Oww, oww, Rémi Bonnet did it!
Bonnet ran 2:00:20 to transform the quickest ever up 14,115-foot Pikes Top.
The document took place as a part of the 2023 Pikes Top Ascent on September 16. The race began within the the city of Manitou Springs, Colorado, and climbed 7,800 ft over a median 11% grade towards the top altitude end at the mountain summit. The general 3 miles are all above treeline, and there was once snow at the upper stretches this yr.
Within the ladies’s race, Olympian Sophia Laukli continues to dominate ladies’s mountain operating, on this case operating clear of the remainder of the sector to complete about 3.5 mins forward of everybody else.
Learn on for the whole race tale.
2023 Pikes Top Ascent Males’s Race
Rémi Bonnet gained remaining yr’s race in 2:07:02, and so his run this yr was once considerably quicker than his former ultimate. The former ultimate was once Matt Wood worker’s 2:01:06, run as a part of the roundtrip Pikes Top Marathon race in 1993. Wood worker’s complete Marathon time that yr was once 3:16:39.
This yr’s race was once a part of the Golden Path International Sequence, and Bonnet earned a $3,000 first-place prize, however simply overlooked a $10,000 time bonus for going underneath two hours.
Bonnet has made his mark as an uphill ace in recent times and within the week main as much as the race, reset his personal quickest recognized time at the Manitou Springs Incline, a mile-long, stair-stepped, 2,000-foot climb. This was once his first race again after shedding from August’s Sierre-Zinal tournament in Switzerland.
Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya), the two-time International Mountain Working Championships Uphill race winner, was once 2nd in 2:04:09, and that’s the third-best time ever up the mountain. Kipngeno trails simplest Bonnet and Wood worker at the all-time charts.
Best American Eli Hemming moved up one position from a yr in the past and was once 0.33 in 2:07:40. Two-time Pikes Top Marathon winner Seth Demoor added the Ascent as a part of a double and was once fourth in 2:09:47.
4-time race winner Joseph Grey crowned out in 2:11:19 for 5th.
Rémi Bonnet profitable the 2023 Pikes Top Ascent and atmosphere a brand new direction document. Picture: Pikes Top Ascent
2023 Pikes Top Ascent Males’s Effects
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 2:00:20
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:04:09
- Eli Hemming – 2:07:40
- Seth Demoor – 2:09:47
- Joseph Grey – 2:11:19
- Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:11:20
- Daniel Osanz (Spain) – 2:12:34
- Brian Whitfield – 2:14:55
- Chad Corridor – 2:15:08
- Noah Williams – 2:15:16
- Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau – 2:16:30
- Sam Hendry – 2:16:43
- Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:16:44
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 2:20:01
- Alex García Carillo (Spain) – 2:20:24
- Anthony Felber (France) – 2:22:11
- Darren Thomas – 2:22:37
- Eder Belmont (Mexico) – 2:22:37
- Juan Carlos Carera (Mexico) – 2:22:39
- Johen DeLeon – 2:23:12
2023 Pikes Top Ascent Girls’s Race
No data fell within the ladies’s race, however Sophia Laukli’s having a world-best yr. Already the Mont Blanc Marathon and Sierre-Zinal winner, Laukli picked up her 0.33 Golden Path International Sequence win of the yr. Laukli pulled away within the remaining two miles and gained in 2:35:54. She was once 0.33 in remaining yr’s race in 2:34:30. A Nordic ski Olympian, Laukli is at the get started listing for subsequent weekend’s Mammoth Path Fest 26k, additionally a part of the Golden Path International Sequence, in California, however previous shared at the Sub Hub podcast that she is not likely to start out that race.
2nd-place Judith Wyder (Switzerland) summitted in 2:39:35, and Anna Gibson was once a wonder third-place finisher in 2:43:59.
Spanish runners Malen Osa and Sara Alonso have been fourth and 5th in 2:47:23 and a couple of:48:13, respectively.
Sophia Laukli, 2023 Pikes Top Ascent champion. Picture: Pikes Top Ascent
2023 Pikes Top Ascent Girls’s Effects
- Sophia Laukli – 2:35:54
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 2:39:35
- Anna Gibson – 2:43:59
- Malen Osa (Spain) – 2:47:23
- Sara Alonso (Spain) – 2:48:13
- Júlia Font (Spain) – 2:49:06
- Alicia Vargo – 2:49.:16
- Elise Poncet (France) – 2:50:10
- Tabor Hemming – 2:50:30
- Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) – 2:51:38
- Hali Hafeman – 2:52:53
- Allie McLaughlin – 2:53:19
- Giselle Slotboom – 2:56:02
- Rachel Tomajczyk – 2:57:32
- Anna-Stiina Erkkilä (Finland) – 2:57:56
- Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 2:59:20
- Monica Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:00:07
- Lara Hamilton (Australia, lives within the U.S.) – 3:00:13
- Jessica Yeaton – 3:02:13
- Allie Ostrander – 3:04:47
(In 2023, Ostrander was once suspended for 4 months after checking out certain for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was once made up our minds that she mistakenly took the drug with out first acquiring a International Anti-Doping Company Healing Use Exemption.)