On Saturday, American ultrarunning GOAT Courtney Dauwalter added one more victory to her already spectacular 2024 file, claiming first place within the girls’s race at Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB (100-miler). Dauwalter each dominated the ladies’s area and positioned second total, ending shut behind the boys’s winner, Spain’s Cristofer Clemente Mora. This weekend’s win follows Dauwalter’s victories in 2024 at Transgrancanaria, Hardrock 100, Mt. Fuji 100 and SwissPeaks 70, after a historic 2023 season the place she grew to become the primary runner ever to brush the Western States, Hardrock and UTMB 100-milers in a single 12 months.
From the mountains to the ocean
Good Côte d’Azur 100-miler kicks off in Auron at 2,523m, the very best level within the race. Runners climb 8,200m of elevation over 150 kilometres, catching a glimpse of the Meditteranean Sea on the midway level and persevering with an extended descent towards it, ending within the Promenade des Anglais. The highest three runners on each the boys’s and ladies’s races safe assured entry to the 2025 version of the UTMB World Collection Finals (100-miler). Runners confronted difficult situations by way of the night time, with heavy rain making technical, rocky, rooty terrain slippery and onerous to navigate. “After I came visiting that final hill and noticed the ocean, I used to be thrilled,” Dauwalter mentioned post-race. “This course is exclusive—the rocks, the roots, the rain. It was a enjoyable night time.”
Dawuwalter triumphs, once more
Dauwalter outpaced practically each competitor on Saturday, with Clemente Mora in the end edging her out by a slim margin. The 2 traded leads all through the race, however Clemente Mora maintained a gradual tempo to complete simply over 13 minutes forward, clocking in at 21 hours, 22 minutes and 14 seconds. Dauwalter crossed the road shortly afterward, in 21:35:57. French runner Nicolas Cerisier accomplished the boys’s race as runner-up, putting third total in 22:28:25; Dauwalter’s efficiency left a large hole within the girls’s area, with second-place feminine, Enrica Dematteis of Italy, closing 5 hours behind her in 26:33:34, adopted by France’s Agathe Lebel in 26:37:57.
Submit-race, Dauwalter shared her appreciation for the occasion: “I really feel extraordinarily lucky to have skilled this race in such a surprising setting… I knew the course could be demanding, technical, and really powerful, particularly with the rain in a single day, however I cherished each second.”
For full outcomes of each the 100-mile and 50K races at Good Côte d’Azur, head right here.
