April 29, 2024 – iRunFar

Golden Path World Sequence + UTMB World Sequence + (World Path Majors x 2).

It was a extraordinarily full weekend equation nonetheless you shuffle the order of operations.

4 Sisters Mountain Path – Siguniangshan, China

The Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) moved from Japan to China for the 12 months’s second race. The tour went 22 kilometers with 1,500 meters (4,921 toes) of elevation purchase, all at extreme altitude.

Ladies

Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) upset last week’s race winner Maude Mathys (Switzerland) and GTWS debutante Grayson Murphy (U.S.). After starring inside the World Mountain Working Affiliation World Cup these days, this was Muthoni Njeru’s first GTWS win. She was fourth last week and took this week’s victory in 2:25. As with Mathys’ six-minute worthwhile margin last weekend, this one wasn’t significantly shut each. Almost a full 9 minutes separated the doorway three girls. Mathys pushed to a 2:29 finish for second, and Murphy accomplished in 3:34 for third.

[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.]

As a bunch, the Spanish girls as soon as extra impressed with 5 of the top-10 finish spots.

The entire excessive 10 was:

1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:25
2. Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 2:29
3. Grayson Murphy (U.S.) – 2:34
4. Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) – 2:34
5. Malen Osa (Spain) – 2:36
6. Miao Yao (China) – 2:39
7. Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:41
8. Julia Font (Spain) – 2:43
9. Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) – 2:48
10. Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 2:52

Males

Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) matched Muthoni Njeru to ensure a Kenyan first-place sweep. It was Kipngeno’s second win in a row, and as with last weekend, he was as soon as extra strategy out entrance. Kipngeno bought right here by way of the top in 1:59.

Merely 12 seconds separated second- and third-place Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) and Daniel Pattis (Spain), every ending in 2:05.

The boys’s excessive 10 was:

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:59
2. Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:05
3. Daniel Pattis (Spain) – 2:05
4. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:08
5. Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) – 2:08
6. Alain Santamaría (Spain) – 2:11
7. Huo-Hua Zhang (China) – 2:12
8. Adil Moussaoui (Morocco) – 2:16
9. Alex García (Spain) – 2:16
10. Bang-Lin Fan (China) – 2:16

Full outcomes.

The following Golden Path World Sequence race is the May 26 Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon in Spain.

Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB – Auburn, California

The event was the Americas Essential for the UTMB World Sequence, affording top-10 finishers automated entry into the end-of-summer UTMB, CCC, and OCC races in Chamonix, France.

100 Mile

The prolonged course was formally 101.7 miles with 18,202 toes of elevation purchase. Elena Horton stretched the women’s self-discipline out and reached the top first in 21:35. The 2023 Leadville 100 Mile winner Jacquie Mannhard was second in 22:35, and Sonia Ahuja was third in 23:11.

Canyon Woodward obtained his namesake race in 18:54. Nicholas Lightbody (Canada) and Nick Orr have been second and third in 19:14 and 19:55.

100k

The race was the season’s last Golden Ticket Race with Western States 100 entries to the very best two males and females up for grabs. The 63-mile run was talked about to entire 10,652 toes of climbing, nevertheless runners’ GPS watches have been clocking in further of 12,000 toes of climbing. iRunFar earlier did a deep dive on the race happenings.

Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) was electrical on the doorway of the women’s race. She dominated in direction of a 9:10 first-place finish that pushed her to sixth whole. EmKay Sullivan went prolonged for a second-place 10:01 finish, and Anna Kacius was third in 10:24. Schide was already entered inside the Western States 100, so Sullivan and Kacius keep the pending automated entries.

Rod Farvard scored a shock win inside the males’s race at 8:44. Farvard was eleventh in the end 12 months’s Western States 100, and ninth on the Canyons by UTMB 50k in 2023 too. Drew Holmen and Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) have been shut with 8:51 and eight:55 podium runs. Holmen declined his Golden Ticket, whereas Farvard and Engdahl tentatively accepted.

