Rémi Bonnet and Tove Alexandersson win the Marathon du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix
Bonnet ran 3:33:14 for 42 km and 2,540 m of climbing, two and a half minutes clear of Frédéric Tranchand; Alexandersson won the women's race by 23 minutes.
Photograph: Rémi Bonnet at Sierre-Zinal 2022, by Johann Conus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsRémi Bonnet of Switzerland won the 42 km du Mont-Blanc in Chamonix on Sunday in 3:33:14. The marathon is the race that closes the Mont-Blanc weekend: 42 km with 2,540 m of climbing. Frédéric Tranchand of France was second, about two and a half minutes back, and Spain's Manuel Merillas third. Adrien Briffod of Switzerland was fourth in 3:46:20 and Kenya's Kevin Kibet fifth in 3:46:42. The results list 2,299 finishers.
Tove Alexandersson of Sweden won the women's race in 3:55:07 and was 11th overall. Ida Amélie Robsahm was second in 4:18:28 and Naomi Lang third in 4:21:23.
The weekend had already seen the 90 km on Friday, won by Louison Coiffet in 9:37:22, and on the 23 km course Benjamin Polin of France and Oria Liaci of Switzerland won in about 2:06 and 2:26.
Bonnet is the best uphill runner of his generation and a 42 km with 2,540 m of up is his sort of marathon. Alexandersson's 23-minute margin says she has stopped being a visitor to the sport.
Sources: UTMB Index results; Finishers; iRunFar.
