It’s an almost Chamonix, France-only version of This Week in Operating, and it’s lengthy. We’ll go quick on phrases and as a substitute go large on lots of names and occasions. Let’s minimize the chit chat and bounce in.
You can even try extra outcomes from the week’s UTMB Mont Blanc competition:
UTMB – Chamonix, France
This 12 months’s course went 176 kilometers (109.3 miles) and virtually 10,000 meters (32,500 toes) of elevation achieve. The race was the 12 months’s UTMB World Collection Ultimate for the 100-mile distance and had a wealthy €119,000 prize purse that paid €20,000 to the winners.
Ladies
Katie Schide (U.S., dwelling in France) dominated the race, main from the beginning. Schide’s 22:09 end was a brand new course file, 21 minutes higher than Courtney Dauwalter’s 2021 earlier greatest. Schide received UTMB in 2022 too, and this 12 months accomplished the difficult Western States 100-UTMB double with victories at each races.
Katie Schide main the 2024 UTMB, on her strategy to setting a brand new course file. Photograph courtesy of UTMB.
Second-place Ruth Croft (New Zealand) moved up all through the race, even reducing into Schide’s lead, to complete in 22:48.
The 2022 second-placer Marianne Hogan (Canada, lives in France) was again on the rostrum. She was third in 23:11.
We’re going to point out the outcome for everybody listed in our pre-race preview.
1 – Katie Schide (U.S., dwelling in France) – 22:09:31
2 – Ruth Croft (New Zealand) – 22:48:37
3 – Marianne Hogan (Canada, lives in France) – 23:11:15
4 – Lin Chen (China) – 24:16:33
5 – Blandine L’Hirondel (France) – 24:35:54
6 – Emily Hawgood (Zimbabwe, dwelling in U.S.) – 24:58:19
7 – Sabrina Stanley (U.S.) – 25:32:10
8 – Claudia Tremps (Spain) – 25:39:37
9 – Martina Valmassoi (Italy) – 25:42:02
10 – Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – 25:55:31
11 – Alyssa Clark (U.S.) – 26:25:13
12 – Maite Maiora (Spain) – 26:50:35
13 – Eszter Csillag (Hungary, dwelling in Hong Kong) – 27:01:09
14 – Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) – 27:05:54
15 – Alexis Crellin (U.S.) – 27:12:25
16 – Maryline Nakache (France) – 27:16:18
17 – Johanna Antila (Finland) – 27:33:13
18 – Claire Bannwarth (France) – 27:47:58
20 – Manon Bohard Cailler (France) – 28:07:06
21 – Laura Van Vooren (Belgium) – 28:18:22
24 – Mélanie Delasoie (Switzerland) – 28:44:43
27 – Addie Bracy (U.S.) – 30:08:02
28 – Nancy Jiang (New Zealand) – 30:12:26
29 – Emilie Maroteaux (France) – 30:16:29
31 – Abby Corridor (U.S.) – 31:17:11
32 – Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) – 31:36:27
37 – Lindsey Dwyer (U.S.) – 32:41:43
44 – Naomi Model (South Africa) – 33:33:36
Marianne Hogan at Champex-Lac, on her strategy to inserting third on the 2024 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Drops included Hillary Allen (U.S.), Amanda Basham (U.S.), Alessandra Boifava (Italy), Alex Borsuk (U.S.), Ragna Debats (The Netherlands, dwelling in Spain), Helen Mino Faukner (U.S.), Tara Fraga (U.S.), Ida-Sophie Hegemann (Germany), Claire Heslop (Canada), Stephanie Howe (U.S.), Anna Li (China), Oana Mihalcea (Romania), Ekaterina Mityaeva, Fiona Pascall (U.Okay.), Fiona Porte (France), Anne-Lise Rousset Séguret (France), Aroa Sío (Spain), Manuela Soccol (Belgium), Eva-Maria Sperger (Germany), Emma Stuart (Eire, lives in U.Okay.), Emily Vaudan (Switzerland), Audrey Virgilio (Switzerland), Katie Wright (U.Okay., lives in New Zealand), Yuan-Yuan Wu (China), and Fu-Zhao Xiang (China).
Rong-Rong Chen (China) and Kimino Miyazaki (Japan) didn’t begin.
The race’s largest overachiever, that’s, the primary finisher not named within the pre-race preview, seems to be Nineteenth-place Noor Van Der Veen (The Netherlands) in 27:57:13.
Males
Vincent Bouillard (France) shocked the world with a 19:54 successful time. Not solely that, it was the race’s third-fastest end ever. Some 55 males had been named within the iRunFar pre-race preview, however Bouillard wasn’t one among them. That’s positively a primary too!
