Hugo Deck and Jazmine Lowther Run to Victory – iRunFar

The 2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k noticed Hugo Deck of France and Jazmine Lowther of Canada win commandingly, in 10:31:02 and 12:04:25, respectively.

At 4 a.m. native time on Saturday, November 23, in Cape City, South Africa, runners headed out underneath clear skies and reasonable temperatures. Recognized for its technical trails and steep climbing, particularly within the race’s first half, the occasion comes on the tail finish of most Northern Hemisphere runners’ seasons however at first of the Southern Hemisphere summer time. The roughly 4,970 meters (16,300 ft) of climbing is especially achieved on the overgrown, rocky, and uncovered terrain of the 98-kilometer (61 miles) course.

A part of a weeklong pageant that features races starting from 16 kilometers to 100 miles, the 100k race attracts a deep subject yearly. It’s additionally the ultimate race within the World Path Majors.

Beginning on the Gardens Rugby Membership, runners get just a few kilometers of downhill earlier than sinking their legs into the primary climb up Sign Hill. From there, they climb to Desk Mountain through Platteklip Gorge, a route with gradients over 35 levels. That is the technical crux of the race, and all this takes place within the first 31 kilometers.

Descending rugged and steep trails right down to the seaside from 1,000 meters up on Desk Mountain, runners then cope with the warmth of the day, which reportedly reached 25 levels Celsius (77 levels Fahrenheit) this yr, earlier than getting up and over 4 extra main climbs of about 500 meters (1,600 ft) every. The ultimate 10k includes a steep climb as much as the Blockhouse earlier than a descent again to the end. All through the second half of the day, runners persistently picked up ice and chilly water each time attainable to remain cool within the relentless solar.

A number of favorites didn’t begin the lads’s race, together with Hannes Namberger (Germany) as a consequence of a abdomen bug, in addition to Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) and Andreas Reiterer (Italy), leaving the race broad open. Deck took benefit, getting away from the remainder of the sector on the Desk Mountain descent. Whereas Portugal’s Miguel Arsénio refused to take the strain off, he by no means closed the hole and took second.

On the ladies’s aspect pre-race, a number of girls appeared to be in rivalry for the win, together with Lowther, Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia) and Samantha Reilly (South Africa) who respectively took third and fifth final yr, and Germany’s Eva Sperger. All that mentioned, the race was by no means actually shut. Lowther moved into the lead on the climb to Desk Mountain and by no means appeared again. Working easy and managed, Lowther’s hole over second-place girl Antonina Iushina (Russia) solely grew all through the race.

Learn on for extra race-day particulars.

2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k Males’s Race

Defending males’s champion Dmitry Mityaev (Russia), Miguel Arsénio (Portugal), and Thibaut Garrivier (France) took out the lads’s race on the entrance, reaching the primary checkpoint on the prime of Sign Hill, 12 kilometers into the race, collectively and a minute forward of the chasing American duo of Michelino Sunseri and Richard Lockwood. Little modified within the prime three on the decrease slopes of the climb to Desk Mountain to the foot of Platteklip Gorge, 25k in, and the beginning of the extremely technical part.

By the highest of Desk Mountain at 31k, issues had shaken up, with Hugo Deck (France) shifting into the main trio together with Garrivier and Arsénio, whereas Mityaev had fallen a minute behind within the 6k of steep climbing. Sunseri continued in fifth one other minute again, whereas a German duo comprised of Marcel Hoeche and Patrick Ehrenthaler moved up within the subject.

Deck made his transfer on the extremely technical descent and gained greater than two minutes on Arsénio and one other minute on Garrivier on his approach right down to Llandudno at 41k. Sunseri additionally moved up a spot on Mityaev. Throughout the seaside and up a small climb, Deck continued to extend his lead on Arsénio, now practically 4 minutes again after 48k run. Garrivier was greater than 10 minutes again, and Sunseri was now solely a minute behind him, with Mityaev solely barely greater than a minute in arrears.

By Constantia Glen, at 71k and with solely two vital climbs to go, it appeared that Deck and Arsénio, who refused to let the hole swell, had been within the combat for the highest spot. Garrivier, Sunseri, and Mityaev had been now battling for the third podium spot, their positions altering a number of occasions all through the race’s center kilometers.

