(Photo: UTMB/Paul Brechu)
Katie Schide is now officially one of The Greats when it comes to ultrarunning.
The American, who lives in France, led from start-to-finish at UTMB — the famous 106-mile race with 33,000ft of elevation. She ran with some of the front men for the beginning of the race and was aiming to become the first woman to break 22 hours, but stomach cramps at the end meant she had to settle for breaking Courtney Dauwalter's course record instead: covering the distance in 22:09 and crossing the line 13th overall.
This was Schide's second time winning UTMB. And she became just the 4th person to win both UTMB and Western States in the same summer. 😮
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Behind Schide, Ruth Croft was closing in the final miles (check out this graph) and was aiming to become just the second person to have previously won the OCC (55km) & CCC (100km) and win UTMB, but instead crossed the line of her first UTMB in second!
OCC: The shorter distances during race week also serve as world finals and attract top runners from around the world. Miao Yao (who had previously won the CCC) became the first Chinese runner to win the 55km OCC and set a new course record.
CCC: Toni McCann (who won the OCC last year) won the 100km CCC in her first try at the 100K distance.
Meanwhile, last year's UTMB champ, Courtney Dauwalter, was out on course cheering on friends in a duck costume.
And the winners all came back to greet the final finishers under the 46:30 cut-off time.
3. Is there anything Puck Pieterse can't do? Wins mountain bike world champs 🚵♀️
Just two weeks after claiming the best young rider white jersey at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Puck Pieterse won the mountain bike world championship title in Andorra this weekend.
Pieterse, who was disappointed with her 4th place finish in the mountain bike race at the Olympics, rebounded quickly to sprint past Demi Vollering for a stage win at the Tour. She briefly also held the Tour's polka dot jersey. She attacked the final stages, was one of the most exciting riders in the field, and then pivoted back to mountain biking to win her first elite
world title!
Behind her in the mountain bike world champs race, Olympic gold medalist and defending champ Pauline Ferrand-Prévot just didn't have the legs and was dropped by the halfway point — crossing the line in 14th in what is supposed to be her final mtb race as she returns to the road with eyes on the Tour de France Femmes.
Is everyone going back and forth between road and dirt?!
XCO: In the exciting short track, Evie Richards won in a brilliant final lap, after some tough years since her last world title in 2021.
Downhill: Valentina Höll went last (and it was a battle — watch the GoPro footage) to take her third world title in a row.
Relay: And the U.S. won the mixed relay gold!
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