August 12, 2024 – iRunFar

There have been the Olympics and Sierre-Zinal, and each have been beautiful outstanding.

We’re excited to speak about the gold medals and direction information this Monday, and we are hoping you’re too.

Sierre-Zinal – Zinal, Switzerland

iRunFar previous captured the higher race dynamics.

The historical race ran 31 kilometers and with 2,200 meters of elevation achieve. That’s 19 miles and seven,200 toes, and it was once once more a part of the Golden Path International Sequence and the International Mountain Working Affiliation International Cup.

Males

Kilian Jornet (Spain, dwelling in Norway) added every other bankruptcy to his superb occupation. Jornet fought off Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) during the center of the race and held off a fast-closing Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) overdue. Jornet received in 2:25:34 and it was once his tenth Sierre-Zinal victory. The time marked a brand new direction document too, a unmarried 2nd higher than his 2019 former very best. Jornet first received in 2009 as a 21-year-old in 2:35:30.

Kilian Jornet and Philemon Ombogo Kiriago include on the end of the 2024 Sierre-Zinal, the place they took first and 2nd. Picture: International Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti

Ombogo Kiriago, the 2023 champion, had his best race since remaining 12 months’s Sierre-Zinal. He vaulted from 5th at midway right into a end line dash with Jornet. Ombogo Kiriago was once two seconds in the back of the winner in 2:25:36, and that’s virtually two mins higher than his time eventually 12 months’s race.

3rd-place Patrick Kipngeno was once a part of the sturdy Kenyan contingent that may position 5 runners within the best 10. Kipngeno ran 2:26:59.

The highest 20 males have been:

1.  Kilian Jornet (Spain, lives in Norway) – 2:25:34
2.  Philemon Ombogo Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:25:36
3.  Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:26:59
4.  Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya) – 2:31:35
5.  Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:32:26
6. Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 2:32:35
7. Sylvain Cachard (France) – 2:32:45
8. Jonathan Castillo Sáenz (Columbia) – 2:32:45
9. Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 2:33:57
10. Ezekiel Rutto (Kenya) – 2:35:21
11. Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:36:56
12. Alex Garcia Carrillo (Spain) – 2:37:21
13. Robbie Simpson (U.Ok.) – 2:37:44
14. Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:37:47
15. Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 2:38:03
16. Tom Spencer (U.Ok.) – 2:39:36
17. Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 2:39:56
18. Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) – 2:41:23
19. Stephen Wenk (Switzerland) – 2:41:55
20. Leonard Mitrica (Romania) – 2:42:34

Girls

The ladies’s race was once certainly not shut. Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) was once unstoppable from begin to end and completed over 8 mins forward of her closest chaser. Each a Sierre-Zinal and a path rookie, Chepngeno’s supercharged run was once a marvel. It was once the 25 12 months previous’s first race of any distance and any terrain in numerous years.

Joyline Chepngeno closes in at the end, because the 2024 Sierre-Zinal girls’s winner. Picture: International Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti

Chepngeno’s first-place 2:54:06 end was once almost about a minute slower than Sophia Laukli’s 2023 profitable time and virtually 5 mins slower than the direction document.

2d- and third-place Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) and Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) were given at the podium in 3:02:21 and three:04:29.

The highest 20 girls have been:

1.  Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) – 2:54:06
2.  Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) – 3:02:21
3.  Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:04:29
4.  Philaries Jeruto Kisang (Kenya) – 3:05:52
5.  Cristina Simion (Romania) – 3:07:51
6. Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 3:08:39
7. Sophia Laukli (U.S.) – 3:09:36
8. Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 3:10:46
9. Julie Lelong (France) – 3:12:11
10. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 3:12:54
11. Elisa Desco (Italy) – 3:13:15
12. Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) – 3:13:30
13. Marion Leiberich (Germany) – 3:15:10
14. Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 3:18:20
15. Selina Burch (Switzerland) – 3:19:18
16. Takako Takamura (Japan) – 3:19:41
17. Cecilia Basso (Italy) – 3:19:45
18. Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 3:19:58
19. Alice Bausseron (France) – 3:21:38
20. Eef Van Dongen (Netherlands) – 3:21:50

[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.]

Complete effects.

The Golden Path International Sequence comes again subsequent weekend with the Tatra Skymarathon in Poland, and the International Mountain Working Affiliation International Cup has two races the weekend of August 31 at Trofeo Nasego in Italy.

Olympic Marathon – Paris, France

A difficult direction featured at the 26.2-mile street run round Paris. The lads ran on Saturday, August 10 and the ladies’s race concluded the Olympics on Sunday, August 11. There have been a couple of crossover runners within the race, loads extra within the girls’s race than the boys’s.

Victor Kiplangat (Uganda), the 2017 International Mountain Working Champion, was once thirty seventh in 2:11:59.

Within the girls’s race, Stelle Chesang (Uganda) ran 2:26:01 to complete 8th. In 2015, she was once the International Mountain Working Champion.

Tereza Hrochová (Czech Republic) was once twenty sixth in 2:30:00. She was once 8th on the 2023 International Mountain Working Championships Up and Down race in Austria.

Some twenty ninth within the Olympic Marathon in 2:30:14 was once Dominika Mayer (Germany). She was once 5th on the 2023 International Mountain Working Championships Up and Down race.

The 2024 Two Oceans Marathon runner-up Irvette Van Zyl (South Africa) was once thirty seventh in 2:31:14, and Laura Hottenrott (Germany) was once one spot in the back of in 2:31:19. Hottenrott was once fourth on the 2023 International Mountain Working Championships Uphill race.

Comrades Marathon direction document holder Gerda Steyn (South Africa) was once forty fifth in 2:32:51.

Complete effects.

Further Races and Runs

Swiss Alps 100 Mile – Oberwallis, Switzerland

Stefano Rinaldi (Italy) and Giulia Saggin (Italy) conquered the 100-mile mountain problem in 25:52 and 28:41. David Haunschmidt (New Zealand) and Leah Yingling (U.S.) have been tops within the accompanying 50k in 5:38 and six:30. Complete effects.

Stefano Rinaldi takes the win within the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Picture: Swiss Alps 100

Giulia Saggin recuperates after profitable the 2024 Swiss Alps 100 Mile. Picture: Swiss Alps 100

Fats Canine 120 Mile – Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada

The race is going level to indicate on most commonly far off trails that general 26,000 toes of elevation achieve. Pau Rius and Jessica Temple received in 25:18 and 34:18. Monitoring.

Bigfoot 200 Mile – Mount St. Helens, Washington

Space wildfires stored the race off its conventional point-to-point direction, however the display went on by way of an alternative direction. The race as an alternative ran as a double out-and-back from the standard end line. Vernon Palm did it the quickest, working 44:57, and Jessica Schiller received the ladies’s race in 56:37. Monitoring.

Prospector’s 50k – Cooke Town, Montana

Michael Klein and Josie Walters led the sector in 5:27 and 5:47. Complete effects.

Wyoming Vary 100 Mile – Hoback, Wyoming

The race is going 105 miles point-to-point with 24,000 toes of mountain climbing in southwest Wyoming. Zachary Cohen and Andrea Purtzer received it in 27:10 and 36:33. Monitoring.

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