Jazmine Lowther of Nelson, B.C. and Canmore, Alta.’s Sam Hendry charged to podium finishes at Speedgoat Mountain Races 50K by way of UTMB, hung on Saturday in Snowbird Town, Utah. Lowther clinched the win within the girls’s race (and used to be seventeenth total) in 6:19:05, whilst Hendry secured moment position within the males’s race, completing in 5:24:57.
Speedgoat Mountain Races by way of UTMB is a part of the UTMB Global Sequence, the place the highest 3 athletes earn computerized access into the UTMB Sequence Finals, held on the finish of August in Chamonix, France. Members take on rugged mountain trails within the Wasatch Mountains, with race choices of 50K, 28K, 21K, and 11K. The 50K race is especially difficult, that includes a frightening elevation acquire of three,475 metres.
Ladies’s race
Lowther, 32, ran along second-place finisher, American Mali Noyes, till the general assist station, the place she surged forward to assert victory within the girls’s department and seventeenth total. Noyes adopted with a time of 6:22:31, and compatriot Kodi Kleven rounded out the rostrum at 6:24:12.
Lowther became professional in 2022, briefly making a reputation for herself by way of profitable the 2022 Canyons Staying power Runs by way of UTMB and securing a fourth-place end within the 2022 CCC race at Extremely-Path du Mont Blanc (UTMB). In spite of demanding situations with accidents and biomechanics problems, she sped to moment position at Transgrancanaria 128K in Spain in 2023. Lowther has been open about her purpose of returning to UTMB in 2024, and her win at Speedgoat secures her a place within the prestigious tournament.
Males’s race
Within the males’s race, 24-year-old Hendry ran along eventual winner David Sinclair of the U.S. till the midway mark, when Sinclair pulled forward to set a brand new direction document of four:57:35. Hendry adopted in moment position, whilst Scott Patterson, additionally of the U.S. secured 3rd with a time of five:32:26.
Truly excited to be seeing Sam Hendry in Squamish subsequent month for the @Squamish50 50km race distance, a 🇨🇦 Nationwide Crew variety race & rather truthfully what is taking a look to be the private box of 🇨🇦 runners in a 50k on CDN soil ever 🎉 https://t.co/fzyAxd6cZ2
— Gary Robbins (@gary_robbins) July 20, 2024
Born and raised in Canmore, Hendry may be a five-time All-American skier for the College of Utah, from which he graduated in 2023. He burst onto the path operating scene in 2022 with a number of peak finishes, together with a fourth-place at The Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23K in Lake Tahoe, California. Hendry persisted to provoke with a top-10 efficiency on the 2024 version of Damaged Arrow 23K, completing 9th in a aggressive elite box.