The 1st edition of the ultra terrestrial delivered its first winner: Robin Coinus arrived this Friday evening at the Redoute stadium in 39 hours and 47 minutes, after a 224km long race (14,330 D+) from Saint-Philippe.
The ultra terrestrial holds its very first finisher! The new race organized by the Utoi (Ultra Trail Indian Ocean) bet on an even crazier course than the very renowned diagonal of the Grand Raid: 224km and 14,330m of positive drop, to be traversed in 82 hours maximum.
Thursday morning, at 6 am, nearly 350 valiant runners set off from Basse-Vallée in Saint-Philippe. The first to swallow his 224km is Robin Coinus, who managed the feat this Friday evening to complete his race in 39 hours, 47 minutes and 31 seconds. He passed the finish line of the Redoute stadium in Saint-Denis at 9:47 p.m. this Friday evening.
“The first part of the race I was very fit, Mafate it was very hard and in the end it was going“, he summed up his career a few minutes after arriving.
It must be said that the winner knows the trails of Reunion well. Not only Robin Coinus, 36, lives there, but it was a regular on the Diagonale des Fous, which he completed in 8th position last October, just behind Judicaël Sautron, first Reunion. In 2023, he was 15th in the classification of the Grand Raid.
On this first participation in the ultra terrestrial, Robin Coinus therefore faces the game, managing to be ahead of the one who was the favorite of the race, the Swiss Martin Perrier. This one was not far away, in second position. Unless unexpected, Martin Perrier should arrive at the Redoute stadium at the end of the evening on Friday.
The Reunionese Didier Telmar was off to go on the 3rd step of the podium of this first ultra terrestrial.
This Friday evening at 8 p.m. Friday evening, around 150 trailers were still in the trails, more than 50% of abandonments or participants outside the deadline.
“We had a dantesque weather all day Thursday, with more than 100mm of rain in the volcano area, it favored abandonment. Despite this time, nobody wanted to let go, they hung as much as possible, but it remains a very very hard race“commented Stéphane Ferrère, the race director during the meeting news the 1st.
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