Canadians crack excessive ten at Canyons 100K

American ultrarunner Katie Schide might need stolen the current collectively together with her sturdy effectivity on the Canyons 100K on Saturday, nevertheless Canada’s Jade Belzberg and Arden Youthful moreover had standout races, every cracking the very best 10 in an intense elite space. Belzburg, who grew up in Canada nevertheless now lives throughout the U.S., ran to ninth place in 11:00:02, and Canmore, Alta.’s Youthful adopted her for tenth in 11:08:04.

Canyons 100K is the final word Golden Ticket race sooner than the 2024 model of Western States 100 (WSER), meaning the very best two finishers throughout the males’s and women’s courses earned automated entry into the race, to be held on June 29. Whereas Schide had already earned her spot at this 12 months’s WSER by ending excessive 10 in 2023, she was nonetheless the favourite throughout the assemble to Canyons 100, and her effectivity didn’t go away followers upset.

The 100K 2024 Canyons course was on a model new route (after heavy snowfall in 2023 and fires in 2022 induced hurt to the sooner course) and runners went throughout the reverse route (the race alternates directions yearly, identical to Hardrock 100). The course had runners climbing 3,962 metres over the 100K distance, nevertheless is an online downhill (identical to WSER).

Canyons hosts a 25K, 50K and 100-miler along with the 100K marquee event and could be the UTMB World Assortment Americas Primary. The very best 10 finishers for men and women in all events receive automated entry into the UTMB World Assortment Finals race (100-mile UTMB, 100K CCC, or 50K OCC) in August in Chamonix, France. All race finishers will earn double elements, or “working stones,” heading into the 2025 UTMB lottery, and excessive age groupers moreover earn entry.

Girls’s race

Schide took on Canyons 100 as a clear preparatory race for this 12 months’s WSER, after ending second in 2023. She went out laborious from the start and had a two-minute lead by the first help station. Schide steadily constructed on her lead, and as she neared the highest of the race she began to go the very best 10 males as successfully, ending in sixth place normal in 9:10: 10. “Felt good to get uncomfortable and maintain chasing until the very end,” Schide wrote on Instagram. Behind her EmKay Sullivan slid into second on the 20K mark and held sturdy from there, crossing the highway in 10:01:26. Anna Kacius, who was third at Black Canyon 100K in February, took third proper right here as successfully in 10:24:37.

Prime 10 women

1. Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) 9:10:10
2. EmKay Sullivan (U.S.) 10:01:26
3. Anna Kacius (U.S.) 10:24:37
4. Careth Arnold (U.S.) 10:38:42
5. Anna McKenna (Australia) 10:43:31
6. Laura Hansen (U.S.) 10:45:32
7. Erin Clark (U.S.) 10:52:16
8. Marta Wenta (Poland) 10:53:14
9. Jade Belzberg (Canada, lives throughout the U.S.) 11:00:02
10. Arden Youthful (Canada) 11:08:04

Males’s race

An in depth group of runners with quite a lot of potential champions caught collectively in the midst of the early phases of the race, with favourites Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway), American Rod Farvard, and Adam Peterman, winner of the 2022 model of WSER, all throughout the mix. Farvard was throughout the lead by the 60K mark, and held onto it for the rest of the race, crossing the highway in 8:44:30. He was adopted in by U.S. runner Drew Holmen in 8:51:09, with Engdahl not far behind, ending in 8:55:31.

Holmen declined his Golden Ticket, which suggests it rolls proper right down to the third-place finisher, Engdahl, who gladly accepted. Matt Seidel, who simply these days earned the title of quickest marathon by a fruit on the Boston Marathon, accomplished eighth in 9:42:08.

Prime 10 males

1. Rod Farvard (U.S.) 8:44:30
2. Drew Holmen (U.S.) 8:51:09
3. Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) 8:55:31
4. Makai Clemons (U.S.) 8:57:38
5. Stephen Kersh (U.S.) 9:05:56
6. Tim Tollefson (U.S.) 9:19:09
7. Kevin Vermeulen (Switzerland) 9:35:21
8. Matt Seidel (U.S.) 9:42:04
9. Ryan Raff (U.S.) 9:42:05
10. Brandon Gardiner (U.S.) 9:46:49

For full outcomes of the entire events on the Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB, click on on proper right here.