Ultra runner won the women's race at the Nice Côte d'Azur by UTMB over the weekend amid a serious bid to come first overall. The Colorado-based runner headed to France last week to participate in the 100-mile race, saying she wanted to "see what’s left in the tank for the 2024 race season." This year has already seen her set the women's course record in the Hardrock 100 and and take first in the .
As it turns out, the runner had quite a bit of mileage left in those legs. Dressed in her customary attire of baggy , a bright orange T-shirt and her , Dauwalter took up the women's lead from the start of the race on Friday at 12 p.m.
, maintaining a comfortable third place for the first couple of hours with Italy's Enrica Dematteis hot on her heels. After a couple of hours, Dauwalter dropped back a few spaces, but by 10 p.m.
, she was in second place overall Dauwalter spent the night chasing frontman Cristofer Clemente Mora of Spain and in the end finished less than 15 minutes behind him in 21:35:57, coming an astonishing second overall. Third-placed Nicolas Cerisier from France arrived at the finish line nearly an hour behind Dauwalter while in the end, Dematteis took second place in the women's race a full five hours behind Dauwalter. It's been a flawless year for the queen of ultra running, whose performance over the weekend trumps even her third-place overall victory at Mt Fuji.
Though she sat out the Mont Blanc 100-miler and lost her crown to , she's now taken first in four .
