The 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent kicked off in the present day at 7 a.m. native time. Toeing the beginning line on the streets of Manitou Springs, Colorado, quantities to a singular second for the various who be part of the deeply aggressive subject annually. The target is simple however daunting: climb the requisite 7,815 toes to the end line just under the Pikes Peak summit at 14,050 toes quicker than everybody else. The 13.32-mile course up the well-known Barr Path averages — averages — an 11% grade. And that’s the way in which it’s been for 66 years.
As a part of this 12 months’s Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS), this version of the Ascent noticed a stacked subject take off below an unobstructed solar and funky temperatures. Whereas the Pikes Peak Marathon has beforehand been featured within the GTWS, the change was made to the shorter race this 12 months to permit rivals higher race once more on the subsequent GTWS race on the Flagstaff Sky Peaks in Arizona subsequent weekend.
A wrinkle within the Pikes Peak Ascent prize purse: anybody who clocks a quicker time than one the organizers set earlier than the race banks an additional $10,000. This 12 months’s instances to beat have been two hours even for males, and a pair of:21 for girls. Briefly, it seemed like Rémi Bonnet had a shot — however in the long run, neither he nor ladies’s race winner Nienke Brinkman claimed it.
2022 Pikes Peak Ascent Ladies’s Race
Nienke Brinkman after ending the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Jordi Saragossa
Nienke Brinkman captured the ladies’s title with a time only a few minutes again of the course file, whereas Maude Mathys ran scorching on her heels whereas shifting up within the second half of the race.
[In 2015, Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
Brinkman completed in 2:27:26 to take the win. The Dutch sensation threatened at instances to interrupt Kim Dobson’s 2012 course file, however completed reasonably behind Dobson’s 2:24:58 mark. Dobson ran this 12 months, ending fifth. Sophia Laukli ran six minutes again of Mathys and 5 minutes earlier than Allie McLaughlin in taking third.
Sophia Laukli working the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Philipp Reiter
- Nienke Brinkman (Nike Path) — 2:27:26
- Maude Mathys (Salomon) — 2:28:40
- Sophia Laukli (Salomon) — 2:34:30
- Allie McLaughlin (On) — 2:39:40
- Kim Dobson (Workforce BP Run CO) — 2:40:45
- Blandine L’hirondel (Evadict) — 2:44:17
- Bailey Kowalczyk (Salomon) — 2:46:43
- Élise Poncet (Sidas/Matryx) — 2:47:30
- EmKay Sullivan (Craft) — 2:48:37
- Sara Alonso (Salomon) — 2:49:21
EmKay Sullivan nearing the summit on the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Philipp Reiter
2022 Pikes Peak Ascent Males’s Race
Rémi Bonnet main the way in which in the course of the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Philipp Reiter
Close to the halfway level of the climb, Bonnet led Joseph Grey by 45 seconds — a good margin however removed from snug. Eight males handed the trailside marker, “1/2 option to Heaven,” shortly earlier than Barr Camp inside roughly three and a half minutes.
Grey dogged Bonnet, and a few reside feed trackers thought he might execute a move close to race finish. However in the long run, no person might catch Bonnet, who gained with a 2:07:02.
Drama did ensue behind Bonnet, as Daniel Osanz overtook Grey late after which gained far on the 38-year-old. Osanz clocked a 2:08:42, nicely behind Bonnet but additionally a half minute forward of Grey, who completed third. Eli Hemming and Francesco Puppi rounded out the highest 5.
Joseph Grey after taking third on the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Jordi Saragossa
- Rémi Bonnet (Salomon/Crimson Bull) — 2:07:02
- Daniel Osanz (adidas Terrex) — 2:08:42
- Joseph Grey (Hoka) — 2:09:13
- Eli Hemming (Cardio Monsters) — 2:09:54
- Francesco Puppi (Nike Path) — 2:12:56
- Chad Corridor — 2:14:02
- Anthony Felber (Sidas/Matryx) — 2:15:19
- Sylvain Cachard (Hoka) — 2:16:35
- Henri Aymonod (The North Face) — 2:20:13
- Ruy Ueda (Crimson Bull) — 2:20:58
Francesco Puppi making his approach up Pikes Peak on the 2022 Pikes Peak Ascent. Photograph: Golden Path Sequence|Pikes Peak Ascent|Philipp Reiter
