By Mathias Eichler
Run the iconic Mount Ellinor on Aug 5, 2023 in the Olympic Mountains.
Run the iconic Mount Ellinor on Aug 5, 2023 in the Olympic Mountains.
Alright, we’re keeping a theme here. The Eiger Ultra Trail (by UTMB) is happening July 13-17th in the Swiss Alps. To not constantly focus on Hardrock 100, which gets overblown media attention anyways, I thought I’d look at another big race and compare the gender/sex split for the runners entered.
The Eiger Ultra Trail has four main races during their 5 day event. (I did not count the couples race, or their new E250 team race in this calculation).
There are a total of 3,544 runners on the starting list, 1,135 are women or 32% of the total.
This breaks down as follow for the various races:
I have a theory on why the big distances have such low participation by women: It’s called patriarchy in the family home.
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