From the Afton Path 50k in Minnesota to the Grossglockner Mountain Run in Austria and from the Silver Rush 50 Mile in Leadville, Colorado, to the Path Verbier St. Bernard in Switzerland, racing was quick and intense worldwide.
It was one other full weekend and we’re excited to speak about it!
Grossglockner Mountain Run – Heiligenblut, Austria
The third cease of the World Mountain Operating Affiliation (WMRA) World Cup, after the 2 Damaged Arrow Skyrace occasions a number of weeks again, this 13-kilometer race beneficial properties almost 1,300 meters, or eight miles and 4,265 toes, on the flanks of Austria’s highest peak, the Grossglockner. This yr, racers confronted chilly temperatures and wet and windy circumstances.
Ladies
After ending second in 2023, Nina Engelhard (Germany) scored an upset win over a bunch of Kenyan stars. She was over eight minutes quicker this yr, ending in 1:22:09. Final yr’s winner, Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya), ran quicker than in 2023, too, however 1:23:45 was solely sufficient for second place this yr. Gloria Chebet (Kenya) was third in 1:23:58.
After two wins on the Damaged Arrow Skyrace occasions in June, Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) was simply fifth right here.
Nina Engelhard successful the 2024 Grossglockner Mountain Run on a stormy day in Austria. Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
The ladies’s prime 5 had been:
- Nina Engelhard (Germany) – 1:22:09
- Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya) – 1:23:45
- Gloria Chebet (Kenya) – 1:23:58
- Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) – 1:24:05
- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 1:25:09
Males
Kenyan runners took the highest 4 males’s spots. Richard Omaya Atuya edged out Jospha Kiprotich by 21 seconds, the 2 ending 1:10:04 to 1:10:25, respectively. Michael Selelo Saoili was third in 1:12:42.
Richard Omaya Atuya, 2024 Grossglockner Mountain Run champion. Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
The boys’s prime 5 had been:
- Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) – 1:10:04
- Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 1:10:25
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 1:12:42
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 1:13:45
- Lukas Ehrle (Germany) – 1:13:46
The following WMRA World Cup race is the Montemuro Vertical Run on July 14 in Portugal.
USATF Vertical Mountain Operating Championships – Lincoln, New Hampshire
The six-mile Loon Mountain Race was the USATF Vertical Mountain Operating Championships. The race went up 3,066 toes. There isn’t any World Mountain Operating Championships this yr, however as a substitute the highest two finishers every earned a visit to the Lagunc Kilometer Verticale race in Italy in October 2024, which is the ultimate for the 2024 World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup.
Ladies
Lauren Gregory took the crown within the girls’s race in 53:18, Rachael Tomajczyk was second in 54:58, and Amber Zimmerman was third lady in 56:02.
Males
Joseph Grey was the lads’s champion, making him a 25-time USATF nationwide champion. He crossed the road in 49:27. Tyler McCandless was second man in 49:41, and Jonathan Aziz was third man in 50:17.
Mount Marathon Race – Seward, Alaska
It’s simply 5k in distance, however the race goes virtually 3,000 toes up and down Mount Marathon, the behemoth of a mountain overlooking Seward. Held each 4th of July, this was the 96th operating of the favored occasion that attracts mountain runners from throughout Alaska and the world.
Ladies
Klaire Rhodes took the lead on the downhill and raced again to city in 49:49. It was her sixth time racing the occasion, and her earlier greatest was fourth in 2023. She was over three minutes higher than her earlier runs.
Second-place Kendall Kramer completed in 51:20, and 2023 runner-up Meg Inokuma was third in 51:59.
Males
Males’s winner David Norris secured the highest spot for the fifth time in his 5 makes an attempt on the race and broke his personal course document, too. Norris completed in 40:37, method up on his former 41:26 greatest from 2016. Norris’s earlier wins got here in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2023.
Max King, the 2019 and 2022 winner, completed second in 42:52, and Jessie McAuley (Canada) was third in 44:02.
Val d’Aran by UTMB – Vielha, Spain
The Val d’Aran 100-mile race was canceled as a consequence of adversarial climate, however an enormous discipline of 1,191 starters took on the roughly 68-mile Camins d’Hèr race with 20,997 toes of elevation achieve.
Allison Baca (U.S.) was unmatched on the entrance of the ladies’s race, ending in 14:44. Silvia Puigarnau and Maite Maiora, each of Spain, had been second and third in 15:29 and 15:44.
Males’s winner Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.Okay.) led in 12:05 and was adopted by two Spanish runners, Andreu Simon and Goar Lopetegui who completed in 12:31 and 12:41, respectively.
Restonica Path by UTMB – Corsica, France
Extremely-Path di Corsica
The 66-mile race had 23,662 toes of elevation achieve, and neither the lads’s or girls’s race was notably shut. Miria Meinheit (Germany) was almost three hours quicker than the subsequent lady in 19:58, and Louison Coiffet (France) completed in 14:45, over an hour forward of the second-place man.
Louison Coiffet after successful the 2024 Restonica Path by UTMB 100k. Picture: Restonica Path by UTMB
Restonica Path
French runners Axelle Henry and Lambert Santelli led the 41-mile race in 10:02 and seven:53.
Axelle Henry, 2024 Restonica Path by UTMB 67k champion. Picture: Restonica Path by UTMB
Tavignanu Path
The 20-mile race gained 7,381 toes of elevation, and Blandine L’Hirondel (France) topped Sara Alonso (Spain) for the ladies’s win. The 2 frontrunners completed in 3:44 and three:53, respectively, and had been over an hour forward of third place.
