The yr 2025 is sort of over! This has been an enormous yr for ultrarunning, with some really distinctive performances throughout the paths, roads, and tracks which have objectively superior the game.
On the roads and tracks, runners set a number of world information throughout occasions starting from 50 kilometers to 6 days, together with Sarah Webster’s (U.Ok.) world file on the IAU 24-Hour World Championships, the place she eclipsed the earlier mark by an enormous 8.259k (5.131 miles) in operating 278.622k (173.127 miles).
Whereas it’s more durable to objectively quantify high trail-ultra performances, quite a few efforts broke longstanding course information and bested tremendous deep fields, together with American Anne Flower besting the 31-year-old Leadville 100 Mile file.
On this article, we glance again at among the barrier-breaking performances from 2025 throughout numerous surfaces and distances. iRunFar congratulates everybody who pushed the boundaries of ultrarunning a number of steps ahead in 2025. Let’s rejoice!
American Megan Eckert on her option to setting an enormous new ladies’s six-day world file, one of many high 2025 performances in street ultrarunning. Picture: Samuel L’hermillier
High 2025 Highway and Observe Extremely Performances
Mounted-distance and time occasions supply runners an opportunity to check themselves underneath the comparatively managed environments of roads and tracks. These occasions make it simple to match instances and distances throughout numerous areas and years, and world information proceed to fall often as runners dial in pacing, diet, gear, and even sleep.
24 Hours
The spotlight of the 24-hour distance in 2025 must be Sarah Webster’s (U.Ok.) world file on the IAU 24-Hour World Championships in France this October. She ran 278.622k (173.127 miles) to eclipse the earlier file set by Japan’s Miho Nakata of 270.363k (167.996 miles) in 2023 by an unbelievable margin of 8.259k (5.131 miles). It was an outstanding distance, virtually unthinkable a number of years in the past.
Sarah Webster through the 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships. Picture: John O’Regan
The 24-hour world file remained unbroken for the lads, however that didn’t imply there weren’t loads of spectacular performances all year long, and 7 of the world’s top-10 distances had been achieved on the IAU 24-Hour World Championships. Ukraine’s Andrii Tkachuk received the occasion this yr by operating 294.346k (182.898 miles), which topped the 2025 rankings.
Ukraine’s Andrii Tkachuk, 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships males’s winner. Picture: iRunFar/Deki Fourcin
48 Hours
Remarkably, on the UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race in Poland, each the lads’s and ladies’s world information had been damaged, by Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne and Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska.
The boys’s 48-hour distance had lengthy been the area of the legendary Yiannis Kouros of Greece. Previous to 2025, Kouros owned the six finest distances ever recorded for 48 hours, with a better of 473.495k (294.216 miles) from 1996. Bonne broke Kouros’ file by over 11k (6.8 miles), recording 485.099k (301.426 miles). Bonne’s efficiency has renewed curiosity within the distance, and there may be even speak of somebody reaching past 500k in 48 hours when the celebrities align.
Matthieu Bonne units a brand new males’s 48-hour world file on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race. Picture: Jacob Zocherman
On the identical occasion, Bereznowska took down the ladies’s 48-hour file by operating 436.371k (271.148 miles), bettering the mark of American Camille Herron at 435.336k (270.505 miles), set in 2023. Bereznowska had now set the ladies’s 48-hour world file twice, the primary time in 2022.
Patrycja Bereznowska on her option to setting a ladies’s 48-hour world file on the 2025 UltraPark Weekend 48 Hour race. Picture: Jacob Zocherman
Six Days
This yr noticed each the lads’s and ladies’s six-day world information damaged, by American Megan Eckert for the ladies and Russia’s Ivan Zaborsky for the lads, on the Six Days of France race.
Ivan Zaborsky setting a brand new males’s six-day world file on the 2025 Six Days of France race. Picture: Samuel L’hermillier
Eckert improved the ladies’s six-day file by an enormous 68.9k (42.8 miles) by operating 970.685k (603.155 miles), whereas Zaborsky recorded 1,047.544k (650.919 miles), including simply over 2k to the prior file.
