This week is so enjoyable. There’s extremely aggressive racing ever day within the lead up towards UTMB. On Friday, August 26, the 2022 CCC race took off from Courmayeur, Italy, via Champex-Lac, Switzerland, and to Chamonix, France. The course totaled 6,100 meters (20,000 ft) of elevation achieve throughout 101 kilometers (63 miles), all whereas going the other way from the earlier-in-the-week TDS race.
2022 CCC Males’s Race
The early a part of the race was in heavy rain, however that did nothing to gradual Petter Engdahl (Sweden, lives in Norway). He was at or close to the entrance from the beginning, and stored that successful tempo up the remainder of the best way. It was a dominant win in 9:53, the race’s first sub-10 hour end on this model of the course.
Thibaut Garrivier (France) held the prior course file at 10:23 from 2021. As for race winner Engdahl, this was the 28-year-old’s longest race but, although he was third finally 12 months’s OCC.
2021 OCC winner Jonathan Albon (U.Ok., lives in Norway) was maybe the pre-race favourite, even with the added distance. However as an alternative of chasing down Engdahl, he needed to maintain off third-place Andreas Reiterer (Italy). Albon completed second in 10:16 and bowed to the race winner on the end, and Reiterer was third in 10:23. Reiterer was fourth right here a 12 months in the past in a slower race.
The 2022 CCC males’s champion, Petter Engdahl. Photograph: UTMB/Michael Cottin
The remainder of the highest 10 included:
4 – Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – 10:29
5 – Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) – 10:35
6 – Andreu Simon (Spain) – 10:40
7 – Jean-Philippe Tschumi (Switzerland) – 10:46
8 – Raul Butaci (Romania) – 10:47
9 – Aritz Egea (Spain) – 10:56
10 – Baptiste Chassagne (France) – 10:59
How a lot sooner was this 12 months’s race? Final 12 months’s Tenth placer completed in 11:30.
As with TDS and OCC, no American artificial the boys’s prime 10, and that’s definitely a disappointing collective consequence for the group. The highest 5 American males had been:
13 – Caleb Olson – 11:13
16 – Stephen Kersh – 11:15
39 – Grant Barnette – 12:07
58 – Ben Robinson – 12:56
119 – Ryan Wattles – 14:05
Mario Mendoza was one hundred and thirty fifth in 14:24, however fellow American runners Matt Daniels and Hayden Hawks didn’t end.
The 2022 CCC males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Jonathan Albon, 1. Petter Engdahl, and three. Andreas Reiterer. Photograph: UTMB
2022 CCC Girls’s Race
Like males’s winner Engdahl, Blandine L’hirondel (France) was out entrance for everything of the race too. Final 12 months’s OCC winner and course file holder, L’hirondel slayed this one in 11:40, and that too was a brand new course file. At 31 years outdated, L’hirondel was lately fourth on the Golden Path World Collection race in Norway. Miao Yao (China) ran 11:57 in 2018 to set the earlier course file.
This one was actually shut. Sunmaya Budha (Nepal) made up time on L’hirondel via the second half of the race and completed an oh-so shut second place in 11:45. It was a little bit of a breakthrough for Budha. Final outing on an enormous European stage she was thirty second on the 2019 Marathon du Mont Blanc.
2021 CCC runner-up Abby Corridor (USA) was third in 12:12, once more proving masterful at this large mountain course.
The 2022 CCC girls’s champion, Blandine L’hirondel. Photograph: UTMB
The remainder of the highest 10 included:
4 – Jazmine Lowther (Canada) – 12:19
5 – Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) – 12:24
6 – Henriette Albon (Norway) – 12:35
7 – Erin Clark (USA) – 12:40
8 – Meg Mackenzie (South Africa) – 12:40
9 – Taylor Nowlin (USA) – 12:53
10 – Johanna Antila (Finland) – 13:00
Like the boys’s race, this one too ran a lot sooner than in 2021. Final 12 months’s Tenth-place finisher ran 14:37.
The USA positioned three girls inside the highest 10, proven above, and a number of other extra simply exterior the highest 10.
11 – Tara Fraga – 13:01
13 – Helen Mino Faukner – 13:08
14 – Hannah Allgood – 13:24
19 – Emily Schmitz (USA, lives in Colombia) – 14:02
25 – Corinne Shalvoy – 14:28
Cat Bradley and Kelly Wolf had been among the many drops.
The 2022 CCC girls’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Sunmaya Budha, 1. Blandine L’hirondel, and three. Abby Corridor. Photograph: UTMB
