Bigfoot, Fats Canine, and Habanero are among the many enjoyable race names on this week’s rollout of outcomes, however nothing compares to Sierre-Zinal.
Right here’s what occurred in all these occasions, and extra.
Sierre-Zinal – Zinal, Switzerland
It was the fiftieth 12 months for the tremendous aggressive race. The 31-kilometer chase was once more a part of each the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup and the Golden Path World Collection.
The race climbs from the bounce after which rockets downhill over the ultimate third of the race by the Valais Alps. All complete, the excessive nation route collects 2,200 meters (7,200 toes) of elevation achieve whereas operating level to level between its two namesake villages. And there have been big crowds for a lot of the way in which.
Prize cash, paid in Swiss Francs (CHF), stretched 10 deep and time bonuses paid out for finishes underneath 2:50 for the lads and underneath 3:20 for the ladies. Every winner earned a first-place prize of two,000 CHF, or about $2,300.
Males
Kenyan runners took the primary three end positions, and Philemon Kiriago and Patrick Kipngeno dueled for the win.
On the Hôtel Weisshorn excessive level, uphill all-star Kipngeno was 49 seconds in entrance of Kiriago, however the lead had already began to evaporate. On a roughly 4k part between 16k and 20k, a stretch that was first flat earlier than going up the ultimate summit push, Kiriago turned in a break up 16 seconds quicker than Kipngeno. After which Kiriago was a whopping 99 seconds quicker over the subsequent 7k on a bit that was at first flat earlier than beginning the final word descent.
Kiriago led to the end in 2:27:27. He was fifth a 12 months in the past in 2:30:47. Uniquely and impressively, Kiriago was racing on his twenty first birthday. Final weekend he received the Thyon-Dixence race in Switzerland and earlier this 12 months he was seventh on the World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill race and was second on the World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race.
Philemon Kiriago, the 2023 Sierre-Zinal males’s winner. Photograph: Marco Gulberti
Kipngeno, the two-time Uphill world champion, trailed in second at 2:28:50. He was second in 2022 too.
Kevin Kibet ensured the Kenyan podium sweep with a third-place 2:34:16.
High American man Jeff Mogavero was 14th in 2:40:33.
Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) stormed final 12 months’s Golden Path World Collection and was counted on as among the many race favorites, however he didn’t end.
Kilian Jornet‘s course document stands at 2:25:35 from 2019. Jornet didn’t race this 12 months. The 2022 winner Andreu Blanes (Spain) additionally didn’t race this 12 months.
The highest-35 males all completed underneath 2:50, incomes a minimum of a little bit prize cash.
And the TL:DR model, going 20 deep:
1 – Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:27:27
2 – Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:28:50
3 – Kevin Kibet (Kenya) – 2:34:16
4 – Sylvain Cachard (France) – 2:34:22
5 – Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:35:17
6 – Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) – 2:35:59
7 – Thibaut Baronian (France) – 2:36:24
8 – Xavier Chevrier (Italy) – 2:36:57
9 – Vitaliy Shafar (Ukraine) – 2:37:33
10 – Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:37:46
11 – Jose Gregorio (Mexico) – 2:37:59
12 – Matthias Kyburz (Switzerland) – 2:39:30
13 – Álex García (Spain) – 2:40:03
14 – Jeff Mogavero (U.S.) – 2:40:33
15 – Eli Hemming (U.S.) – 2:40:51
16 – Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) – 2:41:09
17 – Jonathan Castillo (Spain) – 2:41:27
18 – Anthony Felber (France) – 2:43:04
19 – Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – 2:43:11
20 – Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:43:39
Girls
A 12 months in the past path operating newcomer Sophia Laukli (U.S.) shot up the Golden Path World Collection (GTWS) ranks. And this 12 months she dominated the Marathon du Mont Blanc in Might after which was second on the Dolomyths Run in July. Each had been GTWS races. Now 23 years previous, Laukli competed within the 2022 winter Olympics in Nordic snowboarding too.
Sophia Laukli, the 2023 Sierre-Zinal girls’s winner. Photograph: Marco Gulberti
Laukli overtook then-leader Monica Florea (Romania) close to the 16k mark and she or he was unchallenged the remainder of the way in which. Laukli completed first in 2:53:17, and it wasn’t shut. Her end time is the third-fastest ever on the total course, trailing solely Maude Mathys’s runs in 2019 and 2022. Mathys, who had received the final 4 years, didn’t race this 12 months. Laukli is the third American girl to win the race. Megan Lizotte received in 2010 and Stevie Kremer received in 2014.
Kenyan runners Joyce Muthoni Njeru and Philaries Kisang had been second and third in 2:57:19 and three:01:06, respectively. Kisang was second a 12 months in the past.
Pre-race favourite Nienke Brinkman (The Netherlands, lives in Switzerland) was sixth in 3:05:48. This was to be Brinkman’s solely path race of the 12 months. Final week she shared that she’ll race the Amsterdam Marathon in October 2023. Brinkman will goal a sub-2:26:50 marathon time to realize qualification for the 2024 Olympic Marathon in Paris, France, as a part of the Dutch nationwide group. Brinkman has earlier twice run underneath that benchmark.
The American males positioned nobody inside the highest 10, however two inside the highest 20. For the ladies, it was two inside the highest 10, however nobody else inside the highest 20. Along with Laukli’s win for the U.S., Allie McLaughlin was eighth in 3:08:07.
