The tip-of-year countdown is on, however dang, there was plenty of racing this weekend!
Outcomes from roads, cross nation, trails, and ski mountaineering are among the many highlights.
Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB – Chiang Mai, Thailand
Chiang Dao 160
The lengthy course went for 104 miles with 26,574 toes of climbing. Aleksei Beresnev (Impartial) was the lads’s winner in 21:14, and Jia-Ju Zhao (China) and Masatoshi Obara (Japan) have been second and third in 21:40 and 21:58.
It was a second straight ladies’s win for Antonina Iushina (Impartial), and it wasn’t shut. Iushina was practically two hours in entrance of second-place Careth Arnold (U.S.). Iushina and Arnold completed in 22:34 and 24:33. Rong-Hua Deng (China) was third in 26:07.
Aleksei Beresnev, the 2025 Chiang Dao 160k males’s winner. Photograph: UTMB
Elephant 100
The race went for nearly 60 miles with simply over 15,000 toes of climbing. There have been over 1,000 starters, and after the opening 5 miles, Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) was on the entrance. By mile 23, Arsénio had opened an 8-minute lead on the sphere, and the hole grew from there. Arsénio completed first in 9:14. Simply fifth at midway, Kao Zhou (China) moved into second within the final 10 miles to complete runner-up in 9:51. Dmitry Mityaev (Impartial) was second on the Extremely-Path Cape City 100k underneath two weeks in the past and got here again to complete third right here in 9:52. He was solely 45 seconds behind second-place Zhou.
Miguel Arsenio, the 2025 Elephant 100k males’s winner. Photograph: UTMB
Hậu Hà (Vietnam) and Ekaterina Mityaeva (Impartial) have been collectively on the entrance of the ladies’s race so far as midway, however Hà outpaced her challenger over the second half. Hà completed first in 10:43, donning her dwelling nation’s attribute nón lá leaf hat to interrupt the end tape. She gained right here in 2023, too, and likewise gained the 50k race in 2024 and 2022. Mityaeva, final 12 months’s winner, was second in 11:02, and third-place Yuri Yoshizumi (Japan) got here in at 11:30.
Hậu Hà, the 2025 Elephant 100k ladies’s winner. Photograph: UTMB
Hmong 50
Guang-Fu Meng (China) stopped Rui Ueda (Japan) from repeating as males’s winner. Meng ran 4:31 to Ueda’s 4:35. Hayden Hawks (U.S.) edged coaching mate Coleman Cragun (U.S.) by 5 seconds for third. Each have been in at 4:38.
Should you keep prepared, you don’t should prepare. Maude Mathys (Switzerland) gained the occasion’s 24-mile race final weekend and doubled again to champion this one over virtually 35 miles, too. The race gained 7,874 toes of elevation, and Mathys completed approach out entrance in 5:03.
Maude Mathys, the 2025 Hmong 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph: UTMB
Robyn Lesh (U.S.) collapsed throughout the end second in 5:26, and Yan Lei (China) was third in 5:31. Second in final weekend’s 24 miler, Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) was fourth in 5:31, and Tara Dower (U.S.) was fifth in 5:43.
[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.]
Full outcomes.
California Worldwide Marathon – Sacramento, California
The purpose-to-point race runs with a web downhill, which makes it a scorching spot for quick instances. Males wanted to run higher than 2:16:00 and girls quicker than 2:37:00 to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials.
Males
Christian Allen completed third in 2:09:57. That bettered his former 2:10:32 marathon greatest from the Houston Marathon in January 2025.
The 50k world record-holder CJ Albertson helped to tempo a gaggle of males to Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying instances and was thirty eighth in 2:14:56.
Makai Clemons dipped underneath that Olympic Marathon Trials time too with a 2:15:26 run. Clemons gained the San Diego 100 Mile in 2023.
Longtime ultrarunner Chikara Omine completed in 2:21:20.
Girls
Kodi Kleven gained this 12 months’s Speedgoat 30k and completed eighth right here in 2:29:17.
Andrea Pomaranski simply missed an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying mark with 2:37:45 on the clock. Courtney Dauwalter was simply again of the mark too in 2:38:54. Dauwalter went by means of midway in 1:18:31.
Sophie Seward was second at this 12 months’s USATF 50k Highway Nationwide Championships and ran 2:39:41 right here. Riley Brady, who identifies as non-binary however races within the ladies’s area, completed in 2:41:25.
Full outcomes.
Kepler Problem – Te Anau, New Zealand
The 60k (37 miles) race by means of Fiordland Nationwide Park is certainly one of New Zealand’s greatest path occasions.
Dan Jones gained the lads’s race for a report seventh time, ending in 4:42. Quentin Succo was second in 4:58, and 2024 race winner Daniel Balchin was third in 5:06. Jones gained $1,800 in prize cash for his win.
Second in 2024, Frances Redmond moved up one spot and led the ladies’s race in 5:59. She was 5 minutes quicker than her 2024 end. Hannah Wall and Julia Chamberlain have been subsequent on the rostrum in 6:03 and 6:17, respectively.
Within the accompanying 27k (17 miles) Luxmore Grunt race, Cameron Swales and Penny Mouat have been the quickest in 1:53 and a couple of:29, respectively.
Full outcomes.
USATF Cross Nation Championships – Portland, Oregon
The race was a qualifier for the January 2026 World Athletics Cross Nation Championships in Tallahassee, Florida. A prime six end within the 10k or a prime two end within the 2k would give U.S. runners a uncommon likelihood to characterize the pink, white, and blue on the earth championships being raced on dwelling soil. The race was held on a muddy observe at a golf course.
