It’s Labor Day weekend within the U.S., and I wager nearly everybody may use a day without work after this previous weekend of racing. The UTMB Mont Blanc pageant and its group of races in Chamonix, France, had been extremely thrilling and had the world watching. All of these races are highlighted beneath, in addition to a number of smaller races taking place over the lengthy weekend.
You possibly can try our race protection from earlier within the week:
UTMB – Chamonix, France
Climate hit a number of the earlier-week UTMB Mont Blanc pageant races inflicting reroutes, and it did for the 108-mile large loop too. In a single day rain and snow added to the already unimaginable problem. Earlier than the race, latest rock slides had resulted in a detour that added about two kilometers to the course, after which throughout the race, climate compelled about two kilometers to be taken away to keep away from a technical go that was coated in snow.
The beginning of the 2025 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Race winners every earned 20,000 Euro as a part of a complete 119,000 Euro prize purse.
We’ll go gentle on the UTMB race dynamics right here — you could find that in our in-depth outcomes article — and as a substitute go deep on the lengthy listing of prime runners who raced.
Girls
Second a yr in the past, Ruth Croft (New Zealand) introduced depth from the beginning. Croft went to the lead early, spent the center a part of the race in third, after which ran previous Camille Bruyas (France) and Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) within the second half.
Croft gained in 22:56, changing into the primary girl to win all three of the UTMB World Sequence Finals races: OCC in 2015, CCC in 2019, and now UTMB. Croft can also be amongst a choose group of each Western States 100 and UTMB winners, the previous which she gained in 2022.
Bruyas matched her 2021 end place with one other runner-up end in 23:28, and Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) matched her 2025 Hardrock 100 end place with one other third-place run in 24:16.
The primary American girl was Lauren Puretz in eighth place.
Ruth Croft, the 2025 UTMB girls’s champion. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
Ruth Croft (New Zealand) – 22:56:23
Camille Bruyas (France) – 23:28:48
Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – 24:16:39
Anna Carlsson (Sweden) – 24:39:42
Maëlle Deruaz (France) – 24:43:02
Magali Mellon (France) – 24:48:12
Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – 24:51:32
Lauren Puretz (U.S.) – 24:54:57
Claudia Tremps (Spain) – 25:05:07
Courtney Dauwalter (U.S.) – 25:50:38
The separate race recap went deep on race dynamics, however I at all times wish to double again and see how everybody talked about within the girls’s race preview truly did. And right here’s that.
11. Emma Stuart (Eire) – 25:57:55
12. Susanne Zahlauer (Germany) – 26:19:45
13. Maite Maiora (Spain) – 27:17:41
14. Laura Hansen (U.S.) – 27:43:53
15. Mélanie Delasoie (Switzerland) – 27:49:17
16. Kelsey Hogan (Canada) – 28:23:27
17. Lindsey Dwyer (U.S.) – 28:30:55
18. Elena Horton (U.S.) – 29:23:30
19. Heather Jackson (U.S.) – 29:33:00
22. Marisa Romeo (U.S.) – 30:18:06
23. Arden Younger (Canada) – 30:22:53
25. Mercedes Vince (Canada) – 30:42:51
27. Britta Clark (U.S.) – 31:11:19
28. Marta Muixi (Spain) – 31:12:05
34. Maria Fuentes (Spain) – 32:32:30
35. Kerry-Ann Marshall (South Africa) – 32:43:43
37. Maria Dalzot (U.S.) – 32:54:01
39. Alyssa Clark (U.S.) – 33:03:32
41. Katie Wright (New Zealand) – 33:05:26
42. Ildikó Wermescher (Hungary) – 33:39:44
55. Kanako Edamoto (Japan) – 36:30:13
69. Emily Hawgood (Zimbabwe) – 38:11:16
Camille Bruyas on her approach to second place on the 2025 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Drops included:
Johanna Antila (Finland)
Emily Brunt (Australia)
Lin Chen (China)
Enrica Dematteis (Italy)
Rong-Hua Deng (China)
Katarzyna Dombrowska (Poland)
Manon Gras (France)
Abby Corridor (U.S.)
