There have been the Olympics and Sierre-Zinal, and each had been fairly outstanding.
We’re excited to speak in regards to the gold medals and course information this Monday, and we hope you might be too.
Sierre-Zinal – Zinal, Switzerland
iRunFar earlier captured the higher race dynamics.
The historic race ran 31 kilometers and with 2,200 meters of elevation acquire. That’s 19 miles and seven,200 toes, and it was once more a part of the Golden Path World Sequence and the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup.
Males
Kilian Jornet (Spain, residing in Norway) added one other chapter to his wonderful profession. Jornet fought off Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) via the center of the race and held off a fast-closing Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) late. Jornet gained in 2:25:34 and it was his tenth Sierre-Zinal victory. The time marked a brand new course file too, a single second higher than his 2019 former finest. Jornet first gained in 2009 as a 21-year-old in 2:35:30.
Kilian Jornet and Philemon Ombogo Kiriago embrace on the end of the 2024 Sierre-Zinal, the place they took first and second. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Ombogo Kiriago, the 2023 champion, had his best race since final 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal. He vaulted from fifth at midway right into a end line dash with Jornet. Ombogo Kiriago was two seconds behind the winner in 2:25:36, and that’s virtually two minutes higher than his time finally 12 months’s race.
Third-place Patrick Kipngeno was a part of the sturdy Kenyan contingent that may place 5 runners inside the highest 10. Kipngeno ran 2:26:59.
The highest 20 males had been:
- Kilian Jornet (Spain, lives in Norway) – 2:25:34
- Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:25:36
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:26:59
- Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 2:31:35
- Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:32:26
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 2:32:35
- Sylvain Cachard (France) – 2:32:45
- Jonathan Castillo Sáenz (Columbia) – 2:32:45
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 2:33:57
- Ezekiel Rutto (Kenya) – 2:35:21
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:36:56
- Alex Garcia Carrillo (Spain) – 2:37:21
- Robbie Simpson (U.Okay.) – 2:37:44
- Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:37:47
- Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 2:38:03
- Tom Spencer (U.Okay.) – 2:39:36
- Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 2:39:56
- Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) – 2:41:23
- Stephen Wenk (Switzerland) – 2:41:55
- Leonard Mitrica (Romania) – 2:42:34
Girls
The ladies’s race was in no way shut. Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) was unstoppable from begin to end and completed over eight minutes forward of her closest chaser. Each a Sierre-Zinal and a path rookie, Chepngeno’s supercharged run was a shock. It was the 25 12 months outdated’s first race of any distance and any terrain in a number of years.
Joyline Chepngeno closes in on the end, because the 2024 Sierre-Zinal girls’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Chepngeno’s first-place 2:54:06 end was nearly a minute slower than Sophia Laukli’s 2023 successful time and virtually 5 minutes slower than the course file.
Second- and third-place Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) and Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) bought on the rostrum in 3:02:21 and three:04:29.
The highest 20 girls had been:
- Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) – 2:54:06
- Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) – 3:02:21
- Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:04:29
- Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya) – 3:05:52
- Cristina Simion (Romania) – 3:07:51
- Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 3:08:39
- Sophia Laukli (U.S.) – 3:09:36
- Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 3:10:46
- Julie Lelong (France) – 3:12:11
- Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 3:12:54
- Elisa Desco (Italy) – 3:13:15
- Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 3:13:30
- Marion Leiberich (Germany) – 3:15:10
- Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 3:18:20
- Selina Burch (Switzerland) – 3:19:18
- Takako Takamura (Japan) – 3:19:41
- Cecilia Basso (Italy) – 3:19:45
- Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 3:19:58
- Alice Bausseron (France) – 3:21:38
- Eef Van Dongen (Netherlands) – 3:21:50
[From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]
The Golden Path World Sequence comes again subsequent weekend with the Tatra Skymarathon in Poland, and the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup has two races the weekend of August 31 at Trofeo Nasego in Italy.
Olympic Marathon – Paris, France
A difficult course featured on the 26.2-mile highway run round Paris. The lads ran on Saturday, August 10 and the ladies’s race concluded the Olympics on Sunday, August 11. There have been a couple of crossover runners within the race, heaps extra within the girls’s race than the lads’s.
Victor Kiplangat (Uganda), the 2017 World Mountain Operating Champion, was thirty seventh in 2:11:59.
Within the girls’s race, Stelle Chesang (Uganda) ran 2:26:01 to complete eighth. In 2015, she was the World Mountain Operating Champion.
Tereza Hrochová (Czech Republic) was twenty sixth in 2:30:00. She was eighth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race in Austria.
Some twenty ninth within the Olympic Marathon in 2:30:14 was Dominika Mayer (Germany). She was fifth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race.
The 2024 Two Oceans Marathon runner-up Irvette Van Zyl (South Africa) was thirty seventh in 2:31:14, and Laura Hottenrott (Germany) was one spot behind in 2:31:19. Hottenrott was fourth on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill race.
Comrades Marathon course file holder Gerda Steyn (South Africa) was forty fifth in 2:32:51.
Extra Races and Runs
Swiss Alps 100 Mile – Oberwallis, Switzerland
Stefano Rinaldi (Italy) and Giulia Saggin (Italy) conquered the 100-mile mountain problem in 25:52 and 28:41. David Haunschmidt (New Zealand) and Leah Yingling (U.S.) had been tops within the accompanying 50k in 5:38 and 6:30. Full outcomes.
Stefano Rinaldi takes the win within the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100
Giulia Saggin recuperates after successful the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Photograph: Swiss Alps 100
Fats Canine 120 Mile – Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada
The race goes level to level on principally distant trails that complete 26,000 toes of elevation acquire. Pau Rius and Jessica Temple gained in 25:18 and 34:18. Monitoring.
Bigfoot 200 Mile – Mount St. Helens, Washington
Space wildfires saved the race off its conventional point-to-point course, however the present went on by way of an alternate route. The race as a substitute ran as a double out-and-back from the traditional end line. Vernon Palm did it the quickest, operating 44:57, and Jessica Schiller gained the ladies’s race in 56:37. Monitoring.
Prospector’s 50k – Cooke Metropolis, Montana
Michael Klein and Josie Walters led the sector in 5:27 and 5:47. Full outcomes.
Wyoming Vary 100 Mile – Hoback, Wyoming
The race goes 105 miles point-to-point with 24,000 toes of climbing in southwest Wyoming. Zachary Cohen and Andrea Purtzer gained it in 27:10 and 36:33. Monitoring.
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