Remigio Huaman Quispe (Peru) and Alyssa Clark (United States of America) have won the 100 miles race of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Quispe needed 16 hours, 20 minutes and 20 seconds to run the 152 kilometres and climb the 5.300 metres between Mascota and Puerto Vallarta. Clark ran a strong race. With her 21:38:51 the American On Trail ultra runner finished fifth overall.
Puerto Vallarta, part of the UTMB World Series, never became a competition between the strongest (South and Central) American ultra runners of this moment. The difference in class was too big for that. Remigio Huaman Quispe led the men’s race from the start, and also Alyssa Clark soon knew she was going to win, if nothing went wrong.
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Quispe leads from start to finish
At the first timing point, after 10,5 kilometres of running and 1.331 metres of climbing, Quispe was already leading and for the next 14 hours that lead was only growing. The only athlete who could stay a little close to the Adidas Terrex runner was Samuel Collins. But close is very relative, because the American ultra runner finished precisely 1 hour and 1 second behind Quispe in third place, clocking 17:20:21.
Steven Doll was the only other runner who finished within 20 hours. The American trail runner clocked 18:57:46. Every other ultra runner needed twenty hours or more.
Clark versus Hogan
Alyssa Clark, the number eleven of this year’s UTMB and last year’s winner of The Canyons Endurance Runs 100 miles, was up against Kelsey Hogan. The Canadian ultra runner finished 25th this year at UTMB, so the question was could she beat Clark this time. The answer was clear pretty quickly. Clark was just too fast. In the end almost one hour and fifty minutes faster; 21:38:51 versus 23:29:41.
Marisol Arteaga Serrano completed the podium. The Mexican trail runner needed 27 hours, 49 minutes and 56 seconds.
Translantau Hong Kong
Terunobu Kurokawa (Japan) and Johanna Antila (Finland) were the fastest ultra runners at the Translantau 100 miles races in Hong Kong, that’s part of the UTMB World Series as well. Antila needed twenty hours, 54 minutes and 44 seconds for the 129 kilometres of running and 5.800 metres of climbing. Kurokawa did it in 17:16:41.
Just like Kurokawa Zhaoying Liu (China) managed to stay under 18 hours. The Chinese Kailas Fuga runner finished in 17:47:44. Xingzhi Bai, also from China, finished third in 18:11:42.
Antila in top 10
Johanna Antila finished tenth overall, almost half an hour ahead of Xiaoqing Sun, who came in as second woman. Sun (Hong Kong) needed 21:21:09. The third place was for Junyue Zheng (China), in 22:39:44.
Photo: UTMB
You can find all the results from Puerto Vallarta here and the results of Translantau here.
