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Yes, Lael's ride is so far the only one that stands out. I'm still curious as to what will happen if more women take up endurance riding. So far, I think the pool of available talent is quite small.
Oliver Schick-
Sarah Hammod, Race to the Rock. Also Janie Hayes 3rd in TABR17
women tend to have greater endurance potential than men
Ultra races remove a bit of the 'normal racing' requirements to be super powerful or super light or aero or whatever. There's far more scope for stubbornness to triumph over watts/kg. Still, I've only seen a few wins by women, I'd hardly say they're better at ultra endurance than men if you look across all the races. But also there's less oppurtunity for women to get into the sport so perhaps we also aren't seeing the best performances yet across more events. It's still male dominated. We were talking about this the other day on twitter, at least the ultra aspect. https://www.dotwatcher.cc/results needs some statistical analysis from @wheels_of_fire something something n+1 something regression something fourier something pi something something a+b. I think he was speaking in tongues.
hippy
I've done a fair bit of dot watching and it seems rare to see women win or even be competitive with the fastest men.
Although, it has happened (Lael being an example), so maybe there's just not enough women having a go to identify the outliers whereas the male pool is much larger so it's more likely to contain at least one man who performs at a level far above the rest of the riders.