After breaking the ladies’s six-day world file on the 2025 Six Days of France race, Megan Eckert went on to run one other 43 miles. Pictures courtesy of Mount to Coast.
50 Kilometers
The 50k occasion, though acknowledged for rankings and file functions, continues to battle to draw vital curiosity. The postponement of the 2025 IAU 50k World Championships, set to be held this previous month in New Delhi, India, however rescheduled to March 2026, has not precisely helped both. Gerda Steyn of South Africa was a transparent world-leader on the distance this yr as she topped the ladies’s rankings along with her 3:06:57 break up, taken as she received the 56k Two Oceans Marathon in South Africa, in April. The U.S.’s Charlie Lawrence set the yr’s quickest time for males with a 2:49:02, which he ran on the USATF 50k Highway Nationwide Championships on the MadCity 50k in April.
100 Kilometers
The IAU 100k World Championships alternate years with the 50k occasion, and this was an off-year for the 100k. Nonetheless, there have been a number of high performances to notice.
American Charlie Lawrence received near a brand new world file in mid-December along with his current 6:07:10 on the Desert Solstice Observe Invitational. Whereas 95 seconds shy of a world file, it was a brand new American file and the fourth-fastest time ever for the space.
Charlie Lawrence units a brand new males’s 100k American file on the 2025 Desert Solstice Observe Invitational. Picture: Aravaipa Working/Jubilee Paige
American Courtney Olsen turned solely the second lady to interrupt the 7-hour barrier for 100k in a ratified occasion, recording a 6:59:55 break up on the Tunnel Hill 100 and 50 Mile in November, setting a nationwide file within the course of. Limitations are being pushed with a number of ladies near 7 hours in recent times. Olsen’s sub-7 will certainly persuade others that it’s inside their attain.
High 2025 Path Extremely Performances
Whereas all of the empirical distances and fixed-time occasions might be simply documented, ranked, and in contrast, it’s harder to create a high performances checklist with trail-ultra occasions. Nonetheless, course information and commanding performances amongst deeply aggressive fields put sure performances in a league of their very own.
100 Miles
In her first try on the distance, Eire’s Caitriona Jennings set a brand new ladies’s 100-mile world file by operating 12:37:04 on the Tunnel Hill 100 Mile. This bettered American Camille Herron’s mark of 12:42:40 from 2017.
Caitriona Jennings trying happy along with her new ladies’s 100-mile world file on the 2025 Tunnel Hill 100 Mile. Picture: Micki Colson/Colson Images
UTMB is Europe’s, and arguably the world’s, blue-ribbon 100-mile occasion, drawing the deepest fields within the distance. This yr, the U.Ok.’s Tom Evans put collectively a dominant victory after two successive DNFs on the occasion in 2023 and 2024. New Zealand’s Ruth Croft was an equally dominant winner within the ladies’s race. Apparently, she labored with the identical coach as Evans to dial in her coaching and racing technique, and it’s fascinating to take a look at their pacing compared to different high runners within the discipline.
Tom Evans after successful the 2025 UTMB. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Each the ladies’s and males’s course information fell on the 2025 Leadville 100 Mile. Seemingly coming from nowhere, Anne Flower broke Anne Trason’s 31-year-old course file by operating 17:58:19, beating the outdated file by simply over 8 minutes. In the meantime, David Roche reset his course file from 2024 by operating 15:12:30, simply over 14 minutes quicker than the yr earlier than.
Anne Flower on her option to setting a brand new ladies’s course file on the 2025 Leadville 100 Mile. Picture courtesy of Anne Flower.
50 Miles
In September, Canfranc, Spain, hosted the World Mountain and Path Working Championships, and the occasion noticed among the best races of the yr over gorgeous and technical programs. Within the Path World Championships Lengthy Path occasion, which measured near 50 miles, People Jim Walmsley received a race-long battle, and Katie Schide ran away from the ladies’s discipline.
Jim Walmsley, the 2025 Path World Championships Lengthy Path champion. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
After setting a brand new course file on the Leadville 100 Mile in August, American Anne Flower set a brand new ladies’s 50-mile world file in November on the Tunnel Hill 50 Mile by operating 5:18:57, beating American Courtney Olsen’s time of 5:31:56 by 13 minutes.
