There was a number of racing all over the world and some huge cash to be made for the elites. Starting from the Comrades Marathon in South Africa, the oldest and largest ultramarathon on the planet, to the Vail, Colorado, GoPro video games with a big payout, there was one thing for everybody. In the meantime, the Swiss Canyon Path was a cease on the World Path Majors tour, and Tenerife Bluetrail was a part of the UTMB World Collection.
Comrades Marathon — Durban, South Africa
This 12 months’s 86-kilometer (53 miles) race went the uphill course from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The prize purse totaled 4,092,000 Rand, about $217,000. The winners every took house 825,000 Rand, or about $44,000.
Girls
Gerda Steyn (South Africa, lives within the United Arab Emirates) gained for the third time and broke her personal uphill course document with a 5:49:46 end. Steyn is the one lady to finish the Up run in underneath six hours. She’s bought a two-month turnaround for the Olympic Marathon in Paris, France.
The 2022 race champion Alexandra Morozova (Russia) was second in 6:05:12, and Courtney Olsen (U.S.) was third in 6:08:09.
iRunFar has a extra detailed race recap.
The entire high 10 was:
- Gerda Steyn (South Africa, lives within the United Arab Emirates) – 5:49:46
- Alexandra Morozova (Russia) – 6:05:12
- Courtney Olsen (United States) – 6:08:09
- Carla Molinaro (U.Ok.) – 6:12:01
- Nobukhosi Tshuma (Zimbabwe) – 6:12:18
- Antonia Iushina (Russia) – 6:12:28
- Caitriona Jennings (Eire) – 6:13:00
- Jenet Mbhele (South Africa) – 6:16:54
- Dominika Stelmach (Poland) – 6:19:24
- Yuliya Ryzhankova (Russia) – 6:28:22
Males
The 2023 runner-up Piet Wiersma (The Netherlands) struck gold this 12 months in 5:25:00, solely 21 seconds again of the uphill course document. Wiersma, nicknamed “The Flying Dutchman,” is simply 26 years previous and holds a 2:18 marathon finest.
The boys’s race was a lot nearer than the ladies’s with Dan Moselakwe (South Africa) and Degefa Yohannese Lafebo (Ethiopia) second and third in 5:25:45 and 5:27:48, respectively.
The total high 10 was:
- Piet Wiersma (The Netherlands) – 5:25:00
- Dan Moselakwe (South Africa) – 5:25:45
- Degefa Yohannese Lafebo (Ethiopia) – 5:27:48
- Joseph Manyedi (South Africa) – 5:28:33
- Andrew Davies (U.Ok.) – 5:30:46
- Bongmusa Mthembu (South Africa) – 5:34:45
- Elov Olsson (Sweden) – 5:35:24
- Teboho Sello (Lesotho) – 5:36:11
- Alex Milne (U.Ok.) – 5:36:51
- Givemore Madzinganyama (Zimbabwe) – 5:37:09
The 2024 Comrades Marathon high three women and men on the post-race press convention (l-to-r): third man Degefa Yohannese Lafebo, 2nd man Dan Moselakwe, 1st man Piet Wiersma, 1st lady Gerda Steyn, 2nd lady Alexandra Morozova, and third lady Courtney Olsen. Picture: Comrades Marathon
GoPro Mountain Video games — Vail, Colorado
The multi-sport weekend occasion within the Colorado mountains had three aggressive working occasions with prize cash. The 10k Spring Runoff and 20k Path Run each ran concurrently on Sunday, so there was no probability for a double, however runners might come again later within the afternoon for the Pepi’s Face-Off 30-minute time trial up and down the face of the ski hill. The 10k Spring Runoff and 20k Path Run each had an $11,500 prize purse with $2,500 to the winner and cash going 5 deep, and Pepi’s Face-Off despatched $10,200 to its high three runners with $2,000 to the winners.
10k Spring Runoff
Simply eight seconds separated the entrance three girls. Anna Mae Flynn escaped the group for a 44:16 first-place end, after which Rebeca Perez and Ashley Brasovan have been barely a second aside in second and third in 44:23 and 44:24, respectively.
Joseph Grey continues to personal this race as a masters runner. Grey beat out a robust males’s discipline with a 36:08 successful time. Tyler McCandless was second in 36:30, and Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau took third in 36:41.
20k Path Run
For the 20k, racers merely accomplished a second lap of the 10k course.
