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Was Tollefson going to finally be the first American male to win UTMB? While American women were seeing regular success at winning the race, the men continued to struggle to reach the top podium spot.īased out of Mammoth Lakes, California, Tollefson seemed to have solved the puzzle of how to train for the significantly steeper and more rugged European courses. Immediately, the American trail running community started buzzing. The following year, he backed up the performance with another third-place finish.

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Tollefson returned to Europe in 2016 for the full lap around Mont Blanc, finishing his first UTMB third behind Ludovic Pommeret and Gediminas Grinius. He and fellow American Zach Miller did quite well, the pair turning up first- and second-place CCC finishes that year. He went to Chamonix with the motivation to prove himself as a young runner and to show that American runners could be successful competing in the Alps. It wasn’t necessarily the chance to visit the Alps or to lay eyes on Mont Blanc that drew Tollefson to the start line of the CCC it was the chance to compete against the best ultrarunners in the world. When Tollefson first went over to Chamonix, France, the hub of the UTMB festival, to race the 2015 CCC, American men had seen very little success in long European mountain ultras, and no American man had yet won UTMB. All photos courtesy of HOKA unless otherwise noted. Tim Tollefson at the 2018 UTMB, where he dropped after injuring his leg in a fall.

Now, six years after starting his first UTMB in 2016, with a new outlook on the race and his motivations, but with the same tried-and-true HOKA Mafates on his feet that he’s run the last four editions of the race in, Tollefson feels ready to once again put together a day that he can be proud of. Tollefson would go on to drop out the next three times he showed up at the start line. After finishing third in his first two attempts at UTMB in 20, many started to whisper that he’d be the first American man to win the race. HOKA-sponsored Tollefson found quick success with the challenging loop. The UTMB is revered by runners worldwide, its punishing 170-kilometer course with 10,000 meters of climbing starts in Chamonix, France, and circumnavigates Mont Blanc, providing a platform for the best ultrarunners of the world to compete. Ever since his first encounter with UTMB in 2015 while taking second at the CCC, the 100-kilometer race at the UTMB festival, Tim Tollefson has been fixated with what many consider the greatest mountain ultramarathon in the world.

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