Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya – Run2gether On Path) – 1:56:28Caroline Kimutai (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) – 1:56:56Weronika Matuszczak (Poland – Salomon) – 1:58:03Sara Willhoit (United Kingdom – Scarpa/Rab) – 1:58:15Sarah Carter (USA – Topo Athletic) – 1:58:15
Males’s outcomes
Timothy Kibett (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) – 1:32:43Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) – 1:32:47Taylor Stack (USA – Brooks Path Runners) – 1:33:40Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya – Run2gether On Path) – 1:33:42Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya – Salomon Milimani Runners) – 1:34:56Pierre Galbourdin (France – Brooks Path Runners) – 1:35:12Dominik Rolli (Switzerland – Salomon) – 1:35:27Thomas Roach (United Kingdom – Scarpa) – 1:36:04Ephantus Mwangi Njeri (Kenya – Run2gether On Path) – 1:36:14Jonas Soldini (Switzerland – Salomon) – 1:37:05
