2024 UTMB Events Women’s Top Runners

Race season is upon us, and as with each spring, all eyes gravitate to Chamonix, France, to see who has made it into the assorted occasions of the 2024 UTMB Mont-Blanc pageant race week.

For a number of years, this week has been thought-about probably the most aggressive week of ultramarathon racing of the yr, and 2024 appears to observe swimsuit.

On this article, we check out the highest ladies within the 170-kilometer UTMB, the 145k TDS, and the 55k OCC as of proper now.

We nonetheless don’t have data on the highest runners for the 2024 CCC, however we are going to add them to this text as quickly as that data turns into out there.

As with all race begin checklist, there can be drops and additions of elites, and we’ll maintain the checklist up to date as issues change.

You can too discover the “favorites” in line with the race administration right here.

We’ve compiled a giant checklist of the ladies who look to be aggressive in every of those races and listed them in alphabetical order together with a couple of of their outcomes lately.

You can too try the opposite half of the race at our 2024 UTMB Occasions males’s prime runners article.

2024 UTMB High Girls

We’ve divided this extremely deep checklist of expertise into three predominant classes, ladies who’ve received a top-five UTMB end underneath their belt lately, those that have made a reputation for themselves in UTMB-style races, and those that have a powerful likelihood of ending close to the highest of the sector.

Current UTMB High-5 Finishers

Eszter Csillag (Hungary, lives in Hong Kong) – fifth 2022 UTMB; third 2023 Western States 100; 4th 2021 CCC
Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – 2nd 2023 UTMB; 2nd 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path; 1st 2023 Eiger Extremely-Path
Marianne Hogan (Canada) – 2nd 2022 UTMB; third 2022 Western States 100; 2nd 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k
Blandine L’Hirondel (France) – third 2023 UTMB; 1st 2022 CCC; 1st 2021 OCC
Maite Maiora (Spain) – fifth 2023 UTMB; 4th Istria 2023 110k; 4th 2023 Transgrancanaria Marathon
Katie Schide (U.S., lives in France) – 1st 2022 UTMB; 1st 2023 Diagonale des Fous; 2nd 2023 OCC; 2nd 2023 Western States 100
Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) – 4th 2023 & seventh 2022 UTMB; fifth 2023 Tarawera 100k

Headliner Girls

Hillary Allen (U.S.) – 14th 2022 UTMB; 2nd 2019 TDS; 1st 2019 Lavaredo Extremely Path 50k
Claire Bannwarth (France) – sixteenth 2023 & twenty first 2022 UTMB; fifth 2023 Hardrock 100; third 2023 Extremely-Path Snowdonia 100 Mile
Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – tenth 2023 UTMB; 1st 2023 Tarawera 100 Mile; fifteenth 2019 Western States 100
Manon Bohard Cailler (France) – third 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path; 1st 2021 TDS; 2nd Madeira Island Extremely-Path (MIUT)
Ruth Croft (New Zealand) – 1st 2024 Tarawera 100k; 1st 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k; 1st 2022 & 2nd 2021 Western States 100; 1st 2019 & 1st 2018 OCC
Ragna Debats (The Netherlands, lives in Spain) – 1st 2022 Transgrancanaria; third 2021 Western States 100; 1st 2019 CCC
Abby Corridor (U.S.) – 2023 sixth MIUT; third 2022 & 2nd 2021 CCC
Emily Hawgood (South Africa) – sixth 2022 UTMB; 2nd 2023 CCC; fifth 2023 & fifth 2022 Western States 100
Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) – seventh 2023 CCC; eighth 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path
Helen Mino Faukner (U.S.) – third 2023 & thirteenth 2022 CCC; 1st 2023 Speedgoat 50k
Ekaterina Mityaeva (Russia) – 4th 2019 UTMB; 4th 2021 TDS; third 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100k; 4th 2023 Mont-Blanc 90k
Marta Molist (Spain) – 1st 2021 CCC; 1st 2022 Swiss Alps 50k; sixth 2021 Transgrancanaria Marathon
Maryline Nakache (France) – sixth 2021 UTMB; 1st 2023 TDS; 2nd 2023 Lavaredo Extremely Path; fifth 2019 CCC
Ida Nilsson (Sweden, lives in Norway) – seventh 2023 Western States 100; 1st 2023 Canyons 100 Mile; 2nd 2022 Path World Championships Lengthy Path; third 2018 CCC
Fiona Porte (France) – 2nd 2023 TDS; 1st 2023 Lavaredo Extremely Path; third 2022 Les Templiers 80k
Anne-Lise Rousset (France) – 2nd 2023 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2022 Diagonale des Fous; 4th 2018 CCC
Aroa Sio (Spain) – eighth 2022 UTMB; third 2023 Canyons 100k; third 2023 Tarawera 100k
Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) – sixth 2023 & 18th 2022 UTMB; fifth 2021 CCC
Sabrina Stanley (U.S.) – ninth 2023 UTMB; 2nd 2023 Extremely-Path Snowdonia 100 Mile; 1st 2021 & 2018 Hardrock 100; 1st 2019 Diagonale des Fous
Claudia Tremps (Spain) – ninth 2021 UTMB; 2nd 2024 Transgrancanaria; 2nd 2022 TDS
Martina Valmassoi (Italy) – 4th 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path; 1st 2023 Transvulcania; 1st 2022 TDS
Leah Yingling (U.S.) – eighth 2023 UTMB; ninth 2023 & sixth 2022 Western States 100