A robust second half positioned Baptiste Chassagne (France) in second at 20:22, and Joaquín López (Ecuador, lives in Spain) turned the race’s first South American podium getter in third at 20:26.
Vincent Bouillard on his strategy to successful the 2024 UTMB. Photograph courtesy of UTMB.
French runners took six of the race’s prime 10 finishes.
1 – Vincent Bouillard (France) – 19:54:23
2 – Baptiste Chassagne (France) – 20:22:45
3 – Joaquin Lopez (Ecuador) – 20:26:22
4 – Hannes Namberger (Germany) – 20:31:54
5 – Ludovic Pommeret (France) – 20:57:48
6 – Arthur Joyeux-Bouillon (France) – 21:12:12
7 – Cody Lind (U.S.) – 21:33:16
8 – Manuel Anguita Bayo (Spain) – 21:41:01
T-9 – Gautier Bonnecarrere (France) – 21:45:16
T-9 – Yannick Noël (France) – 21:45:16
11 – Josh Wade (U.Okay.) – 21:52:09
12 – Thibaut Baronian (France) – 22:07:48
17 – Guillaume Deneffe (Belgium) – 23:12:54
20 – Canyon Woodward (U.S.) – 23:26:04
21 – Andy Symonds (U.Okay., lives in France) – 23:38:16
27 – Jhon Barrera (Colombia) – 23:57:49
34 – Pablo Villa (Spain) – 24:22:21
41 – Drew Holmen (U.S.) – 24:46:29
43 – Alexandre Boucheix (France) – 24:54:26
50 – Jeff Mogavero (U.S.) – 25:31:48
58 – Robert Hajnal (Romania) – 26:00:01
100 – Mike McMonagle (U.S.) – 27:56:40
195 – Jia-Ju Zhao (China) – 31:07:10
Baptiste Chassagne runs into Courmayeur on his strategy to inserting second within the 2024 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Drops included Miguel Arsénio (Portugal), Pere Aurell (Spain), Mathieu Blanchard (France), Raul Butaci (Romania), Pau Capell (Spain), Sylvain Courtroom (France), Gregoire Curmer (France), Guo-Min Deng (China), Ben Dhiman (U.S., dwelling in France), Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz (France), Ji Duo (China), Tom Evans (U.Okay.), Jordi Gamito (Spain), Thibaut Garrivier (France), Germain Grangier (France), Gediminas Grinius (Lithuania), Scott Hawker (New Zealand), Remigio Huaman (Peru), Tom Joly (U.Okay.), Daniel Jung (Italy), Sebastian Krogvig (Norway), Ionel Manole (Romania), Christian Meier (Canada), Dmitry Mityaev, Sergio Gustavo Pereyra (Argentina), Gabriel Rueda (Argentina), Jonas Russi (Switzerland), Jia-Sheng Shen (China), Sébastien Spehler (France), Tim Tollefson (U.S.), Jim Walmsley (U.S.), and Yan-Qiao Yun (China).
Miguel Heras (Spain) and Beñat Marmissolle (France) didn’t begin.
CCC – Chamonix, France
The 100k race was the UTMB World Collection Ultimate for the gap and paid €13,000 to every of the winners with prize cash going 10 deep. The whole CCC prize purse was €76,000.
Ladies
Pre-race favourite and 2023 OCC winner Toni McCann (South Africa, dwelling in France) delivered in her debut for the gap. McCann led for all the race with an 11:57 end time.
Ironman triathlete-turned-trail runner Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) was second for almost all the race too. Młynarczyk had a breakout efficiency with a 12:11 runner-up end.
Toni McCann of South Africa successful the 2024 CCC. Photograph: UTMB
Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) overcame the chase group behind these two frontrunners to complete third in 12:16.
Earlier protection took outcomes 10 deep, however there’s extra story to be informed. Right here’s even better outcomes to choose up much more acquainted names.
1 – Toni McCann (South Africa, dwelling in France) – 11:57:59
2 – Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) – 12:11:12
3 – Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) – 12:16:55
4 – Hau Ha Thi (Vietnam) – 12:36:16
5 – Heather Jackson (U.S.) – 12:50:55
6 – Jing-Yan Tang (China) – 13:10:44
7 – Anne Cécile Thévenot (France) – 13:19:22
8 – Katarzyna Wilk (Poland) – 13:24:12
9 – Lotti Brinks (U.S.) – 13:25:13
10 – Emmiliese Von Avis (U.S.) – 13:33:35
12 – Arden Younger (Canada) – 13:41:45
19 – Sarah Keyes (U.S.) – 14:30:05
22 – Marcela Vasinova (Czech Republic) – 14:44:53
24 – Holly Web page (U.Okay.) – 14:49:56
28 – Erin Clark (U.S.) – 15:26:19
Key drops included Riley Brady (U.S.) and EmKay Sullivan (U.S.).
