Kevin Loundes (pictured) won the men’s Isle of Man Cross-Country Championship title at Ballannette on Sunday afternoon.

He beat top fell runner Lloyd Taggart by the best part of a minute in the four-lap 10,390 metre race with Alan Corlett in third.

Ed Gumbley, Tom, Cringle and Gianni Epifani completed the top six.

Jackie Lee took the women’s title from Gail Griffiths and Rebecca Wallace over a shorter 6,000m distance.

The event doubled up as the fourth round of the Medis Cross Country League.

The other class winners were Ollie Lockley, Sarah Astin, Stephen Garrett, Alexandra Ross, Will Morris, Katie Astin, David Mullarkey, Aimee Cringle, Niall Caley, Amelia Sharpe, Joshua O’Neill, Sinead Cox and Rachael Franklin.