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August 12, 2024 – iRunFar

August 12, 2024
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This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRThere have been the Olympics and Sierre-Zinal, and each had been fairly outstanding.

We’re excited to speak concerning the gold medals and course data this Monday, and we hope you’re too.

Sierre-Zinal – Zinal, Switzerland

iRunFar earlier captured the larger race dynamics.

The historic race ran 31 kilometers and with 2,200 meters of elevation acquire. That’s 19 miles and seven,200 ft, and it was once more a part of the Golden Path World Sequence and the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup.

Males

Kilian Jornet (Spain, residing in Norway) added one other chapter to his superb profession. Jornet fought off Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) via the center of the race and held off a fast-closing Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) late. Jornet gained in 2:25:34 and it was his tenth Sierre-Zinal victory. The time marked a brand new course document too, a single second higher than his 2019 former greatest. Jornet first gained in 2009 as a 21-year-old in 2:35:30.

Kilian Jornet and Philemon Ombogo Kiriago - 2024 Sierre-Zinal first and second men

Kilian Jornet and Philemon Ombogo Kiriago embrace on the end of the 2024 Sierre-Zinal, the place they took first and second. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti

Ombogo Kiriago, the 2023 champion, had his best race since final yr’s Sierre-Zinal. He vaulted from fifth at midway right into a end line dash with Jornet. Ombogo Kiriago was two seconds behind the winner in 2:25:36, and that’s nearly two minutes higher than his time eventually yr’s race.

Third-place Patrick Kipngeno was a part of the sturdy Kenyan contingent that may place 5 runners inside the highest 10. Kipngeno ran 2:26:59.

The highest 20 males had been:

  1.  Kilian Jornet (Spain, lives in Norway) – 2:25:34
  2.  Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:25:36
  3.  Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:26:59
  4.  Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 2:31:35
  5.  Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:32:26
  6. Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 2:32:35
  7. Sylvain Cachard (France) – 2:32:45
  8. Jonathan Castillo Sáenz (Columbia) – 2:32:45
  9. Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 2:33:57
  10. Ezekiel Rutto (Kenya) – 2:35:21
  11. Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:36:56
  12. Alex Garcia Carrillo (Spain) – 2:37:21
  13. Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) – 2:37:44
  14. Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:37:47
  15. Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 2:38:03
  16. Tom Spencer (U.Okay.) – 2:39:36
  17. Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 2:39:56
  18. Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) – 2:41:23
  19. Stephen Wenk (Switzerland) – 2:41:55
  20. Leonard Mitrica (Romania) – 2:42:34

Girls

The ladies’s race was by no means shut. Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) was unstoppable from begin to end and completed over eight minutes forward of her closest chaser. Each a Sierre-Zinal and a path rookie, Chepngeno’s supercharged run was a shock. The 25-year-old is within the strategy of coming again to operating following turning into a mom to 2 youngsters, and we perceive this was her first path race ever.

Joyline Chepngeno closes in on the end, because the 2024 Sierre-Zinal ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti

Chepngeno’s first-place 2:54:06 end was nearly a minute slower than Sophia Laukli’s 2023 profitable time and nearly 5 minutes slower than the course document.

Second- and third-place Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) and Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) received on the rostrum in 3:02:21 and three:04:29.

The highest 20 ladies had been:

  1.  Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) – 2:54:06
  2.  Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) – 3:02:21
  3.  Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:04:29
  4.  Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya) – 3:05:52
  5.  Cristina Simion (Romania) – 3:07:51
  6. Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 3:08:39
  7. Sophia Laukli (U.S.) – 3:09:36
  8. Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 3:10:46
  9. Julie Lelong (France) – 3:12:11
  10. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 3:12:54
  11. Elisa Desco (Italy) – 3:13:15
  12. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 3:13:30
  13. Marion Leiberich (Germany) – 3:15:10
  14. Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 3:18:20
  15. Selina Burch (Switzerland) – 3:19:18
  16. Takako Takamura (Japan) – 3:19:41
  17. Cecilia Basso (Italy) – 3:19:45
  18. Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 3:19:58
  19. Alice Bausseron (France) – 3:21:38
  20. Eef Van Dongen (Netherlands) – 3:21:50

[From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]

Full outcomes.

The Golden Path World Sequence comes again subsequent weekend with the Tatra Skymarathon in Poland, and the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup has two races the weekend of August 31 at Trofeo Nasego in Italy.

Olympic Marathon – Paris, France

A difficult course featured on the 26.2-mile street run round Paris. The boys ran on Saturday, August 10 and the ladies’s race concluded the Olympics on Sunday, August 11. There have been a number of crossover runners within the race, tons extra within the ladies’s race than the boys’s.

Victor Kiplangat (Uganda), the 2017 World Mountain Operating Champion, was thirty seventh in 2:11:59.

Within the ladies’s race, Stelle Chesang (Uganda) ran 2:26:01 to complete eighth. In 2015, she was the World Mountain Operating Champion.

Tereza Hrochová (Czech Republic) was twenty sixth in 2:30:00. She was eighth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race in Austria.

Some twenty ninth within the Olympic Marathon in 2:30:14 was Dominika Mayer (Germany). She was fifth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race.

The 2024 Two Oceans Marathon runner-up Irvette Van Zyl (South Africa) was thirty seventh in 2:31:14, and Laura Hottenrott (Germany) was one spot behind in 2:31:19. Hottenrott was fourth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill race.

Comrades Marathon course document holder Gerda Steyn (South Africa) was forty fifth in 2:32:51.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Swiss Alps 100 Mile – Oberwallis, Switzerland

Stefano Rinaldi (Italy) and Giulia Saggin (Italy) conquered the 100-mile mountain problem in 25:52 and 28:41. David Haunschmidt (New Zealand) and Leah Yingling (U.S.) had been tops within the accompanying 50k in 5:38 and 6:30. Full outcomes.

Stefano Rinaldi - 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile male winner

Stefano Rinaldi takes the win within the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100

Giulia Saggin - 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile female winner

Giulia Saggin recuperates after profitable the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100

Fats Canine 120 Mile – Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada

The race goes level to level on principally distant trails that complete 26,000 ft of elevation acquire. Pau Rius and Jessica Temple gained in 25:18 and 34:18. Monitoring.

Bigfoot 200 Mile – Mount St. Helens, Washington

Space wildfires saved the race off its conventional point-to-point course, however the present went on through an alternate route. The race as a substitute ran as a double out-and-back from the conventional end line. Vernon Palm did it the quickest, operating 44:57, and Jessica Schiller gained the ladies’s race in 56:37. Monitoring.

Prospector’s 50k – Cooke Metropolis, Montana

Michael Klein and Josie Walters led the sphere in 5:27 and 5:47. Full outcomes.

Wyoming Vary 100 Mile – Hoback, Wyoming

The race goes 105 miles point-to-point with 24,000 ft of climbing in southwest Wyoming. Zachary Cohen and Andrea Purtzer gained it in 27:10 and 36:33. Monitoring.

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