Defending males’s champ Mityaev dropped out at Alphen Path, 76k, leaving the rostrum chase to Garrivier and Sunseri. On the base of the ultimate climb, with 12k left to go, Sunseri moved into third, 38 minutes again from the chief and half-hour out of second place. He was shadowed 5 minutes again by a decided Garrivier in fourth and Ehrenthaler, who refused to let the hole get away from him, in fifth.

Ultimately, Hugo Deck held onto his lead comfortably, ending in 10:31:02. Miguel Arsénio was second in 10:45:23, simply over 14 minutes again, and Michelino Sunseri rounded out the rostrum with a time of 11:16:08.

2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k Males’s Outcomes

1. Hugo Deck (France) – 10:31:02
2. Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) – 10:45:23
3. Michelino Sunseri (U.S.) – 11:16:08
4. Thibaut Garrivier (France) – 11:38:48
5. Patrick Ehrenthaler (Germany) – 11:43:10
6. Alexis Rosset (France) – 11:56:51
7. Richard Lockwood (U.S.) – 12:34:29
8. Jean-François Cauchon (Canada) – 12:58:11
9. Brandon Hulley (South Africa) – 13:01:59
10. Oli Morris (South Africa) – 13:07:41

Full outcomes.

2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k Girls’s Race

Within the girls’s race, Antonina Iushina (Russia), Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia), and Eve Moore (U.Okay.) made up the main trio for the early kilometers as much as Sign Hill, 12k and one climb in. Jazmine Lowther (Canada) adopted underneath a minute again, and Samantha Reilly (South Africa) was one other two minutes behind.

Throughout the comparatively smaller climbs of the next 7k, Iushina opened up a niche whereas Mityaeva, Moore, and Lowther joined forces to chase two and a half minutes behind her. Reilly adopted one other three minutes again, and Emily Djock (U.S.) adopted one other two minutes behind her. From there, the gaps solely acquired greater to the remainder of the sector.

When the race entered the meat of the climbing, Lowther didn’t waste time. By the underside of Platteklip Gorge at 25k, she’d closed the hole to Iushina barely, and opened it to Mityaeva by virtually 5 minutes. On the prime of the climb, 31k in, Lowther was now within the lead, with a slim hole on Iushina and Mityaeva. Reilly and Moore stayed inside 10 minutes of the chief.

Lowther confirmed her spectacular descending abilities right down to Llandudno, 41k in and again down at sea degree, opening the hole to Iushina and Mityaeva to almost eight minutes.

At Hout Bay, 56k into the race and 6:45 elapsed, Lowther led, pausing for a shoe and sock change after lots of working within the sand and contending with a rising tide, choosing a pair of sooner sneakers as a substitute of the technical path sneakers she’d worn till then. Iushina and Mityaeva continued to run collectively about 13 minutes behind. Reilly was about 21 minutes again from the chief and working with Eva Sperger (Germany).

Within the subsequent 20k, Lowther solely elevated her lead on Iushina whereas a fading Mityaeva fell again to fifth earlier than in the end dropping out at 76k. Sperger, who’d been working patiently all day, moved into third place with two climbs to go, 33 minutes behind the chief and 16 minutes behind Iushina. Reilly ran one other 10 minutes behind her.

By the bottom of the ultimate climb at 88k in, Lowther’s hole over Iushina was practically half-hour. Sperger continued in third, 52 minutes behind the chief.

Jazmine Lowther solidified her lead on the ultimate kilometers again to Cape City, ending with the win in 12:04:25. Antonina Iushina was second in 12:50:01, and Eva Sperger rounded out the ladies’s podium in third with a time of 13:07:21.

2024 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k Girls’s Outcomes

1. Jazmine Lowther (Canada) – 12:04:25
2. Antonina Iushina (Russia) – 12:50:01
3. Eva Sperger (Germany) – 13:07:21
4. Samantha Reilly (South Africa) – 13:37:17
5. Emily Djock (U.S.) – 13:53:41
6. Eve Moore (U.Okay.) – 14:42:16
7. Geneviève Asselin-Demers (Canada) – 14:47:03
8. Brittany Peterson (U.S.) – 14:49:12
9. Cleo Albertus (South Africa) – 15:21:00
10. Brianna Grigsby (U.S.) – 15:56:10

Full outcomes.