Thailand may not be a path operating hotspot, however the World Mountain and Path Operating Championships in southeast Asia placed on a present. Scattered different races occurred throughout the U.S. too. The UTMB World Collection continued, with Kullamannen by UTMB going down in Båstad, Sweden.
World Mountain and Path Operating Championships – Chiang Mai, Thailand
iRunFar was on website and offered in-depth protection of the first-ever mixed World Mountain and Path Operating Championships, a group of 4 races throughout totally different distances and disciplines. Deeper outcomes are individually accessible for the World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill, Path World Championships 40k, Path World Championships 80k, and World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down races.
World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill
Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) has been wonderful this 12 months. He dominated the World Mountain Operating Affiliation World Cup, and was unbeatable right here on an uphill 8.5-kilometer course that gained simply over 1,000 meters. Kipngeno completed in 46:51, and that was 93 seconds higher than second-place and countryman Philemon Kiriago. Third-place Alejandro Garcia (Spain) completed in 49:03.
Patrick Kipngeno, 2022 World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill Champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Engaged on quick restoration from the Golden Path World Collection Finals in Portugal, Allie McLaughlin (USA) saved Andrea Mayr (Austria) away from what would have been a seventh world crown. McLaughlin summited in 55:15, and Mayr was second in 55:41. Maude Mathys (Switzerland) was third in 56:00.
Allie McLaughlin, 2022 World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill Champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
[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.]
Italy was the first-place males’s crew, and the USA gained girls’s crew gold.
Path World Championships 40k
Racing simply lower than a full marathon however on a course with 2,425 meters (8,000 toes) of elevation achieve, Stian Angermund (Norway) gained in 3:08. Francesco Puppi (Italy) and Jon Albon (U.Okay.) chased to particular person silver and bronze in 3:11 and three:13, respectively. Italy was the first-place males’s crew.
Stian Angermund operating to victory within the 2022 Path World Championships 40k. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Veteran skyrunner Denisa Dragomir (Romania) held off a pair of rising stars for the ladies’s win. Dragomir completed in 3:49. Twenty-three-year-old Barbora Macurová (Czech Republic) and 20-year-old Emilia Brangefält (Sweden) had been instantly behind in 3:51 and three:54. Spain gained the ladies’s crew competitors.
Denisa Dragomir, 2022 Path World Championships 40k Champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Path World Championships 80k
Adam Peterman (USA) continues to be undefeated at ultramarathon races. Wow, he gained this one — on a course with 4,807 meters (15,771 toes) of elevation achieve in 7:15. With an earlier-in-th-year course document on the Canyons by UTMB 100k and a win on the Western States 100, I feel that’s obtained to be sufficient for Peterman to win the upcoming annual “UltraRunning” journal (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr award.
Nicolas Martin (France) and Andreas Reiterer (Italy) had been second and third, and the U.S. positioned its high three inside the general high 14 to win crew gold.
Adam Peterman hoists the American flag and turns into the 2022 Path World Championships 80k Champion. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
This 12 months’s CCC winner Blandine L’Hirondel (France) took over late and gained the ladies’s crown for the second time in 8:22. She earlier gained the 2019 Path World Championships over 44k. Ida Nilsson (Sweden) was second in 8:34 and Gemma Arenas (Spain) ran 8:46 for third.
The following two French runners had been joint sixth, assuring crew gold.
Staff France celebrates successful girls’s crew gold, with the first-place end of Blandine L’Hirondel and the tie for sixth place between Marion Delespierre and Audrey Tanguy. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down
Uganda dominated, taking 4 of the highest 5 males’s finishes and the highest two girls’s finishes. Samuel Kibet and Timothy Toroitich had been first and third in 40:02 and 40:26, and Uphill race winner Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) was second in between in 40:12.
Staff Uganda’s three scoring members, who all helped win males’s crew gold within the 2022 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race (l-to-r): Leonard Chemonges, Samuel Kibet, and Timothy Toroitich. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
On the ladies’s aspect it was Rebecca Cheptegei (Uganda) and Anna Chelangat Chemengich (Uganda) up entrance in 46:25 and 46:52, and Uphill race winner Allie McLaughlin (USA) doubled again for third in 48:31.
Rebecca Cheptegei, 2022 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down Champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Kullamannen by UTMB – Båstad, Sweden
Typical of European races there have been many distances, however the 100-mile race was on characteristic and the one one with a geographically numerous area. The coastal course included 5 climbs, however totaled simply 2,150 meters (7,050 toes) of elevation achieve.
Males
Alexandre Boucheix (France) completed in a speedy 15:14, successful by virtually a full half-hour. Guillaume Deneffe (Belgium) was second in 15:43 and Magnus Rabe (Sweden) ran 16:13 for third.
Adam Kimble was fifth in 17:33 as the highest American finisher.
