This Week In Running: June 9, 2025

Colorado, Comrades, and Courtney Coppinger shined on the weekend. We’ve bought our standard rundown of prize cash, repeat wins, and course data from across the globe able to go!

You may as well take a look at our race protection from earlier within the weekend:

Comrades Marathon – Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

It was the race’s 98th operating and this yr’s 89k (56 miles) course went downhill from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. Nearly all of that downhill was within the race’s second half. The race had its greatest “down’ discipline ever with over 22,000 runners, and its greatest prize purse ever too at R7,605,000 ($427,000).

Ladies

Heavy favourite Gerda Steyn (South Africa, lives in UAE) gained for the fourth time and for the third in a row. Steyn took the lead simply earlier than midway and held off a late-race cost from 2022 winner Alexandra Morozova (Russia). Steyn was over 4 minutes in entrance in 5:51 and Morozova was a repeat runner-up in 5:55. Shelmith Muriuki (Kenya) was a shock third in 6:07.

The ladies’s prime 5 was:

Gerda Steyn (South Africa) – 5:51:19
Alexandra Morozova (Russia) – 5:55:56
Shelmith Muriuki (Kenya) – 6:07:56
Irvette van Zyl (South Africa) – 6:11:35
Dominika Stelmach (Poland) – 6:12:02

Gerda Steyn wins the 2025 Comrades Marathon ladies’s race, her third win in a row. Photograph: Nedbank Working Membership/Tobias Ginsberg

Males

Tete Dijana (South Africa) and Piet Wiersma (The Netherlands) had gained the final three Comrades, Dijana in 2022 and 2023 and Wiersma in 2024, and so it was no shock then to see the 2 once more battling for the win. Dijana made a push from 15k out and Wiersma couldn’t fairly regain the chief. Each completed in 5:25 with Dijana 5 seconds in entrance. Nikolai Volkov (Russia) ran a powerful second half to maneuver up into third in 5:29.

The lads’s prime 5 was:

Tete Dijana (South Africa) – 5:25:28
Piet Wiersma (The Netherlands) – 5:25:33
Nikolai Volkov (Russia) – 5:29:42
Edward Mothibi (South Africa) – 5:31:41
Joseph Manyedi (South Africa) – 5:32:09

Full outcomes.

Tete Dijana, males’s winner of the 2025 Comrades Marathon cools down midrace. Photograph: Nedbank Working Membership/Tobias Ginsberg

Mountain Video games – Vail, Colorado

The large out of doors competition had three aggressive operating races. The 10k Spring Runoff and 20k Path Run went off on the similar time on Sunday morning, and the Pepi’s Face-off was a Sunday afternoon race. All the things had prize cash. Each the 10k and 20k had a complete $11,500 purse with cash 5 deep and $2,500 to the winners. And Pepi’s Face-off paid $9,600 whole, cut up between the highest three, and with $2,000 to the winners.

Plenty of the rostrum was made up of runners doubling again from final weekend’s U.S. Mountain Working Championships, and virtually all the podiums will subsequent race on the Damaged Arrow occasion in California in two weeks.

10k Spring Runoff

Courtney Coppinger is having a yr. After a pair of top-1o finishes within the Golden Path World Collection, Coppinger scored a payday win within the ladies’s race. She ran 50:00 to beat Dani Moreno by eight seconds after the 2 had a back-and-forth last mile. Third-place Lara Hamilton (Australia) trailed in 52:00.

Coppinger’s subsequent registered for the June 22 Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k, and so too is Hamilton.

The ladies’s prime 5 was:

Courtney Coppinger – 50:00
Dani Moreno – 50:08
Lara Hamilton (Australia) – 52:00
Ashley Brasovan – 54:20
Sophie Anders – 55:07

Per week after lacking out on a spot on the U.S. mountain operating crew, Tyler McCandless, Liam Meirow, and Andy Wacker scored revenge on Cam Smith. McCandless gained in 41:50, Meirow was second in 42:35, and Wacker was third in 43:03. Smith, who did make the U.S. mountain operating crew final week, missed out on the prize cash with a fourth-place 43:34.

McCandless and Wacker will take one other shot on the U.S. crew, this time the Uphill crew, by racing the June 20 Damaged Arrow Ascent choice race.

The lads’s prime 5 was:

Tyler McCandless – 41:50
Liam Meirow – 42:35
Andy Wacker – 43:03
Cam Smith – 43:34
Josh Eberly – 44:57

Full outcomes.

20k Path Run

The 20k race was run concurrently the 10k and on the identical course, however as two laps.

Jane Maus was means out entrance for the ladies with 1:46 on the clock. She completed over 5 minutes sooner than anybody else. Hillary Allen and Natalie Kalin got here subsequent in 1:52 and 1:53. All three subsequent transfer to the Damaged Arrow Skyrace too. Maus will race the 46k, and Allen and Kalin the Triple Crown group of three races in three days.

The ladies’s prime 5 was:

Jane Maus – 1:46:52
Hillary Allen – 1:52:15
Natalie Kalin – 1:53:04
Kimber Mattox – 1:55:22
Emily Lengthy – 2:00:29

Males’s winner Mason Coppi took the win and the cash in 1:26. He cut up 43:09 for the primary 10k, proper within the combine with the highest 10k runners. Cade Michael and Jonathan Aziz have been second and third in 1:27 and 1:29, respectively.

All three, after all, are going to Damaged Arrow too. Coppi’s within the 23k and Michael and Aziz the 46k.