Males
Seven years after an earlier win, Hayden Hawks (U.S.) once more turned a CCC champion. Hawks was 4 minutes sooner than in 2017 and received in 10:20.
Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) ran a robust second half and a robust closing climb to complete second in 10:27, and Adam Peterman (U.S.) had his greatest race since earlier than 2023’s year-long harm with a third-place 10:28 run.
The race had an exceptionally deep subject stuffed with acquainted names.
The 2024 CCC males’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Peter Frano, 1. Hayden Hawks, 3. Adam Peterman. Photograph: UTMB
1 – Hayden Hawks (U.S.) – 10:20:11
2 – Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) – 10:27:17
3 – Adam Peterman (U.S.) – 10:28:50
4 – Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 10:36:20
5 – Huo-Hua Zhang (China) – 10:45:34
6 – Andreu Simon (Spain) – 10:53:36
7 – Ramon Manetsch (Switzerland) – 11:01:24
8 – Andreas Rieder (Austria) – 11:05:09
9 – Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 11:12:03
10 – Arnaud Bonin (France) – 11:12:39
11 – Eric LiPuma (U.S.) – 11:12:44
12 – Caleb Olson (U.S.) – 11:16:18
15 – Rod Farvard (U.S.) – 11:22:48
17 – Harry Jones (U.Okay.) – 11:36:31
24 – Tommy Sullivan (U.S.) – 12:00:08
33 – Zachary Garner (U.S.) – 12:26:16
34 – Matt Seidel (U.S.) – 12:28:20
36 – Cole Watson (U.S.) – 12:31:57
Key drops included Damien Humbert (France), Moises Jimenez (Venezuela, lives within the U.S.), Manuel Merillas (Spain), Jon Rea (U.S.), Andreas Reiterer (Italy), Seth Ruhling (U.S.), and Andrzej Witek (Poland).
OCC – Chamonix, France
The race was 57k (35 miles) and with 3,500 meters (11,500 toes) of elevation achieve. Because the UTMB 50k World Collection Ultimate, race winners earned €13,000 and the whole OCC prize purse was €76,000.
Ladies
Miao Yao (China) ran the downhills exhausting and led for nearly all the race’s second half in the direction of a 5:54 first-place end within the girls’s race. Yao received the longer CCC race in 2018.
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) chased for all of that second half, and held off fast-closing Clémentine Geoffray (France) for second. Wyder and Geoffray had been second and third in 6:00 and 6:02, respectively.
As with CCC above, we’re going to stretch the outcomes out deeper right here too.
The 2024 OCC prime 5 girls:
1 – Miao Yao (China) – 5:54:03
2 – Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 6:00:05
3 – Clémentine Geoffray (France) – 6:02:10
4 – Sara Alonso (Spain) – 6:05:15
5 – Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand, dwelling in Andorra) – 6:05:46
6 – Dani Moreno (U.S.) – 6:06:59
7 – Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 6:07:27
8 – Ikram Rharsalla (Spain) – 6:10:23
9 – Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 6:13:06
10 – Anna-Stiina Erkkilä (Finland) – 6:13:57
11 – Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 6:19:03
15 – Allie McLaughlin (U.S.) – 6:33:46
17 – Sam Lewis (U.S.) – 6:36:42
20 – Julia Font Gomez (Spain) – 6:45:56
22 – Oihana Kortazar (Spain) – 6:51:57
29 – Jasmine Nunige (Switzerland) – 7:11:47
Notable drops included Sunmaya Budha (Nepal), Tabor Hemming (U.S.), and Daniela Oemus (Germany).
Males
Eli Hemming (U.S.) pushed exhausting up the race’s second of three large climbs to open a giant lead, after which simply held on to win the race in 5:11. Hemming turned the primary American to win OCC.
Francesco Puppi (Italy) and Antonio Martínez (Spain) matched their end positions from 2023. They had been once more second and third in 5:14 and 5:17, respectively.
Eli Hemming, the 2024 OCC males’s winner. All images courtesy of UTMB.
