As daybreak broke over Silverton, Colo., on Saturday, Canadian/French citizen Mathieu Blanchard bumped into city and kissed the well-known rock to mark his end on the Hardrock 100, properly below the 24-hour mark (23:44:23). Blanchard completed an hour and 20 minutes behind France’s Ludovic Pommeret, who, at age 49, scored his second consecutive Hardrock victory, in 22:21:53. Germain Grangier, additionally of France, completed only a few minutes behind Blanchard, in 24:04:10, whereas 2024 Western States 100 and UTMB champion Katie Schide of the U.S. scored a dominant victory within the girls’s race in 25:50:23, in sixth place general–a brand new girls’s counterclockwise course document.
Blanchard completed second to Kilian Jornet, who just lately completed third at Western States 100, at UTMB (Extremely-Path du Mont-Blanc) in 2022 and returned to complete fourth in 2023.
The looped course, which options greater than 10,000 metres of elevation achieve and loss, alternates instructions every year, and this was a counterclockwise yr; Pommeret and Blanchard are two of solely six or seven runners with sub-24 finishes on the counterclockwise course within the San Juan mountains.
Males’s prime 9
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- Ludovic Pommeret (FRA) 22:21:53
- Mathieu Blanchard (FRA/CAN) 23:44:23
- Germain Grangier (FRA) 24:04:10
- David Ayala (USA) 24:22:24
- Zach Miller (USA) 25:49:22
- Brian Culmo (USA) 26:18:52
- Jeff Rome (USA) 26:22:38
- Kyle Curtin (USA) 26:52:19
- Gabe Joyes (USA) 28:26:09
Schide dominates girls’s race
Schide’s time was greater than 20 minutes forward of Courtney Dauwalter’s course document, set in 2023. On the time of publication, Schide and Manon Bohard of France have been the one two feminine finishers, Bohard in 28:36:16, simply 10 minutes outdoors the highest 10 general and three hours behind Schide. Swiss runner Katharina Hartmuth was in third place, and Canada’s Stephanie Case, who completed second in 2022 and who gained the Extremely-trail Snowdonia 100K in Wales in Could, simply six months after having her first baby, was in fifth.
Becky Bates of Kimberley, B.C., who’s 63, was in eighth place; Bates, who took up working in her 50s, has a number of Hardrock finishes to her title, and has by no means scored decrease than seventh.
Sadly, this yr’s race was marred by tragedy: 60-year-old Elaine Stypula of Detroit handed away Friday morning after collapsing on the course, simply 10 km into the race, close to Little Big Basin. In line with media reviews, Stypula was an skilled ultrarunner who had competed within the race in 2018. Her Ultrasignup.com exhibits scores of ultra-trail outcomes, together with finishes at UTMB and Western States 100.
