UTMB 2022: list of registrants unveiled!

Wednesday 26 January 2022, the list of registrants for UTMB® Mont-Blanc 2022 was unveiled.

As expected, François D’Haene, the title holder and four-time winner of the event, it will not be present this edition. The Savoyard will go head-to-head with Kilian Jornet, himself a three-time winner of the event, on the Hardrock 100 in the United States a month earlier.

But UTMB 2022 promiss to be exciting:

• The return of Spanish ultra-trailer Pau Capell, winner in 2019 and recovering after knee surgery in 2021.
• Savoyard Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz will also participate in the UTMB® Mont-Blanc 2022 in Chamonix.
• We find again Mathieu Blanchard from Vaucluse (3rd) and Germain Grangier from Isère (5th).
• Xavier Thevenard, three-time winner of the event, will try again, after dropping out in 2021.

On the foreign side:

• The American Jim Walmsley will try his luck once again to try to overcome the curse of the USA on the event.
• The German Hannes Namberger (6th in 2021) will be there.
• The Russian Dmitry Mityaev (abandoned in 2021) another name on the list this year

In women category:

The title holder Courtney Dauwalter, who broke the event record by taking 7th place in the scratch, will not be present at the event.

Sweden's Mimmi Kotka (3rd), who snatched a podium from a cramped finish, will return this year.

Also Savoyard Audrey Tanguy will participate.