Teenager Jacob Adkin pulled on the GB vest for the second time on Sunday for the World Mountain Running Championships in Cassette di Massa in Tuscany, Italy to help his team to third in the Junior Men’s section.

The podium success comes just a few days after fellow Peebles runner Sue Ridley claimed bronze at the World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Austria.

The Italian championships were dominated by Uganda, who took three of the four individual titles on offer and a straight one, two, three in the senior men’s race, 18 year-old Jacob battled home for 23rd of 72 starters in the Junior Men’s (U20) race.

And he was the third and final counter for the successful GB team.

Fellow Scot Andrew Lawler led the team home in 11th.

On a course described by one of the more experienced senior GB women’s team as the 'hardest I’ve ever done’, the 8.4km uphill race comprised a mixture of steep village switchback roads, sections of steps, precipitous mountain trails, a tunnel and an immense working marble quarry. the Bacino di Gioia. which has provided the marble for many masterpieces of Italian art. The senior women ran the same course as the junior men and former Moorfoot Sarah McCormack had an excellent 15th place finish for Ireland, two seconds behind the silver medal winning GB team’s second counter. The previous week in Telfes, Austria the evergreen Sue Ridley from Peebles was running in the and had an excellent run for an individual bronze in the W45 category on a similarly tough uphill course as in Italy - this time with the finishing sprint straight up a ski jump take-off runway.