And we are able to’t go greater than two weeks with out recognizing prolific racer Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) in race outcomes. She was thirty fourth in 3:29:05.
The primary 22 girls all beat the sub-3:20 mark to earn a money prize.
TL:DR? The highest-20 girls had been:
1 – Sophia Laukli (U.S.) – 2:53:17
2 – Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:57:19
3 – Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya) – 3:01:06
4 – Miao Yao (China) – 3:04:05
5 – Alice Gaggi (Italy) – 3:05:38
6 – Nienke Brinkman (The Netherlands, lives in Switzerland) – 3:05:48
7 – Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:06:33
8 – Allie McLaughlin (U.S.) – 3:08:07
9 – Emma Pooley (U.Okay.) – 3:09:07
10 – Lucy Wambui Murigi (Kenya) – 3:09:10
11 – Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 3:11:55
12 – Phillipa Williams (U.Okay.) – 3:12:55
13 – Susanna Saapunki (Finland) – 3:13:38
14 – Liaci Oria (Switzerland) – 3:13:57
15 – Nuria Gil (Spain) – 3:14:07
16 – Theres Leboeuf (Germany) – 3:14:41
17 – Anna-Stiina Erkkila (Finland) – 3:14:55
18 – Mathilde Sagnes (France) – 3:15:15
19 – Amandine Ferrato (France) – 3:17:55
20 – Sabine Hauswirth (Switzerland) – 3:18:53
The following Golden Path World Collection race is the September 16 Pikes Peak Ascent in Colorado, U.S., and the subsequent World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup race is the September 2 Vertical Nasego climb in Italy.
Extra Races and Runs
Swiss Alps 100 – Fiesch, Switzerland
The 160-kilometer course (99 miles) gained 10,150 meters (33,300 toes) of elevation. The race uniquely went throughout three suspension bridges too. Yurick Aregger (Switzerland) completed in 24:29, over three hours earlier than anybody else, and Wen-Fei Xie (China) received the ladies’s race in 29:17. Each had been new course data. Full outcomes.
Yurick Aregger, the 2023 Swiss Alps 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100
Wen-Fei Xie, the 2023 Swiss Alps 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100
Stranda Fjord Path Race – Stranda, Norway
A part of final 12 months’s Golden Path World Collection, the race was solely within the Golden Path Nationwide Collection this 12 months for the Nordic area, maybe due to a schedule battle with Sierre-Zinal. Aasmund Stelen (Norway) and Vilde Moser (Norway) received the 48k in 5:53 and eight:35, and Anders Haga (Norway) and Marte Emilsen (Norway) received the 25k in 2:42 and three:12. Full outcomes.
Fats Canine 120 Mile – Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada
Social media factors to Hannes Gehring because the winner in 29:59. The 2022 100k winner Andrea Tarras appears to have received this 12 months’s 120-mile race. Depart a remark to share extra information from the occasion, thanks!
Bigfoot 200 Mile – Mount St. Helens, Washington
The one-way, 210-mile run by the Cascade Vary remains to be occurring. Ryan Shephard and Mika Thewes had been first to complete the journey in 54:24:20 and 58:21:12. Thewes set a brand new course document. Monitoring.
Haulin’ Aspen Path Marathon – Bend, Oregon
Chris Denucci and Carmen Bango went 3:32 and three:47 for the wins, on a course that winds by the Deschutes Nationwide Forest. Full outcomes.
Rock N Brew 50k – Boise, Idaho
The primary-year race completed at a brewery. Jose Cervantes and Caley Featherstone obtained there first in 4:47 and 5:17. Full outcomes.
Wyoming Vary 100 Mile – Hoback, Wyoming
“Tucked away in southwest Wyoming, beneath the Tetons and above the Wasatch, sits the Wyoming Vary,” says the occasion of its location and course. The race gained 24,000 toes of elevation on a 102-mile, point-to-point route. Jared Campbell and Ginny Robbins received in 28:14 and 27:48, respectively. Robbins received final 12 months too. Full outcomes.
Habanero Hundred – Cat Spring, Texas
Russ Ford turned up the warmth in 20:47 for first within the 100 miler, alongside girls’s winner Kelly Swanson in 22:28. Zach Bitter and Vivian Camille Bobbitt received the 50k in 4:24 an 5:22, respectively. Full outcomes.
Kesugi Ridge Traverse – Denali State Park, Alaska
Galen Johnston and Shauna Severson received the 30.5-mile Full Traverse in 5:02 and 6:04, respectively. The 15.5-mile Half Traverse was received by Michael Rabe in 2:20, and Yvonne Jeschke in 2:40. Full outcomes.
Galen Johnston, the 2023 Kesugi Ridge Full Traverse males’s winner. Photograph: Matias Saari
Shauna Severson, the 2023 Kesugi Ridge Full Traverse girls’s winner. Photograph: Matias Saari
Jap States 100 Mile – Waterville, Pennsylvania
The race is run on a 103-mile single loop by north-central Pennsylvania. Reagan McCoy led 4 males underneath 24 hours with a 22:23 profitable time. Solely 9 minutes separated girls’s first and second locations. Karen Dunn was first in 25:30, and Colleen Moffatt was second in 25:39. Full outcomes.
Reagan McCoy, the 2023 Jap States 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Lisa DeNardo
Karen Dunn, the 2023 Jap States 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph: Lisa DeNardo
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