Sarah Webster and Dougie Selman cleared the path in Bengalore this weekend however will face robust worldwide opposition
The thirty second staging of the IAU World 100km Championships will happen on Saturday (Dec 7) within the southern Indian metropolis of Bengaluru.
The occasion will even incorporate the World Masters Affiliation Championships.
A workforce of 10 athletes, 4 males and 6 girls, will signify Nice Britain and Northern Eire with a complete of 221 athletes entered from 31 nations.
The GB workforce options lots of the athletes who carried out effectively within the trial, held throughout the Sri Chinmoy 100km race at Perth in March.
Sarah Webster, from the Isle of Man, leads the ladies’s workforce. She set a European document of seven:03:49 when successful the trial in Perth and might be backed up by Melissah Gibson and Julia Davis, who have been second and third at Perth, plus Caroline Turner.
The GB males are led by Edinburgh’s Dougie Selman and James Turner from Brighton. The 2 had an in depth race in Perth, with Selman lastly successful by 10 seconds in 6:34:28, to six:34:38. They’re joined by the third, fourth and fifth placers at Perth – Joe Turner, Chris Richardson and Alex Milne – plus 2023 UK 100km champion Jarlath McKenna.
Dougie Selman (Rob Sara)
Circumstances in Bengaluru might be sizzling and humid and the course is across the College of Agricultural Sciences campus in Bengaluru, on an approximate 5km loop with runners overlaying 20 laps.
Data on the occasion, along with a full entry checklist might be discovered on the IAU web site right here.
Within the girls’s race, Floriane Scorching from France goals to defend the title she received on the final version of the championship in Berlin in 2022. Additionally within the French workforce is Marie-Ange Brumelot, who recorded the quickest feminine 100km time on this planet for 2024 with 6:56:54 at Steenwerk in France in April.
Britain’s Webster also needs to be in podium rivalry as she has expertise operating in India eventually 12 months’s IAU 50km championships, the place she took the bronze medal.
The US has Courtney Olsen on their workforce. Olsen was fourth in Berlin in 2022 and not too long ago recorded a world finest time for 50 miles of 5:31:56 on the latest Tunnel Hill race within the USA.
The bronze medallist from Berlin, Eire’s Caitriona Jennings, can also be on the beginning checklist.
Miho Nakata (IAU)
Japan look to have a strong workforce led by Miho Nakata, the present IAU world 24-hour champion from 2023, who was sixth on the final IAU 100km championships in Berlin.
Japan, on paper, additionally has the strongest males’s workforce and may lead the problem for particular person and workforce medals.
Their workforce of Jumpei Yamaguchi, Tomoya Watanabe, Toru Somiya and Haruki Okayama have 4 of the highest six quickest 100km runners for 2024.
Frenchman Guillaume Ruel, fifth within the final championships and with the second quickest 100km time for 2024, also needs to contend for the rostrum. Along with his fellow compatriots, they are going to be trying to problem within the workforce standings as effectively.
The US males’s workforce will even be in rivalry they usually embody Charles Lawrence, who set a world finest time for 50 miles in November 2023.
Sweden’s males, led by Ollie Mejir, fifth within the 2024 rankings, and Elov Olssen, seventh in Berlin, also needs to be workforce medal contenders.
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