Monte, montée, and mountains are a part of this week’s spotlight reel and with race distances from 1,500 meters as much as 106 miles. Races in Europe, particularly, shined this weekend.
Extremely-Path Australia by UTMB – Katoomba, Australia
The occasion is the nation’s largest with practically 7,000 runners throughout its 4 race distances. The programs are within the Blue Mountains Nationwide Park.
UTA 100k
The 100-kilometer race got here in at 62.7 miles and 14,829 ft of elevation achieve. It finishes with a infamous uphill part of 951 stairs to the end.
Michael Dimuantes (Australia) blew everybody out within the males’s race. He completed in 9:01. The following three finishers got here in underneath 10 hours, however weren’t near the race winner. Shaun Pettit (U.Ok.) and Josef McGrath (Australia) have been second and third, respectively, in 9:55 and 9:56.
Ladies’s race winner Beth McKenzie (U.S., lives in Australia) was in entrance from the bounce. She completed first 10:41. In February 2024, McKenzie was second on the Tarawera by UTMB 102k. Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) and Stephanie Auston (Australia) podiumed with 11:00 and 11:11 marks.
[From 2016 to 2018, Beth McKenzie (née Gerdes) served a two-year doping sanction after testing positive at the 2016 Ironman Australia for ostarine, a prohibited selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Michael Dimuantes profitable the 2024 Extremely-Path Australia 100k. Photograph: Tim Bardsley-Smith
UTA 50k
The 50k race packed in 8,011 ft of climbing throughout its 30 miles of distance. It was shut on the high of the boys’s race with Charlie Hamilton (Australia) edging out David Haunschmidt (New Zealand) by simply over two minutes. The frontrunners completed in 3:57 and three:59, respectively. Clément Durance (France) was third in 4:05.
The highest ladies ran shut too. Race victor Kate Avery (U.Ok.) was lower than three minutes forward of second-place Sarah-Jayne Miller (Australia) with 4:46 and 4:49 finishes, and Margie Campbell (Australia) was third in 4:52.
Runners on track in the course of the 2024 UTA50k. Photograph: Tim Bardsley-Smith
Skyrace Gorges du Tarn – Ste Enimee, France
The yr’s fourth Skyrunner World Collection contest went for 24k and with 1,800 meters of elevation achieve. That’s practically 15 miles and 5,905 ft of up. The course was in and across the Tarn Gorges, a UNESCO World Heritage Web site, and it was the race’s twenty second yr.
As with many Skyrunning races, and different shorter path races, Spanish runners dominated. They took 5 of the six podium spots throughout the boys’s and ladies’s races.
Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) moved to a few for 4 on this yr’s Skyrunner World Collection. Delorenzi gained the yr’s first two races, was fifth within the third contest, after which had a bounce-back win at this one. He completed first within the males’s race in 2:19:26, and that was a brand new males’s course report. Spanish runners Antonio Martínez and Ïu Internet have been second and third in 2:20:30 and a couple of:20:52.
Spanish ladies swept the rostrum, every ending virtually three minutes aside. Oihana Kortazar crossed first for the ladies in 2:51:58, and Julia Font and Carrodilla Cabestre have been second and third in 2:54:47 and a couple of:57:55, respectively. As with males’s winner Delorenzi, Kortazar led for everything of the race and set a brand new course report too.
Carrodilla Cabestre operating her approach to third on the 2024 Skyrace Gorges du Tarn. Photograph: Antton Guaresti
Path Alsace Grand Est by UTMB – Obernai, France
Solely in its second yr, the occasion introduced in 6,000 runners from 65 nations for its 4 race distances. There have been 20 castles on the medieval course in northeastern France.
The occasion’s longest race — 106 miles with 20,669 ft of achieve — took off at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, with knights on horseback main the best way.
