Vive la France! This week’s column is unquestionably French-heavy. French males swept the Hardrock 100 podium, the nation held nationwide championships on the Excessive Path Vanoise occasion, and a pair of former French Hardrock winners received at Path Verbeier St. Bernard by UTMB in Switzerland.
You may as well take a look at our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Hardrock 100 – Silverton, Colorado
The wild and difficult run totaled 33,000 toes of elevation achieve, all at a median elevation of 11,000 toes. This 12 months’s race ran counterclockwise, a path characterised as “up the ramps and down the partitions” for its longer and extra gradual uphills and shorter however steeper downhills. This 12 months’s race was marked by smoky air early within the race and above-average warmth through the day.
Sadly, the race additionally suffered tragedy when runner Elaine Stypula sadly handed away resulting from an unknown medical occasion. In keeping with official studies, makes an attempt to resuscitate her by each the Hardrock course sweepers and search and rescue personnel have been unsuccessful. iRunFar extends its condolences to all who’re affected by this monumental loss. We’re so sorry.
The beginning of the 2025 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Males
French runners Ludovic Pommeret, Mathieu Blanchard, and Germain Grangier swept the whole lot of the boys’s podium. Pommeret, age 49, scored a repeat win from final 12 months in 22:21. It was the race’s fifth-fastest end ever and second-best on this path. He opened the race up on the descent into the Sherman help station and elevated it on the climb to the 14,048-foot Handies Peak close to mile 40, and his lead grew the remainder of the best way.
Ludovic Pommeret operating via Ouray with pacer Jim Walmsley on the best way to profitable the 2025 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Blanchard and Grangier have been solidly second and third for a lot of the race, with Grangier getting near his countryman late. Blanchard was second in 23:44, and Grangier was third in 24:04.
David Ayala was the primary American and fourth total in 24:04.
The all-French males’s podium (l-to-r): 3. Germain Grangier, 1. Ludovic Pommeret, and a couple of. Mathieu Blanchard. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Ladies
Katie Schide constructed up a giant hole on Courtney Dauwalter’s counterclockwise course report from 2023 via the race’s first half. She gave time again to the report within the chilly and difficult in a single day hours however completed in 25:50 for each a brand new directional course report and a brand new total course report. Schide was 24 minutes higher than the earlier counterclockwise report and 21 minutes higher than the general course report. She was hours higher than every other girl on this 12 months’s race.
Katie Schide touches the rock after profitable the 2025 Hardrock 100 in course report time. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Manon Bohard Cailler (France), final 12 months’s Diagonale des Fous winner, ran in second for nearly the entire race and completed as runner-up in 28:36. It was the race’s Eleventh-fastest end ever. Final 12 months’s third-place finisher Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) saved that very same place this 12 months with a time of 32:39 and suffered the identical imaginative and prescient issues late within the race that she struggled with final 12 months.
Full outcomes.
From left to proper, Katie Schide, Manon Bohard, and Katharina Hartmuth chat earlier than the beginning of the 2025 Hardrock 100. This trio went on to develop into the ladies’s podium finishers. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Badwater 135 Mile – Lone Pine, California
Simen Holvik (Norway) regained the highest spot within the males’s race. A 12 months after dropping from the occasion, Holvik rolled the one-way, 135-mile run via Loss of life Valley in 21:47. He was not too far off Japan’s Yoshihiko Ishikawa’s 21:33 course report from 2019. Holvik received the 2023 version of the race in 22:28. Perennial runner-up Iván Penalba (Spain) made up time on Holvik late however was once more second in 22:07. Pete Kostelnick, the race’s 2016 winner, was third in 22:42.
Marisa Lizak received the ladies’s race in a duel with new six-day world record-holder Megan Eckert. Lizak received in 25:07 to Eckert’s 26:24. Ali Younger (U.Okay.) was third in 28:56.
Full outcomes.
Excessive Path Vanoise – Val-d’Isère, France
The occasion was the French nationwide championships and a qualifier for the September 2025 World Mountain and Path Operating Championships.
