The IAU is organizing its 2nd 50km World Trophy Final on August 29th 2010 in Galway, Ireland.<\/p>\n
The race field assembled is one of the fastest 50kers starts list of all times. With seven male athletes having run under 3 hours and another seven female athletes under 3h 40min, the race promises to be an exciting and a fast one.<\/p>\n
We will carry Live Updates on our site, please tune in to http:\/\/www.iau-ultramarathon.org For interviews on-site, click under \u201cAthletes\u201d section.<\/p>\n
This is the 1st time that IAU has held an international IAU event in Ireland. Next year,
\nConnemara is hosting the 3rd IAU World Trail Challenge. The 50km World Trophy Final
\nis taking place under the leadership of the Galway City Marathon & 50km.<\/p>\n
The City of Galway is situated on the west coast of Ireland and is one of the fastest
\ngrowing cities in the nation. It is a short 2 hour drive from Dublin and is known as
\nIreland\u2019s Cultural Heart.<\/p>\n
There were thirteen selection races held from Canada and Argentina to Japan and
\nAustralia to select athletes for the World Trophy Final. The criteria for selection included
\na sub 3:20 (men) and sub 3:50 (women) run. The winners of the series races were
\nautomatically selected and following the preliminary selections the fastest finishers were
\ninvited until the selection pool was filled. In addition a few runners had invitations
\nextended on the basis of their marathon times.<\/p>\n
The race is organized on two half marathon loops followed by four short loops around the
\ncentre of the city to complete the 50km. The course is undulating but with lengthy flat
\nsections. The most challenging part of the course is a hill present at 13km (and again at
\n34km) that is a kilometre long.<\/p>\n
In addition to the 50km World Trophy Final, the race organizers are also running an
\nOpen 50km event and the inaugural marathon.<\/p>\n
With the top seven male runners having run under 3 hours and another top seven women
\nrun under 3:40, this race promises to be an exciting one.<\/p>\n
Top Men:
\n1) Joseph Mphuthi RSA 2:50:09
\n2) Collen Makaza ZIM 2:50:45
\n3) Sandile Ngunuzza RSA 2:53:14
\n4) Peter Muthubi RSA 2:53:51
\n5) Michael Wardian USA 2:55:50
\nLast years\u2019 winner of the Final (in Gibraltar) is also present: Lucas Nonyana RSA 2:58:03<\/p>\n
Top Women:
\n1) Irene Kalter NED 3:32:54
\n2) Helen Taranowski GBR 3:35:54
\n3) Paola Sanna ITA 3:35:56
\n4) Monica Carlin ITA 3:37:10
\n5) Mary Coordt USA 3:38:00<\/p>\n
Nadeem Khan De verrichtingen van Irene Kalter zijn via \u2018live updates\u2019 op de IAU site te volgen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niet-gecategoriseerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultraned.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIAU Director of Communications
\nnadeem.khan