Sébastien Spehler (France) didn’t have far to go far. Spehler is native to the race’s start line, and used it for his first 100-mile end. Spehler went the space in 17:24, ending first for the boys and setting a brand new males’s course report. The remainder of the rostrum was all French too. Florian Pierre and Clément Desille have been second and third in 18:17 and 18:51.
Jenny Josefsson (Sweden) was victorious towards the ladies’s group with a 24:04 end time. Francesca Canepa (Italy) and Isabelle Wasmes (Belgium) have been subsequent in 26:35 and 29:10.
Seb Spehler profitable the 2024 Path Alsace Grand Est, his first 100-mile end. Photograph: Path Alsace Grand Est by UTMB
Monte Zerbion Skyrace – Pennine Alps, Italy
Skyrace 22k
Solely 19 seconds separated males’s race winner Nadir Maguet (Italy) from runner-up Gianluca Ghiano (Italy). The 2 completed in 1:59:32 and 1:59:51, respectively.
Martina Cumerlato (Italy) soared via the ladies’s race in 2:37:23.
Vertical KM
The race climbed 2,200 meters (7,218 ft) over 9 kilometers and was a part of the Worldwide Skyrunning Federation’s VK Open collection.
Alex Oberbacher (Italy) topped out first for the boys in 1:18:55, adopted subsequent by Werner Marti (Switzerland) and Alex Déjanaz (Italy) in 1:22:21 and 1:24:37.
Maude Mathys (Switzerland) climbed up in 1:32:07 for the ladies’s win, and after that, it was Gerardi versus Ghirardi. Hillary Gerardi (U.S.) beat Corinna Ghirardi (Italy) for second, 1:40:19 to 1:41:34.
[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.]
Extra Races and Runs
Montée du Ventoux – Bedoin, France
It was the twelfth yr for the 18k up-and-down race, a companion occasion for the World Mountain Operating Affiliation. Andréa Rostan (Italy) and Laure Anne Ferrent (France) rallied to 1:30:34 and a couple of:02:37 profitable instances for the boys’s and ladies’s races, respectively. Full outcomes.
Kolitza Balmatrail – Balmaseda, Spain
The race was 12k up 720 meters and Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) and Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) gained and set new course data in 49:07 and 60:24, for the women and men. The previous data have been Marco De Gasperi (Italy) in 50:42 courting to 2008 and Oihana Kortazar (Spain) in 63:03 from 2022. Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Solar Mountain – Winthrop, Washington
Thomas Kean and Alexa Johnston gained the 50-mile males’s and ladies’s races in 8:19 and eight:54, and Craig Fowler and Mary Fetter have been tops within the 50k in 3:54 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Bishop Excessive Sierra – Bishop, California
The occasion is within the foothills of the japanese Sierra Nevada, principally above 7,000 ft. There have been simply 16 finishers within the 100k. Nathanael Heyman was first man in 12:27 and Liz Wigylus was first girl and first general in 11:58. Jeff Kozak and Lake Franklin have been 50-mile winners in 8:18 and 9:19; it’s believed this was Jeff’s eighth win in 15 runnings of the BHS 50 Mile. Shifting on right down to the 53k, it was was Zachary Sonoga and Olivia Lackland-Henry who gained in 4:51 and 5:06. Full outcomes.
Olivia Lackland-Henry having simply gained the 2024 Bishop Excessive Sierra 53k. Photograph: Todd Vogel
USATF LA Grand Prix – Los Angeles, California
Observe season is in full gear for 2 of path operating’s speedier runners. Anna Gibson ran 4:08:06 to complete ninth within the ladies’s 1,500-meter “B” warmth, and Lauren Gregory ran 15:22 to win the ladies’s 5,000-meter “B” warmth. Gibson took half in final yr’s Golden Path World Collection, and Gregory ran on the 2022 U.S. Mountain Operating Staff. Full outcomes.
