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Dear Participants,

   In alignment with the Taiwan CDC protocol of COVID-19, and with participants’ safety being a primary concern, there are many race has been postponed. In order to maintain the quality of each event, the 2021 Taipei-Yilan Pathway Ultramarathon scheduled for December 11 has been postponed to December 25 this year.

    All registered participants will have their race registration automatically transferred to the new race date. If you are unable to attend the event on 25 December 2021, you can apply for a refund of your current race registration and additional purchases here: https://forms.gle/jj38E8gHnQGsKab19 . Applications for race refunds must be made by 6 June 2021 and will not be accepted after this date.

    We understand the disappointment this may cause but greatly appreciate your understanding with this challenging situation. Let us all sit back at this moment and wait for the dark cloud passes. Please continue training for the race later. If you have any questions, please contact: ctau.runner@gmail.com

【Refund Application】
From now on, until 6 June 2021. Please provide the information when registration.
Applications for race refunds must be made by 6 June 2021 and will not be accepted after this date.

Dear Participants,

   In alignment with the Taiwan CDC protocol of COVID-19, and with participants’ safety being a primary concern, the 2021 Taiwania Ultra Trail scheduled for June 26 has been postponed to December 11 this year.

    All registered participants will have their race registration automatically transferred to the new race date. If you are unable to attend the event on 11 December 2021, you can apply for a refund of your current race registration and additional purchases here: https://forms.gle/7PTqwaQ9YQJqQdMy9 . Applications for race refunds must be made by 6 June 2021 and will not be accepted after this date.

    We understand the disappointment this may cause but greatly appreciate your understanding with this challenging situation. Let us all sit back at this moment and wait for the dark cloud passes. Please listen the theme song we produced for ultra-runners and continue training for the race later. 

    If you have any questions, please contact: ctau.runner@gmail.com

【Refund Application】
From now on, until June 6, 2021. Please provide the information when registration.

【About Accommodation at Mingchih Resort / Cilan Resort】
If you book online by yourself, you can directly contact the Mingchih Resort or Cilan Resort to postpone or cancel the booking. Please contact: hrsvn5@lealeahotel.com

General info

Race name: 2020 Taiwan Shackleton Ultramarathon
Race place and date:  Nantou Puli to Qingjing, Taiwan, April 25, 2020
Race distance:  50K Road

Introduction

As Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, once said, “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, it has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.”  We held the 2020 Taiwan Shackleton Ultramarathon to implement Mr. Mandela’s idea last weekend.

The expert of John Hopkins University predicted Taiwan might be devastated because its proximity to China. But as of April 29, Taiwan has had 429 confirmed cases, 6 deaths. This success is no coincidence. A combination of efforts by medical professionals, government, private sector and society at large has armored our country’s defenses.

The Taiwan Shackleton Ultramarathon is a short edition of Run Across Taiwan Ultramarathon (RATU) which is a 246 kilometers coast to coast race. We pick the hardest section started from Nantou Puli, the heart of the island, to Nantou Qingjing, accumulated altitude 2471 meters in 50 kilometers distance to inspire and challenge the runners. 41 runners and 15 teams, total 77 participants took part in the race. The team participants need to finish the race together and demonstrate the spirit of Sir. Shackleton.  The following are the details.

The 50K race starts at 6 AM.  (Photo: CTAU Staff)

Participants need to wear the face mask and measure the body temperature while gathering at the venue.  (Photo: CTAU Staff)

Runners’ presentation

A young runner, Mr. CHU Hung-Jen wins 50 km ultramarathon. Successful participation in such a race presupposes hard physical work, mental strength and experience. Mr. CHU is a running club coach. Since his classes have been paused, he took the opportunity to train himself to prepare for his 100K challenge. He leads the field in personal category from start-to-finish in a really fast time of 5 hours 16 minutes. 

While in team side, Mr. HSU Ko-Jen and Mr. WU Yen-Te, set the team course record by 5 hours 46 minutes. When they arrived the finish line, Mr. WU gives his partner Mr. HSU a big thank-hug for the encouragement along the route, that really help him keep the pace and finally successfully get the first place in team category.

The next ultra-race of CTAU is the Taiwania Ultra Trail 100K in Cilan Forest on September 19-20, 2020. It will be the beginning race of 2020-2021 seasons.

