Courtney Dauwalter blasts Hardrock 100 course record
No one else in the history of the two races has set course records at both Western States and Hardrock in the same year
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At 8:14 a.m. local time Saturday, after trailing the leader at the Hardrock 100 in Colorado’s San Juan mountains for the first 64 miles, Courtney Dauwalter of Leadville, Colo., overtook Anne-Lise Rousset Seguret of Thorens-Glières, France and held the lead for an historic win, crossing the finish line in fourth place overall in 26 hours, 14 minutes and eight seconds and shattering the counter-clockwise women’s course record. This comes just three weeks after Dauwalter took an hour off the course record at Western States Endurance Run, finishing sixth overall in 15:29:33.
Note: This story has been updated.
Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz of Saint Jorioz, France took the overall win in 23 hours and seven seconds.
Seguret finished second, a little over an hour behind Dauwalter (27:29:55), after a heroic effort not to be caught by the world’s most dominant ultratrail racer. Her time is the fifth fastest ever. Annie Hughes, also of Leadville, finished third, in 32:13:03.
Benat Marmissolle of Tardets Sorholus, France, finished second overall, in 23:50:06, with Javier Dominguez of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, rounding out the men’s podium in 26:12:01.
According to iRunFar, Dauwalter’s course record is more than an hour faster than the counter-clockwise record set by Diana Finkel of South Fork, Colo., in 2009, and 30 minutes faster than Dauwalter’s own overall women’s course record set last year. She also holds the course record at Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB).
iRunFar also pointed out that the combined time for Dauwalter’s historic double (41:43:42) is almost 30 minutes faster than Jeff Browning’s from 2016.
Courtney Dauwalter set the Western States 100 course record of 15:29:34 three weeks ago.
Today, she set a course record at the Hardrock 100 in 26:14:08, for a combined time of 41:43:42.
This resets the overall record for this double of 42:12:43 (Jeff Browning, 2016). #HR100 pic.twitter.com/kcDAoEDev6
— iRunFar (@iRunFar) July 15, 2023
As of 8:50 p.m. E.T. Saturday, Becky Bates, 61, of Kimberley, B.C., was the only Canadian resident who had finished; Bates had moved up several places from earlier in the day and finished an impressive seventh in the women’s race, in 36:15:58–smashing Pam Reed’s 60-69 age group record by six hours. (Bates also holds the 50-59 age group record, which she set in 2017.) Reed herself pulled off a rare and impressive triple this year, racing Western States, Badwater 135 and Hardrock; she finished Hardrock in 47:19:36.
Men’s top 10 finishers
- Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz (France) 23:00:07
- Benat Marmissolle (France) 23:50:06
- Javier Dominguez (Spain) 26:12:01
- Arlen Glick (USA) 26:43:05
- Jeff Browning (USA) 27:17:02
- Paul Terranova (USA) 27:54:40
- Brian Culmo (USA) 28:57:09
- Mark Hammond (USA) 29:54:16
- Dylan Bowman (USA) 30:25:40
- Chris Price (USA) 30:46:11
Top women
At the time of publication, only the top three women had reached the finish.
1. Courtney Dauwalter (USA) 26:14:08
2. Anne-Lise Rousset Seguret (France) 27:29:55
3. Annie Hughes (USA) 32:13:03
4. Kimino Miyazaki (Japan) 34:17:16
5. Claire Bannwarth (France) 34:51:48
6. Whitney Mickelsen (USA) 35:13:10
7. Becky Bates (Canada) 36:15:58
8. Christina Bauer (USA) 36:17:55
9. Emily Halnon (USA) 36:47:44
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