Silver State – Reno, Nevada
Operating at Rancho San Rafael Park in northwest Reno, Tom Sullivan and Dia Davis gained the 50 miler in 6:45 and 9:38, for the women and men, respectively. Sullivan’s mark is the race’s second-best ever. The 50k males’s and ladies’s winners Darren Thomas and Abigail Swift completed in 3:44 and 4:48 and each marks too are additionally the race’s second-best ever. Full outcomes.
Bryce Canyon Ultras – Bryce Canyon, Utah
Simply exterior the race’s namesake nationwide park, Artwork Hurtado and Lauri Brindley gained the 100 miler in 19:42 and 26:01. Nate Jewkes and Lauren Kersjes have been greatest within the 50 miler in 7:41 and 9:21, and Daniel Jones (New Zealand) and Jackie Hendrickson ran the 50k the quickest in 4:19 and 5:46. Full outcomes.
Samson’s Revenge 55k – Estes Park, Colorado
The race is known as for a celeb bull elk illegally poached on the race course in 1995. Kyle Fulmer was first man in 6:29, however Amanda Ax gained general and was first girl in 6:24. Full outcomes.
Amanda Ax on her approach to profitable the 2024 Samson’s Revenge 55k general and the ladies’s race. Photograph: Colleen Sovey
Kyle Fulmer operating the 2024 Samson’s Revenge 55k. Photograph: Colleen Sovey
Ram Social gathering – Colorado Springs, Colorado
The celebration had three extremely distances. Throughout 55 miles, Tucker Melles and Salynda Heinl gained in 9:19 and 9:54. Alex Walker for the boys completed simply forward of girls’s winner Corinne Shalvoy within the 60k at 5:30 and 5:33, and Gary Messina and Brit Kocman floored the 50k in 3:35 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
Superior Spring Path Race 50k – Lutsen, Minnesota
Scott Wopata and Cheryl Matson sped via the Superior Mountaineering Path course with 4:25 and 5:26 profitable instances. Full outcomes.
Yamacraw 40 Mile – Stearns, Kentucky
The race goes level to level via the Daniel Boone Nationwide Forest to the Massive South Fork Nationwide River and Recreation Space. There are a number of waterfalls and two huge water crossings on the best way. Michael Uhlig and Cassandra Campanella did it the quickest with 6:57 and eight:25 end instances within the males’s and ladies’s races. Full outcomes.
Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile – Fort Valley, Virginia
The race dates again 28 years on a course via the George Washington Nationwide Forest within the Shenandoah Valley. Stephen Knight and Justyna Wilson gained in 20:59 and 23:22, respectively. Full outcomes.
Quest for the Crest 50k – Burnsville, North Carolina
The Run Bum race goes level to level with three main climbs to pack in 12,000 ft of elevation achieve. That’s a ton, and that is one among North America’s most difficult 50k races. Lukas Burrer gained a good males’s race towards Marek Simko, 7:50 to 7:53, and Kate Dohnal was the quickest girl in 9:49. The Run Bum himself, race director Sean Blanton, gained the accompanying 25k alongside Anja Conlon in 3:16 and three:58. Full outcomes.
Fort Yargo Extremely – Winder, Georgia
Ryan Snowden and Carol Liu ripped via the two-loop state park course in 4:14 and 4:59. Full outcomes.
Merciless Jewel – Blue Ridge, Georgia
The lengthy course goes for 104 miles approach down yonder via the Chattahoochee Nationwide Forest, and Ben Quatromoni and Sarah Ostaszewski gained for the women and men. The 2 winners each set new course data in 21:41 and 24:50. The 50-mile champs Drew Antonisse and Abigail West completed in 10:49 and 12:15, respectively. Full outcomes.
Keys Ultras – Key West, Florida
The races run level to level via the islands. Rafael Cuza Villarreal and Odara Sousa Sa took high honors for the women and men within the 100 miler in 20:44 and 22:33. Yianni Babiolakis and Emily Sidor have been greatest within the 50 miler at 9:03 and 12:42, and Alberto Grande and Whitney Dancaster led the 50k in 4:58 and 5:50. Full outcomes.
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