Stephanie Howe (U.S.)
Antonina Iushina (Impartial)
Ingrid Lid (Norway)
Paulina Krawczak (Poland)
Inês Marques (Portugal)
Oana Mihalcea (Romania)
Ekaterina Mityaeva (Impartial)
Kimino Miyazaki (Japan)
Aleksandra Narkowicz (Poland)
Mariya Nikolova (Bulgaria)
Martina Klančnik Potrč (Slovenia)
Dominique Van Mechgelen (Belgium)
Yuan-Yuan Wu (China)
Runners within the pre-race preview that didn’t begin had been:
Elisabeth Borgersen (Norway)
Isabelle Dragon (France)
Anna Li (France)
Elisabeth Ríos (Bolivia)
It seems that the most important overachiever — the primary finisher not named within the race preview — was Twentieth-place Brooke Deans (U.S.) at 29:44:23.
Males
After dropping from UTMB two years in a row, Tom Evans (U.Okay.) obtained to the end first. Evans gained in 19:18 and, like girls’s winner Croft, grew to become each a Western States 100 (2023) and a UTMB winner. Evans gained CCC in 2018, too, and now has two UTMB World Sequence Finals victories.
Tom Evans on his approach to profitable the 2024 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Identical to Evans, Ben Dhiman (U.S.) overcame two years in a row of drops and fulfilled a number of the promise proven in earlier large mountain runs with a second-place end in a time of 19:51.
Josh Wade (U.Okay.) continued his upward trajectory with a third-place end in 20:05. Wade was eleventh a yr in the past.
The lads’s prime 10 was:
Tom Evans (U.Okay.) – 19:18:58
Ben Dhiman (U.S.) – 19:51:37
Josh Wade (U.Okay.) – 20:05:06
Ji Duo (China) – 20:15:05
Thibaut Garrivier (France) – 20:20:25
Ludovic Pommeret (France) – 20:40:34
Yannick Noël (France) – 21:03:41
Jia-Sheng Shen (China) – 21:11:59
Rod Farvard (U.S.) – 21:18:24
Jia-Ju Zhao (China) – 21:19:47
The U.Okay.’s Josh Wade was a darkish horse decide for a lot of. After operating within the again half of the lads’s prime 10 within the first half of the race, he moved up later to take third. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
And catching up on how everybody within the males’s race preview did, right here’s what occurred:
11. Baptiste Coatantiec (France) – 21:42:54
12. Antoine Lamboy-Martin (France) – 21:50:00
13. Canyon Woodward (U.S.) – 22:03:39
14. Kamil Leśniak (Poland) – 22:08:47
15. Gabriel Rueda (Argentina) – 22:11:25
16. Cody Lind (U.S.) – 22:11:28
19. Nicolas Gourdon (France) – 22:43:34
20. Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz (France) – 22:50:40
24. Ugo Ferrari (France) – 23:29:40
27. Stephen Kersh (U.S.) – 23:45:33
43. Karel Sabbe (Belgium) – 25:09:57
46. Jonas Russi (Switzerland) – 25:27:00
49. Matt Seidel (U.S.) – 25:34:29
53. Ferdinand Airault (France) – 25:45:08
56. Philipp Ausserhofer (Italy) – 25:52:18
61. Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 26:02:50
France’s Ludovic Pommeret, age 50 years younger, took sixth on the 2025 UTMB after pacing sensible all race and weathering the storms. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Drops included:
Jonathan Albon (U.Okay.)
Matteo Anselmi (Italy)
Valentin Benard (France)
Alban Berson (France)
Marek Causidis (Czech Republic)
Ricardo Cherta (Spain)
Théo Detienne (France)
François D’Haene (France)
Javi Dominguez (Spain)
Aubin Ferrari (France)
Simon Gosselin (France)
Germain Grangier (France)
Gediminas Grinius (Lithuania)
Hayden Hawks (U.S.)
