The lottery for the 2026 Hardrock 100 occurred on Saturday, December 6, 2025. Congratulations to the runners who secured locations on the entrants record!
The Hardrock 100 is a 102.5-mile race via Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, beginning and ending within the village of Silverton. The course is infamous for each its magnificence and problem. The route packs in 33,000 ft of elevation acquire, going down at a mean altitude of round 11,000 ft. It alternates path annually and can run clockwise in 2026.
The 2025 Hardrock 100 girls’s champ Katie Schide plans to be again in 2026. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
A bucket record race for some ultrarunners, the Hardrock 100 is troublesome to realize entry into, with 2,747 making use of for this yr’s lottery alone. That is barely down from the three,023 candidates for the 2025 version, whereas roughly according to the two,796 candidates in 2024.
Not like the Western States 100, which gives a number of avenues to realize entry in addition to an much more troublesome lottery to get via, the one strategy to safe a assured entry into the Hardrock 100 is to win the earlier yr’s race. The 2026 Hardrock 100 can have 146 runners, which is the latest customary for the occasion.
On this article, we record the highest opponents on the present entrants lists in addition to these excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in. Then, we clarify how the lottery operates.
Notable 2026 Hardrock 100 Males’s Entrants
The one strategy to acquire entrance to this occasion, other than the lottery, is to win the yr earlier than. Males’s 2025 Hardrock 100 champion Ludovic Pommeret (post-race interviews) has elected to make use of his entry.
Ludovic Pommeret will return for the 2026 Hardrock 100 after profitable in 2025 (and 2024). Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Listed below are the notable males chosen to run the 2026 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
David Ayala – 4th 2025 Hardrock 100; 1st 2024 IMTUF 100 Mile; 2nd 2021 Bighorn 100 Mile
Dylan Bowman – ninth 2023 & 2nd 2021 Hardrock 100 Mile; 4th 2024 Mozart 100k; seventh 2022 Extremely Pirineu 100k
Nick Coury – seventh 2024 & eighth 2022 Hardrock 100; fifth 2022 Javelina 100 Mile; 1st 2021 Desert Solstice 24-Hour
Alex Docta – sixth 2025 Mogollon Monster 100 Mile; 4th 2023 Jackpot 100 Mile
Jimmy Elam – 1st 2025 Mammoth 200 Mile; 1st 2025 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; 1st 2024 San Juan Solstice 50 Mile; 2nd 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Tom Evans (U.Ok.) – 1st 2025 & third 2022 UTMB; 1st 2023 Western States 100; 2nd 2024 Lavaredo Extremely Path; third 2024 Transvulcania
Arlen Glick – 4th 2023 Hardrock 100; third 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile; third 2023 & 2nd 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; third 2022 Western States 100
Nate Jaqua – 1st 2025 & 2023 HURT 100 Mile; 1st 2023 Loopy Mountain 100 Mile
Michael McKnight – eighth 2025, 1st 2023 & 2nd 2022 Cocodona 250 Mile; 2nd 2024 Tahoe 200 Mile; 1st 2021 Moab 240 Mile; 1st 2021 Bigfoot 200 Mile
Caleb Olson – 1st 2025 & fifth 2024 Western States 100; 1st 2025 Transgrancanaria; 2nd 2024 Madeira Island Extremely-Path
Jeff Rome – seventh 2025 & 4th 2024 Hardrock 100
Jason Schlarb – third 2024 Hardrock 100; ninth 2024 TDS; eighth 2022 Eiger Extremely-Path 100k
Ryan Smith – third 2021 Hardrock 100; 1st 2022 Excessive 5 100 Mile
Paul Terranova – sixth 2024 & 2023 Hardrock 100; sixth 2023 Leadville 100 Mile; 4th 2022 Bighorn 100 Mile
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Tom Evans after profitable the 2025 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Notable 2026 Hardrock 100 Girls’s Entrants
Girls’s 2025 Hardrock 100 champion Katie Schide (post-race interviews) has elected to make use of her computerized entry as final yr’s winner.
