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mozart 100 2024 Results

5 June 2024

The mozart 100 by UTMB happened this past weekend (June 1, 2024) in Salzburg, Austria and when I say ‘it happened’, I mean, the weather royally f%^*&ed with the race organization and all the runners in. Via my friend Federico Hernandez on Mastodon:

…they had really bad weather during the weekend in Salzburg. the 100K and 80K races got rerouted to avoid exposure to the wind on one mountain. It rained through the entire racing time. On the first mountain they got surprised by an ice/hail storm. In the end the race was aborted/cancelled for the back of the pack runners (about one hundred or so) at the last aid station in Koppl before the descent to Salzburg because it would have been to dangerous to continue. All remaining runners were driven by busses to the finish line and were allowed to cross the line, get their medal and points).

What is weird to me, or maybe on point for UTMB, is that the official press email doesn’t mention any of this. Not sure what the strategy here is but it’s seems important and actually should be celebrated. The race organization and folks on the ground who made these decision which kept the volunteers and runners safe allow us to go out and challenge ourselves in a reasonable safe environment. What I am gathering from this it seems the race organization handled the situation as best as they could – safety always goes first – and rather then just telling racers that their finish would count, letting them actually run through the finish gate is a great touch in my opinion.

Check here for my pre-race coverage.

Below are the top finishers, for full results visit UTMB live:

mozart 100 (105K – 3 Stones)

Women:

  1. Fiona PASCALL – Great Britain – 12:06:04
  2. Claudia CHMIELOWSKA – Poland – 12:44:42
  3. Maryline NAKACHE – France – 12:52:32

Men:

  1. Jack CHAMBERLAIN – Great Britain – 11:19:37
  2. Paweł CZERNIAK – Poland – 11:28:17
  3. Carlo SALVETTI – Italy – 11:33:21

mozart Ultra (81K – 3 Stones)

Women:

  1. Cristina SANTURINO FONTECHA – Spain – 10:21:30
  2. Sara AMMANN – Switzerland – 10:50:10
  3. Katerina POSPISILOVA – Czech Republic – 11:00:11

Men:

  1. Zan ZEPIČ – Slovenia – 07:50:26
  2. Bernhard MACKNER – Austria – 08:15:15
  3. Tomáš FRANČE – Czech Republic – 08:45:19

mozart Marathon 50K (39K – 2 Stones)

Women:

  1. Nuria GIL CLAPERA – Spain – 03:35:14
  2. Gemma HILLIER-MOSES – Great Britain – 03:36:01
  3. Katarina LOVRANTOVA – Slovakia – 03:38:00

Men:

  1. Andrzej WITEK – Poland – 02:54:17
  2. Sven KOCH – Germany – 02:57:21
  3. Jonas HESTHAUG – Norway – 02:58:23

mozart Light (31K – 1 Stone)

Women:

  1. Magdalena BEDNARCZYK – Poland – 03:08:09
  2. Marta LIPNICKA – Poland – 03:30:19
  3. Katherine SANDERSON – USA – 03:38:35

Men:

  1. Lukas SCHAIDREITER – Austria – 02:51:30
  2. Benjamin RIVIERE – France – 02:51:39
  3. Bartosz GRZEGORCZYK – Poland – 03:06:31

mozart Half Marathon (21K – 1 Stone)

Women:

  1. Nadine HÜBEL – Germany – 02:02:22
  2. Juni ARNEKLEIV – Norway – 02:03:36
  3. Nina BROCCARD – Switzerland – 02:10:45

Men:

  1. Mike FÖLSNER – Austria – 01:49:09
  2. Alvin ALEXANDRE – France – 01:51:12
  3. Jakub BARTECKI – Poland – 01:51:24

mozart City Trail (9K – No Stones)

Women:

  1. Natalia GAIK – Poland – 00:45:45
  2. Sarah VOELKEL-SCHAFFENRATH – Germany – 00:50:44
  3. Elizabeth BULKELEY-BYE – Great Britain – 00:54:23

Men:

  1. Lukáš KOPERDÁK – Slovakia – 00:41:05
  2. Ramiro FOGLIA – Argentina – 00:41:17
  3. Michael SEYSS-INQUART – Austria – 00:41:35

Extra special kudos to all runners to dealt with this insane conditions! Overall mozart100 saw 2,705 starters and 2,394 finishers for all the events combined, except the Relay: mozart100 was also offering a 100k relay race, but this event only had 17 teams in it and it seems it won’t be offered in 2025. I left these folks out of the numbers and rankings. Although one of the teams was called ‘Team Aperol’, so a special mentioned goes out to them.

Below are the numbers broken down by distance and gender:

  • 105K* Starters: 686 – DNF: 204 – Finishers: 490 W: 45 (9%) M: 437 (89%)
  • 81K* Starters: 438 – DNF: 74 – Finishers: 364 W: 65 (18%) M: 299 (82%)
  • 39K Starters: 748 – DNF: 24 – Finishers: 728 W: 209 (29%) M: 519 (71%)
  • 31K Starters: 339 – DNF: 9 – Finishers: 330 W: 126 (38%) M: 204 (62%)
  • 21K Starters: 365 – DNF: 12 – Finishers: 353 W: 168 (48%) M: 185 (52%)
  • 9K Starters: 129 – DNF: 1 – Finishers: 128 W: 74 (58%) M: 54 (42%)

In total the event saw 2,394 finishers. 687 (29%) women and 1,698 (71%) men reached the finish line and folks running Index and Stones eligible races earned themselves their respective stones and an UTMB index (or directly punched their ticket to the Finals in Chamonix for 2025).

*I combined the numbers of the two events UTMB had to list separately due to the weather shutdown.

Next up on the UTMB World Series Calendar we’re heading to the island of Tenerife in the Atlantic Ocean for the 13th edition of the Tenerife Bluetrail on June 6-8. Here’s to hoping for better weather.

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