American ultrarunner Katie Schide could have stolen the present along with her robust efficiency on the Canyons 100K on Saturday, however Canada’s Jade Belzberg and Arden Younger additionally had standout races, each cracking the highest 10 in an intense elite subject. Belzburg, who grew up in Canada however now lives within the U.S., ran to ninth place in 11:00:02, and Canmore, Alta.’s Younger adopted her for tenth in 11:08:04.
Canyons 100K is the ultimate Golden Ticket race earlier than the 2024 version of Western States 100 (WSER), which means the highest two finishers within the males’s and ladies’s classes earned automated entry into the race, to be held on June 29. Whereas Schide had already earned her spot at this yr’s WSER by ending high 10 in 2023, she was nonetheless the favorite within the construct to Canyons 100, and her efficiency didn’t go away followers dissatisfied.
The 100K 2024 Canyons course was on a brand new route (after heavy snowfall in 2023 and fires in 2022 precipitated harm to the earlier course) and runners went within the reverse path (the race alternates instructions yearly, just like Hardrock 100). The course had runners climbing 3,962 metres over the 100K distance, however is a web downhill (just like WSER).
Canyons hosts a 25K, 50K and 100-miler together with the 100K marquee occasion and can be the UTMB World Sequence Americas Main. The highest 10 finishers for women and men in all occasions obtain automated entry into the UTMB World Sequence Finals race (100-mile UTMB, 100K CCC, or 50K OCC) in August in Chamonix, France. All race finishers will earn double factors, or “working stones,” heading into the 2025 UTMB lottery, and high age groupers additionally earn entry.
Ladies’s race
Schide took on Canyons 100 as a transparent preparatory race for this yr’s WSER, after ending second in 2023. She went out exhausting from the beginning and had a two-minute lead by the primary assist station. Schide steadily constructed on her lead, and as she neared the top of the race she started to go the highest 10 males as effectively, ending in sixth place total in 9:10: 10. “Felt good to get uncomfortable and maintain chasing till the very finish,” Schide wrote on Instagram. Behind her EmKay Sullivan slid into second on the 20K mark and held robust from there, crossing the road in 10:01:26. Anna Kacius, who was third at Black Canyon 100K in February, took third right here as effectively in 10:24:37.
Prime 10 girls
- Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) 9:10:10
- EmKay Sullivan (U.S.) 10:01:26
- Anna Kacius (U.S.) 10:24:37
- Careth Arnold (U.S.) 10:38:42
- Anna McKenna (Australia) 10:43:31
- Laura Hansen (U.S.) 10:45:32
- Erin Clark (U.S.) 10:52:16
- Marta Wenta (Poland) 10:53:14
- Jade Belzberg (Canada, lives within the U.S.) 11:00:02
- Arden Younger (Canada) 11:08:04
Males’s race
An in depth group of runners with a number of potential champions caught collectively throughout the early phases of the race, with favourites Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway), American Rod Farvard, and Adam Peterman, winner of the 2022 version of WSER, all within the combine. Farvard was within the lead by the 60K mark, and held onto it for the remainder of the race, crossing the road in 8:44:30. He was adopted in by U.S. runner Drew Holmen in 8:51:09, with Engdahl not far behind, ending in 8:55:31.
Holmen declined his Golden Ticket, which suggests it rolls right down to the third-place finisher, Engdahl, who gladly accepted. Matt Seidel, who just lately earned the title of quickest marathon by a fruit on the Boston Marathon, completed eighth in 9:42:08.
Prime 10 males
- Rod Farvard (U.S.) 8:44:30
- Drew Holmen (U.S.) 8:51:09
- Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) 8:55:31
- Makai Clemons (U.S.) 8:57:38
- Stephen Kersh (U.S.) 9:05:56
- Tim Tollefson (U.S.) 9:19:09
- Kevin Vermeulen (Switzerland) 9:35:21
- Matt Seidel (U.S.) 9:42:04
- Ryan Raff (U.S.) 9:42:05
- Brandon Gardiner (U.S.) 9:46:49
For full outcomes of all of the occasions on the Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB, click on right here.
