Meenal Kotak (Photo: Shyam G Menon / file picture clicked in 2017)
India's Meenal Kotak wins 72-hour ultra-marathon in Milwaukee, USA
New Delhi-based ultra-runner Meenal Kotak has emerged the overall winner of the 72-hour ultra-marathon race at the Six Days in the Dome event held at Pettit National Ice Centre at Milwaukee from June 18 to 24, 2023.
She covered a distance of 235.3199 miles or 378.3107 kilometres during the stipulated 72 hours.
The six-day ultramarathon has races of differing distances such as six-day run, 72 hours, 48 hours, 24 hours and 12 hours.
In the 72-hour category, Lisa Georgis from the US finished second overall with a distance of 206.6627 (332.5914 km). The third finisher in this category was Ian Maddieson from the US with a mileage of 150.1749 miles (241.6831 km).
Runners were required to run in a loop of 443.445 metres.
Sampathkumar Subramanian (Photo: courtesy Sampathkumar)
World Mountain & Trail Running Championships / Two Indian runners, finish
Indian trail runners, participating in the World Mountain & Trail Running Championships held at Innsbruck-Stubai, Austria, finished at 139 and 140th position in the short trail event.
Sampathkumar Subramanian covered the distance of 45 kilometres (3200 metres of total elevation gain) in six hours, 35 minutes and 49 seconds. Sannat Sachdev finished the distance in 6:36:49 as per results on the race website.
The event was held from June 7 to 10, 2023.
Som Bahadur Thami, Indian runner for short trail, was listed as "did not show up" on the results website. Another Indian runner, Hemant Limbu, scheduled to do the long trail, was listed as DNS (did not start) on the website.
`` The trail run was quite tough but a great experience, running in the Alps," Sampathkumar told this blog. He had earlier participated in the World Mountain & Trail Running Championships held in November 2022 in Thailand.
2023 RAAM / Race enters final stages
As of June 23, the year's Race Across America, with three Indian cyclists in the solo category, was into its final stages.
Checked at noon, June 23, nine days since her solo cycling across the US commenced, race leader Isa Pulver of Switzerland, hailing from the female 50-59 age category of the event, had covered 2973.8 miles and was headed to the finish at Annapolis.
Lionel Poggio, also from Switzerland and belonging to the male 50-59 age category, was in second place having covered 2802.4 miles.
The Indian trio of Kabir Rachure, Srinivas Gokulnath and Amit Samarth – all slotted in the male under-50 age category, appeared to be doing well in terms of covering ground in the race.
With 2720.3 miles covered, Kabir was placed sixth overall among solo cyclists at 2023 RAAM (when checked at noon, June 23) and second in his age category. Interestingly, the top six was evenly divided between the genders. In 2021 Leah Goldstein of Canada had become the first woman to be overall winner at RAAM.
RAAM requires a solo participant to pedal roughly 3000 miles across the continental United States, from the west coast to the east. The cut off time is 12 days. Solo riders have support teams trailing them in a vehicle, making sure they and their cycles are looked after.
(The authors, Latha Venkatraman and Shyam G Menon, are independent journalists based in Mumbai.)
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