The 100-kilometer CCC race left Courmayeur, Italy at 9:00 a.m. native time on Friday, August 30. Professional stats put the race at 62.7 miles and with 19,888 ft (over 6,000 meters) of elevation acquire. The race is going the other way from the earlier-in-the-week TDS, connecting the race get started in Courmayeur to Champex-Lac, Switzerland after which the end line hub in Chamonix, France.
As with OCC and UTMB Mont Blanc for the 50k and 100-mile distances, CCC too was once the UTMB Global Collection ultimate for the 100k distance, and that supposed €13,000 to every of the winners and prize cash going 10 deep. The full CCC prize handbag was once €76,000.
Toni McCann of South Africa profitable the 2024 CCC. All pictures courtesy of UTMB.
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2024 CCC Girls’s Race
Pre-race favourite Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) led early with most effective Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) in succeed in. The 2 had been not up to a minute aside 16 miles into the race. McCann, the 2023 OCC winner, was once anticipated to be right here, however Młynarczyk was once a wonder this prime up. She was once 6th on the Tenerife Bluetrail via UTMB 73k previous this yr, but in addition a standout Ironman triathlete. A chase staff led via 2023 fourth-placer Hau Ha Thi (Vietnam), Jazmine Lowther (Canada), and Heather Jackson (U.S.) was once over seven mins again.
McCann’s lead swelled as she climbed via Italy as much as the Grand Col Ferret. She was once now just about 4 mins up on Młynarczyk and over 10 mins on everybody else. Lowther fell again to 7th at the climb and would later drop from the race, and Jackson moved as much as 3rd. Holly Web page (U.Okay.) entered the highest 5, 17 mins at the back of the race chief.
Kind of midway into the race at mile 34 in Champex-Lac, Switzerland, it was once nonetheless McCann and, boldly, Młynarczyk on the entrance with a large hole on everybody else. McCann led Młynarczyk via nearly 3 mins, and everybody else was once a minimum of 14 mins at the back of Młynarczyk. Ha Thi was once once more 3rd, Jackson fourth, and Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) had moved into 5th 13 mins in entrance of a now sixth-place Web page.
Ten miles later at mile 44 Trient, Switzerland, McCann and Młynarczyk had been nonetheless out entrance, however Buchauer had fallen 22 mins off the lead, whilst nonetheless 3rd along Ha Thi.
In any case, via mile 51 in Vallorcine, France, McCann totally broke freed from Młynarczyk. The space between the primary and moment runners was once now 8 mins, and Buchauer had regained some separation from Ha Thi. Buchauer was once six mins forward of fourth-place Ha Thi.
On the most sensible of the ultimate climb, L. a. Flégère, the positions had been set. It was once only a four-mile downhill run to Chamonix to head, and McCann, Młynarczyk, and Buchauer saved their podium spots so as.
McCann received in 11:57 in her debut on the 100k distance. Młynarczyk completed a breakout run in moment at 12:11. Buchauer was once 3rd in 12:16.
2024 CCC Girls’s Effects
- Toni McCann (South Africa, residing in France) – 11:57:59
- Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) – 12:11:12
- Rosanna Buchauer (Germany) – 12:16:55
- Hau Ha Thi (Vietnam) – 12:36:16
- Heather Jackson (U.S.) – 12:50:55
- Jing-Yan Tang (China) – 13:10:44
- Anne Cécile Thévenot (France) – 13:19:22
- Katarzyna Wilk (Poland) – 13:24:12
- Lotti Brinks (U.S.) – 13:25:13
- Emmiliese Von Avis (U.S.) – 13:33:35
The 2024 CCC girls’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Martyna Młynarczyk, 1. Toni McCann, 3. Rosanna Buchauer.
2024 CCC Males’s Race
16 miles into the race the primary 20 males had been slightly two mins aside. The gang incorporated pre-race favorites like Adam Peterman (U.S.), Hayden Hawks (U.S.), Manuel Merillas (Spain), and Petter Engdahl (Sweden, residing in Norway), amongst others.
A just about three-mile climb as much as the Grand Col Ferret at mile 19 thinned the pack. Hawks received a 30-second lead over Peterman and Engdahl, and everybody else fell off the lead staff via a minimum of two mins.
Seth Ruhling (U.S.), the race’s 2023 sixth-place finisher, bridged up and bumped into the lead along Peterman at the subsequent downhill to L. a. Fouly, Switzerland at mile 25. Hawks was once simply 22 seconds at the back of on the checkpoint.
Ruhling dropped from the race in a while later with an ankle damage, Engdahl too, and Hawks handed Peterman 5 hours into the race when hiking to Champex-Lac. At the back of Hawks and Peterman, Huo-Hua Zhang (China) charged in 3rd two mins at the back of, and Andreu Simon (Spain) and Dan Jones (New Zealand) had been over 3 mins again in fourth and 5th.
Hawks endured to steer via Trient, Switzerland, seven hours into the day. His coaching mate Jones in short moved into moment, over 3 mins again. Hawks and Jones had been 3rd and fourth in June on the Western States 100. Peterman was once now 3rd, 50 seconds at the back of Jones and Peter Fraňo (Slovakia), 3rd on the 2023 Path Global Championships Lengthy Path, was once in fourth now not up to two mins at the back of Peterman.
Zhang began to fall again hiking to mile 46. He moved to 5th, whilst Hawks grew his lead. Hawks led Peterman, Jones, and Fraňo via seven, 8, and 10 mins respectively at that mile 46 timing level.
Nobody may catch Hawks the remainder of the way in which. He received in 10:20. Hawks received CCC again in 2017 too, then in 10:24.
Fraňo escaped the chase staff over the overall climb for a moment position 10:27, and Peterman was once 3rd in 10:28. It was once indisputably Peterman’s best results of the yr following an injury-filled 2023.
2024 CCC Males’s Effects
- Hayden Hawks (U.S.) – 10:20:11
- Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) – 10:27:17
- Adam Peterman (U.S.) – 10:28:50
- Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 10:36:20
- Huo-Hua Zhang (China) – 10:45:34
- Andreu Simon (Spain) – 10:53:36
- Ramon Manetsch (Switzerland) – 11:01:24
- Andreas Rieder (Austria) – 11:05:09
- Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 11:12:03
- Arnaud Bonin (France) – 11:12:39
The 2024 CCC males’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Peter Frano, 1. Hayden Hawks, 3. Adam Peterman.