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Tarawera Ultramarathon 100km – Results

 

The 2nd step of the Ultra-Trail® World Tour 2015 is complete.

 

When the runners headed into the Redwoods close to Rotorua on New Zealand’s north island last Saturday conditions were ideal.

Opposed to last year’s tropical cyclone Lusi, the 2015 edition presented itself in beautiful running weather with blue skies and temperatures around 15-20 °C.

 

Though the Tarawera Ultramarathon is known to be a rather fast 100km ultra, most spectators probably did not anticipate the time that Dylan Bowman (USA) eventually finished in, winning the event in a new course record of 7:44:58.

 

Let’s go over that time again: 7:44:58!

That is about a 4:40min average per KM. And remember, Dylan ran this on partly quite technical trails including roughly 3,000m of elevation gain. We are in awe!

 

Runner-up was Jorge Maravilla (USA) in a time of 8:01:45. Yoshikazu Hara (JPN), a 24h-event specialist, completed the podium after 8:12:14.

 

 

MALE TOP10:

Ranking		Family name	Name	Nationality	Birthdate		Team/Club	Time
1		BOWMAN	Dylan	USA	1986		The North Face	07:44:58
2		MARAVILLA	Jorge	USA	1977		Hoka One One	08:01:45
3		HARA	Yoshikazu	JPN	1972		Hoka One One	08:12:14
4		ARMSTRONG	Vajin	NZL	1980		Macpac	08:26:50
5		WARDIAN	Mike	USA	1974		Hoka One One	08:32:38
6		BARTOLO	Pau	ESP	1978		Buff	08:42:46
7		BRITTON	Robert	GBR	1986		Inov-8	08:45:10
8		TRUSCOTT	Chris	AUS	1974		New Balance	08:58:17
9		HANCY	Anthony	NZL	1984		Hoka One One	09:08:26
10		RAMONAS	Andrius	LTU	1982		Salomon	09:12:48

 

 

For the women, New Zealand local Ruby Muir proved her fantastic form in a time of 9:02:45 after battling injuries in 2014. She placed 9th overall.

Ruth Croft (NZL) followed not much later in 9:14:36 and ultra-trail legend Núria Picas-Albets (ESP) rounded it up in 9:40:49.

 

 

 

FEMALE TOP10:

Ranking		Family name	Name	Nationality	Birthdate		Team/Club	Time
1		MUIR	Ruby	NZL	1991			09:02:45
2		CROFT	Ruth	NZL	1989		The North Face Taiwan	09:14:36
3		PICAS-ALBETS	Nuria	ESP	1976		Buff Pro Team	09:40:49
4		HAYVICE	Fiona	NZL	1975			09:57:33
5		KOWALEWSKI	Kovo	NZL	1984			09:57:45
6		STEPHENSON	Shona	AUS	1978		Inov-8	09:59:58
7		HOLLEY	Jackie	NZL	1974			10:15:54
8		VAUGHT	Joelle	USA	1974			10:24:57
9		BARNEY	Lucie	AUS	1985			10:34:13
10		BEAUMONT	Jean	NZL	1964			10:46:29

 

 

In the overall ranking of the UTWT Dylan Bowman is now in a shared 1st place with Vibram® Hong Kong 100 winner Long-Fei Yan.

For the women Ruby Muir drew level with Pui-Yan Chow in 1st.

 

Though the first 2 events were only weeks apart we are already seeing some determined runners finishing both of them and therefore also ranking high in the overall results.

Keep up the great work!

 

The full results of the 2015 Tarawera Ultramarathon 100km as well as the overall UTWT ranking are now available HERE!

 

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