Canada’s Mathieu Blanchard takes second at Hardrock 100

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, effectively beneath the 24-hour mark (23:44:23). Blanchard completed an hour and 20 minutes behind France’s Ludovic Pommeretwho, at age 49, scored his second consecutive Hardrock victory, in 22:21:53. Germain Grangieradditionally of France, completed just some 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 report.

Blanchard completed second to Kilian Jornetwho not too long ago 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 acquire and loss, alternates instructions annually, and this was a counterclockwise 12 months; 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

1. 1. Ludovic Pommer (from) 22:21:53
   2. Mathieu Blanchard (from/Can) 23:44:23
   3. Germain Grangier (Fra) 24:04:10
   4. David Ayala (USA) 24:22:24
   5. Zach Miller (USA) 25:49:22
   6. Brian Culmo (USA) 26:18:52
   7. Jeff Rome (USA) 26:22:38
   8. Kyle Curtin (USA) 26:52:19
   9. 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 report, set in 2023. On the time of publication, Schide and Manon Bohard of France had 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 Casewho completed second in 2022 and who received the Extremely-trail Snowdonia 100K in Wales in Might, simply six months after having her first youngster, was in fifth.

Becky Bates of Kimberley, B.C., who’s 63, was in eighth place; Bates, who took up operating in her 50s, has a number of Hardrock finishes to her title, and has by no means scored decrease than seventh.

Michigan ultrarunner discovered useless at Hardrock 100

Sadly, this 12 months’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 Large Basin. In keeping 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.