Anne Champagne is having a terrific season; on the Grand Raid des Pyrenees (GRP) in Andorra on Saturday evening, the Quebec runner obliterated the sector, gaining a 144-minute lead over her closest competitor and profitable the 168-km path race in 31 hours, 23 minutes, 35 seconds. The GRP was the ninth race of the World Path Main Collection.
This marks Champagne’s second 100-mile win within the span of two months. In early July, she broke the course document on the Quebec Mega Path (QMT) 100-miler.
The course, which noticed 10,000m of elevation acquire and loss, noticed Champagne’s closest competitor, Juliette Archambeau of France, drop out after 110km. Upon crossing the road with what regarded like an extremely painful stride attributable to the decrease again ache she powered by for miles, Champagne instantly acquired medical consideration.
Within the males’s race, Rémi Gillie of France took the highest spot by over an hour, clocking 24:39:12. He led all the second half of the race, leaving a really deep area in an in depth battle for the following spots. French athletes Jan Gutterman (25:45:27) and Maxime Jaouen (26:02:35) took second and third.