Speedgoat by UTMB, the Skyrunner World Sequence, and the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup have been among the many weekend’s prime highlights.
Learn on to see the way it all performed out.
Speedgoat by UTMB – Snowbird Resort, Utah
50k
The occasion’s marquee race ran on a path with 11,800 ft of elevation acquire and paid $2,000 to its winners as a part of a $7,000 money purse.
It’s been a superb summer season for Helen Mino Faukner. Already the winner of the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 46k, Mino Faukner was victorious right here in 6:09. Mali Noyes and 2022 race winner Addie Bracy have been second and third in 6:21 and 6:23, respectively.
The 2023 Speedgoat 50k girls’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Mali Noyes, 1. Helen Mino Faukner, 3. Addie Bracy, and 4. Valerie Arsenault. Photograph: Nils Nielsen
Christian Allen was in entrance of the lads’s race all through and completed first in 5:23. Nick Handel held off Adrian MacDonald for second. The pair completed in 5:30 and 5:31, 72 seconds aside.
The race was a final tune-up for higher efforts this summer season for lots of the prime runners. Bracy will race CCC and MacDonald UTMB in August, amongst others additionally anticipated to subsequent race in Chamonix, France.
The 2023 Speedgoat 50k males’s podium (l-to-r): 5. Zachary Garner, 2. Nick Handel, 1. Christian Allen, 3. Adrian MacDonald, and 4. Jeshurun Small. Photograph: Nils Nielsen
28k
Hannah Rowe was out entrance in 3:35 within the girls’s race. The 2020 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Molly Seidel was second in 3:49, and Reese Ruland was third in 3:51. Seidel was eighth a 12 months in the past in 4:13.
Andy Wacker was simply over a minute higher than Noah Williams within the males’s race. The 2 break up 2:55 and a pair of:56 end instances, and Matthew Palilla was a distant third in 3:07.
Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile – Salida, Colorado
Georgia Porter and Marisa Watson have been collectively as late as mile 84, however Porter pulled away over the ultimate miles to win in 24:52. Porter will subsequent go for giant prize cash at September’s Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile. Watson, the race’s longtime chief, completed second in 25:09 and Lindsey McDonald was third in 26:59.
Males’s winner Jimmy Elam crushed a year-old course file with a 19:42 end. That was over an hour higher than Ryan Smith’s prior mark. Nobody was near Elam, and like girls’s winner Porter, he too is on the beginning checklist for Run Rabbit Run. Brandon Stapanowich and Dave Scheibel have been second and third in 22:25 and 23:52.
La Montee du Nid d’Aigle – St. Gervais, France
The all-uphill race was a World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup occasion, and it went 19.5 kilometers in distance with 2,000 meters of elevation acquire. That’s 12 miles and 6,560 ft. The race stopped at Nid d’Aigle (or Eagle’s Nest), a taking-off level for mountaineers climbing Mont Blanc by way of Voie Royale.
The beginning of the 2023 La Montee du Nid d’Aigle. Photograph: Marco Gulberti
The 2022 race winners Joyce Njeru and Patrick Kipngeno, each of Kenya, repeated as champs.
Njeru received a hotly contested duel with Philaries Kisang (Kenya). Each completed in 2:06 and solely 5 seconds aside. Susanna Saapunki (Finland) was third in 2:10. The aggressive discipline included Lucy Wambui Murigi (Kenya) and Blandine L’Hirondel (France) in fourth and fifth in 2:13 and a pair of:14.
Kipngeno was equally adopted by countryman Philemon Kiriago in 1:48. Xavier Chevrier (Italy) was 41 seconds forward of Stian Angermund (Norway) for third, each in 1:51, and Théodore Klein (France) completed in 1:54 for fifth.
Schlegeis 3000 Skyrace – Zillertal, Austria
The 34k race took in 2,400 meters (7,874 ft) of elevation acquire and was a part of the Skyrunner World Sequence. There was prize cash on the road too with €1,000 to every winner.
Karina Carsolio (Mexico) is having a breakout 2023 summer season. She received right here in 4:23. Clementine Geoffray (France) and Lucille Germain (France) have been second and third in 4:28 and 4:33, respectively.
Karina Carsolio on her strategy to profitable the 2023 Schlegeis 3000 Skyrace. Photograph: Brian Sharp Creates
The primary three males all obtained astray and got a 20-minute penalty, and that left them off the rostrum and as a substitute vaulted Sebastian Poesy (France) into first in 3:52. It was a brand new course file. William Boffeli (Italy) was second in 3:52, solely 44 seconds behind the winner, and Luka Kovacic (Slovenia) ran 3:54 for third.
Sebastian Poesy, the 2023 Schlegeis 3000 Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Brian Sharp Creates
Cervino Matterhorn Extremely Race – Breuil-Cervinia, Italy
The second-year race’s longest distance stretched 173k (107 miles) on a route across the Matterhorn.
Because of an extended, difficult course, the lead three girls have been very effectively unfold out by the end. Elisabetta Negra (Italy) completed in 31:24. Lisa Borzani (Italy) was subsequent in 34:04, and Silvia Trigueros (Spain) completed in 36:55 for third.
The primary three males equally had massive gaps in between one another. Franco Colle (Italy) was first in 26:29. Andrea Macchi (Italy) accomplished the loop in 27:15 as runner-up, and Sangé Sherpa (Nepal) was third in 28:55.
Extra Races and Runs
Buckin’ Hell 50k – Deep Cove, British Columbia, Canada
Meredith Wilson (Canada) and Todd Marwick (Canada) received the race in 6:10 and 5:29. Full outcomes.
Cascade Crest 100 Mile – Easton, Washington
Yitka Winn received the ladies’s crown for a exceptional fourth time. She completed in 22:17. Amelia Boone was second in 22:49, and Corinne Malcolm ran 23:30 for third. Males’s chief Brandon Benefield completed in 19:56, a brand new course-record time. Carl Koopmans and Elan Lieber have been second and third in 20:27 and 21:45, respectively. Full outcomes.
Wy’east Trailfest – Authorities Camp, Oregon
Emmiliese Von Avis and Alex King have been the quickest over 50k in 5:59 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Ouray 100 Mile – Ouray, Colorado
The high-altitude race beneficial properties over 40,o00 ft of elevation within the San Juan Mountains. Sarah Ostaszewski didn’t acquire the ladies’s lead till practically mile 80, however powered by means of the remaining sections far sooner than anybody else towards a seven-hour win. She completed in 33:47 and it was a brand new course file, 14 minutes higher than Meredith Edwards’s time from a 12 months in the past. The lads’s race was related with Hayato Nishikata solely taking the lead late. He received in 31:52. Full outcomes.
Sarah Ostaszewski on her strategy to profitable the 2023 Ouray 100 Mile in a brand new course-record time. Photograph: Eszter Horanyi
Hayato Nishikata, the 2023 Ouray 100 Mile males’s champion. Photograph: Eszter Horanyi
Rattlerock 50k – Morgantown, West Virginia
There was a small discipline of simply 22 finishers for the second-year race. Alescia Roberto set a brand new course commonplace at 6:17 within the girls’s race, and Donnie Orr received the lads’s race in 6:25. Full outcomes.
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