April 29, 2024 – iRunFar

Golden Path World Sequence + UTMB World Sequence + (World Path Majors x 2).

It was a very full weekend equation nevertheless you shuffle the order of operations.

4 Sisters Mountain Path – Siguniangshan, China

The Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) moved from Japan to China for the 12 months’s second race. The tour went 22 kilometers with 1,500 meters (4,921 ft) of elevation achieve, all at excessive altitude.

Girls

Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) upset final week’s race winner Maude Mathys (Switzerland) and GTWS debutante Grayson Murphy (U.S.). After starring within the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup lately, this was Muthoni Njeru’s first GTWS win. She was fourth final week and took this week’s victory in 2:25. As with Mathys’ six-minute successful margin final weekend, this one wasn’t particularly shut both. Virtually a full 9 minutes separated the entrance three ladies. Mathys pushed to a 2:29 end for second, and Murphy completed in 3:34 for third.

[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]

As a bunch, the Spanish ladies once more impressed with 5 of the top-10 end spots.

The complete high 10 was:

1. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 2:25
2. Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 2:29
3. Grayson Murphy (U.S.) – 2:34
4. Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) – 2:34
5. Malen Osa (Spain) – 2:36
6. Miao Yao (China) – 2:39
7. Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:41
8. Julia Font (Spain) – 2:43
9. Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) – 2:48
10. Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 2:52

Males

Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) matched Muthoni Njeru to make sure a Kenyan first-place sweep. It was Kipngeno’s second win in a row, and as with final weekend, he was once more means out entrance. Kipngeno got here by means of the end in 1:59.

Simply 12 seconds separated second- and third-place Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) and Daniel Pattis (Spain), each ending in 2:05.

The lads’s high 10 was:

1. Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 1:59
2. Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:05
3. Daniel Pattis (Spain) – 2:05
4. Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:08
5. Joey Hadorn (Switzerland) – 2:08
6. Alain Santamaría (Spain) – 2:11
7. Huo-Hua Zhang (China) – 2:12
8. Adil Moussaoui (Morocco) – 2:16
9. Alex García (Spain) – 2:16
10. Bang-Lin Fan (China) – 2:16

Full outcomes.

The following Golden Path World Sequence race is the Could 26 Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon in Spain.

Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB – Auburn, California

The occasion was the Americas Main for the UTMB World Sequence, affording top-10 finishers computerized entry into the end-of-summer UTMB, CCC, and OCC races in Chamonix, France.

100 Mile

The lengthy course was formally 101.7 miles with 18,202 ft of elevation achieve. Elena Horton stretched the ladies’s area out and reached the end first in 21:35. The 2023 Leadville 100 Mile winner Jacquie Mannhard was second in 22:35, and Sonia Ahuja was third in 23:11.

Canyon Woodward received his namesake race in 18:54. Nicholas Lightbody (Canada) and Nick Orr have been second and third in 19:14 and 19:55.

100k

The race was the season’s final Golden Ticket Race with Western States 100 entries to the highest two men and women up for grabs. The 63-mile run was mentioned to whole 10,652 ft of climbing, however runners’ GPS watches have been clocking in extra of 12,000 ft of climbing. iRunFar earlier did a deep dive on the race happenings.

Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) was electrical on the entrance of the ladies’s race. She dominated towards a 9:10 first-place end that pushed her to sixth total. EmKay Sullivan went lengthy for a second-place 10:01 end, and Anna Kacius was third in 10:24. Schide was already entered within the Western States 100, so Sullivan and Kacius maintain the pending computerized entries.

Rod Farvard scored a shock win within the males’s race at 8:44. Farvard was eleventh finally 12 months’s Western States 100, and ninth on the Canyons by UTMB 50k in 2023 too. Drew Holmen and Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) have been shut with 8:51 and eight:55 podium runs. Holmen declined his Golden Ticket, whereas Farvard and Engdahl tentatively accepted.

Returning to the race he received in 2022, and coming back from 2023 damage, Adam Peterman took his first extremely defeat with a Thirteenth-place 9:58 end.

50k

The highest three ladies all dipped underneath 4 hours. Dani Moreno led the best way in 3:52, and Jennifer Lichter and Tabor Hemming completed in 3:57 and three:59.

Anticipated to problem on the entrance, 2020 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Molly Seidel as an alternative didn’t begin the race.

Eli Hemming is on an actual scorching streak. He received right here in 3:25 and this follows earlier wins on the Black Canyon 60k and the Huge Alta 50k. He goes quick too. He received the Desert Rats 21k final weekend. Daniel Jones (New Zealand) pushed to second in 3:28 and race native Cole Watson was third in 3:32. Jones and Watson might be again in June on a few of these similar trails for the Western States 100.

Full outcomes.

Mt. Fuji 100 Mile – Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Previously the Extremely-Path Mt. Fuji, the race’s tenth version was additionally the 12 months’s fourth World Path Majors contest.

The 166k, 103-mile run took off at midnight on a course that totaled 7,038 meters (23,090 ft) of elevation achieve.

Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) dominated the ladies’s race. She completed in 19:21, over 4 hours higher than the subsequent girl, who in flip was over two hours higher than the subsequent girl after that. Dauwalter earlier received right here in 2018, and earlier in 2024 she received the World Path Majors’ Transgrancanaria race too. Two races rating for this 12 months’s sequence, and so Dauwalter is nicely positioned towards accumulating the end-of-year first-place World Path Majors €12,000 prize. Yukari Seimiya (Japan) was second in 23:36 and Chi-Yee Yan (China) was third in 26:15.