Listed below are the notable girls chosen to run the 2026 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
Careth Arnold – 1st 2025 TDS; 2nd 2025 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; fifth 2025 & 4th 2024 Canyons 100k; 14th 2024 Western States 100
Darla Askew – tenth 2023 Hardrock 100; 1st 2022 Pine to Palm 100 Mile
Courtney Dauwalter – 1st 2024, 2023 & 2022 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 & 2021 UTMB; 1st 2023 Western States 100
Tara Dower – 4th 2024 Hardrock 100; 1st 2025 Javelina 100 Mile; 1st 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
Alyson Kirk – 4th 2025 Loopy Mountain 100 Mile; 4th 2024 Merciless Jewel 100 Mile; third 2022 Bighorn 100 Mile
Aliza Lapierre – eighth 2025 Hardrock 100; seventh 2024 & 2nd 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile; 1st 2025 Midstate Huge 100 Mile
Kaci Lickteig – ninth 2025 Javelina 100 Mile; sixth 2025 HURT 100 Mile; 4th 2024 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
Jenny Pierce – sixth 2025 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; 4th 2024 & 1st 2022 Loopy Mountain 100 Mile; 4th 2023 Wasatch 100 Mile
Meghan Slavin – third 2023 & 2nd 2021 Mogollon Monster 100 Mile; third 2023 San Diego 100 Mile
Emily Wanless – fifth 2024 Cascade Crest 100 Mile; seventh 2023 Leadville 100 Mile
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Courtney Dauwalter climbs amongst the Hardrock 100 wildflowers on her strategy to profitable the 2023 race. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Notable Waitlisted Males With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In
These are the quick males who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed in waitlist order:
Sam Ritchie – thirteenth 2023 Hardrock 100; 4th 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile (ninth Completed waitlist)
John Fitzgerald – ninth 2022 Hardrock 100 (tenth Completed waitlist)
Don Reichelt – 1st 2025 Creede 100 Mile; 1st 2024 Desert Solstice 24 Hour (154 miles); thirteenth 2024 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile (eleventh By no means waitlist)
Jeff Browning – fifth 2023, 2022 & 2021 Hardrock 100; 18th 2025 Western States 100; 4th 2024 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; 2nd 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile (thirteenth Completed waitlist)
Dakota Jones – third 2022 Hardrock 100; ninth 2024 & third 2023 CCC; 1st 2023 Transvulcania (14th Completed waitlist)
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 14 of the Never Finished and Finished men’s waitlists. We’ll add additional men to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
Dakota Jones on his strategy to the rostrum on the 2022 Hardrock 100. He’s 14th on the Completed waitlist as of lottery day. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Notable Waitlisted Girls With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In
These are the quick girls who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed in waitlist order:
Bailey Eppard – eighth 2025 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 4th 2024 Bighorn 100 Mile (fifth By no means waitlist)
Alissa St Laurent (Canada) – tenth 2025 & 2nd 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 1st 2023 Grindstone 100 Mile (sixth By no means waitlist)
Christina Bauer – eighth 2023 Hardrock 100 (tenth Completed waitlist)
Tory O’Farrell (Canada) – third 2025 Extremely Tour Monte Rosa 100 Mile; 1st 2022 Whistler Alpine Meadows 100 Mile (eleventh By no means waitlist)
Sophie Grant (U.Ok.) – ninth 2025 & fifth 2023 Tor des Géants; twenty second 2024 UTMB; sixth 2024 Lavaredo Extremely Path (thirteenth By no means waitlist)
Stephanie Case (Canada) – fifth 2025 & 2nd 2022 Hardrock 100; 1st 2021 Tor des Glaciers 450k (thirteenth Completed waitlist)
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 14 of the Never Finished and Finished women’s waitlists. We’ll add additional women to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
Stephanie Case one her strategy to taking fifth on the 2025 Hardrock 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
2026 Hardrock 100 Lottery Parameters
The 2026 lottery is split into two classes, the By no means Completed and Completed divisions:
By no means Completed – Runners who’ve not but completed the Hardrock 100.
Completed – Runners who’ve completed a minimum of one Hardrock 100.
For 2026, the group chosen 82 By no means Completed runners and 64 Completed runners.
From 2022 onward, the Hardrock 100 group adopted a brand new coverage whereby the identical proportion of feminine runners who enter the lottery might be chosen to run the race. Subsequently, the draw is basically drawn into 4 sections: Feminine By no means, Feminine Completed, Male By no means, and Male Completed. For 2026, 607 lotto candidates have been feminine, representing 22.1% of the applicant pool. Thus, there might be 33 feminine starters.
Returning champions are given computerized entrance to the occasion. Each 2025 champions, Katie Schide and Ludovic Pommeret, claimed their entries for 2026.
Every year, run director (RD) Dale Garland handpicks six entrants who bypass the lottery by way of particular consideration. Defined on the group’s web site, “[S]ix such runners might be chosen, evenly break up between women and men, from a slate of a minimum of 12 candidates proposed by the RD and permitted by the Hardrock Board of Administrators.” This yr, these runners are:
Careth Arnold
Courtney Dauwalter
Tara Dower
Jimmy Elam
Tom Evans
Caleb Olson
Caleb Olson profitable the 2025 Western States 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
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Tara Dower climbing as much as the KT help station throughout the 2024 Hardrock 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
