Holly Ranson sets an Australian 24-hour record and the 3rd best female distance ever.
In a A weekend of Records and Podiums, Holly Ranson set a new Female Australian 24-hour record, recording 263.548 km /163.7 Miles when winning the Sri Chinmoy ultra track race in Canberra at the weekend, while there were wins for Fionna Pascall and Gemma Hillier-Jones at Chianti trail, ( by UTMB) in Italy. The Running Dan, Dan Lawson, came close to the mens GB 48 hour record too, Read on for more…
3rd Best All-Time Female 24-Hour Performance by Holly Ranson.
The distance is the third best by a female athlete. Only previous world record holders Miho Nakata, JPN, with 270.363 km and Camille Heron, USA, with 270.116 km, have run further.
The race was the Australian 24-hour championships and a key selection race for the world 24-hour championships to be held this October at Albi, France.
Ransom’s provisional intermediate splits (To be Confirmed ) were
Marathon 3:35:00
50 KM. 4:15:15
50 Miles 6:51:31
100km 8:34:17
100 Miles. 13:58:34
200 Km 17:41:42
250 Km 22:38:34
Ranson’s previous 24 hour distance was 238.546 Km from 2024 wher she split 100 miles in 13:32:05 and 200km i 17:02:11.
Joe Ward won the men’s race with 246.56 km.
Full Results. HERE
GB Trail runners excel in Italy with Victories at the Chianti Ultra Trails by UTMB
Fiona Pascall won the Ultra Trail Chianti Castles, by UTMB, over a 120km course with 5,200 metres of climb, in a time of 12:34:59. She finished 11th overall in a strong field, almost 20 minutes ahead of Finland’s Johanna Antillla. For Pascall, it continues to consolidate her reputation after victories in 2024 at The Mozart 100 and Wild Strubel by UTMB.
The men’s podium featured three former winers of the clssic UTMB race. 2023 UTMB champion and Western States 100 winner Jin Walmsley won in 9:59:48, comfortably ahead of four time UTMB winner, Kilian Jornet,who recorded 10:27:27. Jornet just held off Vincent Bouillard of France, the 2024 UTMB champion by 30 seconds. The Fenchman running 10:27:57
Chianti Trail 73km race
In the shorter Chianti trail race over 73km and 3,000 metres climb, Gemma Hillier-Moses had a breakthrough race, making it a British double, winning in a time of 7:02:09. She held off the experienced Rosanna Buchauer, GER, who ran 7:04:27 for second. Emily Smitz, USA, was third in 7:37:58.
Hillier-Moses, a former Loughborough student with a marathon best of 2:46:36, is relatively new to longer trail races. In putting Hillier-Moses run into perspective, Buchaeur was 3rd at last year’s CCC by UTMB and 5th at the 2023 World Trail Championship in Innsbruck.
Elsey Davis, who was in the lead group earlier in the race, held on for a solid 5th place at 7:31:20.
Germain Graingier of France won the race in 6:11:26, from Italy’s Davide Cheraz in 6:17:39. Dimitri Morel-Jean FRA was third in 6:18:00
Full Results. HERE
Dan Lawson runs second best distance by a UK male over 48 hours in Spain.
Former European 24-Hour champion, Dan Lawson, ran the second-best distance ever recorded by a British male runner over 48-hours. Running on a 1km road loop, at the Burjassot Ultra festival in Seville, he ran 395.329 Km?245.646 Miles. This was 6 km short of the current British all-time distance of 401.207km set by Richard Brown in 1991.
Lawson’s approximate 12 hour splits from completed lap times each hour were
0-12 Hours 131.995 Km
12-24 Hours 107.629 Km
24-36 Hours 81.426 Km
36-48 Hours 72.239 Km
The overall best British distance is held by Joasia Zakrzewski, who ran411.458/255.668MILES in February 2023.
Brown, now in the MV75 category, was also in the race, recording 223.513 km.
Brown’s wife Sandra, also FW75 won the women’s race recording 246.828 Km, narrowly missing her current FV75 world record of 247.301 km.
Current women’s 48 hour world record holder Camille Herron, had aimed to challenge her record of 435.336 km, but pulled out aftre completing 115km.
Full results HERE
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Adrian Tarit Stott.
The author is a former GB 24-hour ultra international with over 100 ultra race completions. He has also been involved in organising ultra-distance races for over 30 years. Still an active recreational runner, he is currently a member of UKA’s Ultra Running Advisory Group (URAG) and the Mountain and Trail Advisory Group. He also contributes as part of the selection and team management for both Scottish and GB ultra teams. A freelance writer in his spare time, he contributes articles and reports to several websites and magazines including Athletics Weekly and Irunfar.
