Vincent Bouillard wins males’s race in Chamonix as large names like Jim Walmsley and Tom Evans DNF
Katie Schide sliced 21 minutes off Courtney Dauwalter’s girls’s course report on the 2024 Extremely-Path du Mont-Blanc. The 32-year-old American clocked 22 hours, 9 minutes and 31 seconds to take her second victory within the iconic race.
Schide conquered a 176km (109.3 miles) route that features round 10,000m (32,500ft) of elevation achieve across the Mont Blanc massif by way of France, Italy and Switzerland.
Ruth Croft of New Zealand completed runner-up 39 minutes behind with Canada’s Marianne Hogan third.
Vincent Bouillard triggered a shock within the males’s race as he took victory in 19:54:23 forward of fellow Frenchman Baptiste Chassagne and Ecuador’s Joaquin Lopez.
Vincent Bouillard (Getty)
Bouillard doesn’t have a sponsor however works full-time within the product innovation division for Hoka in Annecy.
Defending champion Jim Walmsley of america was one in all many elite males to withdraw as he pulled out simply after 50 miles resulting from a knee harm which has bothered him in latest weeks.
Britain’s Tom Evans additionally stopped after fuelling issues left him “working on empty”. He received the Western States final 12 months and was third at UTMB in 2022.
OCC wins for Eli Hemming and Miao Yao as Kris Jones is sixth
The primary race of the UTMB World Sequence finals was run on Thursday (August 29). The OCC race takes its identify from the initials of the three important settlements it runs by way of. Beginning in Orsierres and working through Champex Lac earlier than ending in Chamonix masking 57km with 3498m of climbing, Adrian Stott experiences.
Within the males’s race, American Christian Allen constructed up an early lead. Behind him, working at a extra conservative tempo have been a bunch together with Francesco Puppi of Italy, Remi Bonnet of Switzerland, Benjamin Rouibol of France and Allen’s countryman Eli Hemming.
Allen continued to result in the Triente Checkpoint at 24km. Nonetheless, on the lengthy climb as much as the Col de Balme, Hemming made a transfer and took the lead, quickly opening up a spot on a chasing group that included Puppi, Spaniard, Antonio Martinez Perez and Britain’s Kris Jones.
Regardless of slowing on the third and last large climb as much as Flagiere, Hemming was to keep up his result in the end in Chamonix to change into the primary American to win OCC in 5:11:48.
Puppi and Peres had a battle for the opposite podium locations, with the favored Italian securing second place for the second 12 months working as Peres held on for third. Ju Wei Ji continued the emergence of China as a significant pressure on the World Path Scene, taking fourth.
Jones, who had positioned within the high 10 of the 2 earlier World Brief Path championships, held on properly to take sixth in a high-quality subject.
He mentioned: ”That was about nearly as good a race as I may have hoped for. My legs struggled on the downhill within the second half. I had cramps coming off Col de Balme once I climbed to fourth. The warmth was robust, however neither of these is massively shocking given my coaching and the place I reside. Very pleased with my race all the identical.”
Robbie Simpson, who over the past three years has comfortably moved up in distance from shorter basic mountain races completed tenth simply behind Tao Luo and Hu Zhao, two different rising Chinese language runners.
Within the girls’s race, there was a victory for China’s Mio Yao who improved on her third place from 2023. Like Hemming within the males’s race, she pushed laborious on the lengthy climb as much as Col de Balme and surged on the lengthy downhill to Argentierre to open up a spot that she was to carry to the end.
Her time of 5:54:03 was nearly six minutes forward of Switzerland’s Judith Wyder, who was second with 6:00:05 as Clementine Geoffray of France took third in 6:02:10.
Gemma Hillier-Moses was the primary British finisher in 6:56:54. Kate Avery, who had come into the race with excessive hopes, needed to drop out on the Col de Balme at 33km.
Hayden Hawks and Toni McCann win CCC
The CCC is called after the three important cities it travels by way of. The race begins in Courmayeur, persevering with by way of Champez-Lac and on to Chamonix, masking 101km with 6062m of climbing, Adrian Stott experiences.
It’s the 100km distance of the UTMB World Sequence and, as with the opposite UTMB collection finals, includes a really aggressive subject.
Hayden Hawks of america, a earlier winner of CCC in 2017, took his second win within the CCC this 12 months, holding off a spirited problem from Peter Frano of Slovakia and fellow American Adam Peterman.
Whereas a small group, together with GB’s Luke Grenfell-Shaw, made a quick begin on the primary 17km to Arnouvaz, Hawks, together with others, began extra cautiously,
He made a transfer on the second steep climb as much as Col de Feret at 31km and went into the lead.
He dropped again to 3rd on the steep descent to La Fouly, as Peterman and Seth Ruhling briefly took the lead, however by 54km at Champex Lac, he was again in entrance. He wouldn’t relinquish the lead from then on, as he maintained a gentle tempo to complete in 10:20:11.
Behind him, Peterman, Frano and Kiwi Daniel Jones have been buying and selling locations for the opposite podium spots. Frano, seventh in final 12 months’s race, fifth in 2022 and the bronze medalist from the 2023 World Lengthy Path in Innsbruck, was to show the stronger. He completed in 10:27:17, simply 90 seconds forward of Peterman, the 2022 World lengthy path champion and Western States winner. Jones completed fourth in 10:36:20, the identical place he occupied at this 12 months’s Western States.
With Grenfell-Shaw having to withdraw at La Fouilly (40km), Harry Jones, who ran a gentle race, was the primary British runner house in seventeenth place.
South Africa’s Toni McCann made a profitable step up in distance to take the ladies’s CCC title. Winner of the OCC in 2023, it was her first race past 60km.
The Polish runner Martyna Mlynasczrk put up problem and, up till the 75km checkpoint at Les Tseppes, was by no means greater than minutes behind.
During the last 25km, McCann was to extend her lead and reached the end in 11:57:59, over 13 minutes forward of the Polish athlete who recorded 12:11:12.
Germany’s Rosanna Buchauer, winner at Lavaredo 120km in June, moved steadily by way of the sphere to take third in 12:16:55.
Holly Web page, who had been having fun with her finest type for a couple of years in 2024, was within the first six for a lot of the primary 80km. She appeared to undergo a nasty patch on the lengthy descent to Vallorcine however held on within the final phases to complete in 14th in 14:49:56.
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