Wildstrubel 2024 Results

Wildstrubel in Crans-Montana Switzerland made its name proud with wild weather conditions over the weekend (September 12-15) making for wild racing and lots of last minute race and course changes. Again, frustrating as this make be for the runners, safety in the mountains always goes first and as long as the organization honors the stones one hopes to get even on an altered course things seem fair. As a double side note, I love the name “Wildstrubel”. The event is named after the Wildstrubel massif in the Bernese Alps. And no, Crans-Montana is not pronounced the way you think it would be. Also, the event is, if I am not mistaken one of the very few UTMB events that was started as a new event in 2022, as supposed to an already existing event which UTMB took over. Here are the full results on the UTMB website, below the top runners by race:

Wild 110 (72km, altered course):

Women:

1. Fiona PASCALL – Great Britain – 08:47:01
2. Laura SESKIENE – Lituania – 09:30:15
3. Mathilde DUFOUR – France – 09:49:09

Men:

1. Are FETVEIT – Norway – 07:53:02
2. Max DAUBE – Australia – 08:06:01
3. Adrien LEBRETON – France – 08:15:59

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Wild 70:

Women:

1. Julie ROUX – France – 07:39:38
2. Lena LAUKNER – Germany – 07:52:46
3. Miria MEINHEIT – Germany – 08:15:11

Men:

1. Þorbergur JÓNSSON – Island – 06:47:52
2. Lucas NANCHEN – Switzerland – 06:53:31
3. Camille POUTIER – France – 07:08:46

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Wild 50:

Women:

1. Yngvild KASPERSEN – Norway – 03:19:18
2. Jessica BRAZEAU – USA – 03:27:50
3. Astrid HOCHART – France – 03:32:42

Men:

1. Jonathan ALBON – Great Britain – 02:59:27
2. Loïc ROLLAND – France – 03:05:22
3. Nicolas MARTIN – France – 03:07:13

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Wild 25:

Women:

1. Maëlle BEAUVIR – France – 02:52:54
2. Courtney BARNES – USA – 02:56:31
3. Anouk GAVILLET – Switzerland – 03:05:16

Men:

1. Gedeon POCHAT – France – 02:24:16
2. Cesar COSTA – Switzerland – 02:29:39
3. Valentin CHUARD – Switzerland – 02:30:47

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Below are the numbers broken down by distance and gender:

• Wild 110 Starters: 854 – DNF: 123 – Finishers: 731. Women: 62 (8%), Men: 670 (92%).
• Wild 70 Starters: 828 – DNF: 90 – Finishers: 738. Women: 132 (18%), Men: 607 (82%).
• Wild 50 Starters: 1103 – DNF: 30 – Finishers: 1073. Women: 266 (25%), Men: 807 (75%).
• Wild 25 Starters: 1225 – DNF: 22 – Finishers: 1204. Women: 444 (37%), Men: 760 (63%).
• Wild 10 Starters: 405 – DNF: 1 – Finishers: 404. Women: 228 (56%), Men: 176 (44%).

In total Wildstrubel by UTMB saw 4,415 starters (not counting their kids events) and 4,150 finishers – and given the weather conditions this is a pretty astonishing number. 1,132 (27%) women and 3,021 (73%) 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 on UTMB World Series Calendar is another triple header with South America’s Paraty Brazil on September 19-22, Julian Alps Trail Run in Slovenia on September 20-22 and the Grindstone Trail Running Festival in Natural Chimneys Park, Virginia, USA on September 20-22.