The Shackleton race let runners run as a team and challenge the race together; they need to encourage each other and show their partnership. (Photo: CTAU Staff)

Along the route, the runners will run pass through the “May Snow” wonderland where Tung trees are in full blossom, it looks as if it had snowed on the mountains. (Photo: CTAU Staff)

Race report

Team Top 3 Results

1. HSU, KO-JEN & WU, YEN-TE (TPE) 05:46:05
2. Jack LIU & CHYAU, WOEI (TPE) 05:52:54
3. XIAO, CHUN-LIN & MAO, GE-MIN (TPE) 06:20:55

Male Top 3 Results

1. CHU, HUNG-JEN (TPE) 05:16:25
2. CHEN, CHING-CHIH (TPE) 05:34:10
3. YANG, CHIH-CHUAN (TPE) 05:37:34

Female Top 3 Results

1. LAI, LI-ZHEN (TPE) 06:54:40
2. LIU, DeNise (TPE) 07:44:40
3. SUN, TSUN-LIN (TPE) 07:46:15
 

Dear International Participants,

Due to health and travel concerns related to the COVID-19, the 2020 Taiwania Ultra Trail scheduled for March 28-29 has been postponed to September 19-20 this year.

We have been preparing for this event for several months. Let us all sit back at this moment and wait for the dark cloud passes. Please listen the theme song we produced for this trail race and continue training for the race later.

For International participants, due to the international remittance fee is way too high, we will swift your entry to September automatically. We appreciate your patience and will send you a special shirt as a gift in September.

For further information contact: ctau.runner@gmail.com

【About: Accommodation at Mingchih Resort / Cilan Resort】

If you book online by yourself, you can directly contact the Mingchih Resort or Cilan Resort to postpone or cancel the booking.

Mingchih Resort：+886-3-9894104, Cilan Resort：+886-3-9809606; 

Working Hour: 08:00-11:00, 12:00-17:00.

【About: Postponement Gift T-Shirt Size Survey】

To thanks the runner who support the race, the organizer will give a race T-shirt (when check-in the runner package at September’s race). Here’s the Size Survey Link: https://forms.gle/ar5zbkLgFFGb37BN9. Those who haven’t reply the link will provide the size L.

General info

Race name: 2019 Soochow International Ultramarathon 24H
Race place and date: Taipei, Taiwan, December 14-15, 2019
Race distance and label: 24hr, Silver label race

The 20th edition of Soochow 24hr race was held at the campus track of Soochow University, Taipei city. It is the 4th oldest 24hr race in the world and is celebrating its 20 years’ anniversary this year.  The Soochow 24h race is one of the most competitive ultraraces in the world, it owns IAU Gold race label four times. Many elite runners took part in this race and wished to refresh their personal best. It produced two world WBPs, three continental best performances and dozens of national records in the past 20 years



This race is an invitational race, only 40 elite ultrarunners are invited. Half of them are local runners whose best performance should over IAU national level. This year, runners from 9 countries, Japan, India, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, Australia, Malaysia, take part in the race. Top four male runners of last year are invited, but the ranks are different from last year because of competitive race.

The 20 years’ anniversary exhibition. (photo: Soochow University)

Runners’ presentation

In the men’ division, Mr. Ishikawa, the IAU 24hr World Champion of 2017, did not take part in this year’s WC and aiming to win the race. While Mr. Ivan Penalba Lopez who was the winner of last year is defending his title and hope to refresh national record. Ivan takes the lead in the beginning. He rushes to lead Mr. Ishikawa for 10 laps and then stick to run with him in the following stage of the race. Ivan speed up and run alone when he found the leading distance has been closed up. While Ishikawa ran his own steady pace, 13.5 kilometer per hour, started from the beginning. The two world class ultrarunners’ competition attract all the audiences and make the race even more exciting to watch. At about 18th hours, 3 AM, Ishikawa started to close the gap between he and Ivan. Ishikawa’s final result is 279.427 km and he wins the Soochow 24hr race for the second time. He sent his gratitude to his opponent Ivan in the post-race Press conference. While Ivan showed the ultra spirit in the awarding ceremony, he insisted to listen the winner’s speech from Ishikawa and gave him his applause on his way to visit the toilette. In the women’ side, Ms. Wu, the winner of 2018 Hong Kong 24h race, ran at very steady pace and won her first champions outside Hong Kong. Apparently many runners do not recover from the tiredness from the IAU 24hrace World Championship, Albi. Four male runners reach IAU international level, only one person short to apply IAU Gold race label this year. Dr. Pan, the President of Soochow University, still congratulated the organizing team for hosting a good race and wished the 20th version of race even more sucessful next year.
 

