Katie Ingram and Anna Anderson have earned automatic selection for the England Team at the 2007 World Mountain Trophy - fell running's World Championships while a third local runner, Rob Hope, has won the selector's nod for the men's team.

The England Trial Race was held at Braithwaite Lodge, near Keswick, on a course designed as far as possible to replicate the conditions the athletes will encounter at Ovronnaz in Switzerland.

The Junior Women's event for the under 20s was the first race on the card and the 18-year old Anna Anderson was both strong and tactically brilliant.

The Pendle runner took the first ascent in fourth before sweeping past Rosie Stuart on the downhill stretch, and she repeated her move on the second hill tracking then passing Emma Clayton.

By the end of the 4.9km, only the cross country champion Laura Park was in front with Anna bagging the second and last automatic spot.

Katie Ingram won team silver for England Juniors at the World Mountain Trophy in Alaska during 2003, but her latest run represents a breakthrough moment in her career as it will bring her first senior international recognition.

The 22 year-old Horwich RMI Harrier from, Astley Village in Chorley, ran her best race to date according to her coach Norman Matthews and beat some top notch runners like the defending English Champion Natalie White.

Katie was third over an 8.7km circuit which covered an extra loop of the junior women's course.

The first three back won places in the team, with a fourth earning the selectors' nomination.

There are six places in the senior men's team, with the first four finishers certain choices, and Rob Hope from Wheelton Village could only finish fifth, having fought back from seventh at one stage after feeling off colour.

He has recently clinched the British Fell Championship and currently leads the English, so the selectors had an easy choice on his selection for Switzerland.

As there is a large step-up between the U20 and Senior levels, the selectors were also choosing an U23 Development Team at the same trial to be sent to the Smarna Gora Mountain Race in Slovenia.

Blackburn's Tom Cornthwaite was hoping for selection but there are only three places at stake and he was fourth.

Unless the selectors take his excellent fifth place at the recent International Snowdon Race into consideration, where he beat Hope, he is likely to just miss out.

James Kevan, the Horwich Harrier from Chorley and Rossendale's Josh Tighe also had encouraging races but won't make the England Team.