Right here we pass! The weeklong team of UTMB races in Chamonix, France, is without a doubt the 12 months’s largest week of ultrarunning, and one of the most first races is the 148-kilometer TDS.
An acronym for Sur les Lines des Ducs de Savoie, the TDS race left Courmayeur, Italy, with just about 1,600 runners simply sooner than nighttime native time on Monday, August 26, 2024, and accrued about 9,300 meters of elevation on its method to Chamonix. That’s about 92 miles and 30,500 ft of elevation acquire. TDS is thought of as extra technical than both of the longer UTMB or CCC races and is on extra far off trails.
2024 TDS Ladies’s Race
Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) ran the downhill six miles from miles 51 to 57 seven mins sooner than then-leader Emilie Collomb (Italy) to quickly take the lead, however additional again Marie Dohin (France) was once filled with run.
Dohin climbed previous Wilhem and into the lead heading as much as Barrage de l. a. Girotte at mile 66. Ten miles later, Dohin held a nine-minute lead over Wilhem, and the pair additional separated from every different the remainder of the best way. Dohin, who was once 5th at this race in 2021, was once the race winner in 24:06, and Wilhem held onto a second-place end in 24:42.
Marie Dohin, the 2024 TDS ladies’s winner. All footage courtesy of UTMB.
Regardless of a shorter direction than closing 12 months’s rerouted race and with higher climate this 12 months, the profitable time was once round half-hour slower than in 2023.
Céline Finas was once 3rd in 25:41.
French ladies took six of the highest 10 end positions.
2024 TDS Ladies’s Effects
1 – Marie Dohin (France) – 24:06:01
2 – Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) – 24:42:03
3 – Céline Finas (France) – 25:41:1
4 – Aleksandra Narkowicz (Poland) – 25:56:30
5 – Wen-Fei Xie (China) – 27:35:30
6 – Julia Harnie (France) – 28:38:54
7 – Elisabetta Negra (Italy) – 29:27:06
8 – Charlotte Allain (France) – 29:37:30
9 – Léa Simond (France) – 29:55:58
10 – Laura Mayniel (France) – 30:00:31
Ariane Wilhem, the 2024 TDS second-place girl.
2024 TDS Males’s Race
Thibault Marquet (France) hit the highest of the Passeur Pralognan at mile 38 in a lead team along Aleksei Beresnev (competing as a impartial athlete) and Aleix Toda Mas (Spain) and briefly separated from them over the following two downhill miles. Beresnev would fall long ago, and Toda Mas would finally end up now not completing. Marquet led the race the remainder of the best way, and on the finish, he was once neatly transparent of moment position.
Marquet dipped beneath the 19-hour mark with an 18:59:36 end, operating 37 mins faster than Christian Meier did when he received the 2023 race on an extended direction and in snow.
Marquet was once twelfth at the complete UTMB direction in 2022.
Thibault Marquet, the 2024 TDS males’s winner.
Nobody had a more potent moment 1/2 than runner-up Alban Berson (France). Simply within the best 20 early on, Berson was once nonetheless simplest in 8th at mile 45. He moved up briefly and held that second-place spot from mile 66 in the course of the end in 19:56:40. Berson raced UTMB in 2022, additionally completing one spot in the back of Marquet in thirteenth.
Alban Berson, the 2024 TDS second-place guy.
Gautier Airiau (France) overtook a fading Simon Gosselin (France) with about 10 miles to visit transfer into 3rd. Airiau completed in 20:07, and Gosselin didn’t end. Airiau had a equivalent second-half rate to Berson.
The entire best 5 finishers had been French.
2024 TDS Males’s Effects
1 – Thibault Marquet (France) – 18:59:36
2 – Alban Berson (France) – 19:56:40
3 – Gautier Airiau (France) – 20:07:22
4 – Nicolas Gourdon (France) – 20:30:53
5 – Kevin Roux (France) – 20:44:53
6 – Ales Sedlak (Czech Republic) – 21:03
7 – Zai-Ran Li (China) – 21:13:57
8 – Marijn Sinkeldam (The Netherlands) – 21:14:40
9 – Jason Schlarb (U.S.) – 21:21:06
10 – Clément Mugnier (France) – 21:26:36