Extra High Girls

Amanda Basham (U.S.) – nineteenth 2023 UTMB; eighth 2023 Tarawera 100k; 2nd 2019 CCC; 4th 2018 Western States 100
Addie Bracy (U.S.) – fifth 2023 Canyons 100k; third 2023 Speedgoat 50k; 1st 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Naomi Model (South Africa) – 2nd 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 100 Mile; fifteenth 2019 UTMB
Alyssa Clark (U.S.) – 1st 2023 Canyons 100 Mile; 1st 2021 Ouray 100 Mile; seventh 2019 Eiger Extremely-Path 101k
Eleanor Davis (U.Okay.) – 2nd 2023 Eiger Extremely-Path 50k; eighth 2022 OCC
Lindsey Dwyer (U.S.) – fifth 2023 Canyons 100 Mile
Esther Fellhofer (Austria) – 1st 2023 Path 100 Andorra 105k; 1st 2022 Eiger Extremely-Path 155 Mile; third 2022 Lavaredo Extremely Path
Nancy Jiang (New Zealand) – 1st 2023 Tarawera 100k; eighth 2019 & fifth 2018 OCC
Fiona Pascall (U.Okay.) – third 2023 Extremely-Path Snowdonia 50k; 1st Arc of Attrition 100k
Emma Stuart (Eire) – third 2024 Transgrancanaria; third 2023 Lavaredo Extremely Path; 1st 2023 Extremely-Path Snowdonia 100 Mile
Yuan-Yuan Wu (China) – third 2024 Anta Hong Kong 100k; third 2023 Doi Inthanon 100 Mile

Eszter Csillag (Hungary) completed fifth at UTMB in 2022. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell

2024 OCC High Girls

We’ve separated the checklist of prime ladies into two classes for the 55k OCC, these with a race-proven resume of inauspicious mountainous races, and people with loads of different robust outcomes who we predict have the potential to combine it up on the prime.

Headliner Girls

Sunmaya Budha (Nepal) – 2nd 2022 CCC; tenth 2022 Path World Championships Lengthy Path
Rachel Drake (U.S.) – sixth 2023 OCC; 1st 2024 Black Canyon 100k; 4th 2023 Kodiak Extremely Marathons 50k
Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 4th 2023 OCC; 1st 2024 Tarawera 50k; 2nd 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 50k
Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) – 1st 2023 CCC; 2nd 2022 Transvulcania; 2nd 2021 MIUT 85k
Oihana Kortazar (Spain) – third 2023 & sixth 2022 Marathon du Mont-Blanc; seventh 2023 Path World Championships Brief Path
Toni McCann (South Africa) – 1st 2023 & fifth 2022 OCC; 1st 2023 Extremely-Path Cape City 50k
Dani Moreno (U.S.) – 1st 2023 Kodiak Extremely Marathons 50k; 1st 2023 Eiger Extremely-Path 35k; third 2022 OCC; third 2022 Marathon du Mont-Blanc
Daniela Oemus (Germany) – fifth 2023 OCC; sixth 2023 Marathon du Mont-Blanc; sixth 2023 Path Working Championships Brief Path; 1st 2023 Zegama Marathon
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 2nd 2023 Pikes Peak Ascent; 2nd 2023 Path World Championships Brief Path; 2nd 2019 Sierre-Zinal
Miao Yao (China) – third 2023 OCC; 1st 2018 CCC; 2nd 2018 Lavaredo Extremely Path

