Kevin Biggs of Calgary has taken the highest spot at this 12 months’s Quebec Mega Path 100-mile race. He crossed the end line on the Mont Ste-Anne ski resort late Saturday afternoon with a ending time of 20:17:28. Solely 4 hours later, Kelsey Hogan of Regular Brook, N.L., efficiently defended her 2022 title in 24:34:57, and was eighth total–a improbable consequence. Hogan took virtually 4 hours off her successful time from final 12 months.
Two Quebec runners positioned second and third: Pierre-Olivier Campagna completed second with a time
of 21:55:38, adopted by Philippe Poulin, in 22:24:38.
Ariel Cudmore was the second lady to cross the end line, in 26:07:42, and eleventh total.
The 100-mile race kicked off on Friday night at Le Lodge and Spa Le Germain Charlevoix in Baie St-Paul, 66 km east of Mont Ste-Anne. Roughly 150 runners participated, with many nonetheless labouring on the tough technical course on the time of publication.
Biggs, 33, completed third at Diez Vista 50K in Port Moody, B.C. in April. Final 12 months, he was second at Squamish 50 Mile, and he received the Sinister 7 100-mile distance in 2021 in 18:05.
Biggs led the pack from begin to end in Quebec on Saturday.
Males’s prime 10
- Kevin Biggs (Canada) 20:17:28
- Pierre-Olivier Campagna (Canada) 21:55:38
- Philippe Poulin (Canada) 22:24:38
- Elias Kibreab (Canada) 22:28:12
- Drew Mueller (U.S.) 23:41:10
- Kevin Robert (France) 24:20:42
- Jake Moreau (Canada) 24:22:10
- Pierre Loubersac (Canada) 24:55:57
- Pierre-Louis de Plinval (Switzerland) 26:04:03
- Jean-Cristophe Lefebvre (Canada) 26:09:04
Final 12 months’s males’s winner, Nepalese runner Sange Sherpa, who set a brand new course file of 19:35:52, didn’t return to defend his title.
Quebec Mega Path 100-miles: Sangé Sherpa units new course file with sub-20 end
Whereas it rained all through Friday night and for a lot of the times main as much as the race, the climate remained dry however humid for almost all of the day on Saturday. QMT has been steadily monitoring air high quality ranges resulting from smoke attributable to wildfires within the area, however circumstances have been largely clear, and there was no trigger for concern to runners’ well being.
The weekend featured quite a lot of distances and beginning places, all converging at a single end line at Mont Ste-Anne. General, roughly 3,000 runners from 12 international locations participated in QMT’s eleventh season, which featured 10 occasions.
Quebec Mega Path is acknowledged as one of the vital lovely, but additionally one of many hardest path races in Canada. Based in 2012, QMT takes pleasure in contributing to the event of path operating in Quebec and being identified for its security, sustainable growth practices and for its fixed improvements. Its programs traverse the Charlevoix and Côte de Beaupré areas.
In different QMT information, for the third 12 months in a row, QMT 25 has been chosen to be a part of Salomon’sGolden Path Nationwide Collection (GTNS). Collaborating athletes earned twice the factors in GTNS rating, because of an settlement between the organizations. That is the one Canadian race to be included within the GTNS this 12 months.
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