The data this week was collected from the website of the International Trail Running Association (ITRA), which compiles the results of trail running races from 2012 to 2021. This data set focuses more specifically on the most iconic races of the discipline: 100 miles races.
In these physically and mentally demanding races, it is not unusual to see women winning, as women may be faster than men over long distances. As a first example of data processing, you will see here that in 2021, on average, women were faster than men to finish the UTMB (Chamonix, France), one of the most famous races of ultra-trail running.
Credit: Benjamin Nowak