Miguel Heras (Spain)
Tom Joly (U.Okay.)
Dan Jones (New Zealand)
Terunobu Kurokawa (Japan)
Ionel Manole (Romania)
Jeff Mogavero (U.S.)
Gilles Roux (Italy)
Jason Schlarb (U.S.)
Tim Tollefson (U.S.)
Aleksei Tolstenko (Impartial)
Jean-Philippe Tschumi (Switzerland)
Pablo Villa (Spain)
Ben Dhiman ending in second on the 2025 UTMB. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Runners within the preview that didn’t begin had been:
Guo-Min Deng (China)
Christian Meier (Canada)
I feel that makes the primary runner not named within the race preview Seventeenth-place Guillaume Deneffe (Belgium) at 22:11:32.
Full outcomes.
CCC – Chamonix, France
The 100k race ran from Courmayeur, Italy, to Chamonix, France, on a route with 20,013 ft of climbing. It was the UTMB World Sequence Finals for the 100k distance and paid 13,000 Euro to its winners as a part of a complete 75,000 Euro prize purse.
Girls
The earlier three girls’s winners Toni McCann (South Africa), Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway), and Blandine L’Hirondel (France), had been all again this yr. Neither McCann nor Kaspersen would end, however L’Hirondel would battle late into the race.
Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland), the 2024 runner-up, hauled previous L’Hirondel first and led for a lot of the race’s second half, however additional again, Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) and Anna Tarasova (Spain) had been completely rolling. Nordskar flew previous Młynarczyk after 11 hours of operating, after which 16 minutes later, Młynarczyk regained the lead and stayed simply forward of Nordskar over the ultimate two kilometers. Młynarczyk gained in 11:41, and Nordskar was second in 11:42 and solely 18 seconds again.
Tarasova was third in 11:44.
Martyna Mlynarczyk, the 2025 CCC girls’s champion. Photograph: UTMB
The highest 5 girls had been:
Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) – 11:41:55
Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) – 11:42:13
Anna Tarasova (Spain) – 11:44:18
Blandine L’Hirondel (France) – 11:53:31
Veronika Leng (Slovakia) – 12:00:27
Males
A giant entrance group whittled down to only Francesco Puppi (Italy) and David Sinclair (U.S.) at Champex-Lac at mile 34. The 2 frontrunners had been out and in of support collectively, however Puppi went on blast by city and gained significant separation. He added to that lead on the race’s third of 5 large climbs and carried a lead the remainder of the best way. Puppi, in solely his second 100k race ever, gained in 10:06.
Sinclair stayed second in 10:13, and Drew Holmen (U.S.) closed laborious to complete an in depth third in 10:16.
Francesco Puppi on his approach to profitable the 2025 CCC. Photograph: UTMB
The highest 5 males had been:
Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 10:06:02
David Sinclair (U.S.) – 10:13:42
Drew Holmen (U.S.) – 10:16:15
Arnaud Bonin (France) – 10:26:03
Jeshurun Small (U.S.) – 10:28:57
Full outcomes.
OCC – Chamonix, France
Rain within the lead-up to the race compelled the whole lot onto an alternate course. The brand new route was 61 kilometers (38 miles) and with 3,400 meters (11,155 ft) of elevation achieve, targeted on a giant climb to a excessive level close to Col de Balme within the second half of the race. Each the ladies’s and males’s races had particularly shut, dramatic finishes. The race was a UTMB World Sequence Finals for the 50k distance, and paid 13,000 Euro to its winners as a part of a 75,000 Euro whole money purse to the highest 10.
