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UTMB CCC: Thibaut Garrivier and Marta Molist Codina win 100km in Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix
- Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc’s 101km Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix men’s race features three-way battle after blistering start
- Stian Angermund of Norway was outpacing the trackers before French runners took control
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The “Little Sister” of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc – the 101km Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix (CCC) – was won by Thibaut Garrivier of France, who broke a course record, and Marta Molist Codina of Spain, running her first 100km race on Friday.
With perfect conditions for a fast race, the battle for the men’s title was expected to be between defending champion Luis Alberto Hernando from Spain and Stian Angermund of Norway.
The Norwegian, a shorter distance and vertical race specialist, began his first ever 100-km race in the lead.
Angermund was even outpacing the tracking algorithm, turning up at checkpoints faster than predicted.
A new men’s course record, bettering the 10 hours 24 minutes by Hayden Hawks in 2016, looked a certainty – though not the women’s, where the 11 hours and 57 minutes set by Chinese runner Yao Miao when she won the 2018 event seems untouchable.
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