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August 20, 2019 01:03 pm PDT

Organizers unprepared as woman wins ultra marathon outright

Ellie Pell is the first woman to win the 50k Ultra outright, blasting past runner-up Richard Ellsworth in the four-hour endurance race. Pell took home both the 1st place trophy and the "fastest lady" trophy; unfortunately for Richard, race organizers never anticipated a woman might win, so no corresponding prize exists for gents.

It was great, but also an awkward situation, Hardy said. Obviously theres a lot of great women runners, but you dont see them winning ultras outright a lot. When it happens, they get two awards.

I ended up taking both awardsthe overall winner and the first place female, Pell said. I felt bad that the first place man didnt have one, so I tried to convince them to blot out the fe on female, but they said to just keep both trophies. It was pretty funny.

Race organizers subsequently made a "fastest man" trophy for Mr. Ellsworth. For future races, they instead plan to issue trophies to the top six runners irrespective of gender.

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