Courtney Dauwalter

Courtney Dauwalter (born February 13, 1985) is an American ultramarathon runner and former teacher.[1] In 2023, Dauwalter became the first athlete ever to win Western States 100, Hardrock 100 and the UTMB, three iconic 100-mile races, in the same year.

Courtney Dauwalter
Courtney Dauwalter at Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 2019
Personal information
Born (1985-02-13) February 13, 1985
Sport
Country United States
Event(s)Ultramarathon, trail running

Early life

Dauwalter was raised in Hopkins, Minnesota and competed in track, cross-country, and Nordic skiing in high school. She was a four-time Minnesota state champion in Nordic skiing during her high school career.[2] She attended the University of Denver on a cross-country skiing scholarship,[3] and then earned a master's degree in teaching from the University of Mississippi in 2010 while participating in the Mississippi Teacher Corps.[4]

She worked as a middle and high-school teacher in the Denver area, before becoming a full-time professional runner in 2017.[3]

Trailrunning

Dauwalter is sponsored by Salomon.[5]

In 2016, she set a course record at the Javelina Jundred 100K and won the Run Rabbit Run 100-mile race, finishing 75 minutes ahead of second place. She also won the 2017 Run Rabbit Run while battling temporary blindness when running the final 12 miles.[6] She won the 2017 edition of the Moab 240 race in 2 days, 9 hours, and 59 minutes, finishing first overall and beating the second-place finisher by more than 10 hours.[7]

In 2018, Dauwalter won the Western States 100-mile race, with a finishing time of 17h27m. She competed in the Big's Backyard Ultra in 2018, finishing second overall and completing a total of 67 laps, setting the women's course record at 279.268 miles.[8][9] She also placed second in the Tahoe 200, beating the previous women's course record by over 18 hours.[10]

In 2019, she won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in a time of 24 h 34 min 26 sec, coming in 21st overall.[11][12] In 2021 she would return to set the women's course record. She competed for the United States at the IAU 24 Hour World Championship in Brive-la-Gaillarde, France in October 2019, finishing 12th. In 2020, she won the American section of Big Dog's Ultra. She ran 68 laps for 283.3 miles for a finish time of 56 hours, 52 minutes, and 29 seconds, setting the record for the longest distance recorded by a female runner in the race.[13]

In 2021, Dauwalter entered the Hardrock 100 but did not finish. In 2022 and 2023 she entered again and won, beating the previous women's course records for the Hardrock 100 set by Diana Finkel by over an hour, in each direction.[14][15]

Also in 2023, she won the Western States 100, besting the previous women's course record set by Ellie Greenwood in 2012, finishing in a time of 15:29:34.[16] This set the overall record for the Western States–Hardrock double. In September 2023, she then won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc again, making her the first person in history to win the triple of Western States, Hardrock, and UTMB in a single year.[17]

Awards and recognition

Dauwalter was named Ultra Runner of the Year in 2018 by Ultrarunning Magazine after winning 9 of the 12 races that she entered, including two where she finished first overall.[18]

In 2020, she received the George Mallory Award at the Wasatch Mountain Film Festival for pushing the boundaries of physical human achievement.[19]

Selected race results
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResultNotes
2023 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc Chamonix, France 1st 100 mile 23:29:14 [20]
Hardrock 100 Silverton, CO, USA 1st 100 mi 26:14:12 Women's course record (ccw)[21]
Western States 100 California 1st 100 mi 15:29:34 Women's Course Record
Bandera 100k Texas 1st 100 km 8:59:34 WSER Golden Ticket
Transgrancanaria Canary Islands, Spain 1st 128km 14:40:39 Fastest Known Time [22]
2022 Grand Raid Réunion island 1st 164 km 24:37:47 [23]
Hardrock 100 Silverton, CO, USA 1st 100 Miler 26:44:36 Women's course record (cw)[24]
Collegiate Loop Trail Twin Lakes, Colorado, CO, USA 1st 160 Mile 40:14 Fastest Known Time [25]
2021 Ultra-trail Cape Town [26] Cape Town, South Africa 1st 100 km 11:20:04
The Barkley Marathons Frozen Head State Park, TN, USA N/A DNF
Hardrock 100 Silverton, Colorado, USA N/A 100 Miler DNF
Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc Chamonix, France 1st 100 Miler 22:30:54 Women's course record [27]
2019 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc Chamonix, France 1st 100 Miler 24:34:26
Tarawera Ultramarathon Rotorua, New Zealand 1st 100k 9:28:04
2018 Western States 100 Olympic Valley, CA 1st 100 Miler 17:27:00
Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji Shizuoka, Japan 1st 100 Miler 23:57:48
Tahoe 200 Homewood, California 1st 200 Miler 49:54:36 2nd overall
Squamish 50 Squamish, British Columbia 1st 50 Miler 8:22:15 Women's course record [28]
2017 Moab 240 Moab, Utah 1st 240 miles 57:55:13 Overall win and course record [29]
2016 Javelina Jundred Fountain Hills, Arizona 1st 100k 8:48:25
Run Rabbit Run Steamboat Springs, Colorado 1st 100 Miler 21:23:37
2014 Ouray 100 Ouray, Colorado 1st 100 Miler 26:46:20

