Cultra 100: Winning Kitamura is a 4-star Grandmaster

Hisashi Kitamura has won Cameron Ultra 2022 and is now the first ever four-star ATM Grandmaster. Crossing the finish line with his trademark 'karate kick' jump, Kitamura also scored his 5th career ATM race victory, and his second of this season. He ran away from his main rival today, Daved Simpat, just over halfway and extended his advantage progressively. His race time was 12h01 minute.

54 minutes later, Sabah's Daved Simpat entered the event arena in second place and scored another important 450 ATM Championship points after those at BUTM 100 in March. Important, because Team Malaysia is not the easiest team to qualify for with a view to the ATM Final in December at the Mount Apo Sky Race in Sta Cruz, Davao, Philippines. Simpat certainly still has what it takes on the other side of age 40. In third and completing the podium was France's Herve Huguenot. His first ever podium result in an ATM race. Wilsen Singgin again suffered from cramps and had to settle for fourth, just like in BUTM and seems still a bit away from his top form that brought him the Malaysia Trail Master title in MMTF at the end of last year. The men's top 5 was rounded up by Singaporean Deric Lau, who made his debut in an ATM race.

Singapore's Vincere Zeng was the best woman on the day, after a very exciting race with constantly changing positions at the front. Sally Yap got overtaken by Zeng in only the final 10k of the race. Halimatun Saadiah scored 3rd place in basically a spint in the final kilometers against Vietnam-based Japanese runner Tamae Harada. Izzah Hazirah was leading early on, but dropped down the leaderboard.

You can relive the action of the front runners via the replay function on our ATM/DTA interface