On Saturday, American ultrarunning GOAT Courtney Dauwalter added one more victory to her already spectacular 2024 file, claiming first place within the ladies’s race at Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB (100-miler). Dauwalter each dominated the ladies’s discipline and positioned second general, ending shut behind the boys’s winner, Spain’s Cristofer Clemente Mora. This weekend’s win follows Dauwalter’s victories in 2024 at Transgrancanaria, Hardrock 100, Mt. Fuji 100 and SwissPeaks 70, after a historic 2023 season the place she turned the primary runner ever to comb the Western States, Hardrock and UTMB 100-milers in a single 12 months.
From the mountains to the ocean
Good Côte d’Azur 100 kicks off in Auron, France, at 2,523m of elevation, the best level within the race. Runners climb 8,200m over 150 kilometres, catching a glimpse of the Meditteranean Sea on the midway level and persevering with a protracted descent towards it, ending within the Promenade des Anglais. The highest three runners in each the boys’s and ladies’s races safe assured entry to the 2025 version of the UTMB World Sequence Finals (100-miler). Runners confronted difficult situations by means of the evening, with heavy rain making technical, rocky, rooty terrain slippery and arduous to navigate. “After I came visiting that final hill and noticed the ocean, I used to be thrilled,” Dauwalter mentioned post-race. “This course is exclusive—the rocks, the roots, the rain. It was a enjoyable evening.”
Dawuwalter triumphs, once more
Dauwalter outpaced almost each competitor on Saturday, with Clemente Mora finally edging her out by a slim margin. The 2 traded leads all through the race, however Clemente Mora maintained a gradual tempo to complete simply over 13 minutes forward, clocking in at 21 hours, 22 minutes and 14 seconds. Dauwalter crossed the road shortly afterward, in 21:35:57. French runner Nicolas Cerisier accomplished the boys’s race as runner-up, putting third general in 22:28:25; Dauwalter’s efficiency left a large hole within the ladies’s discipline, with second-place feminine, Enrica Dematteis of Italy, closing 5 hours behind her in 26:33:34, adopted by France’s Agathe Lebel in 26:37:57.
Publish-race, Dauwalter shared her appreciation for the occasion: “I really feel extraordinarily lucky to have skilled this race in such a shocking setting… I knew the course could be demanding, technical, and really robust, particularly with the rain in a single day, however I cherished each second.”
For full outcomes of each the 100-mile and 50K races at Good Côte d’Azur, head right here.