Girls
Solely 11 minutes separated the entrance two girls, however Claire Bannwarth (France) obtained away from Johanna Bygdell (Sweden) for the win. The pair completed in 18:21 and 18:33, respectively. Therese Dahl Årvik (Norway) was third in 19:14.
After Bannwarth, the sphere was virtually fully Scandinavian.
Further Races and Outcomes
Wallace Falls Path Run 50k – Gold Bar, Washington
The race occurred in a state park of the identical identify and Ryan Wareham and Brook Martin gained the fifth-year race in 5:43 and 6:18. Full outcomes.
Ryan Wareham, the 2022 Wallace Falls 50k winner. Picture: Brian Nelson
Brook Martin, the 2022 Wallace Falls 50k winner. Picture: Brian Nelson
Silver Falls 50k – Silverton, Oregon
Ryan Constitution and Abigail Hotaling gained the race inside Silver Falls State Park in 4:29 and 4:59. Full outcomes.
Lithia Loop Path Marathon – Ashland, Oregon
David Laney ran 2:48 and is believed to have gained the lads’s race. It was not but clear who led the ladies. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Rio Del Lago 100 Mile – Granite Bay, California
It was the race’s twenty first 12 months. Solely males’s winner Eric Miya was in entrance of ladies’s winner Lindsey Dwyer with 16:30 and 16:51 finishes, respectively. Miya gained the close by Cool Moon 100 Mile earlier this 12 months too, and Dwyer was second on the Umstead 100 Mile in April 2022. Full outcomes.
Antelope Island 50k – Syracuse, Utah
Justin Grunewald noticed some buffalo and gained the race in 3:26. It was a brand new course document. Jessi Morton-Langehaug championed the ladies’s race in 4:38. Full outcomes.
Moab Path Marathon – Moab, Utah
It was once more the USATF Path Marathon Championships, however defending champs Adam Peterman and Allie McLaughlin had been after all racing elsewhere, and so had been many others. 2021 fourth-placer Brian Whitfield gained the lads’s race in 3:04, and Klaire Rhodes gained the ladies’s in 3:52. Full outcomes.
Austin Rattler Run 50k – Smithville, Texas
Travis Lavin and Ryan Montgomery dueled on the entrance of the race, ending in 3:26 and three:27. Lavin was 51 seconds in entrance, and Montgomery completed as the primary non binary runner. Michele Perez-Lopez was the ladies’s winner in 4:24. Full outcomes.
Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon – Indianapolis, Indiana
Snakes on a airplane, ultrarunners in a half marathon. Zack Beavin and Adrian MacDonald stepped down in distance and ran 1:09.35 and 1:11.31, respectively. Taggart Van Etten raced the marathon and went by means of half in 1:09, however stepped off the fuel on a poor climate day and completed in 2:41. Full outcomes.
New York Metropolis Marathon – New York, New York
Former Comrades Marathon winner Gerda Steyn (South Africa) ran 2:30 for twelfth, and 50k world document holder Des Linden was seventh American in 2:32. Absolutely another path and ultrarunners raced too? Depart a remark to share these outcomes. Monitoring.
Stone Cat 50k – Ipswich, Massachusetts
Victors Nicholas Lemon and Lila Gaudrault clocked 3:51 and 4:13 successful occasions. Full outcomes.
Pinhoti 100 Mile – Sylacauga, Alabama
It was the twelfth Pinhoti 100 Mile, a point-to-point run on a path of the identical identify by means of the Talladega Nationwide Forest. Brandon Slowoski didn’t match his 2021 end time, he was simply over an hour slower really, however repeated as males’s winner in 19:42. Johanna Ylanen topped the ladies’s area in 22:49. Full outcomes.
Georgia Sky to Summit – Dillard, Georgia
It was 12 months 10, and Rum Bum Excursions added a 100k race to its typical 50k. The 100k ran level to level towards a end on the Sky Valley Resort, totaling 15,000 toes of elevation achieve, and the 50k collected 7,500 toes of achieve. Official outcomes aren’t but accessible, however social media factors to Will Connell because the 100k males’s winner, and Nathaniel Helfferich and Chantel Wright in entrance of the 50k. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Rim to River 100 Mile – New River Gorge, West Virginia
The third-year race offered out. Dan Inexperienced and Sarah Wallace got here by means of the autumn colours in 15:35 and 21:07. Wallace has taken half within the race yearly. Full outcomes.
Name for Feedback
- Did I name it proper? Ought to Adam Peterman be this 12 months’s “UltraRunning” journal (North American) Ultrarunner of the Yr?
- Had been the World Mountain and Path Operating Championships enjoyable to observe, or did the far-off time zone not work for a lot of of you to remain present? And will Uganda and Kenya have raced the longer programs too?
- What different outcomes are you able to share from the week in racing?
