Anne Champagne is having an incredible season; on the Grand Raid des Pyrenees (GRP) in Andorra on Saturday night time, the Quebec runner obliterated the sector, gaining a 144-minute lead over her closest competitor and profitable the 168-km path race in 31 hours, 23 mins, 35 seconds. The GRP was once the ninth race of the Global Path Main Sequence.
This marks Champagne’s 2d 100-mile win within the span of 2 months. In early July, she broke the path report on the Quebec Mega Path (QMT) 100-miler.
The path, which noticed 10,000m of elevation achieve and loss, noticed Champagne’s closest competitor, Juliette Archambeau of France, drop out after 110km. Upon crossing the road with what seemed like a shockingly painful stride brought about by means of the decrease again ache she powered thru for miles, Champagne right away won clinical consideration.
Within the males’s race, Rémi Gillie of France took the highest spot by means of over an hour, clocking 24:39:12. He led all the 2d part of the race, leaving an overly deep box in a detailed struggle for the following spots. French athletes Jan Gutterman (25:45:27) and Maxime Jaouen (26:02:35) took 2d and 3rd.