American ultrarunner Katie Schide could have stolen the present together with her sturdy efficiency on the Canyons 100K on Saturday, however Canada’s Jade Belzberg and Arden Younger additionally had standout races, each cracking the highest 10 in an intense elite discipline. Belzburg, who grew up in Canada however now lives within the U.S., ran to ninth place in 11:00:02, and Canmore, Alta.’s Younger adopted her for tenth in 11:08:04.
Canyons 100K is the ultimate Golden Ticket race earlier than the 2024 version of Western States 100 (WSER), that means the highest two finishers within the males’s and girls’s classes earned computerized entry into the race, to be held on June 29. Whereas Schide had already earned her spot at this 12 months’s WSER by ending prime 10 in 2023, she was nonetheless the favorite within the construct to Canyons 100, and her efficiency didn’t go away followers disenchanted.
The 100K 2024 Canyons course was on a brand new route (after heavy snowfall in 2023 and fires in 2022 brought on injury to the earlier course) and runners went within the reverse course (the race alternates instructions yearly, much like Hardrock 100). The course had runners climbing 3,962 metres over the 100K distance, however is a web downhill (much like WSER).
Canyons hosts a 25K, 50K and 100-miler together with the 100K marquee occasion and can be the UTMB World Collection Americas Main. The highest 10 finishers for women and men in all occasions obtain computerized entry into the UTMB World Collection Finals race (100-mile UTMB, 100K CCC, or 50K OCC) in August in Chamonix, France. All race finishers will earn double factors, or “working stones,” heading into the 2025 UTMB lottery, and prime age groupers additionally earn entry.
Girls’s race
Schide took on Canyons 100 as a transparent preparatory race for this 12 months’s WSER, after ending second in 2023. She went out arduous from the beginning and had a two-minute lead by the primary assist station. Schide steadily constructed on her lead, and as she neared the top of the race she started to move the highest 10 males as effectively, ending in sixth place general in 9:10: 10. “Felt good to get uncomfortable and hold chasing till the very finish,” Schide wrote on Instagram. Behind her EmKay Sullivan slid into second on the 20K mark and held sturdy from there, crossing the road in 10:01:26. Anna Kacius, who was third at Black Canyon 100K in February, took third right here as effectively in 10:24:37.
High 10 girls
- Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) 9:10:10
- EmKay Sullivan (U.S.) 10:01:26
- Anna Kacius (U.S.) 10:24:37
- Careth Arnold (U.S.) 10:38:42
- Anna McKenna (Australia) 10:43:31
- Laura Hansen (U.S.) 10:45:32
- Erin Clark (U.S.) 10:52:16
- Marta Wenta (Poland) 10:53:14
- Jade Belzberg (Canada, lives within the U.S.) 11:00:02
- Arden Younger (Canada) 11:08:04
Males’s race
An in depth group of runners with a number of potential champions caught collectively through the early phases of the race, with favourites Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway), American Rod Farvard, and Adam Peterman, winner of the 2022 version of WSER, all within the combine. Farvard was within the lead by the 60K mark, and held onto it for the remainder of the race, crossing the road in 8:44:30. He was adopted in by U.S. runner Drew Holmen in 8:51:09, with Engdahl not far behind, ending in 8:55:31.
Holmen declined his Golden Ticket, which suggests it rolls all the way down to the third-place finisher, Engdahl, who gladly accepted. Matt Seidel, who just lately earned the title of quickest marathon by a fruit on the Boston Marathon, completed eighth in 9:42:08.
High 10 males
- Rod Farvard (U.S.) 8:44:30
- Drew Holmen (U.S.) 8:51:09
- Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway) 8:55:31
- Makai Clemons (U.S.) 8:57:38
- Stephen Kersh (U.S.) 9:05:56
- Tim Tollefson (U.S.) 9:19:09
- Kevin Vermeulen (Switzerland) 9:35:21
- Matt Seidel (U.S.) 9:42:04
- Ryan Raff (U.S.) 9:42:05
- Brandon Gardiner (U.S.) 9:46:49
For full outcomes of all of the occasions on the Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB, click on right here.