Males’s winner Guo-Min Deng (China) shook free from Gui-Du Qin (China) late for a 10-minute win. Deng completed in 19:10 and Qin was second in 19:20. Ryo Murata (Japan) was third man in 20:27.

Madeira Island Extremely-Path – Madeira, Portugal

The race’s fifteenth 12 months introduced some 3,500 runners from 58 totally different international locations to the volcanic island.

115k

As with the same-weekend Mt. Fuji 100 Mile, the Madeira Island Extremely-Path 115k was a part of the World Path Majors too. The race went for 71 miles and with 7,200 meters (23,600 ft) of elevation achieve throughout the backbone of the island. iRunFar earlier reported on the race in better depth.

Martina Valmassoi (Italy) and Anne-Lise Rousset Séguret (France) dueled on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Valmassoi would win in 16:14 and Rousset Séguret was second in 16:28. Maite Maiora (Spain) rounded out the rostrum with a third-place 17:12 end.

Males’s winner Ben Dhiman (U.S., lives in France) outran the sphere towards a 13:52 end. Martin Kern and Anthony Costa, each of France, have been second and third in 14:15, with Kern ending simply 17 seconds forward of his countryman. Sebastian Krogvig (Norway) was initially reported to have completed second, but it surely seems he acquired an hour time penalty and, now, sits because the seventh finisher in 15:12.

85k

The 85k distance converts to nearly 53 miles, and Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) was victorious within the ladies’s race in 10:35. Sílvia Puigarnau (Spain) and Marie-Luise Muhlhuber (Germany) have been up subsequent in 11:00 and 11:06.

A high three of Ramon Manetsch (Switzerland), Caleb Olson (U.S.), and Jordi Gamito (Spain) completed in 8:44, 9:02, and 9:35, respectively.

Full outcomes.

Further Races and Runs

Highland Fling 53-Mile Ultramarathon – Trossachs Nationwide Park, U.Okay.

The race runs by means of Loch Lomond and Trossachs Nationwide Parks in Scotland. Elsey Davis (U.Okay.) ran 7:37 to set a brand new course document, bettering Beth Pascall’s 2016 mark by quarter-hour. Rowan Boswood (U.Okay.) received the lads’s race in 6:50. Full outcomes.

Extremely-Path Drakensberg – Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa 

The occasion took on a brand new course for this 12 months’s races. The longer races took within the Large’s Cup Path on the southern part of the Maloti-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Website.

Nicolette Griffioen (South Africa) and Admire Muzopambwa (Zimbabwe, lives in South Africa) have been greatest within the 160k race at 25:51 and 21:01. Griffioen was the 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile winner too, however this was Muzopambwa’s debut for the space.

The 100k winners Melissa Laing (South Africa) and Oli Morris (South Africa) completed in 14:18 and 12:08, and Maryke Van Zyl (South Africa) and Mvuyisi Gcogco (South Africa) got here in at 6:48 and 5:59 to guide the 65k. Full outcomes.

Skedaddle Run for Nature – Island Hills Station, New Zealand

Emma Timmis and Scotty Hawker received the marathon distance race in 4:47 and three:47. Full outcomes.

Orcas Island Path Races – Orcas Island, Washington

In its eighth working, the 50-mile occasion noticed new course data in each fields, with Natalie Johnston working 10:06 and Richard Cook dinner clocking 8:31. Full outcomes (when accessible).

Payton Jordan Invitational – Palo Alto, California

Allie Ostrander ran 9:37 within the 3,000-meter steeplechase. She completed in fourth place and earned her means into the U.S. Olympic Trials. Full outcomes.

Oregon State Excessive Efficiency – Corvallis, Oregon

Max King can nonetheless steeple too. He received towards a collegiate area with a 9:02 end time for the three,000-meter steeplechase. Full outcomes.

Zane Gray 50 Mile – Payson, Arizona

Julie Henk received for the ladies in 12:00, and Nick Coury saved his construct in direction of the Western States 100 going with a first-place 8:20. Full outcomes.

Weiser River Path 50k – Boise, Idaho

The purpose-to-point course ran downhill alongside the Weiser River. Jenna Maffey and Mac Moss have been first in 4:05 and three:21. Full outcomes.

Thelma and Louise 50k – Moab, Utah

Jenna McCaffrey received the first-year all ladies’s race in 4:31. Full outcomes.

U.S. Highway Mile Nationwide Championships – Des Moines, Iowa

Path sophomore Anna Gibson was sixth in 4:37. Full outcomes.

Heartland 50k – Cassoday, Kansas

A small area of simply 17 finishers was led by Kristy Clark and Zeke Howey in 5:56 and 4:58. Full outcomes.

Chippewa 50k – New Auburn, Wisconsin

It was Mia Rucoba and Jonathan Neujahr taking house the “w” in 5:34 and 4:38. Full outcomes.

Extremely Race of Champions – Skylark, Virginia

Johanna Stewart and Anthony Williams received the Blue Ridge Mountain 50-mile race in 14:31 and seven:01, and Alida Voet and Scott Shumate have been tops within the 50k in 7:07 and 4:44. Full outcomes.

C&O Canal 100 Mile – Knoxville, Maryland

Race winners Bianca Pourmussa and Adam Lowe got here by means of in 20:19 and 16:11, respectively. Full outcomes.

James Joyce Ramble 10k – Dedham, Massachusetts

The highway race was the USATF Grasp’s 10k championships, and Joseph Grey received in 30:44. Erik Blake, who like Grey is an uphill specialist, was fourth in 32:50. Full outcomes.

Dunes 50k – Hobe Sound, Florida

Talia Zahra and Coree Woltering took house the wins on Florida’s Atlantic Coast in 5:30 and 4:35. Full outcomes.