Shoot, it’s August, and summer season is flying by. The race calendar says in any other case although and there’s nonetheless loads taking place! Extra Skyrunner World Collection, extra World Mountain Working Affiliation, and extra quick finishes from all around the world are up within the queue.

Skyrace Comapedrosa – Arinsal, Andorra

The Skyrunner World Collection race ran to the highest of Andorra’s highest mountain, and did it on a day with tremendous sizzling temperatures too. It was a 24-kilometer course that gained 2,400 meters.

Males

Damien Humbert (France) picked up his second Collection win of the yr in 3:04. Marti Lázaro (Spain) chased to second in 3:07, and Nico Molina (Spain) was third in 3:11.

Damien Humbert, 2022 Skyrace Comapedrosa champion. Picture: Marc Sixto

Girls

Lindsay Webster (Canada) gained for the second time in as many weeks, ending effectively away from the sphere in 3:42. Like males’s winner Humbert, Webster too now leads the general Collection rankings. Nearly two minutes cut up second- and third-place Onditz Iturbe (Spain) and Iris Pessey (France) in 3:51 and three:52.

Full outcomes.

Lindsay Webster, 2022 Skyrace Comapedrosa champion. Picture: Marc Sixto

Giir Di Mont – Premana, Italy

The occasion included two days of racing within the mountains simply west of Lake Como. Each the brand new uphill-only race and the traditional up-and-down self-discipline had been a part of the World Mountain Working Affiliation’s World Cup.

Uphill

Saturday’s uphill race went simply 9k however with 1,050 meters of elevation acquire. Issues acquired tremendous steep on the finish, climbing over 400 meters within the ultimate kilometer.

Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) has been a revelation on this yr’s tour. Kipgneno gained his fifth Cup race of the yr, ending in 46:12. Philemon Kiriago (Kenya), solely 19 years outdated, was second in 46:58, and Sylvain Chachard (France) topped out in 47:22 for third.

Later outcomes included standouts Zac Hanna (Eire) in fifth, Cesare Maestri (Italy) in sixth, and Henri Aymonod (Italy) in eighth.

Patrick Kipngeno, 2022 Gir Di Mont Uphill champion. Picture: Marco Gulberti/Corsa in Montagna

This yr’s girls’s Cup has fully gone to Joyce Njeru (Kenya). Like males’s winner Kipngeno, she too gained for the fifth time this yr. Njeru acquired up in 54:49, holding off Andrea Mayr (Austria) on the ultimate part. Mayr clocked 55:07. Mădălina Florea (Romania) was an in depth third in 55:32.

Acquainted names Francesca Ghelfi (Italy), Gloria Giudici (Italy), and Lucy Murigi (Kenya) had been fifth, sixth, and seventh, respectively.

Full outcomes.

The 2022 Gir Di Mont Uphill girls’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Andrea Mayr, 1. Joyce Njeru, and three. Mădălina Florea. Picture: Marco Gulberti/Corsa in Montagna

Basic

Sunday’s 32k race celebrated its twenty eighth yr, and with 2,400 meters of acquire. Runners from 14 international locations took half.

The lads’s race ran shut and Petro Mamu (Eritrea) escaped Cristian Minoggio (Italy) by solely 13 seconds as each completed in 3:11. Mattia Gianola (Italy) was third in 3:20.

[In 2017, Mamu failed two doping tests, after both the World Mountain Running Championships and the World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships. He was given a nine-month ban starting in September of 2017 by the IAAF for testing positive for fenoterol.]

The ladies’s race was shut too with Elisa Desco (Italy) solely 44 seconds in entrance of Lucy Murigi (Kenya). The pair completed in 4:00 and 4:01, and third-place Hillary Gerardi (USA) got here in 4:06.

[From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Commonwealth Video games Marathon – Birmingham, United Kingdom

2017 World Mountain Working Champion Victor Kiplangat (Uganda) gained the street marathon race in 2:10. Full outcomes.

La 6000D – Aime-la-Plagne, France

Beñat Marmissolle (France) completed the 67k race first in 6:20, and Lucie Bidault (France) gained the ladies’s race in 7:41. Full outcomes.

Megève Nature Path – Megève, France

Mathieu Blanchard (Canada, lives in France) and Morgane Cretton (France) gained the 74k run in 6:38 and eight:58, respectively. Full outcomes.

Bucovina Extremely Rocks – Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania

The Woman’s Stones rock formation is among the many many pure highlights of the forest-and-mountain run. Andrei Istina (Romania) and Fazakas Biborka (Romania) topped the 110k race in 17:01 and 19:55, and Valentin Toma (Romania) and Azara García (Spain) had been greatest within the 88k at 10:25 and 11:55. Full outcomes.

Montreux Path Competition – Vaud, Switzerland

Clovis Chaverot (France) sped via the Swiss Alps on a 69k course in 8:11, and Ragna Debats (Netherlands) acquired again to racing with victory in 9:57. Chinese language runners Can-Hua Luo and Fu-Zhao Xiang had been shut seconds in each races. Luo completed in 8:19, solely eight minutes again of the boys’s winner, and Fuzhao in 10:04, barely seven minutes away from Debats. Full outcomes.

Canadian Dying Race 125k – Grand Cache, Alberta, Canada

Ethan Peters and Lindsey Klassen led the 125k mountain run in 13:07 and 16:32, and Jeremy Thielmann and Priscilla Forgie gained the marathon race in 5:01 and 4:06. Full outcomes.

White River 50 Mile – Greenwater, Washington

Rainshadow Working’s occasion celebrated Gabriel Kline and Lauren Kersjes as race winners in 7:26 and 9:01. Full outcomes.

Tushars Mountain Runs – Eagle Level Ski Resort, Utah

The Aravaipa Working occasion topped Richard Lockwood and Elizabeth Butler as its 100k winners in 12:43 and 14:56, with Butler setting a brand new course file within the girls’s race. Andrew Belus and Georgia Porter gained over 70k in 9:19 and 9:24, once more with Porter setting a girls’s course file. Full outcomes.

By no means Summer season 100k – Gould, Colorado

Barely two minutes separated Christopher Schurk and Christopher Copenhaver on the end of the boys’s race. The 2 frontrunners completed in 13:08 and 13:10, respectively, and ladies’s winner Meghan Morgan was proper behind them too in 13:15. Second lady was Jane Maus in 14:45. Kyle Leto and Gwen Rudy had been greatest within the separate 60k race in 6:05 and seven:12. Full outcomes.

Berry Picker Path Run – Vail, Colorado

The uphill race ran 4.5 miles at a mean 14% grade. Joseph Grey and Janelle Lincks acquired the wins in 40:03 and 48:14. Full outcomes.

Pikes Peak Extremely – Colorado Springs, Colorado

4 race distances had been run, and Jim Rebenack and Anne Flower gained Mad Moose Occasions’s 50k race in 4:47 and 5:50. Rebenack additionally gained the race again in 2018. Graham Peet and Kristin Marshall gained the 50-mile race in 9:44 and 11:08. Full outcomes.

Badger Path Races – Belleville, Wisconsin

Six race distances between a half marathon and 100 miles featured on the Ten Junk Miles occasion. We’ll pull outcomes from a few the races. Over 100k it was Michael Lesniak and Rebecca Leahy successful in 11:12 and 14:14, and over 50k it was Vikash Malik and Alison Huppert in 4:12 and 4:51. Full outcomes.

Burning River 100 Mile – Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

It was the race’s sixteenth yr and Luke Landis went 16:08 for the win, and Alyssa Hoffert acquired there in 20:08 to steer the ladies. Full outcomes.

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