A look back at the opening of the National Salomon / Over The Mountain 2018 circuit

This weekend, Salomon was present at the opening of the National Salomon / Over The Mountain 2018 circuit, on the slopes of the Ventoux.

2200 runners at the start of the different races (46, 23, 15, and a 9km special girly)

As every year, a huge density at the start of the 46km, with all the members of the French Trail team, and teams of brands.

The winter conditions (-6° on the summit, and 80Km/h wind) made this first run particularly 'spicy'.

Winners of the Trail Ergysport Ventoux 2018: Marc Lauenstein(Salomon) and Lucie Jamsin (Isostar)

The trail of the Ventoux experienced difficult weather conditions on this particularly cold weekend. The Swiss Marc Lauenstein repeated his success on the 46-kilometre main event, and Lucie Jamsin won the girls' race.

The years follow each other and are little alike on the trail du Ventoux. After last year's sun and blue sky, it was cold, wind and a white day sky that awaited the runners on the slopes of the giant.

With a rather impressive line-up, we were expecting a big battle among the men. It took place, and it was the Swiss of the team. Salomon Marc Lauenstein, always as strong on these 40 km formats, who was able to emerge victorious in this high-flying race. In 4h00'22" he is ahead of Ludovic Pommeret (Hoka One one) who is in great shape, thirty seconds ahead of him. In third place, we find Romain Maillard (Pierre Favre), also used to this technical and physical course.

We note the 5th place of the reigning French champion Nicolas Martin(Hoka One one) , and the 6th place of Sylvain Court(Oxsitis), the former world champion, both of whom are making a good start to the 2018 season.

Lucie Jamsin won the women's ranking in just under 5 hours, with a bigger gap on her runner-up Claire Mougel, 11 minutes behind.

Also noteworthy was the first appearance of the Terre de Doubs / Salomonentirely made up of young Cadet and Hope runners !

All at the start of the 15km, the boys have also brilliantly worn the colors Salomonon the distance by winning: The race (Dylan), the Espoir and the Cadet rankings.

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