The Bear 100 Mile, the Berlin Marathon, and the Birkie Path Run Competition are all right here.
So too are races from Athens, Greece, to Zeanuri, Spain.
Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace – Zeanuri, Spain
The Skyrunner World Sequence comes at you quick, this was the 12 months’s fifteenth world sequence race. A discipline of 600 runners from 30 nations challenged the muddy 32-kilometer course and its 2,400 meters of climbing in Gorbeia Nationwide Park.
Júlia Font (Spain) overtook longtime chief Daniela Oemus (Germany) within the last kilometer. The pair have been solely seven seconds aside with Font in entrance and a 3:45 end time for every. Onditz Iturbe (Spain) was third in 3:49.
Júlia Font, the 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Males’s winner Luca Del Pero (Italy) was simply over a minute quicker than Manuel Merillas (Spain) at 3:00 and three:01, respectively. Lorenzo Rota (Italy) took the ultimate podium spot in 3:03.
Full outcomes (when accessible).
Luca Del Pero, the 2024 Gorbeia Suzien Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Spartathlon – Athens, Greece
Broadly considered one of many world’s premier highway ultramarathons, the historic run went 153 miles from Athens to Sparta. This 12 months was the race’s forty second version and there have been 400 runners from 55 totally different nations.
Noora Honkala (Finland) received the ladies’s race in 24:25. She was second a 12 months in the past in 23:23. Honkala now has the second- and fourth-fastest instances within the race’s historical past. Carmen Maria Perez (Spain) was second in 25:34 and Line Caliskaner (Norway) was third in 26:24. Defending champion and course file holder Camille Herron (U.S.) didn’t end.
It was 4 in a row within the males’s race. Fotis Zisimopoulos (Greece) received for the fourth 12 months in a row and was over three hours higher than everybody else. Zisimopoulos ran 20:18. He missed his personal course file, however that’s the race’s second-fastest run ever. Fernando Martínez Román (Uruguay), final 12 months’s third placer, was second in 23:38 and Robin Florian (France) was third in 23:51.
Full outcomes.
The Bear 100 Mile – Logan, Utah
The purpose-to-point course climbed 22,816 toes from northern Utah to southern Idaho.
Careth Arnold received the ladies’s race in 20:25, which surpassed Kaytlyn Gerbin’s 2018 course file of 20:45:48. Arnold completed third general too. Kathryn Graham and Rebekah Rose have been second and third in 23:14 and 24:20.
Careth Arnold after profitable the 2024 Bear 100 Mile in a brand new course file. Photograph: Bethany Draper
Simply three weeks in the past Jose Cruz was second on the Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile. He doubled again and received right here in 19:55. Cruz completed simply forward of second-place Henry Harris and his 20:18 run. Third-place Kris Brown reached the Bear Lake end line in 21:26.
Full outcomes.
Jose Cruz, the 2024 Bear 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Bethany Draper
Extra Races and Runs
Berlin Marathon – Berlin, Germany
Checking in on path runners and ultrarunners, third on the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race, Filimon Abraham (Germany) ripped by way of midway in 1:02:24 and completed in 2:08:52. That positioned him twenty sixth general. Full outcomes.
Dick Collins Firetrails 50 Mile and Golden Hills Marathon – Castro Valley, California
Amanda O’Brien and James Scanlan received the longtime 50 miler in 8:32 and seven:34, and Amanda Younger and Tommy Evans led the marathon in 5:39 and three:54. Full outcomes.
Flagstaff Sky Peaks – Flagstaff, Arizona
First within the 50-mile race and its traverse of the San Francisco Peaks have been Claire Rogan and Joseph Lewis in 9:48 and eight:58. The 50k winners Erin Moyer and Eric Smart completed in 5:10 and 6:01, with Moyer the race’s general winner. Full outcomes.
Mt. Taylor 50k – Grants, New Mexico
Johanna Hamblett and Joshua Reddish championed the race in 5:40 and 5:04, respectively. Full outcomes.
Bear Chase – Lakewood, Colorado
Susan Hahn was first girl within the 50 miler at Bear Creek Lake State Park in 8:49, and males’s winner Kosuke Amano completed in 7:57. Dayna McLaughlin and Brian Runyon have been quickest within the 50k in 4:53 and 4:09. Full outcomes.
Crested Butte Extremely – Crested Butte, Colorado
Each Emily Demarco and Brian Martin scored a brand new course file on the 50-mile race. The 2 winners clocked 9:53 and eight:28. Within the 55k, it was Caitlin Standifer and Robbie Mason on prime in 5:11 and 5:05. Full outcomes.
West Line Winder 50k – Buena Vista, Colorado
Simply 53 seconds separated ladies’s first and second. Whitney Barrett beat Natalie Kalin to the road in 4:51. Kalin was second in 4:52, and third-place Blake Wageman completed underneath 5 hours too in 4:59. Barrett received final 12 months’s race as properly. The boys’s race was practically as shut. Justin Grunewald put two minutes on 2022 winner Ryan Smith within the last 5 miles to win in 3:54. Smith’s 3:56 was two minutes higher than he ran in 2022, and Paul Terranova was third in 4:18. Full outcomes.
Sawatch Ascent 50k – Nathrop, Colorado
The Sunday race was a part of a possible doubleheader with the very close by West Line Winder 50k on Saturday. The ladies’s podium ran with Lindsay Anderson, Ash Warner, and Brianne Steed knocking out the course’s 7,000 toes of acquire in 6:07, 6:29, and 6:46. Kieran Nay rolled the lads’s race in 4:58. Ryan Smith was second for the second straight day in 5:26, and Reid Burrows (Canada) was third in 5:48. Full outcomes.
Birkie Path Run Competition – Cable, Wisconsin
The occasion’s marathon race was this 12 months’s USATF Path Marathon Nationwide Championships. The fields look fairly small although. There have been simply 16 ladies’s finishers and solely 22 males’s finishers. On the prime, Anna Dalton ran away with the ladies’s crown in 3:24. Gracia Sich and Katia Wanish have been second and third in 3:38 and three:51. Brian Whitfield led the lads in 2:59. Professional miler-turned-trail-runner Ben Blankenship was second in 3:03, and Jack Spaulding took third in 3:14. Full outcomes.
Cat’s Tail Path Marathon – Shandaken, New York
Runners loved close to excellent climate for the race’s tenth version on a rugged course within the Catskill Mountains. Amy Demarco received for the second 12 months in a row with a 5:35 end, and Andrew Hutchinson set a course file of 4:09 in his marathon debut. Full outcomes (when accessible).
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