Toronto’s Julie Hamulecki was the primary finisher total within the 50-mile race at Sulphur Springs in Hamilton’s Dundas Valley on Sunday, finishing the gap in 7:08:00–nearly 40 minutes forward of the primary male finisher, Andrew James (7:52:33), and forward of the earlier girls’s course document of seven:56:44 set by Wendy Rading in 2023. Hamulecki is the Canadian 100K document holder on the highway.
The race was profitable in its bid to turn into the primary Western States Endurance Run qualifier in Ontario. It wanted both 100 finishers within the 100-mile occasion or the 100K, and it acquired properly over these numbers in each.
Will Gilmet of Hamilton was the second male finisher within the 50K, in 8:11:43, and James Orr of Collingwood, Ont, was third, in 8:14:22.
Kayla Kaminski of Toronto was the second feminine finisher within the 50K, in 9:37:15; Anneliese Heinrich was third, in 9:52:48.
Hamulecki, a trend and sweetness producer for CTV’s “The Social,” has represented Canada at quite a few world championships in ultrarunning and in addition received this yr’s Mississauga Marathon.
100-mile and 100K course information fall
Elias Kibreab of Vaughan, Ont., broke the 100-mile course document, taking the win in a time of 16:58:22. The earlier document was set in 2022 by Ryan Niclasen of Toronto at 17:25:28. Kibreab holds three FKTs (quickest identified instances) on Ontario’s Bruce Path (the whole path and two particular person sections). The 46-year-old was the one athlete to go below 17 hours on this yr’s race, whereas Canadian 100-mile document holder Amanda Nelson of Woodstock, Ont., adopted up for second total in a time of 17:18:57, breaking the ladies’s course document set in 2022 by Viktoria Brown at 19:52:08. Ryan Flint of Guelph was third (second male), in 18:15:24, and Danny Tresise of Omemee, Ont., was third male, in 18:21:30.
Second feminine was Krista Allen of Collingwood, Ont., in 19:25:20, and Lydia Geng of Kitchener, Ont., was third, in 20:16:19.
Within the 100K, winner Paul Vanoostveen of Etobicoke, Ont., additionally set a brand new course document (8:26:02); Dylan Pust of Durham, Ont., was second, in 8:29:03, and Ryan Ackerman of Wasaga Seashore, Ont., was third, in 9:47:57. Helen Francis of Energetic, Ont., received the ladies’s race in 11:00:17; Meghan Duffy of Miramichi, N.B., was second, in 11:23:39, and Brandi Victor of Sarnia, Ont., was third, in 11:45:00.
Western States qualifier
The occasion noticed runners from throughout the nation collect in Dundas Valley for the thirty second version of the race, which provides distances starting from 10K to 160K (100 miles). Situations had been wet and muddy on the 20-km looped course, which has usually seen excessive situations (primarily warmth) in its 32-year historical past. Final yr, the race introduced it had the chance to turn into Ontario’s first Western States qualifier, which it achieved with 100 solo finishers within the 100-mile distance; 100K and 100-mile finishers all obtain a poll to Western States’ lottery for his or her 2025 race.
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Full outcomes for all Sulphur Springs races could be discovered right here.