Courtney Dauwalter is really in a league of her personal. For the third consecutive 12 months, the 39-year-old path operating celebrity gained the Hardrock 100 in course-record time—two and a half minutes below her personal general ladies’s course report from final 12 months, and over half-hour forward of her first-course report set in 2022.
Dauwalter accomplished the 100-mile filth course, which options over 10,000 metres of elevation acquire, in 26 hours, 11 minutes, and 19 seconds. With this win, she has now gained the Hardrock 100 3 times in her 4 begins, setting course information every time. The one 12 months she didn’t win Hardrock was in 2021, when she dropped out halfway on account of abdomen points on the gruelling high-altitude course, which averages 3,000 meters above sea degree in Colorado. Dauwalter has been practically unbeatable since, successful 18 of her final 20 races relationship again to 2019.
RÉCORDS HARDROCK 100! Courtney Dauwalter y Ludovic Pommeret vencen a lo grande en Colorado.
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Camille Bruyas of France was the one girl near Dauwalter within the race. Bruyas tailed Dauwalter till simply after 40 kilometres when Dauwalter surged forward and by no means regarded again. Bruyas completed greater than three hours after Dauwalter, securing second place (and sixth general) in 29:28:14. Switzerland’s Katharina Hartmuth was third, ending in 30:29:12.
Two Canadian ladies crack the highest 10
Two Canadian ultrarunners achieved spectacular outcomes on the Hardrock 100, cracking the highest 10. Becky Bates of Kimberley, B.C., was the highest Canadian finisher, crossing the road in 36 hours and 26 seconds. Her time set a brand new ladies’s 60-69 age group report, breaking her earlier report from final 12 months’s race by greater than quarter-hour.
Operating 100 miles at 62 is spectacular sufficient, however setting information 12 months in and 12 months out is sensational. Bates took up operating in her early 50s and has competed on the Hardrock 100 seven instances. She additionally holds the age group report for the ladies’s 50-59 division (32:46:17), which she set in 2017 when she was 55.
Becky Bates is the seventh ladies on the 2024 Hardrock 100 in 36:00:25. #HR100 pic.twitter.com/fWHfEzpx6p
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Bates credit her data and Hardrock expertise for her success. “Once I acquired into Hardrock the primary time I used to be a fairly novice runner, so there have been no expectations about how I’d do,” mentioned Bates. “Once I acquired into Hardrock the second time, I believed, effectively, I’m previous, in order that takes the stress off, 100%!”
Claire Heslop, a doctor from Almonte, Ont., rounded out the highest 10 in 37:10:19. In line with IRunFar, Heslop struggled with abdomen ache within the remaining 20 kilometres however is psyched to be operating UTMB subsequent month.
Ladies’s high 10
- Courtney Dauwalter (USA) – 26:11:49
- Camille Bruyas (France) – 29:28:11
- Katharina Hartmuth (Switzerland) – 30:29:12
- Tara Dower (USA) – 33:10:55
- Yitka Winn (USA) – 33:17:00
- Emily Halnon (USA) – 33:24:22
- Becky Bates (Canada) – 36:00:26
- Claire Bannwarth (France) – 36:13:33
- Amber Weibel (USA) – 36:26:49
- Claire Heslop (Canada) – 37:10:19
For full outcomes from the 2024 Hardrock 100, examine right here.
