Double victory for Team DYNAFIT in the Weissee Glacier World Trail

The competition weekend started on July 30th with the Gletscherwelt Trail, which took place on a new route with a distance of 35 kilometres and 1,500 meters of altitude. After starting in the Weissee Glacier World on Enzingerboden, the trail runners headed over the Rudolfshütte, the Kapruner Törl (2.693 m) and the Mooserboden to Kaprun.

First place went to the two DYNAFIT athletes André Purschke (GER) and the Norwegian Eli Anne Dvergsdal. For Purschke, after second places in 2018 (110 km) and 2019 (30 km), it was the greatest success at GGUT: “It was important to me to win here, and I'm very happy that it worked out. The last seven kilometres were hard, it was also really hot, but I was able to keep my lead in front of Tomas Hudec."

His DYNAFIT team-mate Dvergsdal crossed the finish line in fourth overall and was happy to have won her first race in Austria. Second in the women’s category (and eighth overall) went to Schladming’s Johanna Hiemer, who had already won twice on the GWT 35 run.

Weather window for and program change on Saturday - Jung and Fellhofer win at the OTT 80 / Reiterer and von Clemm first place at the GGT 55

 At this year's Grossglockner ULTRA-Trail ® powered by DYNAFIT (GGUT), the Osttirol Trail (OTT 80) with 84 km and 5,000 vertical meters and the Grossglockner Trail (GGT 55) over 57 km and 3,500 vertical meters were held on Saturday, July 31.

The South Tyrolean Daniel Jung won the Osttirol Trail in 8: 52.24.5 hours. Carinthian Gerald Fister came in second (9: 10.34.9), while Swiss Christian Stern came in third (9.29.47.5). Redbull athlete and ultra-cyclist Michael Strasser (AUT) mastered his first ultra-run in eighth place with a time of 10: 42.18.3 hours.

In the women's category, Esther Fellhofer (AUT) won (11: 13.24.9 hours) ahead of the German Tatiana Mitkina (11: 31.54.7).

On the GGT 55 (57 kilometres and 3,500 vertical meters), first place in the men's category also went to South Tyrol, with Andreas Reiterer winning (5: 22.57.6 hours) ahead of DYNAFIT athlete Hannes Namberger from Germany (5: 40.41.1). Third place went to his team mate Jakob Herrmann (AUT) (5: 54.07.0). In the women's category, the American Emmiliese von Clemm (6: 55.02.3) won ahead of the South Tyrolean Julia Kessler (6: 58.37.7) and the Tyrolean Rosanna Buchauer (6: 58.43.0).

The results in detail are available at https://www.ultratrail.at/english/registrationranking-1/ranking/

Information at: www.ultratrail.at