Reigning ATM Champion Jeff Campbell has won his first points race after winning our title in September at Prenn Trail Summit in Dalat, Vietnam. The Hong Kong-based Canadian was clearly faster than the others in great weather conditions,, clinching victory in 5h23 - half hour ahead of Chris Timms, based in SIngapore. . The surprising Ho Van Binh scored third ahead of Japan’s good old Tomohiro Mizukoshi and Nguyen Thanh Loi in fifth. For Campbell this is a useful first ATM race just before the end of the year. As all past champions in our series, he can score a wildcard for the next ATM Final by just finishing two ATM promoted races during the season. Also for Chris Timms and Tomohiro Mizukoshi, Prenn proved great in that respect. Timms already won UTOP 60 in October and, given his tight working and travel schedule, should not need to stress himself out too much for the remainder of the ATM season. The same applies for Mizukoshi, even though competition to enter Team Japan is growing. As the 2025 ATM Final is likely to take place in Vietnam in October, the third place of young local talent Ho Van Binh may also prove very important for qualification into Team Vietnam later on.

The women’s 55km points race went to Nguyen Thi Kim Anh in a time of 7h44, just six minutes ahead of Tran Thi Hanh An and Chu Thi Vinh Lien.

The 180km race category - also a championship points race - was won by Vietnam’s own Tran Minh Tuyen in 38h17. He finished over 1 hour ahead of Le Trong Nghia in second place. Third place is for Nguyen Van Chung, ahead of Hoang Huu Thang. Strong performances by all four of them. The women’s 180km had a bit of controversy, even though race rules are what they are. Loi Luong, fourth in last season’s ATM Final, ran a wonderful first miler and crossed the finish line first, but got herself relegated to the bottom of the women’s result for having missed a checkpoint earlier. The same applied to the other female star runner Le Thi Hang. It is very hard, but also hard to argue with. At least, in ATM context, both will still collect a decent haul of championship points as not many female runners completed the 180km race course - just five to be precise. Nevertheless, the official race win went to Japan’s Risa Kamiya - her first ever. Risa was an ATM Finalist at Borneo TMBT , so not entirely unknown and she did well staying ahead of Cao Thi Cam Van, Malaysia’s Yvette Chong Mi Chin and Philippines’ Shekinah Velasquez.

The next Vietnamese points race comes up very soon: Vietnam Trail Marathon in Moc Chau on 11 January.

Prenn Trail Summit: Campbell unstoppable, Risa Kamiya inherits 180k win