On Saturday at Extremely-Path Cape City (UTCT) in South Africa, Canadian ultrarunner Jazmine Lowther captured the highest spot within the 100K race, crossing the road in 12:04:25. Her dominant win highlighted a profitable day for Canadian runners, with Quebec’s Geneviève Asselin-Demers and Jean-François Cauchon additionally taking top-10 finishes, putting seventh and eighth respectively.
Extremely-Path Cape City boasts 4,972 metres of elevation over 100K and is described on the occasion web site as “a front-loaded, technical route.” The race has two main climbs inside the first 50K, and this 12 months’s race had temperatures reaching 25°C. Final 12 months’s version noticed Quebec’s Marianne Hogan declare the second-place spot.
Lowther’s dominant victory
Lowther pulled by the 31K mark and by no means regarded again, extending her result in almost half-hour by the ultimate climb. Antonina Iushina of Russia completed second in 12:50:01, with Germany’s Eva Sperger taking third in 13:07:21. Asselin-Demers additionally had a stable race, ending seventh in 14:47:03.
Lowther, who took second at Run the Rut 50K in Large Sky, Mo. in September, turned skilled in 2022. Initially from Nelson, B.C., she has seen her share of triumphs and setbacks over the previous few years. After a standout win on the 2022 Canyons Endurance Runs and a robust fourth-place end on the UTMB’s CCC race, she navigated accidents and biomechanical challenges earlier than returning to prime kind.
On the boys’s facet, France’s Hugo Deck claimed the highest spot in 10:31:02 with Portugal’s Miguel Arsénio taking second, and Michelino Sunseri of the U.S. rounded out the rostrum. Quebec native Cauchon, who took eighth within the males’s race, smashed the course report at Quebec Mega Path in July in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que.
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