UTMB 2024 Results

Here are the results for the “QUEEN EVENT” of the UTMB week. The race that started it all 21 years ago. The race that is still the biggest in numbers and the one that draws the most spectators in Chamonix, as well as online. The race with THAT starting song, the race that starts with much fanfare in downtown Chamonix and ends under that blue arch in the same location. It’s a beautiful and brutal route and an incredible production. There much more to be said about all this, much much more, but for now, here are the results for the 2024 edition, and here’s a link to the full results.

Men:

1. Vincent BOUILLARD – France – 19:54:23
2. Baptiste CHASSAGNE – France – 20:22:45
3. Joaquin LOPEZ – Ecuador – 20:26:22
4. Hannes NAMBERGER – Germany – 20:31:54
5. Ludovic POMMERET – France – 20:57:48

Women:

1. Katie SCHIDE – USA – 22:09:31
2. Ruth CROFT – New Zealand – 22:48:37
3. Marianne HOGAN – Canada – 23:11:15
4. Lin CHEN – China – 24:16:33
5. Blandine L HIRONDEL – France – 24:35:54

The race organization called for the “Mandatory Hot Weather Kit” and the temperatures were hot in the valleys and on the trails, just like for CCC and OCC. If that was the reason so many of the top runners dropped is being hotly debated online right now, but overall there were 2,761 Starters, 1,001 DNFs and 1,760 Finishers. That overall drop rate is somewhat in line with previous years, so not terribly unusual. 205 (12%) women and 1,555 (88%) men finished the race. For the top trail running event in the world having only 12% women at the event is just not great and this sad number is certainly felt in town and on the trails. Trail running needs more women at the starting lines everywhere, period, but this is also something that can’t be fixed overnight and it will take time.

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Here are the results for CCC, OCC, TDS, MCC, ETC, and PTL.