Anne Flower was all smiles after setting a brand new ladies’s 50-mile world file on the 2025 Tunnel Hill 50 Mile. Picture: Micki Colson/Colson Images
50 Kilometers
The Path World Championships Quick Path noticed a technical and steep 45k course that felt something however quick. A pair of orienteers, France’s Frédéric Tranchand and Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson, took residence victories, with Alexandersson’s race being thought of probably the most dominant performances in extremely racing when she bested the remainder of the ladies’s discipline by greater than half-hour.
Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson on her option to successful the 2025 Path World Championships Quick Path. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Quickest Identified Instances
The quickest recognized time (FKT) or pace file idea has been round for longer than path ultrarunning, with FKTs experiencing huge development in reputation and competitiveness through the COVID-19 pandemic. American Tara Dower’s total supported file on Vermont’s Lengthy Path was a high ladies’s running-based FKT efficiency this yr. For the lads, the U.S.’s David Hedges’ supported Nolan’s 14 FKT was the highest running-focused FKT. This was fascinatingly a file he’d held up to now, nevertheless it was topped earlier in 2025 by France’s François D’Haene, after which Hedges got here again to reset the FKT for a second time.
David Hedges en path to a Nolan’s 14 quickest recognized time in 2025. Picture: Peter Maksimow
200 Miles
People Kilian Korth and Rachel Entrekin are the hands-down MVPs within the 200-plus-mile style of path operating this yr, one other avenue of path ultras that continues to extend in reputation and due to this fact competitiveness.
Korth received the 200-mile triple crown sequence this yr, by successful the Tahoe 200 Mile, Bigfoot 200 Mile, and Moab 240 Mile, setting a cumulative sequence file of 156 hours, half-hour within the course of. Entrekin set a brand new course file on the Cocodona 250 Mile in Could, after which turned it round to win the inaugural Mammoth 200 Mile in September, amongst her different 2025 accolades.
Rachel Entrekin on her option to a brand new ladies’s course file on the 2025 Cocodona 250 Mile. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
On the occasion that’s thought to have began the 200-mile style and presently homes the deepest aggressive fields for the space, Italy’s 205-mile Tor des Géants, Belgium’s Victor Richard set a brand new course file of 66:08. Noor Van Der Veen of The Netherlands received the ladies’s race in 79:34, turning into solely the second lady to run underneath 80 hours within the mountainous occasion.
Victor Richard, the 2025 Tor des Géants males’s winner. Picture: Stefano Coletta
Yard Ultras
Yard ultras are gaining reputation and in addition competitiveness worldwide. For these unfamiliar with the yard extremely format, racers full laps of a 4.1667-mile course each hour, beginning every lap on the high of the hour. Runners proceed till they both miss the one-hour cutoff or select to not proceed on. The winner is the one that completes yet one more lap after the second-to-last individual has dropped out.
Sarah Perry setting a brand new ladies’s yard extremely file on the 2025 Large Canine’s Yard Extremely. Picture: Jacob Zocherman
For the ladies, the U.Ok.’s Sarah Perry ran 95 laps, or yards, to cowl 637k (395.8 miles) on the 2025 Large Canine’s Yard Extremely. She broke American Megan Eckert’s earlier file of 87 yards, or 583.3k (362 miles), set in 2024.
The boys’s file improved twice in 2025. In April on the Legends Yard Extremely in Belgium, Poland’s Łukasz Wróbel completed 116 laps, or 777.9k (483.3 miles), to raised the 110-lap earlier file set by the Belgian workforce on the 2024 Large Canine’s Yard Extremely World Workforce Championships. A month after Wróbel’s file, Phil Gore would go three laps additional on the Lifeless Cow Gully in his residence nation of Australia, pushing the file out to 119 laps and 797.9k (495.8 miles).
Name for Feedback
What had been another standout performances from 2025?
Which performances from this yr will you bear in mind for the way they pushed the game ahead?
Do you’ve any efficiency predictions for 2026 in ultrarunning?
