Circumstances had been scorching and unforgiving at Desert RATS by UTMB in western Colorado on Saturday, however that didn’t cease three Canadians from mounting the rostrum within the 100K race.
Tyler D’Arcy of Saanichton, B.C., completed second within the males’s 100K (which was gained by Alex Johnson of Farmington, Utah, in 08:57:28), with a time of 09:04:06, whereas Kelowna, B.C.’s Emilie Mann took second to Lotti Brinks of Boise, Idaho within the girls’s race, with 10:21:38 (Brinks’s time was 09:25:50). Geneviève Asselin-Demers of Montreal was third, simply over 10 minutes behind Mann, in 10:31:59.
Corey Kallembach of Longmont, Colo., was the third-place finisher within the males’s 100K (09:23:40).
Mann, Demers and D’Arcy weren’t the one ones to place up large finishes at a U.S. ultra-trail race on the weekend; Jade Belzberg of Langley, B.C., additionally mounted an enormous U.S. podium, ending second on the Gorge Waterfalls 100K in Cascade Locks, Ore. in 9:27:39, whereas North Vancouver’s Joshua Potvin gained the 50K, in 3:49:30 and Nicholas Lightbody of Victoria gained the lads’s 30K race, in 2:08:20.
Mann is an rising celebrity on the Canadian ultra-trail scene; in September 2024, she set a course report in her 100-mile debut, the Run Rabbit Run 100-miler, additionally in Colorado (19:48:05). The earlier yr she had a number of wins at shorter distances, together with the Golden Extremely 60K, the Sinister 7 50K and the Squamish 50-Mile. Asselin-Demers ranked eighth within the Gran Canaria World Path Main (WTM) collection rankings introduced in November after a number of worldwide podiums and top-10 finishes. Belzberg additionally gained this yr’s Chuckanut 50K in Washington State and had a number of spectacular finishes in 2024.
50K outcomes
Males
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- Brian Whitfield (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 03:35:46
- Grant Colligan (Golden, Colo.) 03:49:12
- Austin Anderson (Grand Junction, Colo.) 03:59:44.
Ladies
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- Allison Baca (Golden, Colo.) 03:57:03
- Ashley Brasovan (Golden, Colo.) 04:10:39
- Sophie Linn (Australia) 04:24:13
21K and 10K outcomes
Eli Hemming (01:19:46) and Tabor Hemming (01:36:16) gained the lads’s and girls’s 21K race on Sunday, whereas Jake Littlehales (39:08) and Camila Cortina (48:39) nabbed the 10K titles on Friday.
The subsequent race within the UTMB World Collection collection is Mount Yun by UTMB in Zhonghe Sq., China from April 18 to twenty, and the subsequent North American race shall be The Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB from April 25 to 26 in Auburn, Calif.
For full outcomes from Desert RATS by UTMB, click on right here. For full outcomes from Gorge Waterfalls, click on right here.