Western States 100: Courtney Dauwalter obliterates course document

The good Courtney Dauwalter astounded the ultra-trail world but once more on Saturday, on the fiftieth operating of the legendary Western States 100 (the oldest and most storied 100-mile race in North America) in Auburn, Cali. The Leadville, Colo., native not solely demolished a course document that had held for greater than a decade (beforehand 16:47:19 set by Canadian Ellie Greenwood in 2012), however beat a lot of the males within the race, ending in 15:29:33 and sixth general. Nice Britain’s Tom Evans gained the lads’s race in 14:40:22–the fourth quickest time within the historical past of the race.

Waaaahoaaa!!! What did you do Courtney! 👊 https://t.co/QxuQPIx4yz

— kilian jornet (@kilianj) June 25, 2023

Dauwalter was returning to WSER after a four-year absence (she ran 17:27:00 in 2018 and took a DNF in 2019), far surpassing her earlier time and everybody’s expectations. We knew she was good, however this good? Dauwalter now holds the course document at 4 of essentially the most prestigious races on the earth: UTMB, Diagonale des Fous on Reunion Island, Hardrock 100 and WSER.

Whereas @courtdauwalter will at all times encourage me along with her epic operating potential, the principle cause I like her a lot is that she at all times races with a lot pleasure. Stories all #WS100 of her smiling & thanking the crews and volunteers, after which beaming on the finish for her document. Brava, GOAT https://t.co/m18gq14Zo6

— Anne (CM) H (@Dr_Cupcake_PhD) June 25, 2023

Girls’s race

Dauwalter and 2022 UTMB champ Katie Schide of the U.S. pushed the tempo early within the race, main followers to take a position that they may each, probably, take down information. By the midway level, each Schide and Dauwalter have been forward of Greenwood’s 2012 splits, with Dauwalter 25 minutes away from the document, and he or she proceeded to extend that hole–coming into the midway level, Forest Hill, in eleventh general.

SECOND FASTEST TIME EVER

Katie Schide takes second place on the 2023 Western States 100 within the second quickest ladies’s efficiency within the historical past of the race in 16:43:45.#WS100 pic.twitter.com/2SxbDoUou6

— Singletrack (@runsingletrack) June 25, 2023

Dauwalter, who opted to run with out a pacer, then began shifting up via the lads’s leaders, leaving race commentators Dylan Bowman and Corrine Malcolm repeatedly with out phrases (as have been the some 13,000 followers tuning in to the reside stream). Second-place Schide additionally bested Greenwood’s course document, ending in 16:43:45, and an unprecedented 9 finishers of this yr’s occasion ran underneath 19:00 hours (the earlier finest was three).

Canadians Jenny Quilty of Vancouver and Edmonton’s Priscilla Forgie ran throughout the prime 10 for a lot of the race. Forgie managed her first 100-mile end in a speedy 17:46:34, edging out veterans of the game, adopted by Quilty in eleventh place in 18:49:13.

A comparatively new title to the worldwide scene in ultrarunning, Forgie has been smashing course information throughout Canada for the previous two years and followers might be trying ahead to watching her at CCC, UTMB’s 100K occasion, on the finish of the summer time.

In eighth on the 2023 Western States 100 is Priscilla Forgie in 17:46:34. #WS100 pic.twitter.com/P5BbO6rPIr

— iRunFar (@iRunFar) June 25, 2023

1. 1. Courtney Dauwalter 15:29:33
   2. Katie Schide 16:43:45
   3. Eszter Csillag 17:09:20
   4. Katie Asmuth 17:21:06
   5. Emily Hawgood 17:26:22
   6. Taylor Nowlin 17:40:11
   7. Ida Nilsson 17:43:34
   8. Priscilla Forgie 17:46:34
   9. Leah Yingling 17:49:00
   10. Meghan Morgan 18:11:32

Males’s race

With a few of the largest names within the sport not returning to WSER this yr (Kilian Jornet, Jim Walmsley) the lads’s race appeared to be up for grabs, with an unparalleled roster of achieved athletes beginning. The leaders and chase pack jostled for place within the early race, with Evans (who was third on the 2019 WSER in 14:59) taking the lead alongside fan favorite Dakota Jones (a local weather motion advocate who biked the almost 1,100 kilometres to the beginning of the race from his residence in Salt Lake Metropolis).

Tom Evans leads the 2023 Western States 100 at No Fingers Bridge, mile 97, in 14:07 elapsed. He is trying good with simply 3 miles to go. #WS100 pic.twitter.com/CbxDKy9qS6

— iRunFar (@iRunFar) June 25, 2023

Evans dropped Jones (who had pale to seventeenth place by the end) after Forest Hill and ran unchallenged to the end within the fourth-fastest time within the historical past of WSER. He was adopted by 2022 runner-up Tyler Inexperienced of Portland in 15:04:09 and Salt Lake Metropolis’s Anthony Costales in 15:09:16. Evans was the primary worldwide winner of UTMB since Spain’s Jornet led the race in 2011.

This occasion has extra followers than {most professional} observe meets. They usually says the space races are what bores the followers…. 🙄 👀 🧐 https://t.co/HdLiUhURjl

— Mrs. Scherman (@SchermsLHS) June 25, 2023

Quebec’s Mathieu Blanchard, recent off an unimaginable 2022 UTMB second-place end, ran his WSER debut in 15:37:02 for sixth place. He was an early chief, and maintained a top-10 standing for the whole thing of the race, pushing laborious for the end and dashing previous American runners Jeff Colt and Ryan Montgomery within the ultimate six miles. Blanchard has had a prolific racing season that included a third-place end at this yr’s Marathon des Sables.

Mathieu Blanchard (Salomon) crosses the road in sixth place on the 2023 Western States 100 in 15:37:02. #WS100 pic.twitter.com/03XYGL45sA

— iRunFar (@iRunFar) June 25, 2023

1. Tom Evans 14:40:22
2. Tyler Inexperienced 15:04:09
3. Anthony Costales 15:09:16
4. Jia-Sheng Shen 15:19:42
5. Daniel Jones 15:22:15
6. Mathieu Blanchard 15:37:02
7. Ryan Montgomery 15:38:35
8. Jeff Colt 15:42:09
9. Cole Watson 15:54:36
10. Janosch Kowalczyk 16:09:19

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