By Mathias Eichler
Sponsor:
The Trail Running Film Festival presented by Brooks -
Back on Tour for 2025.
The Trail Running Film Festival presented by Brooks -
Back on Tour for 2025.
Chianti was the first of two UTMB World Series events this past weekend, Valhöll Fin del Mundo in Argentina the other. The Chianti Castles 120K race, a Western States Golden Ticket event had folks talking for weeks. Several elite men found themselves in Italy’s wine country of Tuscany to chase their hope of getting to race Western States this year. Among them Jim (who didn’t need the ticket as previous year’s winner) Walmsley, Kilian (just became a father for the 3rd time) Jornet and Vincent (now we know who he is) Bouillard. They finished in this order and that big exciting race didn’t really happen, but everyone who wanted it got their Golden Tickets. For everyone else, there were a lot of rolling hills, vineyards, and lots and lots of muddy pre-season trails.
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All in all Chianti Ultra Trail by UTMB saw a total 3,742 starters and 3,454 finishers. 834 (24%) women and 2,620 (76%) men reached the finish line and earned themselves their respective stones and an UTMB index (or directly punched their ticket to the Finals in Chamonix for 2025).
Next up is Tenerife Bluetrail in Spain on March 27-29, 2025.
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