This is a famous trail running race in South

Africa with 800 trail runners at the start.

37 kilometers race around Table Mountain with

+1640m.

The race is really fast to the kilometer 8 on a large track

with some hills.

From the kilometer 8 to the 18, it's becoming technical,

with a lot of rocks on a wilde single track.

From the kilometer 18 to the finish, the trail is

comparable to a Sky-Running, with some very technical

parts. +1000m for this last part.

The Salomon Team was in South Africa during a week

to promote the Trail Running in the 3 main cities :

Johannesburg, Durban and Cap Town.

KILIAN JORNET WINS THE TABLE MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE IN SOUTH AFRICA

The athlete from Cerdanya has won in a time of 3:41:47h, a new record in the

Table Mountain Challenge, a 37-kilometer race run in the South African Table

Mountains, within the project 5 Races 5 Continents.

With the Kinabalu (Asia) yet to be run, Jornet has won the 4 races in the

continents where he has run.

Kilian Jornet has done it again. This morning the Catalan athlete won the Table

Mountain Challenge 2011, a 37-kilometer race run in the impressive South African

Table Mountains. Jornet crossed the finishing line in 3:41:47 h, establishing a new

race record, ahead of Greg Vollet (3:46h) and Allen Benn (3:49h).

The Cerdanya athlete commented that

flat terrain and, after that, we climbed up the Table Mountains, running all the

way up before the final descent”.

From the very start, the Catalan athlete ran within the leading group made up of four

runners and he states that “

second check point before attacking on the ascent and maintaining my lead

until the end. This enabled me to enjoy the incredible views over the Atlantic

coast and to save energy for my next goals”.

Format : 3 x 0,8 m

Echelle : 1/10ème Découpe

P. 300 P. 485 P. Process Yellow

Copyright : Craig Kolesky

With this victory, Kilian is one step away from achieving a full house in his Project 5

Races 5 Continents, in which he has taken part in the most important race in each

continent, obtaining, to date, victory in the 4 races in which he has run.

The Project began in Australia with his victory in The North Face 100 K, followed by

his victory in WS 100, in the USA, then Europe with his triumph in the UTMB and

today’s first position in the South African Table Mountains Challenge. Kilian will try to

close the circle in Asia when he runs in Kinabalu on 23rd October.

RESULTS TABLE MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE

1.KILIAN JORNET. 3:41h. 2.GREG VOLLET. 3:46 h. 3.ALLEN BENN 3:49 h.

RACE LINK:

http://www.trailrunning.co.za/news.php?newsId=470

MOVESCOUNT LINK:

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move2840536

FITURE EVENTS:

After his victory in the South African Table Mountain, the season continues on

2nd October

special race for Kilian, given that it runs along the trails where he grew up. This will

be the second time the Catalan takes part in this race and he will strive for victory, as

last year an injury hindered him from doing so.

ANNA FROST WINS THE TABLE MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE IN SOUTH AFRICA :

After the Trans-Rockies (USA) that

she have won with his teammate

Rickey Gates end of august

athlete from New Zealand has won

in a time of 4:11:09h, a new record

in the Table Mountain Challenge.

Susan Sloane from Salomon South

Africa arrive in second position in a

time of 4:27:13, nice performance for

this woman who was competing more

than 20km for the first time in a race !

Anna finished 6th overall ! "the first

half of the race was too rolling and

too fast for me, so I expected the

second half to widen the gap and

catch up some mens."

Table mountain challenge :

Mountain will remain one of the

best race I did at the landscape

level"

Anna will be in Malaysia for running

the Kinabalu Race on october 22nd , but the main goal for her to the end of this

season will be the NF50 at San Francisco start of december.

Copyright : Jazz Kuschke

RYAN SANDES WINS THE TABLE MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE WITH THE

SALOMON MEN'S RELAY TEAM

Still recovering from his win at the Leadville

100 in Colorado, Ryan pushed hard through

Llandudno Ravine, but wasn't feeling too

good coming down Kasteelspoort.

He said at the finish :

rhythm from the Pipe Track to the finish.

I know the route very well, so that

helped a lot".

Congratulation to his teammates Greg

Goodall and Nicholas Rupanga from

Salomon South Africa, they smashed the

course in a time of 3:27:13h

Ryan will now preparing is next goal, a

one week Stage Race in Nepal mid

november.