Extra High Girls

Valérie Arsenault (Canada) – third 2023 JFK 50 Mile; 4th 2023 Speedgoat 50k
Kate Avery (U.Okay.) – 2nd 2024 & third 2023 Tarawera 50k; sixth 2022 ETC
Elisa Desco (Italy) – 2022 Giir di Mont; fifth 2021 OCC; seventh 2019 Sierre-Zinal [From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]
Anna-Stiina Erkkilä (Finland) – tenth 2023 OCC; seventeenth 2023 Sierre-Zinal; seventh 2023 Marathon du Mont Blanc
Candice Fertin (France) – seventh 2023 & seventh 2021 OCC; 1st 2022 MCC; ninth 2023 Les Templiers
Julia Font (Spain) – third 2023 ETC; seventh 2022 Transgrancanaria Marathon
Bailey Kowalczyk (U.S.) – 2nd 2023 Kodiak Extremely Marathons 50k; fifth 2022 Sierre-Zinal; third 2021 Damaged Arrow Skyrace 26k
Ikram Rharsalla (Spain) – twelfth 2023 OCC; 1st 2022 ETC, 1st 2022 Transvulcania 45k
Kim Schreiber (Germany) – thirteenth 2023 & eleventh 2022 OCC; 4th 2023 Istria 42k
Louise Serban-Penhoat (France) – eighth 2023 OCC; tenth 2023 Path World Championships Brief Path
EmKay Sullivan (U.S.) – ninth 2023 Path World Championships Brief Path; third 2023 Canyons 50k; ninth 2022 Marathon du Mont-Blanc; 2nd 2021 Damaged Arrow Skyrace 26k
Anna Tarasova (Spain) – 1st 2023 Path 100 Andorra 50k; seventh 2023 Transgrancanaria Marathon

Toni McCann wanting completely shocked to win the 2023 OCC. Picture: UTMB

2024 TDS High Girls

Once more, we’ve cut up this group of prime ladies into two classes, those that have mountain racing resumes that time towards a prime end within the 145k TDS, and some extra who we predict may also run close to the entrance of the sector.

Headliner Girls

Elisabeth Borgersen (Norway) – sixth 2019 & seventh 2018 TDS; twenty second 2023 UTMB; fifth 2022 MIUT; sixth 2019 Mont Blanc 90k
Anna Carlsson (Sweden) – third 2022 Diagonale des Fous; 4th 2019 TDS
Elisabetta Negra (Italy) – third 2023 MIUT 60k; 4th 2019 Tor de Géants
Jocelyne Pauly (France) – 4th 2022 & third 2018 UTMB; third 2023 Eiger Extremely-Path 101k; seventeenth 2023 Path World Championships Lengthy Path
Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) – 1st 2022 Transgrancanaria Superior; seventeenth 2021 Marathon du Mont-Blanc
Wen-Fei Xie (China) – 1st 2023 Swiss Alps 100 Mile, 4th 2023 Doi Inthanon 100 Mile, 1st 2023 Golden 100 Hong Kong 100k

Extra High Girls

Morgane Cretton (France) – eleventh 2021 TDS; 1st 2023 Swiss Alps 50k; sixth 2018 OCC
Marie Dohin (France) – fifth 2021 TDS; 2nd 2023 Endurance Path des Templiers 100k
Ingrid Lid (Norway) – seventh 2023 TDS

Anna Carlsson racing in Val d’Aran. Picture courtesy of Anna Carlsson.

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Blandine L’Hirondel ending third at UTMB in 2023. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks