The lottery for the 2024 Western States 100 befell on Saturday, December 2, 2023, in California.
The Western States 100 runs the 100-mile size of the long-lasting Western States Path, via the Sierra Nevada vary in California. The web downhill race, with its 22,000 toes of descending and 18,000 toes of climbing, is thought for warm situations and warmer competitors.
For this 12 months, an unbelievable 9,388 folks utilized for the lotto. With simply 375 locations on the beginning line out there for 2024, it is without doubt one of the most sought-after races within the ultrarunning world, attracting elites and leisure runners alike from world wide.
Whereas roughly two thirds of the sphere will get in through the lottery, most elites safe their place through one other means.
On this article, we break down the record of high runners who’ve gained entry to the 2024 Western States 100 via numerous means, and we are going to replace this text as extra quick runners safe locations.
Right here’s the record of runners chosen within the 2024 Western States 100 lottery.
The beginning of the 2022 Western States 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Males’s Prime-10 Returnees for the 2024 Western States 100
The highest 10 runners within the 2023 race have been invited to return for 2024. Eight have claimed their entries, and two haven’t.
Tom Evans (U.Okay) – 14:40:22(pre-race and post-race interviews)- Tyler Inexperienced – 15:04:09 (post-race interview)
- Anthony Costales – 15:09:16 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
- Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – 15:19:42
- Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 15:22:15
Mathieu Blanchard (Canada, lives in France) – 15:37:02(pre-race interview)- Ryan Montgomery – 15:38:35
- Jeff Colt – 15:42:09
- Cole Watson – 15:54:36
- Janosch Kowalczyk (Germany) – 16:09:19
Tyler Inexperienced opening up his stride later within the race coming into Foresthill. He would go on to take second within the 2023 Western States 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Ladies’s Prime-10 Returnees for the 2024 Western States 100
As with the lads, the top-10 ladies from the 2023 race have been invited to return for 2024. Eight have chosen their entries, whereas two have declined.
Courtney Dauwalter – 15:29:33(pre-race and post-race interviews) (New course file; outdated course file – Ellie Greenwood, 16:47:19 – 2012)- Katie Schide – 16:43:45 (pre-race and post-race interviews)
- Eszter Csillag (Hungary, lives in Hong Kong) – 17:07:55 (post-race interview)
- Katie Asmuth – 17:21:06
- Emily Hawgood (Zimbabwe, lives within the U.S.) – 17:26:22 (pre-race interview)
Taylor Nowlin – 17:40:11- Ida Nilsson (Sweden, lives in Norway) – 17:43:34 (pre-race interview)
- Priscilla Forgie (Canada) – 17:46:34
- Leah Yingling – 17:49:00 (pre-race interview)
- Meghan Morgan – 18:11:32
Katie Schide after taking second on the 2023 Western States 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Quick Runners with Computerized Entry to the 2024 Western States 100
Yearly, quite a lot of runners acquire entry into the race through one of many pre-lottery auto-entry strategies. Under are some quick women and men who secured entries on this method. We’ve added in parenthesis the avenue by which they secured their entry, if we all know it.
Males
- Guo-Min Deng (China) – third 2023 Hong Kong 100k (Raffle)
- Harvey Lewis – 1st 2023 Large Canine’s Yard Extremely; 12-time Badwater 135 finisher together with third in 2023 (Sponsor)
Ladies
- Kellie Emmerson (Australia) – seventeenth 2023 UTMB
- Kaci Lickteig – 9-time Western States 100 finisher together with 1st in 2016; 1st 2023 IMTUF 100 Mile (9-time finisher)
- Sally McRae – 3-time Western States 100 finisher together with twice within the high 10; 1st 2023 Moab 240 Mile (Sponsor)
- Madeline Wighardt (Canada) – third 2023 Leadville 100 Mile
- Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) – 4-time UTMB finisher together with 4th place in 2023
Prime Lottery Entrants for the 2024 Western States 100
Through the lottery, 267 names have been drawn. The next women and men from the lottery may function on the sharp finish of the race.
Males
- Nick Coury – fifth 2022 Javelina 100 Mile; set males’s 24-hour American file in 2021
- Luke Jay – 2nd & 1st 2022 & 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
Ladies
- Jo Meek (U.Okay.) – 4th 2022 Mozart 100k by UTMB; twenty first 2021 UTMB
Prime Waitlist Entrants for the 2024 Western States 100
Additional to these chosen within the lottery, one other 75 runners have been chosen for the waitlist. The next quick males made it on the waitlist, and have an opportunity of getting in.
Males
- Mike McMonagle – 1st 2023 Grindstone 100 Mile by UTMB
- Tim Tollefson – fifth 2021 Western States 100; 1st 2023 American River 50 Mile
Hoka Golden Ticket Races Entrants for the 2024 Western States 100
For 2024, there are seven Golden Ticket races awarding entries into the Western States 100 for high finishers. Of those, six races will award entries to the highest two women and men, whereas Black Canyon 100k will provide locations to the highest three women and men. In any case the place a runner who finishes in a qualifying place turns down the Golden Ticket, or is already entered in Western States, the spot will fall to the following out there finisher, so far as fifth place.
Right here’s who’s gotten these Golden Tickets up to now:
Males
- Jonathan Albon (U.Okay.) (CCC)
- Dakota Jones (CCC)
- Caleb Olson (Grindstone by UTMB)
- Caleb Bowen (Grindstone by UTMB)
- Jim Walmsley (Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB)
- Simon Gosselin (France) (Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB)
- Jonathan Rea (Javelina 100 Mile)
- Blake Slattengren (Javelina 100 Mile)
Jonathan Albon, 2023 CCC champion. Photograph: UTMB
Ladies
- Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) (CCC)
- Emily Schmitz (United States, lives in France) (CCC)
- Lotti Brinks (Grindstone by UTMB)
- Devon Yanko (Grindstone by UTMB)
- Eleanor Davis (U.Okay.) (Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB)
- Marjo Liikanen (Finland) (Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB)
- Heather Jackson (Javelina 100 Mile)
- Ragna Debats (The Netherlands, lives in Spain) (Javelina 100 Mile)
Yngvild Kaspersen on the way in which to profitable the 2023 CCC, a part of the UTMB Mont Blanc pageant. Photograph: UTMB
Lastly, right here is the entire Golden Ticket sequence schedule:
- September 1, 2023 ─ CCC (France, Italy, Switzerland)
- September 23, 2023 ─ Grindstone by UTMB 100k (Virginia, USA)
- September 30, 2023 ─ Good Côte d’Azur by UTMB 115k (France)
- October 28, 2023 – Javelina 100 Mile (Arizona, USA)
- December 8, 2023 – Doi Inthanon Thailand by UTMB 100 Mile (Thailand)
- February 10, 2024 – Black Canyon 100k (Arizona, USA)
- April 27, 2024 ─ The Canyons by UTMB 100k (California, USA)
Name for Feedback
- Did you enter the lottery for subsequent 12 months’s Western States 100? In that case, any luck?
- Who’re your high picks for subsequent 12 months’s race from the women and men named above?
- Who did we miss that ought to be included on this article?