There have been solely a handful of runners with ties to path racing.
Open Males 10k
He’s not completely a path runner, however Sam Chelanga has raced some hill climbs up to now couple of years. Chelanga was the highest finisher with path ties at twenty eighth in 31:25.
Jackson Brill was 79th in 35:00, and Zach Szablewski was 99th in 36:48. He ran 131 miles on the Fats Ox 24-Hour race two weeks in the past.
Andy Wacker dropped after the 3k mark.
Males 2k
The world championships has a mixed-gender 2k relay, and the highest two finishers within the 2k right here certified for the nationwide group. Sporting the you-know-the-one ACG singlet, Liam Meirow was seventh in 5:37.
Masters Males 8k
The following-day Grasp’s race had Max King on prime in 26:23. He was over a minute in entrance. Additional down, Uli Steidl, the 2009 The North Face 50 Mile Championships winner, was thirty eighth in 31:43.
Open Girls 10k
The highest six made the nationwide group, and Allie Ostrander was simply outdoors of this in eighth at 34:34.
[In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for four months after testing positive for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was determined that she mistakenly took the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
Masters Girls 6k
Former U.S. Mountain Working Staff member Renee Metivier gained the race in 22:58.
Full outcomes.
Extra Races and Runs
Lake Como 5k – Lake Como, Italy
Held as a part of a half marathon occasion, Francesco Puppi (Italy) stepped down in distance and up in velocity to complete second in 14:28 within the 5k. Full outcomes.
Nike Cross Nationals – Portland, Oregon
The highschool nationwide championships have been held on the identical course because the senior cross nation nationwide championships. Sophia Rodriguez was 53rd in 18:26. She was 14th within the Below-20 Basic race on the World Mountain Working Championships in Spain earlier this 12 months. Full outcomes.
Colossal-Vail 50/50 – Vail, Arizona
The fundraiser for the Arizona Path Affiliation noticed Jose Delgado and Casey Mattix win the 50-mile race in 7:10 and 9:40, respectively. Johnny Ramos gained the 55k in 4:30, and Brianna Grigsby additionally set a brand new ladies’s course report in 4:40. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Colossal Vail 50 Mile males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Ivan Estrella, 1. Jose Delgado, 3. Karl Peterson. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Casey Mattix, the 2025 Colossal Vail 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Ray Miller 50/50 – Malibu, California
The 50-mile winners, Riley Robertson and Megan Hyland, ran 7:30 and eight:29, and Robert Webber and Kate Olson have been first within the 50k in 4:33 and 5:20. Full outcomes.
Brazos Bend 100 Mile – Needville, Texas
Jimmie Strahorn and Kayla Straub ran quick 14:30 and 16:23 instances on the prime of the 100 miler. Full outcomes.
Jimmie Strahorn, the 2025 Brazos Bend 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Kayla Straub, the 2025 Brazos Bend 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
McDowell Mountain Frenzy – Fountain Hills, Arizona
Keegan Oldani gained the lads’s 50 miler in 7:23, however Abby Corridor was the ladies’s and total winner in 7:12. Greg Shut and Natalie Sandoval have been greatest within the 50k in 3:40 and three:57. Full outcomes.
ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup – Solitude, Utah
The U.S. wanted to beat Canada to achieve entry into to the 2026 Winter Olympics, and Cam Smith and Anna Gibson did approach higher than that. They gained the entire thing! They completed in 32:17, virtually a minute higher than everybody else. Emma Prepare dinner-Clarke was a part of the sixth-place Canadian group, and 2025 Path World Championships Brief Path phenom Tove Alexandersson was a part of the eighth-place Swedish group. Full outcomes.
Anza Borrego Cuyamaca 50 Mile – Julian, California
Race winners Juan Rocha and Brittany Poor completed in 7:09 and 9:06, respectively. Full outcomes.
Juan Rocha, the 2025 Anza Borrego Cuyamaca 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Brittany Poor, the 2025 Anza Borrego Cuyamaca 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
2026 Mountain Working World Cup Schedule
The World Mountain Working Affiliation (WMRA) dropped a 10-event, 10-country, 16-race schedule for its 2026 Mountain Working World Cup. It’s the forty second 12 months of the WMRA and the twenty seventh version of the World Cup. The 2026 sequence will award 250,000 Euro in prize cash between the Uphill, Up and Down, and Lengthy disciplines.
April 19 – São Brás Cross (Portugal)
April 25-26 – To be decided particulars in China
Could 7-9 – Transvulcania (Spain)
June 19-21 – Damaged Arrow Skyrace (U.S.)
July 5 – Großglockner Mountain Run (Austria)
July 18-19 – Vauban Mountain Path (France)
August 8 – Sierre-Zinal (Switzerland)
September 5-6 – Vertical Nasego and Trofeo Nasego (Italy)
September 19 – Marathon Trzech Jezior (Poland)
October 10-11 – Défi des Couleurs (Canada)
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The UTMB World Sequence has added Rothrock in Pennsylvania to its circuit. The occasion dates again to 2009, and the Could 16-17, 2026, version will host 50k and 25k distances.
Weeks earlier, Gorge Waterfalls introduced a $75,000 prize purse throughout three races at its April 2026 occasion. That’s big, and this week the Damaged Arrow Skyrace went even larger with a $150,000 prize purse between three races in June 2026. The 23k race will award a whopping $30,000 to its winners.
Tom Evans determined to not begin Spain’s Valencia Marathon. Are there are path runners or ultrarunners among the many prime outcomes? Full outcomes.
