Golden Trail World Series 2024 Events Announced

From L’Equipe, translated, these are the locations for the 2024 Salomon’s marketing effort:

April 20-21: Kobe Trail – 21 km / 1,615 m D + – Kobe, Japan
April 27: Four Girls Mountain Trail – 21 km / 1,423 m D + – Sichuan, China
May 26: Zegama-Aizkorri – 42 km / 2,736 m D + – Zegama, Spain
June 30: Mont-Blanc Marathon – 42 km / 2,540 m D + – Chamonix, France
August 10: Sierre-Zinal – 31 km / 2,200 m D + – Sierre, Switzerland
August 17: Tatra Sky Marathon – 28 km / 1,770 m D + – Kocielisko, Poland
September 14-15: Headlands – 28 km / 1,304 m D + – Marin County, United States
September 22: Mammoth Trail Fest – 26 km / 1,250 m D + – Mammoth Lakes, United States
October 17-20: Ascona – Locarno – 23,5 km / 1,400m D + – Acorna, Switzerland

There’s a sort of interesting scheduling strategy emerging: Two dates in the early season in Asia – runners could potentially combine these two event on one trip. The same with the August dates for Sierre-Zinal and the newly appointed Tatra Sky Marathon and the Fall dates in the US, each just a week apart.

I tried finding the websites for each of the races. The Headlands one seems… brand new? Rebranded?

Edit: According to my sources ‘The Headlands’ is a rebranded race moved from the August date and 50K distance to become a new shorter distance (28K) Golden Trail Series event. So it seems no race directors were harmed in this new race announcement by a multinational corporation, phew.