Congratulations to all of the runners who secured locations within the 2024 Hardrock 100!

The Hardrock 100 is a 100-mile race by way of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, beginning and ending in Silverton. The difficult and beautiful route packs in 33,000 toes of elevation, typically at altitudes above 13,000 toes. It alternates path every year, and can run clockwise in 2024.

The last word bucket listing race, the Hardrock 100 is notoriously tough to realize entry into, with 2,796 making use of for this 12 months’s lottery alone. In contrast to the Western States 100, which gives a number of avenues to realize entry along with an much more tough lotto, the one method to safe a assured entry into Hardrock 100 is to win the earlier 12 months’s race. The 2024 Hardrock 100 will begin 146 runners.

Under, we listing high opponents on the present entrants listing in addition to these excessive sufficient on the waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in. Then, we clarify how the lottery operates, in addition to break down a number of the demographics of this 12 months’s lottery and its fortunate chosen runners.

Courtney Dauwalter wins the 2023 Hardrock 100 in course file time. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks

Notable 2024 Hardrock 100 Girls’s Entrants

The one method to acquire computerized entry to the Hardrock 100 is by successful and the 2023 girls’s champion Courtney Dauwalter shall be again to defend her title.

Listed here are the notable girls chosen to run the 2024 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:

• Claire Bannwarth (France) — fifth 2023 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 Tahoe 200 Mile; seventh 2023 Transgrancanaria; fifteenth 2023 UTMB
• Becky Bates (Canada) – seventh 2023 Hardrock 100; eighth 2022 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; tenth 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile (Hares)
• Camille Bruyas (France) — 2nd 2023 Diagonal des Fous; 1st 2022 Extremely-Path Cape City; 1st 2022 Grand Path des Templiers; tenth 2022 Western States 100 Mile; 2nd 2021 UTMB
• Courtney Dauwalter — 1st 2023 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 UTMB; 1st 2023 Western States 100 Mile
• Tara Dower — 1st 2023 and 2nd 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile (Hares); 4th 2023 and fifth 2022 JFK 50 Mile
• Serena Eley — third 2023 Grindstone by UTMB 100 Mile; 2nd 2017 Angeles Crest 100 Mile
• Maggie Guterl — eleventh 2022 Hardrock 100; eighth 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 1st 2021 Huge Canine’s Yard Extremely; 1st 2021 Cocodona 250 Mile
• Emily Halnon – ninth 2023 & seventh 2022 Hardrock 100
• Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) — 2nd 2023 UTMB; 2nd 2023 Path Working World Championships – Lengthy Path (55 miles); 4th 2023 Transgrancanaria Traditional (115k); third 2022 TDS
• Claire Heslop (Canada) — eleventh 2023 and nineteenth 2022 UTMB; 14th 2023 Transgrancanaria Traditional
• Meghan Hicks — fifth 2022 & third 2021 Hardrock 100; 4th 2019 Bear 100 Mile
• Jordan Maki-Richards (Australia) — 4th 2022 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; 1st 2023 Buffalo Stampede 100k
• Amber Weibel — third Swiss Alps 100 Mile; fifteenth 2022 Western States 100; 4th 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
• Yitka Winn — 1st 2023, 2021, 2019 & 2018 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; tenth 2023 Gorge Waterfalls 100k

Full entrants lists and waitlists.

Notable 2024 Hardrock 100 Males’s Entrants

François D’Haene on his method to successful the 2021 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell

Listed here are the notable males chosen to run the 2024 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:

• Nick Coury — fifth 2022 Javalina 100; eighth 2022 Hardrock 100; U.S. 100-mile file (173 miles) in 2021; 4th 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile (Hares)
• Francois D’haene (France) — 2nd 2022 & 1st 2021 Hardrock 100; 1st 2021 UTMB; eighth 2023 Diagonale des Fous
• Mick Jurynec – ninth 2021 Hardrock 100; tenth 2023 Bear 100 Mile; 2nd 2022 Superior Path 100 Mile
• Karl Meltzer — twelfth 2023 Bear 100 Mile; 4th 2023 Pine to Palm 100 Mile; at the least eight Hardrock 100 finishes with a file 5 wins
• Zach Miller — 2nd 2023 & fifth 2022 UTMB; sixth 2023 Path Working World Championships – Lengthy Path (55 miles); 1st 2023 Tarawera 100 Mile
• Michael Owen — 1st 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019 & 2017 Promised Land 50k; 1st 2023 Merciless Jewel 50 Mile
• Robert Panas – ninth 2023 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; 2nd 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile (Tortoises)
• Diego Pazos (Switzerland) — twenty fourth 2023 & seventh 2021 UTMB; sixth 2020 Transgrancanaria Traditional
• Nick Pedatella — sixth 2021 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 Excessive 5 100 Mile; 4th 2021 San Juan Solstice 50 Mile
• Ludovic Pommeret (France) — fifth 2023, 4th 2021 & 1st 2016 UTMB; 1st 2022 & third 2019 TDS; sixth 2022 Western States 100
• Jeff Rome — 2nd 2018 & seventh 2017 Hardrock 100; thirteenth 2023 IMTUF 100 Mile
• Jason Schlarb — 1st (tie) 2016 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2023 Himan Path 110k; 2022 eighth Eiger Extremely-Path by UTMB 10ok
• Paul Terranova — sixth 2022 Hardrock 100; sixth 2023 Leadville 100 Mile; 4th 2022 Bighorn 100 Mile; third 2021 Bear 100 Mile; third 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
• Andy Vermilyea – sixth 2022 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; 4th 2019 Grindstone 100 Mile

