100K World Championships

This past Sunday was the IAU 100K World Championships in Italy. The US sent a men's and women's team and they both did well.

I followed the race via Twitter before running a marathon on Sunday. It was exciting to read the tweets on how the Americans were faring. After I finished the marathon, I was happy to read that the US women won the team champions and the men finished second. Besides the women's team winning, American Amy Sproston won the 100K individual championship in 7:34:08.

Finishing behind Sproston were two teammates. Meghan Arbogast finished fourth in 7:41:52. With that time, Arbogast broke a world record for 50 plus age group by 9 minutes. Pam Smith finished in fifth place in 7:43:04. Sproston, Arbogast and Smith won the IAU 100K team championship with a combined running time of 22:59:03. Placing second in the team championship was Japan in 23:44:02 and Russia was third.

The overall men's winner was Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy. Calcaterra finished in 6:23:20. The US men's team had three top 10 finishers. David Riddle (5th-6:45:19), Jon Olsen was 7th in 6:48:59 and Michael Wardian in 8th with a time of 6:48:59. The men's team finished second (20:23:09) behind Italy (20:06:41) and just in front of France (20:58:44).