The 2023 Golden Path World Collection continues this Sunday with a stacked area slated for the Marathon du Mont-Blanc within the Chamonix Valley of the French Alps. Twenty out of the highest 25 males who completed on the kick-off occasion of this 12 months’s collection—the Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon in Spain in mid-Might—will likely be on the beginning line in Chamonix. Seventeen of the highest 25 girls may also be there vying to stack up factors for the general rankings. Each the lads’s and girls’s races may have no less than eight runners from the highest 10 on the beginning line.
Spain’s Manuel Merillas will likely be sporting the GTWS yellow chief jersey following his hard-fought win at Zegama, which noticed runners wrestle on a course awash in rain and dirt. Merillas may have his work reduce out for him in his quest for back-to-back victories as he faces stiff competitors from Morocco’s Elhousine Elazzaoui—at present simply behind Merillas within the rankings and second in final 12 months’s general rating—and British runner Jonathan Albon, the winner of final 12 months’s Marathon du Mont-Blanc, who positioned third at Zegama this 12 months.
Switzerland’s Rémi Bonnet, the 2022 Golden Path World Collection champion, will likely be in search of redemption on the Marathon du Mont-Blanc course after having to tug out of the race final 12 months with abdomen points. Polish runners Bart Przedwojewski and Andrzej Witek, Eli Hemming of the US, France’s Anthony Felber, Spain’s Daniel Osanz and Manuel Innerhofer are different sturdy contenders to assert the crown within the second leg of the collection.
Carrying the yellow jersey within the girls’s race will likely be Germany’s Daniela Oemus. She’ll have to fend off the likes of American Sophia Laukli, who made her mark final season successful the Stranda Fjord Path Race and ending second within the general rankings. Caitlin Fielder of New Zealand, who completed second finally 12 months’s Marathon du Mont-Blanc, will likely be seeking to enhance on her second-place end at Zegama this 12 months. Swiss runner Theres Leboeuf will attempt to hold the momentum going following her third-place end at Zegama.
All will likely be up towards powerful competitors within the girls’s race from Norway’s Sylvia Nordskar, China’s Miao Yao, Italy’s Fabiola Conti, Spain’s Ohiana Kortazar, France’s Mathilde Sagnes and American runner Tabor Hemming.
Following the Marathon du Mont-Blanc, the seven-race Golden Path World Collection will transfer to Italy for the Dolomyths Run on July 15, adopted by Sierre-Zinal in Switzerland on Aug. 12, the Pikes Peak Ascent within the U.S. on Sept. 16, the Mammoth 26K within the U.S. on Sept. 26 and the Golfo Dell’Isola Path Race in Italy on Oct. 19.