Full entrants lists and waitlists.

Zach Miller will make his Hardrock 100 debut in July 2024. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell

Notable Waitlisted Girls With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In

These are the quick girls who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed within the order by which they seem on the waitlists:

• Sabrina Stanley (fifth Completed waitlist) – 2-time Hardrock 100 winner in 2021 and 2018; ninth 2023 UTMB; 4th 2021 MUIT 115k; 2-time Nolan’s 14 finisher
• Darla Askew (tenth Completed waitlist) – 7-time Hardrock 100 finisher, most lately tenth in 2023; 1st 2022 Pine to Palm 100 Mile; 1st 2022 Standhope 100 Mile
• Hannah Inexperienced (eleventh Completed waitlist) – third 2022 & seventh 2017 Hardrock 100
• Nikki Kimball (twelfth Completed waitlist) – 2nd 2018 Hardrock 100; sixth 2023 IMTUF 100 Mile

[Editor’s Note: We’re only listing runners from the top 12 of the Never and Finished women’s waitlists. We’ll add additional runners if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]

Notable Waitlisted Males With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In

These are the quick males who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed within the order by which they seem on the waitlists:

• Brandon Worthington (2nd Completed waitlist) – 14th 2023 Hardrock 100; fifth 2021 Tahoe 200 Mile
• Luke Jay (third By no means waitlist) – 2nd 2022, 1st 2019 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; twenty ninth 2021 UTMB
• Jakub Galczynski (fifth Completed waitlist) – thirty second 2023 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2021 IMTUF 100 Mile; third 2020, twelfth 2019 & seventh 2018 Bear 100 Mile
• Kris Tyson (sixth By no means waitlist) – sixth 2023 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; third 2022 Kettle Moraine 100 Mile; 2nd 2021 Merciless Jewel 100 Mile
• Jeff Browning (seventh Completed waitlist) – fifth 2023, fifth 2022, fifth 2021 & 1st 2018 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 Bighorn 100 Mile; 1st 2022 Moab 240 Mile

[Editor’s Note: We’re only listing runners from the top 12 of the Never and Finished men’s waitlists. We’ll add additional runners if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]

Sabrina Stanley leads the 2021 girls’s race at Maggie Gulch. Picture: iRunFar Bryon Powell

2024 Hardrock 100 Lottery Parameters

The 2024 lottery is split into two classes, the By no means Completed and Completed divisions:

• By no means — This pool comprises runners who’ve not but completed the Hardrock 100.
• Completed — This pool comprises runners who’ve completed at the least one Hardrock 100.

For 2024, 73 runners have been chosen from every class.

From 2022 onward, the Hardrock 100 group adopted a brand new coverage whereby the identical proportion of feminine runners who enter the lottery shall be chosen to run the race. Due to this fact, the draw is basically drawn into 4 sections: Feminine By no means, Feminine Completed, Male By no means, and Male Completed.

Returning champions are given computerized entrance to the occasion. The 2023 girls’s champion Courtney Dauwalter has accepted that entry, whereas 2023 males’s champ Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz declined it.

Every year, race director Dale Garland additionally handpicks six entrants who bypass the lottery. Defined on the group’s web site, “In 2024, six such runners shall be chosen, evenly break up between women and men, from a slate of at the least 12 candidates proposed by the RD and accepted by the Hardrock Board of Administrators.” In prior years, the names of those picks have been stored confidential. For Hardrock 2024, these runners have been

• Camille Bruyas
• François D’haene
• Tara Dower
• Katharina Hartmuth
• Zach Miller
• Ludovic Pommeret

Name for Feedback

• Did you get chosen to run the 2024 Hardrock 100?
• Who’re your high picks to excel within the males’s and ladies’s race from the runners listed above?