Kilometre vertical du mont blanc12/25/2023 As a boy, having to contribute to the surveillance of the camels, he would ask his father to let them go far away so that he could run and get them back (barefoot). So what do we know about the two Africans? Įlazzaoui is a son of the desert, born in the Berber tribe of southern Morocco. Albon was at front for much of the race, Elazzaoui moved through in the second half, and Pkemboi faded after his fast start, but held up well in the end. The final top 6 were: Jonathan Albon (U.K., lives in Norway) 3:35:20 Davide Magnini (Italy) 33:39:41 Ruy Ueda (Japan) 3:40:42 Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) 3:43:19 Thibaut Baronian (France) 3:47:27 Robert Pkemboi (Kenya) 3:50:44. Then the stream suddenly at 3-20 shows that he is in second. At 3-18 the leaders were Albon, Elazzaoui, Shaku, Pkemboi, Baronian, and Ueda (Magnini seeming to be not in top 10, although that was because of tracker malfunction). After 3-06 Elazzaoui was 3 mins behind Albon, and Magnini was up to 3rd, with Ueda up to 4th. Still no sign of Magnini, but Juan Carlos had dropped out. Then at around 35km the leaders were shown as: Albon, Elazzaoui, Shaku, Baronian (France) and Pkemboi. At this time Elhousine Elazzaoui seemed to be 4th and Ruy Ueda (Japan) 7th (although quite difficult to tell from the footage). From 29.5km onwards Davide Magnini seemed to have tracker problems, as did a couple of others. The remaining three were together after 2hrs 4mins, then Albon broke away around the 2-20 to 2-25 mark. After the highest point (Col des Posettes at 19.5 km) Carlos was dropped. As the course started rising Jonathan Albon picked them up, and these four ran together for ages. Robert Pkemboi, Petro Mamu Shaku (Eritrea) and Juan Carlos (Mexico) were trying to get a a decent break going. These notes are taken from a second skim watch of the live stream, and relative positions on the course are usually in time elapsed:Īfter 30 minutes of mostly flat running three runners had got away. Let’s look at how the race panned out for the two Africans. But I am here to have a look at two African-born competitors, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) and Robert Pkemboi (Kenya, sometimes Robert Pkemboi Matayango). The race was eventually won by Jonathan Albon (centre, UK), from David Magnini (left, Italy) and Ruy Ueda (right, Japan). The event has over 2500m of height gain, is based in Chamonix, and is now part of the Golden Trail World Series. ![]() I was watching a replay of the stream of coverage of the 2022 Marathon du Mont Blanc the other day and was struck by two things: how well a couple of Africans performed and how the race (ie the podium positions) changed throughout the 42km event.
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