Deeper outcomes present:
1 – Eli Hemming (U.S.) – 5:11:48
2 – Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 5:14:46
3 – Antonio Martínez (Spain) – 5:17:56
4 – Ju-Wei Zi (China) – 5:22:17
5 – Aritz Egea (Spain) – 5:27:07
6 – Kristian Jones (U.Okay.) – 5:27:49
7 – Daniel Castillo (Spain) – 5:28:48
8 – Tao Luo (China) – 5:30:23
9 – Hu Zhao (China) – 5:30:46
10 – Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) – 5:31:04
11 – Benjamin Roubiol (France) – 5:32:51
13 – Nick Handel (U.S.) – 5:41:08
17 – Sylvain Cachard (France) – 5:44:39
18 – Jeshurun Small (U.S.) – 5:45:26
23 – David Norris (U.S.) – 5:49:01
26 – Loic Robert (France) – 5:51:25
31 – Sammy Chelangat (Kenya) – 5:58:50
Key drops included Christian Allen (U.S.), Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland), Jan Margarit Solé (Spain), and Darren Thomas (U.S.).
Further Races and Runs
Vertikal Nasego – Casto, Italy
The uphill race was the 12 months’s eighth World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup race. Andrea Mayr (Austria) received for the fifth time, overtaking then-leader Philaries Kisang (Kenya) with 350 meters of climbing to go. Mayr received in 40:51, Kisang was second in 41:34, and Susanna Saapunki (Finland) was third in 41:44. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) picked up his third straight win on the race for the lads. He topped out in 34:28. Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) and Henri Aymonod (Italy) had been second and third in 35:03 and 35:20. Full outcomes (when out there).
Andrea Mayr, the 2024 Vertikal Nasego girls’s winner. Photograph: WMRA
Trofeo Nasego – Casto, Italy
A day after the vertical race, the up and down went over 21k. Andrea Mayr went for the double and had the lead on the prime of the large climb 17k into the race, however Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) ran her down on the ultimate descent. Muthoni Njeru received in 1:51:33, Mayr was second in 1:53:02, and Susanna Saapunki doubled again for one more third, this time in 1:54:00.
Kenyan runners swept the lads’s podium. Patrick Kipngeno was once more victorious. He completed in 1:31:26, final 12 months’s winner Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) was second in 1:33:59, and Paul Machoka (Kenya) ran 1:34:38 for third. Full outcomes (when out there).
Patrick Kipngeno, the 2024 Trofeo Nasego males’s winner. Photograph: WMRA
TDS – Chamonix, France
The race is a 148-kilometer (92-mile) technical path problem going the wrong way to CCC from Courmayeur to its end in Chamonix, France, and it was almost an all-French podium. Marie Dohin (France) led Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) and Céline Finas (France) within the girls’s race. The three completed in 24:06, 24:42, and 25:41, respectively. Thibault Marquet (France) received large within the males’s race with an 18:59 successful time. Alban Berson (France) and Gautier Airiau (France) had been second and third in 19:56 and 20:07. Full outcomes.
MCC – Chamonix, France
The Monday, August 26 race went 40k (25 miles) with 2,350 meters (7,700 toes) of climbing. Iris Pessey (France) was a runaway girls’s winner in 4:12. Elodie Alexandre and Stéphanie Manivoz made it an all-French podium in 4:30 and 4:33. The lads’s podium was extra intently packed. Kevin Vermeulen (France) was virtually two minutes higher than Thomas Butez (France) on the prime, 3:34 to three:36, and Cesar Costa (Switzerland) was third in 3:38. Full outcomes.
ETC – Chamonix, France
This one was simply 15k (9.3 miles) however with 1,200 meters (4,156 toes) of climbing on Tuesday, August 27. Anaelle Bondoux (France) scored an upset over Maude Mathys (Switzerland) for the ladies’s win. The 2 ran 1:32 and 1:34, and third-place Vivien Bonzi (Italy) completed in 1:36. Males’s winner Lukas Ehrle (Germany) broke the tape in 1:19. Second- and third-place Alex Garcia Carrillo (Spain) and Daniel Pattis (Italy) had been solely 4 seconds aside, each in 1:21.
[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
XTERRA Path Run World Championships – Carrabassett Valley, Maine
The fifteenth XTERRA Path Run World Championship returned to Sugarloaf Mountain with marathon and half marathon programs. The marathon totaled almost 5,000 toes of climbing with a summit of Sugarloaf Mountain included, and Caitlin Patterson turned a repeat winner in 4:11. She was over 20 minutes in entrance of second place. Grant Colligan took the lads’s crown by over eight minutes with 3:34 on the clock.
The half marathon had runaway winners too. Corey Dowe led the ladies in 2:06, and Rémi Leroux (Canada) championed the lads’s race in 1:51. Leroux was the race’s solely sub-2 hour finisher on the course that additionally included a Sugarloaf Mountain summit.
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