There have been a lot of U.S. races this weekend, however the high motion was in faraway India, New Zealand, and Thailand. It’s all the time enjoyable to see path runners on the quick California Worldwide Marathon course, too.
It’s also possible to try our race protection from earlier within the week:
IAU 100k World Championships – Bangalore, India
Ladies
Scorching and humid climate added to the problem on the 20-lap course, and with a final title becoming for the day, Floriane Scorching (France) once more completed on high. Scorching gained the race’s 2022 version and slayed this yr’s occasion with a 7:08 end. That’s 4 minutes slower than her 2022 win in Germany.
Scorching, age 33, gained the final word lead on the race’s sixteenth lap when overtaking Sarah Webster (U.Ok.). A lap later, the seventeenth of 20, Scorching’s countrywoman Marie-Ange Brumelot overtook Webster too to complete second in 7:12. Webster pale to 3rd in 7:19.
Floriane Scorching, the 2024 IAU 100k World Championships girls’s champion. Photograph: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
The highest U.S. finisher was 50-mile world record-holder Courtney Olsen in tenth at 7:48.
The ladies’s high 5 had been:
- Floriane Scorching (France) – 7:08:43
- Marie-Ange Brumelot (France) – 7:12:22
- Sarah Webster (Nice Britain) – 7:19:18
- Miho Nakata (Japan) – 7:25:52
- Melissah Gibson (Nice Britain) – 7:35:27
Males
Simply over midway, Jumpei Yamaguchi (Japan) was alone on the entrance of the race, and he trounced the sector the remainder of the way in which. Yamaguchi was over 13 minutes higher than everybody else with a 6:12 end. He was second on the race’s 2022 championships. The lads’s podium was notably unfold out, with Antonio Jesús Aguilar (Spain) in second in 6:25 and 2022 winner Haruki Okayama (Japan) additional again in third at 6:37.
The 2024 IAU 100k World Championships males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Antonio Jesús Aguilar, 1. Jumpei Yamaguchi, and three. Haruki Okayama. Photograph: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Chikara Omine was the U.S. chief in sixth at 6:40.
The lads’s high 5 had been:
- Jumpei Yamaguchi (Japan) – 6:12:03
- Antonio Jesús Aguilar (Spain) – 6:25:54
- Haruki Okayama (Japan) – 6:37:54
- Toru Somiya (Japan) – 6:39:58
- Felix Pont (Spain) – 6:40:19
Kepler Problem – Te Anau, New Zealand
Kepler Problem
It’s summer time within the Southern Hemisphere, and the Kepler Problem is one in every of New Zealand’s greatest races. The course follows the Kepler Monitor for 60 kilometers (37 miles) by way of super-scenic Fiordland Nationwide Park.
Ladies’s winner Katie Morgan (New Zealand) obtained to seventh total with a 5:48 end. Frances Redmond (New Zealand) and Beth McKenzie (U.S.) had been subsequent on the rostrum in 6:04 and 6:09. [From 2016 to 2018, Beth McKenzie (née Gerdes) served a two-year doping sanction after testing positive at the 2016 Ironman Australia for ostarine, a prohibited selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Daniel Balchin (New Zealand) led Thomas Barnes (U.Ok.) and Benje Patterson (New Zealand) within the males’s race. The three completed in 5:03, 5:16, and 5:23.
Luxmore Grunt
The occasion’s brief course possibility goes for 27k (17 miles) and all the highest women and men had been from New Zealand. The ladies ran it shut. Solely 11 seconds separated girls’s one-two Penny Mouat and Miriam Clark. Mouat obtained the win in 2:30 and Clark was second in the identical time. Stephanie Wilson was shut too with 2:33 on the clock for third.
Jonathan Jackson gained for the boys in 1:55 with Liam Dooley and Timothy Jorgensen second and third in 1:57 and a pair of:05, respectively.
Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB – Chiang Mai, Thailand
It was the occasion’s fifth yr, however with a reputation change from Doi Inthanon Thailand by UTMB and with a relocation to the newly opened Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Group Park.
The beginning of the 2024 Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB 100k. Photograph: Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB.
Trans-Int 160
The occasion’s lengthy course went practically 107 miles and with 29,461 ft of climbing. Second on the Extremely-Path Cape City 100k simply two weeks in the past, Antonina Iushina (Impartial Athlete) was engaged on brief restoration and obtained it completed with a first-place 24:23. Chinese language runners Lin Chen and Anna Li got here subsequent in 24:55 and 26:04.
