Sarah Webster and Dougie Selman prepared the ground in Bengalore this weekend however will face powerful 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, writes Adrian Stott.
The occasion may even incorporate the World Masters Affiliation Championships.
A group of 10 athletes, 4 males and 6 ladies, will signify Nice Britain and Northern Eire with a complete of 221 athletes entered from 31 nations.
The GB group options lots of the athletes who carried out nicely 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 group. She set a European file of seven:03:49 when successful the trial in Perth and will probably 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 will probably be scorching and humid and the course is across the College of Agricultural Sciences campus in Bengaluru, on an approximate 5km loop with runners masking 20 laps.
Data on the occasion, along with a full entry listing could be discovered on the IAU web site right here.
Within the ladies’s race, Floriane Scorching from France goals to defend the title she gained on the final version of the championship in Berlin in 2022. Additionally within the French group is Marie-Ange Brumelot, who recorded the quickest feminine 100km time on the earth for 2024 with 6:56:54 at Steenwerk in France in April.
Britain’s Webster must also be in podium competition as she has expertise operating in India finally 12 months’s IAU 50km championships, the place she took the bronze medal.
America has Courtney Olsen on their group. Olsen was fourth in Berlin in 2022 and just lately 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 listing.
Miho Nakata (IAU)
Japan look to have a stable group 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 group and may lead the problem for particular person and group medals.
Their group 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, must also contend for the rostrum. Together with his fellow compatriots, they are going to be trying to problem within the group standings as nicely.
America males’s group may even be in competition and so they embrace 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, must also be group medal contenders.Â
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