Girls
Two-time Sierre-Zinal winner Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) and defending OCC champ Miao Yao (China) established themselves on the entrance early and had been by no means greater than two minutes aside for any of the race. It was mile 31 that Chepngeno scored the final lead, and whereas she stumbled within the closing stretches, it was sufficient to carry off Yao’s cost. Chepngeno grew to become the first-ever Kenyan to win a UTMB World Sequence Closing in 5:34, and he or she was solely 70 seconds forward of second-place Yao. Judith Wyder (Switzerland) battled Maude Mathys (Switzerland) for the third podium spot. Wyder completed in 5:38 to Mathys’s 5:45 mark. Wyder was second right here in 2024.
The 2025 OCC girls’s podium (left to proper): 2. Miao Yao, 1. Joyline Chepngeno, 3. Judith Wyder. Photograph: UTMB
The highest 5 girls had been:
Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) – 5:34:03
Miao Yao (China) – 5:35:13
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 5:38:22
Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 5:45:43
Sara Alonso (Spain) – 5:50:26
[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
Males
Jim Walmsley (U.S.) shook free from early challengers like Petter Engdahl (Norway) and was alone on the entrance for many of the race. However like a darkish horse on the skin lane, Cristian Minoggio (Italy) flew up the Col de Balme climb at mile 24 and launched off the highest and down into Argentière at mile 31. He handed everybody doing it, together with Walmsley. Minoggio poured it on leaving the help station and a lead of over a minute with lower than seven miles to go. Walmsley wasn’t completed although and ran down Minoggio to complete forward of him by 20 seconds in 5:00:35.
Like Minoggio, Andrzej Witek (Poland) rode a powerful second half to complete third in 5:04.
The 2025 OCC males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Cristian Minoggio, 1. Jim Walmsley, 3. Andrzej Witek. Photograph: UTMB
The lads’s prime 5 was:
Jim Walmsley (U.S.) – 5:00:35
Cristian Minoggio (Italy) – 5:00:55
Andrzej Witek (Poland) – 5:04:08
Petter Engdahl (Norway) – 5:05:08
Kristian Jones (U.Okay.) – 5:05:50
Full outcomes.
Extra Races and Runs
TDS – Chamonix, France
Climate compelled a course reroute, however TDS was nonetheless thought to be extra technical than any of the opposite UTMB races. The early-week contest was the aggressive kickoff to the group of races too. The rerouted course ran 95 miles and had 29,500 ft of climbing from Courmayeur, Italy, to Chamonix, France.
Girls’s race favorites Careth Arnold (U.S.), Ida-Sophie Hegemann (Germany), and Manon Bohard Callier (France) had been collectively early, however Bohard Callier dropped close to mile 41 and Hegemann did the identical at mile 62. Arnold outlasted and outran everybody to a 22:58 end time, making her the first-ever American winner of this race. Hélène Dassy (Belgium) scored a second-place 24:23 end, and Elise Delannoy (France) obtained on the rostrum in 25:18 after Xueer Shang (China), who initially completed third, was moved to an unranked place following a “route error.”
French males took the primary 4 spots and eight of the highest 10. In a race of quite a lot of leaders, Antoine Charvolin took the highest spot with 25 miles to go and made it stick. Charvolin, final yr’s CCC Thirteenth-placer, gained in 18:22. Massive second-half strikes from Gautier Airiau and Léo Rogaume led to podium spots in 18:28 and 18:39, respectively.
Full outcomes.
Careth Arnold wins the 2025 TDS. Photograph: UTMB
Antoine Charvolin, the 2025 TDS winner. Photograph: UTMB
MCC – Chamonix, France
The 25-mile race, a part of the UTMB Mont Blanc pageant, went from Martigny, Switzerland, to Chamonix, France, on Monday, August 25. The race is community-themed and earmarked principally for occasion volunteers, companions, and native residents. As such, the entire prime finishers had been from the host nation. Marine Quintard pulled away from Pauline Girardet and Iris Pessey to win the ladies’s crown. The three completed in 4:16, 4:21, and 4:25, respectively. Pessey was eleventh on the Matterhorn Ultraks Skyrace solely two days earlier than. Simply 17 seconds separated males’s winner Yoann Caught and runner-up Léo Tuaz. Each ran 3:40, and Clément Génot was third in 3:41. Full outcomes.