Chinese language males swept the boys’s podium with Can-Hua Luo, Ji Duo, and Jia-Ji Zhao going 20:25, 20:47, and 22:22 on the entrance.
Elephant 100
Three large climbs spiked the course profile because the race stretched 58 miles and with 14,468 ft of elevation acquire. Ekaterina Mityaeva (Impartial Athlete) avenged a drop on the Extremely-Path Cape City 100k and gained the ladies’s race in 11:30. Careth Arnold (U.S.) and Natalia Mastrota (Italy) had been second and third in 12:12 and 12:40.
Chinese language runners once more led the boys with Hui Bai and Meng-Kai Bate main in 10:04 and 10:17, however Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.Ok.) prevented one other podium sweep with a third-place 10:20.
Ekaterina Mityaeva, the 2024 Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB 100k feminine winner. Photograph: Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB
Hmong 50
The large 50k race had over 2,000 finishers. The ladies’s race ran as a 2024 CCC rematch. In that race, Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) was a shock second and Hậu Hà (Vietnam) was fourth. Hà took some revenge right here and outran Młynarczyk for the win. Hà completed in 5:08 and Młynarczyk was second in 5:12. Third-place Takako Takamura (Japan) was proper there too in 5:14.
Ruy Ueda (Japan) scored victory within the males’s run in 4:21, and Guang-Fu Meng (China) and Bang-Lin Fan (China) ran 4:23 and 4:25 for second and third.
Ruy Ueda, the 2024 Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB 50k male winner. Photograph: Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB.
California Worldwide Marathon – Sacramento, California
The purpose-to-point, internet downhill race is all the time a great spot for quick instances, and we’ll point out the path runners and ultrarunners we see within the outcomes right here.
Ladies
Tabor Hemming made her street debut for the space and was twenty first in 2:36:59.
The 2024 Gorge Waterfalls 100k runner-up Ailsa MacDonald (Canada) ran 2:43:16 for forty third place.
Males
The 50k world record-holder CJ Albertson has had a large yr of street marathons. He gained this race final yr and was second this yr in 2:10:06. It was his fifth marathon of the yr.
David Nilsson (Sweden) ran a lot of shorter path races in 2022 and 2023 in Sweden and additional again as soon as held the Crown King Scramble 50k course file. He was eighth right here in 2:14:09.
The 2024 Cirque Sequence winner Mason Coppi was twenty second in 2:16:48.
Former U.S. Mountain Operating Workforce member Patrick Smyth ran 2:19:29 for thirty ninth.
Further Races and Runs
Anza Borrego Cuyamaca 50 Mile – Julian, California
Ladies’s winner Paloma Ortiz completed in 9:22 and Oscar Ponteri set a brand new males’s course file in 6:57. Full outcomes.
McDowell Mountain Frenzy – Fountain Hills, Arizona
Kristina Randrup and Ryan Becker gained the 50 miler in 8:26 and seven:11, and Devon Yanko and Justin Grunewald had been quickest within the 50k in 4:14 and three:33. Full outcomes.
Brazos Bend 100 Mile – Needville, Texas
The course is 99.9% flat and Lindsey Dwyer and Thierry Joffrain rolled to fifteen:42 and 15:40 profitable instances. Full outcomes.
Hitchcock Expertise – Honey Creek, Iowa
Kaci Lickteig was the ladies’s and total 50-mile winner in 9:38. Males’s chief Nate Canton was solely 52 seconds again in 9:39. Jodi Semonell and Jefferey Pratt gained the 100 miler in 24:16 and 21:42. Full outcomes.
Quiet Silence 50k – Lake Mills, Wisconsin
Race winners Katie Kornaus and Ben Hoseus clocked 4:47 and three:56 50k end instances. Full outcomes.
Crooked Creek Extremely Path – Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Jessica Johnson and Chris Ulrich gained the 100 miler in 27:12 and 24:47, and Virginia Bibb-Golden and Ryan Jones championed the 50 miler in 13:33 and 10:36. Full outcomes.
Dismal Swamp – Chesapeake, Virginia
The 50k course right here is quick. Alexandra Niles and Roger Hopper took it out in 3:29 and three:01. Full outcomes.
Shakori 40 Extremely – Pittsboro, North Carolina
April Bailey and Joshua Dwight gained the 40 miler in 6:37 and 5:20, respectively. Full outcomes.
Cloudland Canyon – Rising Fawn, Georgia
The races are inside Cloudland Canyon State Park. The 50-mile winners Lauren Wager and Lukas Burrer gained in 9:12 and eight:35, and Colleen O’Neil and Timothy Ronan had been finest over 50k in 6:18 and 4:45. Full outcomes.
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