References
  1. Byerly, Rebecca (December 8, 2018). "The gruelling sport in which women appear to hold a psychological edge". The Irish Times. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  2. "Courting Success: An Interview with Courtney Dauwalter". 17 January 2019.
  3. "The Woman Who Outruns the Men, 200 Miles at a Time". The New York Times. 2018-12-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
  4. "Education Edge Magazine features MTC Alumnus, Courtney Dauwalter '08".
  5. Michelson, Megan (2019-10-08). "Inside the Mind of Ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter". REI Co-op Journal. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  6. Schranz, Eric (2017-09-15). "Courtney Dauwalter | Blind Perseverance at RRR100". Ultrarunnerpodcast.
  7. Rojek, Taylor (2018-08-03). "There's No Stopping Ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter". Runners World.
  8. "Golden woman ran 4-mile loop for 67 hours aiming to be the last person standing in a crazy ultra-race". The Know. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  9. "Big Dog's Backyard Ultra: The Last Man Standing". YouTube. 2018-11-13.
  10. Scacco, Justin. "Colorado ultrarunners shatter Tahoe 200 course records". www.sierrasun.com. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  11. "'Sluggish' Courtney Dauwalter looks back on UTMB win". Trail Running. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  12. Strout, Erin (2019-09-18). "Ultrarunning Star Courtney Dauwalter's Superpower? Don't Overthink It". Women's Running. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2019-12-14.
  13. "Courtney Dauwalter Wins U.S. Big's Backyard Ultra with a Record-Tying Effort". 20 October 2020.
  14. "Pacing Diana". Trail Runner Magazine. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  15. "OpenSplitTime: Full results - Hardrock 100 2023". www.opensplittime.org. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  16. "Ultra runner Courtney Dauwalter breaks record of world's oldest 100-mile race by almost 80 minutes". CNN. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
  17. "Jim Walmsley and Courtney Dauwalter win the UTMB in a historic American double". Runner's World. 2023-08-31. Retrieved 2023-09-02.
  18. "Dauwalter and Walmsley 2018 UltraRunners of the Year". 16 January 2019.
  19. "George Mallory Award". Wasatch Mountain Film Festival. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
  20. "Courtney Dauwalter secures historic treble with UTMB 2023 victory". run247.com. 2 September 2023.
  21. "2023Full Results: Hardrock 100 2023", OpenSplitTime, July 15, 2023
  22. "Courtney Dauwalter dominates Transgrancanaria in record-setting fashion". Canadian Running. February 26, 2023.
  23. https://grandraid-reunion-oxybol.livetrail.run/coureur.php?rech=1950
  24. "2022 Hardrock 100 Results: Dauwalter and Jornet Smash Course Records", IRunFar, July 16, 2022
  25. "Courtney Dauwalter sets a remarkable FKT in Colorado". Canadian Running. September 1, 2022.
  26. https://sportraxs.com/races/661/leaderboard
  27. "Courtney Dauwalter Breaks UTMB Record To Win", Trail Runner Mag, Outside, August 30, 2021
  28. "Squamish Results", Squamish Website
  29. "How Courtney Dauwalter Won the Moab 240 Outright", Trail Runner Magazine, Outside, October 19, 2017
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