Teaser Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc® 2015 por UltraTrailMontBlanc
- UTMB® [Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc®] : 3 countries – 170km and 10 000m ascent in semi-autonomy 2 300 runners at the start on Friday August 28th at 18:00 from Chamonix to Chamonix in 46hrs max.
- CCC® [Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix] : 3 countries – 100km and 6 000m ascent in semi-autonomy 1 900 runners at the start on Friday August 28th at 09:00 from Courmayeur to Chamonix in 26 1/2 hrs max.
- TDS® [sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie] : 119 km and 7 250m ascent in semi-autonomy 1 600 runners at the start on Wednesday August 26th at 06:00 from Courmayeur to Chamonix in 33hrs max.
- PTL® [la Petite Trotte à Léon] : 3 countries – around 300km and 26 000m ascent in complete autonomy – A non-stop event without ranking open to 100 teams (250 runners max).Starts Monday August 24th at 17:30 from Chamonix to Chamonix in 142hrs max.
- OCC [Orsières-Champex-Chamonix] : 53 km and 3 300m ascent in semi-autonomy – 1200 runners at the start on Thursday August 27th at 08:15 from Orsières to Chamonix in 14 hrs max.
PTL® 2015 : A « Best of » in homage! And 3 mayors at the start of the OCC ! D-day – 8
The organisation, communes, volunteers, partners and, certainly, the 7500 runners, elite and amateurs are ready.The count down of days and hours has begun… Monday August 24th at 17:30, the start of the Petite Trotte à Léon, launches the week of Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc® races. On the programme: five races, the presence of 140 exhibitors in Chamonix for the largest show dedicated to trail-running in France, animations around The summit of Europe, international exchanges focussing on combined passions: trail-running and ultra-endurance!
An international event, an organisation at the summit!
FIGURES FOR 2015 (over the all the 5 races)
- 7 500 registered for the start of one of the races
- 13th year : 87 countries, 5 races
- 15 785 registration requests for 7 500 places
- 143 international elite runners of whom 68 are men and 14 women for the UTMB®
- 55% of runners are international
- 42 is the average age
- 56.4 % for whom it is their first participation
- 130 solidarity race-bibs making 260 000 € for charitable projects
- 2 000 volunteers in 3 countries uniting 19 communes
- 35 doctors, 80 nurses, 150 first-aid/rescue personnel
- 38 refreshment posts
- 3 000 kg of cheese, 9 700 litres of soup, 15 000 litres of coke, 50 000 tuc biscuits, 9 000 bananas
- 11 000 spares’ sacks to be managed
- 19 000 people to transport, 150 drivers
- 140 exhibitors, 25 countries, at the Ultra-Trail® salon with 50 000 visitors. The 1st trail-running salon in France.
- 378 km way-marked itineraries for the 4 races, (the PTL® is not way-marked)
- 15 000 way-markers
- 300 km of alternative routes
- 554 086 km run in total by all the finishers in 2014 which is 14 times round the world
- 53 control points
- 120 radio posts
9th event and a “Series” race counting towards the Ultra-Trail® World Tour, international circuit of the world’s most beautiful races! More info from ULTRA TRAIL DU MONT BLANC.