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The lengthy course went 72k via the French Alps. Winner of the 2023 Path World Championships – Lengthy Path, Benjamin Roubiol, is presumably going again to worlds this 12 months after a 7:48 profitable time at this occasion. Louison Coiffet was a really shut second in 7:50, and Baptiste Chassagne ran 7:57 for third.
American Hillary Gerardi spoiled the French podium with a first-place end of 9:25 within the girls’s race. Jennifer Lemoine and Anne-Cecile Thevenot of France have been second and third in 9:32 and 9:34.
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The occasion’s shorter race was 32k in distance. Skyrunning ace Frédéric Tranchand received in 3:06, and Sylvain Cachard and Thomas Butez have been subsequent on the rostrum in 3:10 and three:17.
Cécile Jarousseau gapped the ladies’s group with a 3:48 run. Lucille Germain and Émilie Menuet have been second and third in 3:54 and 4:01, respectively.
Full outcomes.
Extra Races and Runs
Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB – Verbier, Switzerland
It was the occasion’s sixteenth version with 5,400 runners throughout its 4 completely different races, and French runners completed on the high of the 2 longest races. Beñat Marmissolle and Céline Finas received the 140-kilometer X-Alpine race in 18:41 and 24:43. It was a brand new course report for Marmissolle. Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz and Caroline Chaverot, who have been the respective 2023 and 2017 Hardrock 100 winners, have been the very best within the 76-kilometer X-Traversée race in 9:08 and 11:08. Full outcomes.
Beñat Marmissolle, the 2025 Path Verbeier St. Bernard 140k males’s winner. Picture: UTMB World Sequence
Céline Finas, the 2025 Path Verbeier St. Bernard 140k girls’s winner. Picture: UTMB World Sequence
North Downs 50 – Guildford, U.Okay.
The 50k race noticed Theo-Brenner Roach (U.Okay.) and Jemina Bean (U.Okay.) run 4:16 and 4:58. Full outcomes.
Knee Knackering North Shore Path Run – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Within the 30-mile occasion, Simon Widmann (Belgium) led the entire males’s race in 5:05, and Darbykai Standrick (Canada) was manner up within the girls’s race at 5:33. Full outcomes.
Mt. Hood Races – Timothy Lake, Oregon
The 50 miler had Sidney Noble and Lindsey Hagen atop its podium in 6:16 and seven:55. Full outcomes.
Siskiyou Out Again – Ashland, Oregon
Males’s 50k winner Dylan Humberger completed with a 3:48, and Caitlin Standifer led the ladies in 4:57. Jamie Hunyor and Cheryl Matson took wins within the 100k in 10:05 and 12:47. Full outcomes.
The Peak 50k – Julian, California
Each Kelsey Davis and Melissa Anderson set new course information. The 2 winners completed in 6:06 and 4:41. Full outcomes.
Mt. Baldy 5000 – Mt. Baldy, California
Sage Canaday and Allie McLaughlin received the uphill 5k. Full outcomes when obtainable.
Beaverhead Endurance Runs – Salmon, Idaho
Canyon Woodward was hours out entrance within the males’s 100k race at 9:57. Ladies’s winner J.T. Wynn was second total in 11:32. Nick Cornell and Lana Dalton have been tops within the 55k in 5:23 and seven:27. Full outcomes.
Cirque Sequence – Snowbird Resort, Utah
The 8.7-mile race totaled 3,610 toes of climbing, and race winners every earned $1,000. Mason Coppi received a good males’s race over Hawk Name and Sam Hendry (Canada). Coppi ran 1:20:28, Name completed in 1:21:20, and Hendry accomplished the rostrum in 1:21:57. The entrance three girls have been all about three minutes aside. Jane Maus bought to the entrance in 1:37, Alexa Aragon got here subsequent in 1:40, and Rachel Tomajczyk was third in 1:43. Full outcomes.
Teton Mountain Runs – Teton Village, Wyoming
Taylor Neil and Lindsay Allison completed collectively on the entrance of the 30k in 3:07. Full outcomes.
Silver Rush 50 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Thomas Croshaw was 25 minutes in entrance of everybody at 6:36, and Anne Flower was practically an hour forward within the girls’s race with a time of seven:08. Full outcomes.
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