The 100-kilometer CCC race left Courmayeur, Italy at 9:00 a.m. native time on Friday, August 30. Official stats put the race at 62.7 miles and with 19,888 ft (over 6,000 meters) of elevation achieve. The race goes the other way from the earlier-in-the-week TDS, connecting the race begin in Courmayeur to Champex-Lac, Switzerland after which the end line hub in Chamonix, France.
As with OCC and UTMB Mont Blanc for the 50k and 100-mile distances, CCC too was the UTMB World Collection closing for the 100k distance, and that meant €13,000 to every of the winners and prize cash going 10 deep. The full CCC prize purse was €76,000.
Hayden Hawks successful the 2024 CCC. Photograph courtesy of HOKA.
You can too take a look at extra outcomes from the week’s UTMB Mont Blanc competition:
2024 CCC Ladies’s Race
Pre-race favourite Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) led early with solely Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) in attain. The 2 have been lower than a minute aside 16 miles into the race. McCann, the 2023 OCC winner, was anticipated to be right here, however Młynarczyk was a shock this excessive up. She was sixth on the Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB 73k earlier this yr, but additionally a standout Ironman triathlete. A chase group led by 2023 fourth-placer Hau Ha Thi (Vietnam), Jazmine Lowther (Canada), and Heather Jackson (U.S.) was over seven minutes again.
McCann’s lead swelled as she climbed via Italy as much as the Grand Col Ferret. She was now almost 4 minutes up on Młynarczyk and over 10 minutes on everybody else. Lowther fell again to seventh on the climb and would later drop from the race, and Jackson moved as much as third. Holly Web page (U.Ok.) entered the highest 5, 17 minutes behind the race chief.
Roughly midway into the race at mile 34 in Champex-Lac, Switzerland, it was nonetheless McCann and, boldly, Młynarczyk on the entrance with a giant hole on everybody else. McCann led Młynarczyk by virtually three minutes, and everybody else was at the very least 14 minutes behind Młynarczyk. Ha Thi was once more third, Jackson fourth, and Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) had moved into fifth 13 minutes in entrance of a now sixth-place Web page.
Ten miles later at mile 44 Trient, Switzerland, McCann and Młynarczyk have been nonetheless out entrance, however Buchauer had fallen 22 minutes off the lead, whereas nonetheless third alongside Ha Thi.
Lastly, by mile 51 in Vallorcine, France, McCann totally broke freed from Młynarczyk. The hole between the primary and second runners was now eight minutes, and Buchauer had regained some separation from Ha Thi. Buchauer was six minutes forward of fourth-place Ha Thi.
On the prime of the final climb, La Flégère, the positions have been set. It was only a four-mile downhill run to Chamonix to go, and McCann, Młynarczyk, and Buchauer saved their podium spots so as.
McCann gained in 11:57 in her debut on the 100k distance. Młynarczyk completed a breakout run in second at 12:11. Buchauer was third in 12:16.
Toni McCann of South Africa successful the 2024 CCC. All pictures courtesy of UTMB.
2024 CCC Ladies’s Outcomes
- Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) – 11:57:59
- Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) – 12:11:12
- Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) – 12:16:55
- Hau Ha Thi (Vietnam) – 12:36:16
- Heather Jackson (U.S.) – 12:50:55
- Jing-Yan Tang (China) – 13:10:44
- Anne Cécile Thévenot (France) – 13:19:22
- Katarzyna Wilk (Poland) – 13:24:12
- Lotti Brinks (U.S.) – 13:25:13
- Emmiliese Von Avis (U.S.) – 13:33:35
The 2024 CCC ladies’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Martyna Młynarczyk, 1. Toni McCann, 3. Rosanna Buchauer.
2024 CCC Males’s Race
Sixteen miles into the race the primary 20 males have been barely two minutes aside. The group included pre-race favorites like Adam Peterman (U.S.), Hayden Hawks (U.S.), Manuel Merillas (Spain), and Petter Engdahl (Sweden, residing in Norway), amongst others.
A virtually three-mile climb as much as the Grand Col Ferret at mile 19 thinned the pack. Hawks gained a 30-second lead over Peterman and Engdahl, and everybody else fell off the lead group by at the very least two minutes.
Seth Ruhling (U.S.), the race’s 2023 sixth-place finisher, bridged up and bumped into the lead alongside Peterman on the subsequent downhill to La Fouly, Switzerland at mile 25. Hawks was simply 22 seconds behind on the checkpoint.
Ruhling dropped from the race shortly later with an ankle harm, Engdahl too, and Hawks handed Peterman 5 hours into the race when climbing to Champex-Lac. Behind Hawks and Peterman, Huo-Hua Zhang (China) charged in third two minutes behind, and Andreu Simon (Spain) and Dan Jones (New Zealand) have been over three minutes again in fourth and fifth.
Hawks continued to guide via Trient, Switzerland, seven hours into the day. His coaching mate Jones briefly moved into second, over three minutes again. Hawks and Jones have been third and fourth in June on the Western States 100. Peterman was now third, 50 seconds behind Jones and Peter Fraňo (Slovakia), third on the 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path, was in fourth now lower than two minutes behind Peterman.
Zhang began to fall again climbing to mile 46. He moved to fifth, whereas Hawks grew his lead. Hawks led Peterman, Jones, and Fraňo by seven, eight, and 10 minutes respectively at that mile 46 timing level.
Nobody might catch Hawks the remainder of the way in which. He gained in 10:20. Hawks gained CCC again in 2017 too, then in 10:24.
Fraňo escaped the chase group over the ultimate climb for a second place 10:27, and Peterman was third in 10:28. It was definitely Peterman’s most interesting results of the yr following an injury-filled 2023.
Adam Peterman taking third on the 2024 CCC. Photograph courtesy of HOKA.
2024 CCC Males’s Outcomes
- Hayden Hawks (U.S.) – 10:20:11
- Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) – 10:27:17
- Adam Peterman (U.S.) – 10:28:50
- Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 10:36:20
- Huo-Hua Zhang (China) – 10:45:34
- Andreu Simon (Spain) – 10:53:36
- Ramon Manetsch (Switzerland) – 11:01:24
- Andreas Rieder (Austria) – 11:05:09
- Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 11:12:03
- Arnaud Bonin (France) – 11:12:39
The 2024 CCC males’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Peter Frano, 1. Hayden Hawks, 3. Adam Peterman.