Girls’s winner Adrian Walsh was a bit over a minute higher than second-place Rachel Tomajczyk. The 2 went 1:31:31 and 1:32:44 on the difficult half-marathon course. Shea Aquilano was third in 1:38:29.
Eli Hemming was unmatched within the males’s run with a 1:13:48 successful time. Jonathan Aziz chased to second in 1:15:52, and whereas he was working in fifth on the midway level, Cade Michael moved up two spots to get third at 1:16:19.
Pepi’s Face-Off
The Sunday afternoon race did repeats up and down a 400-foot ski slope for half-hour.
Amelia Shea edged out Karley Rempel and Annie Dube for the ladies’s win. The highest 5 girls completed 5 laps, and Shea completed in 34:34. Rempel clocked 35:14 and Dube was third in 35:41.
The highest 10 males all bought six laps, however Cam Smith did it the quickest. He completed his sixth lap in 31:16. Joseph Demoor and Jeshurun Small have been subsequent in 32:06 and 32:31.
Swiss Canyon Path — Couvet, Switzerland
It was the occasion’s twenty ninth version and the 111k (69 miles) race was a part of the World Path Majors. The race totaled 5,294 meters (17,369 ft) of elevation achieve throughout 4 huge climbs. There have been 2,700 runners throughout the occasion’s completely different distances.
Girls
It wasn’t shut on the end with Marianne Hogan (Canada) 43 minutes quicker than the subsequent lady. Hogan, the 2022 UTMB runner-up, completed in 12:25, which is 11 minutes slower than Camille Bruyas’s 2019 course document. Manon Bohard (France) was second in 13:08, and Audrey Virgilio (Switzerland) was third in 13:13.
Marianne Hogan waves to the gang after successful the 2024 Swiss Canyon Path 111k. Picture: World Path Majors
Males
Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) blasted the previous course document with a successful time of 10:24. That’s 25 minutes higher than Martin Kern’s previous finest from 2019. He wanted all of that to get the win as Aleix Toda (Spain) and Abel Carretero (Spain) have been second and third in 10:27 and 10:32, respectively. Arsénio’s win avenged drops at each Transgrancanaria and Madeira Island Extremely-Path earlier in 2024.
Miguel Arsénio appears centered on his option to victory on the 2024 Swiss Canyon Path 111k. Picture: World Path Majors
Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB — Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
There’s a number of racing within the Canary Islands!
The occasion’s longest race went 68 miles with 20,505 ft of climbing. Race winners Eva Maria Sperger (Germany) and Manuel Anguita (Spain) completed in 15:18 and 12:54.
Tops within the 45-mile race have been Martyna Mlynarczyk (Poland) and Riccardo Montani (Italy) in 7:29:41 and 6:45:18.
And going simply longer the marathon, the 29-mile race’s quickest have been Maude Mathys (Switzerland) and Oswaldo Medina (Spain) in 4:25 and three:56. The boys’s race was extremely shut with solely 40 seconds separating the highest three males.
[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
The 2024 Tenerife Bluetrail 47k girls’s podium (l-to-r): 3. Sonia Vizcaino, 1. Maude Mathys, and a pair of. Marta Perez. Picture: UTMB
Extra Races and Runs
Dolomiti Excessive Path — Forno di Zoldo, Italy
The DXT 103k takes in the entire mountains round Val di Zoldo, and Marta Wenta (Poland) and Martin Graf (Italy) gained in 15:52 and 13:58. Within the 72k, it was Ekaterina Luzina (Russia) and Gionata Cogliati (Italy) on high in 13:10 and 10:06, and Pirjo Saukko (Finland) and Nico Dalcolmo (Switzerland) have been victorious within the 55k with instances of seven:28 and 6:37. Full outcomes.
South Downs Manner 100 Mile — Winchester, U.Ok.
With about 13,000 ft of elevation throughout 100 miles, this can be a comparatively flat race. It was the race’s thirteenth version and, as with the Swiss Canyon Path, it too was a part of this 12 months’s World Path Majors group. The British featured closely on the pointy finish of the race, significantly on the boys’s aspect. Cat Simpson (U.Ok.) took the ladies’s win in 19:26, 52 minutes higher than her closest chaser, and Dan Lawson (U.Ok.) gained the boys’s race in 14:27. The primary three males completed underneath 15 hours. Full outcomes.