Per week after ending second on the Marathon du Mont Blanc, Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) was on their own on the entrance in 3:06.
Quebec Mega Path – Beaupré, Quebec, Canada
This large operating pageant had 3,500 runners throughout 10 totally different races starting from 100 miles to 1 kilometer.
QMT 100 Mile
The 100-mile race was the eighth cease of the World Path Majors collection. Anne Champagne (Canada) and Jean-François Cauchon (Canada) set new course data for each the ladies and men in 24:28 and 19:01, respectively.
Anne Champagne elated with successful the 2024 Quebec Mega Path 100 Mile. Picture: Quebec Mega Path/Christian Dionne
Jean-François Cauchon, 2024 Quebec Mega Path 100 Mile champion. Picture: Quebec Mega Path/Sebastien Durocher
QMT 80k
Geneviève Asselin-Demers (Canada) and Ryan Sullivan (U.S.) gained in 9:35 and eight:23.
QMT 50k
Each races had been shut on this shorter distance with lower than three minutes separating the primary two girls. Alex Castonguay (Canada) gained in 6:16, and Robyn Mildren (U.S.) was second in 6:19.
For the lads, Eric LiPuma (U.S.) edged Marcus Ribi (Canada) to win the lads’s race in 4:50:41. Ribi was solely 21 seconds behind at 4:51:02.
Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB – Verbier, Switzerland
Adversarial climate tremendously impacted the occasion’s races, canceling the X-Traversée and altering the routing of others.
Attractive surroundings on the 2024 Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB, regardless of some dangerous climate at occasions. Picture: Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB
X-Alpine
Almost 400 runners had been capable of race the 37-mile X-Alpine race. Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) championed the ladies’s group in 8:03, and Charlotte Allain (France) and Magali Mellon (France) had been second and third in 8:46 and eight:49.
Eliot Retulli (France) beat Baptiste Chassagne (France) and Martin Anthamatten (Switzerland) for the lads’s crown. The three ran 7:00, 7:06, and seven:06, with Chassagne and Anthamatten solely 20 seconds aside.
Verbier Marathon
With 8,202 toes of elevation achieve, this 24-mile race was something however flat. Renee Cardinaals (The Netherlands) edged out Astrid Hochart (France) for the ladies’s victory, 4:36 to 4:41, and Estel Roig (Spain) was third in 4:54.
Werner Marti (Switzerland) escaped a aggressive males’s group to win in 3:49. Alexis Sevennec (France) was simply shy of a minute and a half again in second at 3:50, and Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) ran 3:53 for third.
Extra Races and Runs
Silver Rush 50 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
It was all gold on the Silver Rush 50 Mile for Mary Denholm and David Roche. The 2 had been method out entrance in 7:04 and 6:18, respectively. Denholm gained final week’s Leadville Marathon, too. Full outcomes.
Silverton Alpine 50k – Silverton, Colorado
Sabrina Stanley and Josh Eberly gained the 50k race in 4:47 and 4:11. Stanley set a brand new course document and Eberly completed simply 30 seconds in entrance of second-place Anthony Kunkel. Full outcomes.
Kendall Mountain Run – Silverton, Colorado
The 12-mile race tags the summit of 13,066-foot Kendall Mountain on an out-and-back course from city at 9,318 toes, and each races had been actually shut. The primary three girls had been solely 52 seconds aside. Jennie Yeaman gained in 2:12:35, Amber Tookey was second in 2:12:56, and Corinne Shalvoy was third in 2:13:27. And simply over two minutes separated the primary three males. Cam Smith was simply over two minutes higher than Seth Demoor on the entrance. Smith ran 1:40 to Demoor’s 1:42. Noah Williams was solely 24 seconds behind Demoor, additionally in 1:42. All three are earlier winners of the race. Smith gained in 2021, Demoor in 2020, and Williams in 2023 and 2022. Full outcomes.
Afton Path 50k – Hastings, Minnesota
Erika Mitchell and Alex Forte gained the two-lap race round Afton State Park in 4:29 and three:26, respectively. Forte broke Justin Grunewald’s 3:30 course document, which had stood since 2018. Full outcomes.
Buckeye Path 50k – Brecksville, Ohio
The 1,440-mile Buckeye Path circles Ohio, and the Buckeye Path 50k picks up a bit in Cuyahoga Valley Nationwide Park. The race has a 30-year historical past, and Alicia Graham and Luke Hickman gained this yr’s occasion in 5:13 and 4:03. Full outcomes.
Fell Operating and Path Operating Memoriams
Fell operating icon Joss Naylor died on June 28, 2024, at age 88, within the U.Okay. In 1971, Naylor grew to become the sixth finisher of the Bob Graham Spherical, an iconic 66-mile run that packs in 42 fells inside 24 hours. In 1974, he ran the 268-mile Pennine Method in a document time of three days, 4 hours, 35 minutes, a document on the time. And in 1975, he set the Lake District 24-Hour fell document by summiting 72 peaks within the space inside 24 hours. A “Guardian” obituary captures each Naylor’s accomplishments and spirit.
Jose Luis Garcia Fernández died on July 6, 2024, through the 46k MDS race at DesafiOSOmiedo in Somiedo, Spain. The race was canceled because of this. A Spanish information article states that the 62-year-old runner from Madrid fell some 100 meters.
The iRunFar group sends its condolences to their family members.
Name for Feedback
- You understand what to do within the feedback part. Have been you at a race this weekend? Share a narrative.
- Should you’d prefer to share memorial ideas about Joss Naylor and Jose Luis Garcia Fernández, please really feel welcome to take action within the feedback part.
