Courtney Dauwalter is actually in a league of her personal. For the third consecutive yr, the 39-year-old path operating famous person received the Hardrock 100 in course-record time—two and a half minutes below her personal general ladies’s course file from final yr, and over half-hour forward of her first-course file set in 2022.
Dauwalter accomplished the 100-mile dust course, which options over 10,000 metres of elevation achieve, in 26 hours, 11 minutes, and 19 seconds. With this win, she has now received the Hardrock 100 3 times in her 4 begins, setting course data every time. The one yr she didn’t win Hardrock was in 2021, when she dropped out halfway as a result of abdomen points on the gruelling high-altitude course, which averages 3,000 meters above sea stage in Colorado. Dauwalter has been practically unbeatable since, profitable 18 of her final 20 races relationship again to 2019.
RÉCORDS HARDROCK 100! Courtney Dauwalter y Ludovic Pommeret vencen a lo grande en Colorado.
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Camille Bruyas of France was the one girl near Dauwalter within the race. Bruyas tailed Dauwalter till simply after 40 kilometres when Dauwalter surged forward and by no means appeared again. Bruyas completed greater than three hours after Dauwalter, securing second place (and sixth general) in 29:28:14. Switzerland’s Katharina Hartmuth was third, ending in 30:29:12.
Two Canadian ladies crack the highest 10
Two Canadian ultrarunners achieved spectacular outcomes on the Hardrock 100, cracking the highest 10. Becky Bates of Kimberley, B.C., was the highest Canadian finisher, crossing the road in 36 hours and 26 seconds. Her time set a brand new ladies’s 60-69 age group file, breaking her earlier file from final yr’s race by greater than quarter-hour.
Working 100 miles at 62 is spectacular sufficient, however setting data yr in and yr out is sensational. Bates took up operating in her early 50s and has competed on the Hardrock 100 seven occasions. She additionally holds the age group file for the ladies’s 50-59 division (32:46:17), which she set in 2017 when she was 55.
Becky Bates is the seventh ladies on the 2024 Hardrock 100 in 36:00:25. #HR100 pic.twitter.com/fWHfEzpx6p
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Bates credit her data and Hardrock expertise for her success. “Once I obtained into Hardrock the primary time I used to be a fairly novice runner, so there have been no expectations about how I’d do,” mentioned Bates. “Once I obtained into Hardrock the second time, I believed, effectively, I’m previous, in order that takes the stress off, one hundred pc!”
Claire Heslop, a doctor from Almonte, Ont., rounded out the highest 10 in 37:10:19. In keeping with IRunFar, Heslop struggled with abdomen ache within the ultimate 20 kilometres however is psyched to be operating UTMB subsequent month.
Ladies’s high 10
- Courtney Dauwalter (USA) – 26:11:49
- Camille Bruyas (France) – 29:28:11
- Katharina Hartmuth (Switzerland) – 30:29:12
- Tara Dower (USA) – 33:10:55
- Yitka Winn (USA) – 33:17:00
- Emily Halnon (USA) – 33:24:22
- Becky Bates (Canada) – 36:00:26
- Claire Bannwarth (France) – 36:13:33
- Amber Weibel (USA) – 36:26:49
- Claire Heslop (Canada) – 37:10:19
For full outcomes from the 2024 Hardrock 100, examine right here.
