Lausanne – The two French teams composed of Samuel Equy – Mathéo Jacquemoud and Axelle Gachet-Mollaret – Emily Harrop won today’s stage, but also the overall ISMF-LGC World Championships Long Distance Team. They were crowned new World Champions on the occasion of the 20th Millet Tour du Rutor Extrême, the only Italian event of the La Grande Course 2022 circuit.
Despite three days of complicated weather conditions, the Corrado Gex Ski Club tracers were able to offer the Tour du Rutor’s 348 athletes representing 15 different countries a thrilling race with 2340 m of difference in altitude, with the start and finish lines in the small village of Planaval, Arvier. The stage included two main ascents, prohibitive temperatures that plummeted to almost -20°C at the top of the Château Blanc Mount (3442 m) and then a fresh snow descent of nearly 2000 m. This is the winning mix of a race, a hard-fought battle, which, edition after edition, has become a union of myth, tradition and legend.
At the end of three days of epic efforts, the Frenchmen Mathéo Jacquemoud and Samuel Equy won the gold medal of the entire World Championships. The second place was for the Italians Davide Magnini and Matteo Eydallin, followed by the other French team composed of Xavier Gachet and William Bon Mardion, finished in third position. Among women, as expected, the French athletes Axelle Gachet-Mollaret and Emily Harrop were successful today for the third time in a row, taking the win of the whole event and being crowned as new ISMF-LGC Long Distance Team World Champions. As in the previous stages, the Italian team Alba De Silvestro – Giulia Murada were second at today’s finish line, taking the second place also in the event’s overall ranking, while their teammate’s duo of Mara Martini and Ilaria Veronese completed the podium of the World Championships in third position.
ISMF-LGC World Championships Long Distance Team overall podiums:
Women
1. France – Axelle Gachet-Mollaret, Emily Harrop – 8h47’46”
2. Italy – Alba De Silvestro, Giulia Murada – 9h13’09”
3. Italy – Mara Martini, Ilaria Veronese – 9h33’13”
Men
1. France – Samuel Equy, Mathéo Jacquemoud – 7h17’03”
2. Italy – Davide Magnini, Matteo Eydallin – 7h19’53”
3. France – Xavier Gachet, William Bon Mardion – 7h23’08”
