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Spanish ultra-trail athlete Kilian Jornet announced on Wednesday his willingness to participate at the end of August in the Ultra-trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), a long distance race he has already won four times.
Kilian Jornet could be back on the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc on September 1st. The trail superstar has already won the race four times in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2022). In 2022, he set a new race record of 19 hours and 49 minutes, over a distance of 171 km with a vertical height gain of 10,000m, ahead of Frenchman Mathieu Blanchard.
On his Instagram account, Killian posted a video...
"I came back from the Himalayas wanting to see how I was feeling, how my body was. I mentioned my desire to travel long distances at the end of the season. I would like to participate in the UTMB,'
Le Dauphiné