Cat Simpson on her option to successful 2024 South Downs Manner 100 Mile. Picture: South Downs Manner 100 Mile
Dan Lawson accepts the trophy for successful the 2024 South Downs Manner 100 Mile. Picture: South Downs Manner 100 Mile
Vashon Island Ultramarathon 50k — Vashon Island, Washington
Kristi Williams and Cruz Otiz-Ramirez sped across the island the quickest in 4:11 and three:58. Williams’ time is the second-fastest within the race’s historical past, which dates again to 2010. Full outcomes.
Mary’s Peak Path Run — Blodgett, Oregon
It was the race’s tenth 12 months within the Willamette Valley, and Ashley Nordell and James Holk gained the 50 miler in 9:13 and eight:47, and Jessica Quinn and Cordon Luoco led the 50k in 5:18 and 4:22. Full outcomes.
McKenzie River Path 50k – Blue River, Oregon
Megan Myers and Ian Fuller gained this 12 months’s race in 4:20 and three:56. Full outcomes.
San Diego 100 Mile — Cuyamaca, California
Alyssa Clark and Jesus Topete Jr. have been race winners in 21:19 and 17:58. Full outcomes.
Dipsea Race – Stinson Seaside, California
It was the 113th working of the favored age- and gender-handicapped race. First to the end on the 7.4-mile path was Chris Lundy in 48:10. Clara Peterson and Julia Maxwell Bailey have been subsequent in at 48:47 and 49:21. Eddie Owens had the quickest precise end at 49:55 and that positioned him sixth. Full outcomes.
Scout Mountain Ultras — Pocatello, Idaho
Held within the Caribou-Targhee Nationwide Forest, this race is run on rugged terrain in distant locations. Justine Hewitt and Ian Farris conquered the 100-mile run in 28:48 and 24:18, and Anna Fisher and Michael Postaski have been finest within the 50 miler at 9:53 and 9:28. The 50k race was maybe probably the most aggressive as Kat Pagano edged Tara Dower for the ladies’s crown by solely 9 seconds with a time of 6:07. Tyler Fox scored the boys’s win in 5:05, 5 minutes in entrance of Zach Perrin. Full outcomes.
Justine Hewitt successful the 2024 Scout Mountain 100 Mile. Picture: Anastasia Wilde
Ian Farris on his option to successful the 2024 Scout Mountain 100 Mile. Picture: Anastasia Wilde
Sinks Canyon Path Races 50k — Lander, Wyoming
Each course data fell on the massive mountain run. Kaley Holyfield and Thomas Dean are actually atop the document books with 5:17 and 4:12 marks. Full outcomes.
Aaron Robson (left), the 2018 and 2022 champ, chases 2024 Sinks Canyon 50k winner Thomas Dean. Picture courtesy of race.
Kettle Moraine 100 Mile — La Grange, Wisconsin
For the twenty seventh working of the occasion, Allisan Barrett and Brian Simonick have been out entrance for the men and women in 19:04 and 15:43. Full outcomes.
Allisan Barrett, girls’s champion of the 2024 Kettle Moraine 100 Mile, is available in along with her pacer. Picture: Misty Herron
Brian Simonick all smiles after successful the 2024 Kettle Moraine 100 Mile males’s race. Picture: Misty Herron
MoMoFo 100k — Martinsville, Indiana
Working within the Morgan Monroe State Forest, therefore the race identify, Margaret Retsema and Eric Davis have been victorious in 14:12 and 12:14. Full outcomes.
Rock River Canyon 50k — Munising, Michigan
Popping out on high on a course this course traversing the backcountry of Michigan’s Higher Peninsula, Kate Kuntze and James Lilly have been champs in 5:26 and 4:50. Full outcomes.
Laurel Highlands 70.5 Mile — Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
Justyna Wilson and Eric Kennedy crossed the end first in 13:16 and 11:36. Full outcomes.
Drummer Hill Path Races 50k — Keene, New Hampshire
A small group of 36 finishers was led by Kara Olivito and Kevin Ellis in 5:13 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Bethel Hill Moonlight Boogie 50 Mile — Ellerbe, North Carolina
It goes again to 1995, however this was the final Bethel Hill Moonlight Boogie 50 Mile. The marathon may come again subsequent 12 months. Shannon Johnstone and Kyle Baucom gained the 50 miler in 8:47 and seven:04, and marathon champs Katie Leger and Jake Grondy did it in 4:09 and three:47. Full outcomes.
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