Greater than a decade after successful the 2012 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB, Dakota Jones returned to the Spanish island of Los angeles Palma to earn his moment victory within the 2023 version. Within the girls’s race, adorned Italian mountain runner Martina Valmassoi got here away victorious.
The 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon introduced ability in combination from world wide. Significantly, by contrast to greater than a decade of robust performances from the host nation, no Spanish guy completed within the most sensible 10 (Ignasi Ferrer was once 14th), whilst Cristina Santurino was once the highest Spanish girl in tenth.
Earlier than break of day on Saturday morning, Might 6, from El Faro de Fuencaliente, the south tip of Los angeles Palma island, Transvulcania fired off and runners raced for the sky. By the point the 72-kilometer (44.7 miles) route concluded within the town of Los Llanos de Aridane at the island’s west facet, contributors racked up some 4,600 meters (15,000 ft) of hiking. All through that distance, they ran thru volcanic cinder, over lava rocks, a number of the island’s well-known banana plantations, over the island’s roughly 2,420-meter (7,940 ft) top level, and at the race route’s notorious descent from that top level to sea stage.
Dakota Jones after incomes his moment win on the 2023 Transvulcania Ultramrarathon through UTMB. Photograph: Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB
2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB Girls’s Race
As soon as issues shook out over the primary two hours, the 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon became a three-woman race. Poland’s Edyta Lewandowska was once the pacesetter at the girls’s facet, going thru Los Canarios seven kilometers into the race in 49:19, a complete two mins forward of South Africa’s Meg Mackenzie and Martina Valmassoi of Italy. From there, Lewandowska endured to carry a two-to-four-minute lead over Valmassoi in moment regardless that El Reventón (31 kilometers), whilst Mackenzie settled into 3rd, operating through herself within the girls’s race.
Because the race endured its relentless climb, Lewandowska added to her lead over Valmassoi, increasing it to seven mins at 37k, 12 mins at 46k, and 14.5 mins on the race’s top level of Roque de los Muchachos (51k).
And, then, Valmassoi began descending. Wow. Simply 9 kilometers later on the checkpoint of Torre del Time, Valmassoi had reduce a complete 13 mins off of Lewandowska’s lead, trailing through simply a minute and a part. Rapid ahead to the following checkpoint within the beach the town of Tazacorte at 68k and Valmassoi had a 13-minute lead on Lewandowska with not up to 5 kilometers to head. Recreation over.
Martina Valmassoi gained the 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon in 9:09:13. Edyta Lewandowska held directly to moment, completing in a time of 9:21:40, whilst Meg Mackenzie endured onto to the end in Los Llanos de Aridane in her long-held 3rd place in 9:28:06.
Significantly, Mackenzie was once a complete part an hour in the back of Lewandowska on the race’s highpoint at 51k, and closed the space to only seven and a part mins on the end.
Martina Valmassoi after her win of the 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB. Photograph: Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB
2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB Girls’s Effects
- Martina Valmassoi (Italy) – 9:09:13
- Edyta Lewandowska (Poland) – 9:21:40
- Meg Mackenzie (South Africa) – 9:28:06
- Francesca Pretto (Italy) – 9:33:48
- Michelle Buncke (U.S.) – 9:59:38
- Alix-Anne Farque (France, lives in Spain) – 10:08:45
- Alessandra Boifava (Italy) – 10:10:09
- Miria Meinheit (Germany) – 10:12:26
- Elisabeth Borgersen (Norway) – 10:17:39
- Cristina Santurino (Spain) – 10:45:00
The 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB girls’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Edyta Lewandowska, 1. Martina Valmassoi, and three. Meg Mackenzie. Photograph: Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB
2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB Males’s Race
By means of the second one assist station at Las Deseadas at 17k, the boys’s podium shaped on the head of the race, even supposing that wasn’t transparent on the time, with France’s Damien Humbert, Dakota Jones of the U.S., and Italian runner Andreas Reiterer on the head of the race. Fourteen kilometers later at El Reventón (31k), Reiterer and Jones had a few-second lead on Humbert.
From there, Jones made what would turn out to be the decisive transfer of the race, hanging greater than a minute on Humbert and 4 on Reiterer through Punta de los Roques at 37k. Jones added a small quantity to his lead because the race endured to climb to its highpoint at Roque de los Muchachos (51k) after which temporarily added much more to his lead firstly of the just about 8,000-foot descent from top to ocean.
After the reasonably small climb again to the end in Los Llanos de Aridane, Dakota Jones gained in 7:02:16 with Damien Humbert taking moment precisely 8 mins later in 7:10:16. After spending the second one part of the race operating on my own in 3rd, Andreas Reiterer held onto that place, completing in 7:17:26.
The 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB males’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Damien Humbert, 1. Dakota Jones, and three. Andreas Reiterer. Photograph: Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB
2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB Males’s Effects
- Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 7:02:16
- Damien Humbert (France) – 7:10:16
- Andreas Reiterer (Italy) – 7:17:26
- Ionel Manole (Romania) – 7:22:46
- Germain Grangier (France) – 7:26:52
- Davide Cheraz (Italy) – 7:29:02
- Jeff Mogavero (U.S.) – 7:32:55
- Tim Tollefson (U.S.) – 7:39:22
- Tobias Geiser (Italy) – 7:43:30
- Sebastian Krogvig (Norway) – 7:52:02
The beginning of the 2023 Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB. Photograph: Transvulcania Ultramarathon through UTMB