Returning to the race he obtained in 2022, and getting back from 2023 hurt, Adam Peterman took his first extraordinarily defeat with a Thirteenth-place 9:58 finish.

50k

The very best three girls all dipped beneath 4 hours. Dani Moreno led the easiest way in 3:52, and Jennifer Lichter and Tabor Hemming accomplished in 3:57 and three:59.

Anticipated to downside on the doorway, 2020 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Molly Seidel instead didn’t start the race.

Eli Hemming is on an precise scorching streak. He obtained proper right here in 3:25 and this follows earlier wins on the Black Canyon 60k and the Massive Alta 50k. He goes transient too. He obtained the Desert Rats 21k last weekend. Daniel Jones (New Zealand) pushed to second in 3:28 and race native Cole Watson was third in 3:32. Jones and Watson will probably be once more in June on just a few of those related trails for the Western States 100.

Full outcomes.

Mt. Fuji 100 Mile – Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Beforehand the Extraordinarily-Path Mt. Fuji, the race’s tenth model was moreover the 12 months’s fourth World Path Majors contest.

The 166k, 103-mile run took off at midnight on a course that totaled 7,038 meters (23,090 toes) of elevation purchase.

Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) dominated the women’s race. She accomplished in 19:21, over 4 hours greater than the next lady, who in flip was over two hours greater than the next lady after that. Dauwalter earlier obtained proper right here in 2018, and earlier in 2024 she obtained the World Path Majors’ Transgrancanaria race too. Two races score for this 12 months’s assortment, and so Dauwalter is successfully positioned in direction of accumulating the end-of-year first-place World Path Majors €12,000 prize. Yukari Seimiya (Japan) was second in 23:36 and Chi-Yee Yan (China) was third in 26:15.

Males’s winner Guo-Min Deng (China) shook free from Gui-Du Qin (China) late for a 10-minute win. Deng accomplished in 19:10 and Qin was second in 19:20. Ryo Murata (Japan) was third man in 20:27.

Madeira Island Extraordinarily-Path – Madeira, Portugal

The race’s fifteenth 12 months launched some 3,500 runners from 58 completely completely different nations to the volcanic island.

115k

As with the same-weekend Mt. Fuji 100 Mile, the Madeira Island Extraordinarily-Path 115k was part of the World Path Majors too. The race went for 71 miles and with 7,200 meters (23,600 toes) of elevation purchase all through the spine of the island. iRunFar earlier reported on the race in greater depth.

Martina Valmassoi (Italy) and Anne-Lise Rousset Séguret (France) dueled on the doorway of the women’s race. Valmassoi would win in 16:14 and Rousset Séguret was second in 16:28. Maite Maiora (Spain) rounded out the podium with a third-place 17:12 finish.

Males’s winner Ben Dhiman (U.S., lives in France) outran the sector in direction of a 13:52 finish. Martin Kern and Anthony Costa, every of France, have been second and third in 14:15, with Kern ending merely 17 seconds ahead of his countryman. Sebastian Krogvig (Norway) was initially reported to have accomplished second, nevertheless it absolutely appears he acquired an hour time penalty and, now, sits as a result of the seventh finisher in 15:12.

85k

The 85k distance converts to nearly 53 miles, and Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) was victorious inside the girls’s race in 10:35. Sílvia Puigarnau (Spain) and Marie-Luise Muhlhuber (Germany) have been up subsequent in 11:00 and 11:06.

A excessive three of Ramon Manetsch (Switzerland), Caleb Olson (U.S.), and Jordi Gamito (Spain) accomplished in 8:44, 9:02, and 9:35, respectively.

Full outcomes.

Additional Races and Runs

Highland Fling 53-Mile Ultramarathon – Trossachs Nationwide Park, U.Okay.

