Would possibly 20, 2024 – iRunFar

Monte, montée, and mountains are part of this week’s highlight reel and with race distances from 1,500 meters as a lot as 106 miles. Races in Europe, particularly, shined this weekend.

Extraordinarily-Path Australia by UTMB – Katoomba, Australia

The event is the nation’s largest with virtually 7,000 runners all through its 4 race distances. The applications are throughout the Blue Mountains Nationwide Park.

UTA 100k

The 100-kilometer race received right here in at 62.7 miles and 14,829 toes of elevation purchase. It finishes with a notorious uphill a part of 951 stairs to the tip.

Michael Dimuantes (Australia) blew everyone out throughout the males’s race. He accomplished in 9:01. The following three finishers received right here in beneath 10 hours, nonetheless weren’t close to the race winner. Shaun Pettit (U.Okay.) and Josef McGrath (Australia) have been second and third, respectively, in 9:55 and 9:56.

Girls’s race winner Beth McKenzie (U.S., lives in Australia) was in entrance from the leap. She accomplished 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).]

UTA 50k

The 50k race packed in 8,011 toes of climbing all through its 30 miles of distance. It was shut on the prime of the lads’s race with Charlie Hamilton (Australia) edging out David Haunschmidt (New Zealand) by merely over two minutes. The frontrunners accomplished in 3:57 and three:59, respectively. Clément Durance (France) was third in 4:05.

The best ladies ran shut too. Race victor Kate Avery (U.Okay.) was decrease than three minutes ahead of second-place Sarah-Jayne Miller (Australia) with 4:46 and 4:49 finishes, and Margie Campbell (Australia) was third in 4:52.

Full outcomes.

Skyrace Gorges du Tarn – Ste Enimee, France

The 12 months’s fourth Skyrunner World Assortment contest went for 24k and with 1,800 meters of elevation purchase. That’s virtually 15 miles and 5,905 toes of up. The course was in and throughout the Tarn Gorges, a UNESCO World Heritage Web site, and it was the race’s twenty second 12 months.

As with many Skyrunning races, and totally different shorter path races, Spanish runners dominated. They took 5 of the six podium spots all through the lads’s and ladies’s races.

Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) moved to three for 4 on this 12 months’s Skyrunner World Assortment. Delorenzi acquired the 12 months’s first two races, was fifth throughout the third contest, after which had a bounce-back win at this one. He accomplished first throughout the males’s race in 2:19:26, and that was a model new males’s course report. Spanish runners Antonio Martínez and Ïu Web have been second and third in 2:20:30 and a few:20:52.

Spanish ladies swept the podium, each ending almost three minutes apart. Oihana Kortazar crossed first for the women in 2:51:58, and Julia Font and Carrodilla Cabestre have been second and third in 2:54:47 and a few:57:55, respectively. As with males’s winner Delorenzi, Kortazar led for the whole thing of the race and set a model new course report too.

Full outcomes.

Path Alsace Grand Est by UTMB – Obernai, France

Solely in its second 12 months, the event launched 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 event’s longest race — 106 miles with 20,669 toes of purchase — took off at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, with knights on horseback essential one of the best ways.

Sébastien Spehler (France) didn’t have far to go far. Spehler is native to the race’s place to start, and used it for his first 100-mile finish. Spehler went the hole in 17:24, ending first for the lads and setting a model new males’s course report. The rest of the podium 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 in opposition to the women’s group with a 24:04 finish time. Francesca Canepa (Italy) and Isabelle Wasmes (Belgium) have been subsequent in 26:35 and 29:10.

Full outcomes.

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 two accomplished in 1:59:32 and 1:59:51, respectively.

Martina Cumerlato (Italy) soared by the use of the women’s race in 2:37:23.

Vertical KM

The race climbed 2,200 meters (7,218 toes) over 9 kilometers and was part of the Worldwide Skyrunning Federation’s VK Open assortment.

Alex Oberbacher (Italy) topped out first for the lads 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 women’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.]

Full outcomes.

Additional Races and Runs

Montée du Ventoux – Bedoin, France

It was the twelfth 12 months for the 18k up-and-down race, a confederate event for the World Mountain Working Affiliation. Andréa Rostan (Italy) and Laure Anne Ferrent (France) rallied to 1:30:34 and a few:02:37 profitable events for the lads’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) acquired and set new course info in 49:07 and 60:24, for the ladies and men. The earlier info have been Marco De Gasperi (Italy) in 50:42 relationship to 2008 and Oihana Kortazar (Spain) in 63:03 from 2022. Full outcomes (when obtainable).