ETC – Courmayeur, Italy
At simply 9 miles, this was one of many UTMB Mont Blanc pageant’s shorter races. It did nonetheless, nevertheless, achieve nearly 4,000 ft of elevation on its loop course. Mădălina Florea (Romania) ran away with the ladies’s win. She was over six minutes quicker than everybody else in 1:30. Maria Fuentes (Spain) was second in 1:37, practically a full minute in entrance of third-place Naomi Lang (U.Okay.) and her 1:38 mark. The highest males ran it nearer, however Alain Santamaria (Spain) nonetheless gained by over a full minute too. He obtained to the end in 1:21, and a bloodied Cesare Maestri (Italy) crossed subsequent in 1:22. Maximilien Drion (Belgium) was third in 1:23. Full outcomes.
Chasing 100 – Nardò, Italy
The occasion wasn’t world-record eligible, however Sibusiso Kubheka (South Africa) ran the first-ever sub-six-hour 100k in 5:59:20. Charlie Lawrence (U.S.) and Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) ran 6:03:47 and 6:04:10, each additionally below Sorokin’s 6:05:35 world file. We haven’t beforehand written about Kubheka, however he ran a 61:36 half-marathon in 2021. He’d earlier raced 50k twice with a 2:42 greatest.
Sibusiso Kubheka on his approach to operating sub-six hours for 100 kilometers on the 2025 Chasing 100 occasion. Photograph: adidas
World Masters Mountain Working Championships – Meduno, Italy
It was the occasion’s twenty fourth version, and there have been practically 1,200 runners from 36 totally different international locations competing. The primary race, the Uphill championships, ran 5k and 800 meters as much as the highest of Monte Valinis. Andrea Schweigkofler (Italy) and Justino Coronado (Mexico) gained the ladies’s and males’s races in 41:22 and 32:40. Day two of the occasion had the 34k Lengthy Distance championships on foothill trails that gained 1,850 meters. Christine Lundy (U.S.) and Tencho Zhekov (Bulgaria) had been race winners in 3:44 and a pair of:57, respectively. Uphill full outcomes. Lengthy Distance full outcomes.
Andrea Schweigkofler profitable the 2025 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Uphill race. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Justino Coronado on his approach to profitable the 2025 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Uphill race. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Kauai Marathon – Poipu, Kauai, Hawai’i
U.S. Uphill workforce member Tyler McCandless is a perennial winner in Kauai. He gained the half marathon this yr in 1:06:52. Full outcomes.
Cirque Sequence – Grand Targhee, Wyoming
Jane Maus and Mason Coppi led the 7-mile race in 59:25 and 49:49. Full outcomes.
Grand Traverse – Crested Butte, Colorado
The 40-mile race goes from Crested Butte to Aspen. Callie Cooper and Will Murray gained large of their respective races. Cooper ran 7:02, and Murray completed in 5:36, and nobody was near both. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Grand Traverse girls’s podium (left to proper): 3. Julia Nyiro, 1. Callie Cooper, 2. Martha Clemmer. Photograph courtesy of the race.
The 2025 Grand Traverse males’s podium (left to proper): 3. Peter Burke, 1. Will Murray, 2. Kieran Nay. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Black Bear 50k – Waterville Valley, New Hampshire
Jarrod Beauregard gained the lads’s race in 5:54:58, and Marissa Valz got here away with the ladies’s race with a time of 8:10:20.
Marissa Valz on her approach to profitable the 2025 Black Bear 50k. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Jarrod Beauregard on his approach to profitable the 2025 Black Bear 50k. Photograph courtesy of race.
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Wow, what are you able to say about that weekend?
Does it have you ever eagerly anticipating some new matchups on the World Mountain and Path Working Championships in late September?