The race runs by way of Loch Lomond and Trossachs Nationwide Parks in Scotland. Elsey Davis (U.Okay.) ran 7:37 to set a model new course doc, bettering Beth Pascall’s 2016 mark by quarter-hour. Rowan Boswood (U.Okay.) obtained the boys’s race in 6:50. Full outcomes.

Extraordinarily-Path Drakensberg – Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa 

The event took on a model new course for this 12 months’s races. The longer races took inside the Huge’s Cup Path on the southern a part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Web site.

Nicolette Griffioen (South Africa) and Admire Muzopambwa (Zimbabwe, lives in South Africa) have been best inside the 160k race at 25:51 and 21:01. Griffioen was the 2023 Extraordinarily-Path Cape Metropolis 100 Mile winner too, nevertheless this was Muzopambwa’s debut for the area.

The 100k winners Melissa Laing (South Africa) and Oli Morris (South Africa) accomplished in 14:18 and 12:08, and Maryke Van Zyl (South Africa) and Mvuyisi Gcogco (South Africa) bought right here in at 6:48 and 5:59 to information the 65k. Full outcomes.

Skedaddle Run for Nature – Island Hills Station, New Zealand

Emma Timmis and Scotty Hawker obtained the marathon distance race in 4:47 and three:47. Full outcomes.

Orcas Island Path Races – Orcas Island, Washington

In its eighth working, the 50-mile event observed new course information in every fields, with Natalie Johnston working 10:06 and Richard Cook dinner dinner clocking 8:31. Full outcomes (when on the market).

Payton Jordan Invitational – Palo Alto, California

Allie Ostrander ran 9:37 inside the 3,000-meter steeplechase. She accomplished in fourth place and earned her strategy into the U.S. Olympic Trials. Full outcomes.

Oregon State Extreme Effectivity – Corvallis, Oregon

Max King can nonetheless steeple too. He obtained in opposition to a collegiate self-discipline with a 9:02 finish time for the three,000-meter steeplechase. Full outcomes.

Zane Grey 50 Mile – Payson, Arizona

Julie Henk obtained for the women in 12:00, and Nick Coury saved his assemble within the course of the Western States 100 going with a first-place 8:20. Full outcomes.

Weiser River Path 50k – Boise, Idaho

The aim-to-point course ran downhill alongside the Weiser River. Jenna Maffey and Mac Moss have been first in 4:05 and three:21. Full outcomes.

Thelma and Louise 50k – Moab, Utah

Jenna McCaffrey obtained the first-year all girls’s race in 4:31. Full outcomes.

U.S. Freeway Mile Nationwide Championships – Des Moines, Iowa

Path sophomore Anna Gibson was sixth in 4:37. Full outcomes.

Heartland 50k – Cassoday, Kansas

A small self-discipline of merely 17 finishers was led by Kristy Clark and Zeke Howey in 5:56 and 4:58. Full outcomes.

Chippewa 50k – New Auburn, Wisconsin

It was Mia Rucoba and Jonathan Neujahr taking home the “w” in 5:34 and 4:38. Full outcomes.

Extraordinarily Race of Champions – Skylark, Virginia

Johanna Stewart and Anthony Williams obtained the Blue Ridge Mountain 50-mile race in 14:31 and 7:01, and Alida Voet and Scott Shumate have been tops inside the 50k in 7:07 and 4:44. Full outcomes.

C&O Canal 100 Mile – Knoxville, Maryland

Race winners Bianca Pourmussa and Adam Lowe bought right here by way of in 20:19 and 16:11, respectively. Full outcomes.

James Joyce Ramble 10k – Dedham, Massachusetts

The road race was the USATF Grasp’s 10k championships, and Joseph Gray obtained in 30:44. Erik Blake, who like Gray is an uphill specialist, was fourth in 32:50. Full outcomes.

Dunes 50k – Hobe Sound, Florida

Talia Zahra and Coree Woltering took home the wins on Florida’s Atlantic Coast in 5:30 and 4:35. Full outcomes.