The Leadville 100 Mile and the Matterhorn Ultraks races had been prime attracts, but it surely was maybe a little bit of a quieter weekend. Subsequent weekend might be larger, although! We now have all of the motion from the UTMB Mont-Blanc pageant, Comrades Marathon, and the 100k World Championships to sit up for, so watch this house.
Leadville 100 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Not that way back, the Leadville 100 Mile was thought to be an organization race, and that was a nasty factor. Now, it’s celebrated as one thing of a hometown choice to even bigger teams. Nicknamed the “Race Throughout the Sky,” the out-and-back run topped out on 12,508-foot Hope Cross close to midway. You possibly can learn our 2022 Leadville 100 Mile outcomes article as effectively.
Ladies
Addie Bracy and Clare Gallagher had been backwards and forwards by means of the early checkpoints. Bracy arrived on the prime of Hope Cross the primary time in 7:41, and Gallagher was three minutes again. On the 50-mile turnaround, Bracy was minutes higher. Issues modified rapidly on the return and Bracy was gone from the race at mile 62. Gallagher pushed to the win in 19:37, the race’s fifth-best end ever. Gallagher earlier received the race in 2016 in 19:00.
Alisyn Hummelberg and Lindsey Herman had been second and third in 21:59 and 22:50.
Clare Gallagher breaking the tape on the 2022 Leadville 100 Mile. Picture: Life Time
Males
Defending champ Adrian Macdonald was in stealth mode early on, no less than per the web monitoring. His chip wasn’t working and so lastly 5 hours into the race Macdonald appeared on-line, and in entrance. Macdonald hit the midway level in 7:40, 9 minutes higher than his tempo from a 12 months in the past. Tyler Andrews, fifteenth in 2021, was shut behind in 7:55, and JP Giblin arrived third in 8:09. Giblin was forty fourth right here as a 21-year-old method again in 2015.
It wasn’t even shut on the end although. Macdonald arrived again in Leadville in 16:05, over two hours higher than the subsequent closest man. Macdonald’s end time was 9 minutes higher final 12 months and is the race’s third-fastest ever. He trails solely Matt Carpenter and Rob Krar on the report books.
JP Giblin completed second in 18:07, and Ryan Kaiser was third in 18:21. Tyler Andrews was fourth in 18:40.
After being away from ultras for a decade, 2008 and 2010 winner Duncan Callahan was sixteenth in 20:54.
Ian Sharman, winner of the race in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017, dropped early and 2021 runner-up Matt Flaherty dropped at practically midway.
Adrian Macdonald takes the win on the 2022 Leadville 100. Picture: Life Time
Matterhorn Ultraks – Zermatt, Switzerland
Poor climate impacted Friday’s Excessive race, chopping the standard 25-kilometer race to 21k. The alternate course nonetheless gained a wholesome 2,250 meters (7,400 ft) of elevation. It was the race’s tenth 12 months, and it was the tenth race of this 12 months’s Skyrunner World Collection too.
Excessive
The ladies sprinted it out to the end. Naira Irigoyen (Spain) went 5 seconds sooner than Iris Pessey (France), each closing in 3:08. Pessey had led the race till the final downhill, after which the 2 had been collectively till the ultimate meters. Martina Cumerlato (Italy) was third in 3:12 because of her personal downhill surge that vaulted her from sixth to 3rd.
Later outcomes included Matie Maiora (Spain) and Rea Kolbl (USA) in sixth and eighth, respectively.
Naiara Irigoyen, on her strategy to profitable the 2022 Ultraks Excessive. Picture: David Carlier
Finlay Wild (U.Okay.) took the boys’s crown in 2:34, simply over a minute higher than second-place Ruy Ueda (Japan). Wild gained the final word separation on the ultimate downhill. Nico Molina (Spain) was third in 2:37.
The 2022 Ultraks Excessive males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Ruy Ueda, 1. Finlay Wild, and three. Nico Molina. Picture: Sho Fujimaki
Sky
Saturday’s Sky race went 49k and with 3,600 meters (11,800 ft) of acquire. Laurence Yerly (Switzerland), Oana Mihalcea (Romania), and Stephanie Manivoz (France) took the ladies’s podium in 6:20, 6:36, and 6:52. Males’s leaders Alex Nichols (USA), Joel Dumas (Switzerland), and Cody Lind (USA) completed in 5:18, 5:38, and 5:40, respectively.
Mountain
Mélanie Pirinoli (Switzerland) and Stephen Wenk (Switzerland) received the 32k run in 3:47 and a couple of:41.
Extra Races and Runs
Problem Du Montcalm – Auzat, France
Núria Picas (Spain) and Marc Perez (Spain) received the marathon distance race in 5:20 and 4:40, respectively. Full outcomes.
Squamish 50 Mile – Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
Priscilla Forgie and John Dean received Saturday’s 50-mile race in 8:44 and eight:18, and Jenny Quilty and Nick Elson triumphed in Sunday’s 50k in 5:44 and 4:48. All these champs hail from Canada. Full outcomes.
Submit Canyon 50k – Hood River, Oregon
Marianne Falk and Eric Yan led in 4:26 and 4:15. Full outcomes.
Bulldog 50k – Calabasas, California
Courtney Barnes and Chris Myers received in 4:20 and three:30, and Myers’s end marked a brand new course report. Full outcomes.
Kodiak Extremely 100 Mile – Large Bear Lake, California
Andi Ramer and Tony Torres championed the 100-mile run in 31:04 and 20:20. Full outcomes.
Cirque Collection – Alta, Utah
Collection common Janelle Lincks took the ladies’s crown in 1:06.35 on the 7.1-mile course. Sam Hendry, per week after he raced Sierre-Zinal, was prime man in 56:15. Full outcomes.
Habanero Hundred Mile – Cat Spring, Texas
Amanda Eaton and Artwork Hurtado received the Path Racing Over Texas race in 23:43 and 18:57. Full outcomes.
Amanda Eaton, the 2022 Habanero Hundred Mile girls’s champion. Picture: Path Racing Over Texas
Twisted Department 100k – Naples, New York
Amelia Kaufman and Justin Scheid had been out entrance in 13:19 and 10:36. Full outcomes.
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