America ultrarunning celebrity Courtney Dauwalter soared to victory in the present day on the Mt. Fuji 100-miler in Japan, clocking a profitable time of 19:21:22 to take the ladies’s title and place third total behind Chinese language runners Guomin Deng (19:10:34) and Qin Quido (19:20:52). Mt. Fuji was the fourth occasion within the nine-race 2024 World Path Majors, and Dauwalter, having received the Transgrancanaria 126K in February (the collection’ third cease) has now put herself in a powerful place to win all of it.
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This was Dauwalter’s second look of the central Japan race, which takes runners up 7,574 metres of elevation over the 166-km course, operating by way of the foothills of Japan’s highest mountain. The race originated in 2012 and has seen some esteemed athletes taking the rostrum over time, together with Individuals Dylan Bowman and Krissy Moehl, France’s François D’Haene and Fuzhao Xiang of China. Issues bought underway at midnight native time and remains to be going–you possibly can comply with the livestream on YouTube right here.
Dauwalter dominated in the present day’s race from the beginning, with the second-place girl having but to be decided.
Courtney Dauwalter prepared to check herself at Mt. Fuji 100-miler
In a post-race interview, Dauwalter instructed reporters that she felt “so fortunate” to witness the dawn over Mt. Fuji. She added, with an enormous smile, “it was really the most effective day to be out transferring with my toes on an exquisite course and with an exquisite neighborhood–that saved me transferring towards the end line.”
In 2018, her time of 23:57:48 received the ladies’s race and positioned her sixteenth total. (The course has undergone some modifications in route and elevation since then.)
After a banner 2023 that noticed her win Western States, Hardrock and UTMB, it seems Dauwalter is prepared for one more dominant season. She heads house to Colorado for her subsequent race–defending her Hardrock title in July.