The starting of the race. The outer three lanes are used by the 1 hour celebrities.
(Photo: LIN, MING-TE; Photographer)
 

Mr. Ishikawa and Mr. Penabla Lopez run together most of the time during the race.
(Photo: Soochow University)

 
Top three of men and women in the post-race Press conference
(photo Soochow University)

The male and female winner, Mr. Ishikawa and Ms. Wu, in the awarding ceremony.
(Photo: Soochow University)

Men Top 5 Results
1.       ISHIKAWA, Yoshihiko (JPN) 279.427 km
2.       PENALBA LOPEZ, Iván (ESP) 274.332 km
3.       TAKAHASHI, Nobuyuki (JPN) 253.600 km
4.       HOSAHALLI NARAYANA, Ulla’s (IND) 242.096 km
5.       PIOTROWSKI, Andrzej (POL) 231.932 km

Female Top 5 Results
1.       WU, Yi-Hua (HKG) 215.262 km
2.       RADKA, Churañová (CZE) 206.461 km
3.       LIU, Chien-yu (TPE) 201.021 km
4.       LIN, Yi-Ru (TPE) 194.242 km
5.       DAI, Siou-Yu (TPE) 188.847 km

General info

Race name: Yilan Dongshan River Ultramarathon 2019
Race place and date: Wujie Township, Yilan County, Taiwan; November 22-23, 2019
Race distance and label: 100Miles, 100K, 50K Road and Bronze Label

Introduction

The 8^th version of Yilan Dongshan River Ultramarathon is held at Yilan Dongshan River Water Park. The easy-going time limit makes it the first choice for the freshmen of ultra-marathon. The 100 miles race started on 9 PM, Nov. 22. Besides 100miles, there are 100km-Night, 100km-Day, 50km; and also offer shorter sub-events such as regular and half marathon, and a 10km fun run.  Altogether, 875 runners take part in the race.  The majority of foreign participants are the Hong Kong runners, there are 12 of them. Other 10 foreign runners are mostly from Asia, there are Japan, China, and Malaysia.

The race starts at night, runners must overcome sleeplessness and low temperatures at night. (Photo: WANG, YING-HSIU; CTAU Staff)

Runners’ presentation

Ms. HSIANG, Wen-Hsuan and Ms. CHOU Ling-Chun, two members of current national delegation, take part in the 100 mile race. Mr. CHEN, Chih-Yu, a young and talent runner,  runs his first 100 miles. Ms. CHOU and Mr. CHEN lead the race after start. While in 100km category, Mr. WONG Chi-Fang and Ms. WANG, Ying-Chih, the male and female 2^nd place of last year’s 100K category, show up in the night group this year. There are lots of participants came to the race year after year aiming to break their personal record.

The smooth and scenic course is the main reasons why participants came to the race year after year. (Photo: KUO, KUO-PIN; Race Volunteer)

The continuous raising temperature on the second day were a tough challenge to every runner. In 100 miles category, Ms. CHOU takes the lead from the beginning to the end, and finished the race in 16hrs 6mins 42secs. She is the only runner reach the IAU international level in the race. While in man side, Mr. CHEN and Mr. WU Bihh-Shii, the 2 runners’ leading pack, persistently run the 20K lap on the road and keep resist the heat. They finished 100 miles in 4 minutes before and after: 19hrs 08mins 46secs and 19hrs 12mins 41secs. In the end, there are 22 participants successfully break their personal record in the race.

Awarding ceremony  of Male Top 5 in 100 miles category. (Photo: LIU, HUI-CHI; Race Volunteer)

There are more and more teenage children participants in 10K, that show the potential sports future in Taiwan! (Photo: WANG, YING-HSIU; CTAU Staff)

Race Result

Female Top 3 results - 100 Miles

1. CHOU, LING-CHUN (TPE) 16:06:42
2. HSIANG, WEN-HSUAN (TPE) 20:40:02
3. HUANG, YEN-LING (TPE) 22:08:22

Male Top 3 results – 100 Miles

1. CHEN, CHIH-YU (TPE) 19:08:46
2. WU, BIHH,SHII (TPE) 19:12:41
3. YEH, CHANG-YUAN (TPE) 19:26:32

Ms. CHOU and Mr. CHEN, the 100 miles  male and female champion, finished the race. (Photo: CHEN, YA-LUAN; Race Volunteer)

We, IAU, are very pleased to announce that the 2021 IAU 50 km World Championships was granted to Taipei, Taiwan. The Championships will take place on October 31^st, 2021 and it will be organize by Chinese Taipei Association of Ultrarunners (CTAU). 

In 2018 Taipei was the host of IAU 24H Asia & Oceania Championships. It was great success and finally the LOC decided to apply for another IAU Event.

Taipei is well known for organizing for almost 20 years a prestigious Soochow 24H international event where many world best class results were set. The race course is 10 km loop and 3 km from the athletics village in the Dajia Riverside park where all athletes will be located.

Race course

 Accommodation

IAU and LOC welcome you to participate in the Championship. We are convinced that well experienced LOC and long history of ultrarunning will be great combination to host another IAU event and you will leave with long-lasting memories.