Trans-Gaule
The Trans-Gaule is a trans-national ultramarathon the longest multiday race in France. It consists of eighteen stages in eighteen consecutive days with a total of 1,150 km, from Roscoff in the English Channel to the Mediterranean. This event is the equivalent to Germany's Deutschlandlauf, the Trans-Europe and the Trans-America race.
Requirements
- Each stage has to be completed, by foot.
- Time allowed averages 5.5 km/h
Races
- 2001 - Ie édition :1130 km. Winner Maurice Mondon (France) in 96 h 15'46"
- 2002 - IIe édition :1130 km. Winner Rainer Koch (Germany) in 94 h 04'52"
- 2003 - ???
- 2004 - IIIe édition :1142 km. Winner Jean-Jacques Moros (France) in 94 h 00'36"
- 2005 - IVe édition :1143 km. Winner Janne Kankaansyrja (Finland) in 98 h 08'52"
- 2006 - Ve édition :1144 km. Winner Werner Selch (Germany) in 109 h 17'41"
- 2007 - VIe édition : 1144 km. Winner Martin Wagen (Swiss) in 103 h 19'42"
- 2008 - VIIe édition : 1146 km. Winner René Strosny (Germany) in 94 h 04'40" (record)
- 2009 - Race not held
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