Right here we go! The weeklong group of UTMB races in Chamonix, France, is actually the 12 months’s greatest week of ultrarunning, and one of many first races is the 148-kilometer TDS.
An acronym for Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie, the TDS race left Courmayeur, Italy, with almost 1,600 runners simply earlier than midnight native time on Monday, August 26, 2024, and gathered about 9,300 meters of elevation on its option to Chamonix. That’s about 92 miles and 30,500 ft of elevation achieve. TDS is taken into account extra technical than both of the longer UTMB or CCC races and is on extra distant trails.
2024 TDS Girls’s Race
Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) ran the downhill six miles from miles 51 to 57 seven minutes quicker than then-leader Emilie Collomb (Italy) to quickly take the lead, however additional again Marie Dohin (France) was stuffed with run.
Dohin climbed previous Wilhem and into the lead heading as much as Barrage de la Girotte at mile 66. Ten miles later, Dohin held a nine-minute lead over Wilhem, and the pair additional separated from one another the remainder of the way in which. Dohin, who was fifth at this race in 2021, was the race winner in 24:06, and Wilhem held onto a second-place end in 24:42.
Marie Dohin, the 2024 TDS ladies’s winner. All photographs courtesy of UTMB.
Regardless of a shorter course than final 12 months’s rerouted race and with higher climate this 12 months, the successful time was round half-hour slower than in 2023.
Céline Finas was third in 25:41.
French ladies took six of the highest 10 end positions.
2024 TDS Girls’s Outcomes
1 – Marie Dohin (France) – 24:06:01
2 – Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) – 24:42:03
3 – Céline Finas (France) – 25:41:1
4 – Aleksandra Narkowicz (Poland) – 25:56:30
5 – Wen-Fei Xie (China) – 27:35:30
6 – Julia Harnie (France) – 28:38:54
7 – Elisabetta Negra (Italy) – 29:27:06
8 – Charlotte Allain (France) – 29:37:30
9 – Léa Simond (France) – 29:55:58
10 – Laura Mayniel (France) – 30:00:31
Ariane Wilhem, the 2024 TDS second-place girl.
2024 TDS Males’s Race
Thibault Marquet (France) hit the highest of the Passeur Pralognan at mile 38 in a lead group alongside Aleksei Beresnev (competing as a impartial athlete) and Aleix Toda Mas (Spain) and rapidly separated from them over the following two downhill miles. Beresnev would fall approach again, and Toda Mas would find yourself not ending. Marquet led the race the remainder of the way in which, and on the finish, he was effectively away from second place.
Marquet dipped beneath the 19-hour mark with an 18:59:36 end, operating 37 minutes faster than Christian Meier did when he gained the 2023 race on an extended course and in snow.
Marquet was twelfth on the total UTMB course in 2022.
Thibault Marquet, the 2024 TDS males’s winner.
Nobody had a stronger second half than runner-up Alban Berson (France). Simply inside the highest 20 early on, Berson was nonetheless solely in eighth at mile 45. He moved up rapidly and held that second-place spot from mile 66 by means of the end in 19:56:40. Berson raced UTMB in 2022, additionally ending one spot behind Marquet in thirteenth.
Alban Berson, the 2024 TDS second-place man.
Gautier Airiau (France) overtook a fading Simon Gosselin (France) with about 10 miles to go to maneuver into third. Airiau completed in 20:07, and Gosselin didn’t end. Airiau had an identical second-half cost to Berson.
The entire high 5 finishers had been French.
2024 TDS Males’s Outcomes
1 – Thibault Marquet (France) – 18:59:36
2 – Alban Berson (France) – 19:56:40
3 – Gautier Airiau (France) – 20:07:22
4 – Nicolas Gourdon (France) – 20:30:53
5 – Kevin Roux (France) – 20:44:53
6 – Ales Sedlak (Czech Republic) – 21:03
7 – Zai-Ran Li (China) – 21:13:57
8 – Marijn Sinkeldam (The Netherlands) – 21:14:40
9 – Jason Schlarb (U.S.) – 21:21:06
10 – Clément Mugnier (France) – 21:26:36