Photo voltaic Mountain – Winthrop, Washington

Thomas Kean and Alexa Johnston acquired the 50-mile males’s and ladies’s races in 8:19 and eight:54, and Craig Fowler and Mary Fetter have been tops throughout the 50k in 3:54 and 4:42. Full outcomes.

Bishop Extreme Sierra – Bishop, California

The event is throughout the foothills of {the japanese} Sierra Nevada, principally above 7,000 toes. There have been merely 16 finishers throughout the 100k. Nathanael Heyman was first man in 12:27 and Liz Wigylus was first woman and first basic 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. Transferring on all the best way all the way down to the 53k, it was was Zachary Sonoga and Olivia Lackland-Henry who acquired in 4:51 and 5:06. Full outcomes.

USATF LA Grand Prix – Los Angeles, California

Observe season is in full gear for two of path working’s speedier runners. Anna Gibson ran 4:08:06 to finish ninth throughout the ladies’s 1,500-meter “B” heat, and Lauren Gregory ran 15:22 to win the women’s 5,000-meter “B” heat. Gibson took half in closing 12 months’s Golden Path World Assortment, and Gregory ran on the 2022 U.S. Mountain Working Employees. Full outcomes.

Silver State – Reno, Nevada

Working at Rancho San Rafael Park in northwest Reno, Tom Sullivan and Dia Davis acquired the 50 miler in 6:45 and 9:38, for the ladies 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 accomplished in 3:44 and 4:48 and every marks too are moreover the race’s second-best ever. Full outcomes.

Bryce Canyon Ultras – Bryce Canyon, Utah

Merely exterior the race’s namesake nationwide park, Art work Hurtado and Lauri Brindley acquired the 100 miler in 19:42 and 26:01. Nate Jewkes and Lauren Kersjes have been biggest throughout 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 known as for a celeb bull elk illegally poached on the race course in 1995. Kyle Fulmer was first man in 6:29, nonetheless Amanda Ax acquired basic and was first woman in 6:24. Full outcomes.

Ram Event – Colorado Springs, Colorado

The event had three extraordinarily distances. All through 55 miles, Tucker Melles and Salynda Heinl acquired in 9:19 and 9:54. Alex Walker for the lads accomplished merely ahead of women’s winner Corinne Shalvoy throughout 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 by the use of the Superior Climbing Path course with 4:25 and 5:26 profitable events. Full outcomes.

Yamacraw 40 Mile – Stearns, Kentucky

The race goes degree to degree by the use of the Daniel Boone Nationwide Forest to the Giant South Fork Nationwide River and Recreation House. There are a variety of waterfalls and two massive water crossings on one of the best ways. Michael Uhlig and Cassandra Campanella did it the quickest with 6:57 and eight:25 finish events throughout the males’s and ladies’s races. Full outcomes.

Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile – Fort Valley, Virginia 

The race dates once more 28 years on a course by the use of the George Washington Nationwide Forest throughout the Shenandoah Valley. Stephen Knight and Justyna Wilson acquired in 20:59 and 23:22, respectively. Full outcomes.

Quest for the Crest 50k – Burnsville, North Carolina

The Run Bum race goes degree to degree with three essential climbs to pack in 12,000 toes of elevation purchase. That’s a ton, and that’s actually one among North America’s most tough 50k races. Lukas Burrer acquired a good males’s race in opposition to Marek Simko, 7:50 to 7:53, and Kate Dohnal was the quickest woman in 9:49. The Run Bum himself, race director Sean Blanton, acquired the accompanying 25k alongside Anja Conlon in 3:16 and three:58. Full outcomes.

Fort Yargo Extraordinarily – Winder, Georgia

Ryan Snowden and Carol Liu ripped by the use of the two-loop state park course in 4:14 and 4:59. Full outcomes.

Cruel Jewel – Blue Ridge, Georgia

The prolonged course goes for 104 miles method down yonder by the use of the Chattahoochee Nationwide Forest, and Ben Quatromoni and Sarah Ostaszewski acquired for the ladies and men. The two winners every set new course info in 21:41 and 24:50. The 50-mile champs Drew Antonisse and Abigail West accomplished in 10:49 and 12:15, respectively. Full outcomes.

Keys Ultras – Key West, Florida

The races run degree to degree by the use of the islands. Rafael Cuza Villarreal and Odara Sousa Sa took prime honors for the ladies and men throughout the 100 miler in 20:44 and 22:33. Yianni Babiolakis and Emily Sidor have been biggest throughout 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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