The lads’s prime 5 was:

Mason Coppi – 1:26:55
Cade Michael – 1:27:58
Jonathan Aziz – 1:29:37
Grant Colligan – 1:30:56
Paul Knight – 1:31:44

Full outcomes.

Pepi’s Face-off

The 30-minute fastened time race went up and down the Pepi’s Face ski slope time and again. Every lap gained 400 toes at a 45-degree pitch. Whether or not from the 10k or the 20k, many of the podium was made up of runners doubling again from the morning races.

Courtney Coppinger got here again from the morning race to choose up one other win. She totaled 5 laps in 31:54 and that pushed her cash haul to $4,500 on the day. Second- and third-place Lara Hamilton and Kimber Mattox did 5 laps too, however in 32:23 and 33:34.

The ladies’s prime 5 was:

Courtney Coppinger – 31:54
Lara Hamilton (Australia) – 32:23
Kimber Mattox – 33:34
Megan Cooke – 34:02
Gwen Rudy – 34:11

For the lads, Joseph Grey had gained the 10k Spring Runoff 9 occasions, however skipped that race in lieu of Pepi’s Face-off this yr. Grey gained with six laps in 30:24 however was pushed onerous by Cam Smith. Battling again from a fourth-place run within the morning, Smith did his six laps in 30:45. Joseph Demoor was third in 31:35.

Grey is subsequent in for the Damaged Arrow Ascent on June 20.

The lads’s prime 5 was:

Joseph Grey – 30:24
Cam Smith – 30:45
Joseph Demoor – 31:35
Andy Wacker – 32:37
Jeshurun Small – 33:01

Full outcomes.

Mozart by UTMB – Salzburg, Austria

The occasion’s lengthy course went 75 miles and with 19,000 toes of climbing. Claudia Tremps and Pablo Villa, each of Spain, gained in 13:46 and 11:36.

Claudia Tremps, the 2025 Mozart 120k ladies’s winner. Photograph: UTMB World Collection

Pablo Villa, the 2025 Mozart 120k males’s winner. Photograph: UTMB World Collection/Birgit Kramer

The Mozart Extremely was 57 miles and 15,000 toes of climbing, and Anna Tarasova (Spain) and Andreu Simon (Spain) completed first in 9:59 and eight:33.

Within the marathon distance, Michelle Hassel (Germany) rolled the ladies’s discipline to a 4:13 profitable time and Davide Magnini (Italy) got here again from a very long time away to win the lads’s marathon in 3:23. It was shut, Magnini was solely 29 seconds forward of second-place Hans-Peter Innerhofer (Austria).

Full outcomes.

Swiss Canyon Path – Couvet, Switzerland

It was the occasion’s thirtieth yr and there have been seven totally different races. The 2 races highlighted beneath have been a part of the World Path Majors.

Swiss Canyon Path 115k

There was heavy rain, relentless mud, chilly wind, and fog on the course’s 5,294 meters (71 miles, 17,400 toes).

Sarah Humble (U.S.) led the primary half, however Ariane Wilhem (Switzerland) dominated late. The 2 frontrunners have been 20 minutes aside on the end with Wilhem profitable in 13:31 to Humble’s 13:51 mark. Li Ying (China) was third in 14:24.

Ariane Wilhem, the 2025 Swiss Canyon Path 115k ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors

The lads’s race noticed Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) alone within the lead from 40k on and he gained in 10:45. Ji Duo (China) and Aleix Toda (Spain) chased to second and third in 11:09 and 11:49, respectively.

Miguel Arsénio, the 2025 Swiss Canyon Path 115k males’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors

Swiss Canyon Path 53k

Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) dominated the ladies’s 33-mile race and completed seventh total in 4:30. Beatriz Parrón (Spain) and Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) got here subsequent in 5:13 and 5:25, respectively.

Solely 24 seconds separated males’s first and second Francisco Anguita (Spain) and Jian-Jian Yang (China) as each completed in 4:00. Kevin Vermeulen (France) was third in 4:10.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Gorges du Tarn Skyrace – Sainte-Enimie, France

Patricia Pineda (Spain) and Luca Del Pero (Italy) gained the Skyrunner World Collection race in 3:03 and a pair of:22. The 25k race was the yr’s eleventh Skyrunner World Collection contest. It was Pineda’s second sequence win of the yr and Del Pero’s third sequence win of the yr. Full outcomes.

Patricia Pineda, the 2025 Gorges du Tarn Skyrace ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection

Luca Del Pero, the 2025 Gorges du Tarn Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection

Orcas Island 50k – Orcas Island, Washington

The Rainshadow Working occasion topped Erin Wagner and Noa Ohms as champs in 5:17 and 4:32. Full outcomes.

Echo Valley Runs 50k – Chelan, Washington

Michelle Weiss and Craig Coon gained in 5:32 and 4:07. Full outcomes.

San Diego 100 Mile – Lake Cuyamaca, California

Briana Grigsby gained the ladies’s race in 20:22. That positioned her third total and her time is the race’s seventh-fastest ever. Males’s winner Rob King did it in 19:50. Full outcomes.

Malibu Canyon Path Races – Malibu, California

The fourth-year occasion had three extremely distances. The 100k winners Daisy Zepedea and Cory Fleming got here via in 12:25 and 10:10. Kayla Martin and Michael Tomchaney have been tops within the 50 miler in 8:48 and seven:13, and Shae Regan gained for the ladies and total within the 50k in 4:48. Mohamed Taha was the lads’s 50k winner in 4:56. Full outcomes.

Shadow of the Giants 50k – Fishcamp, California

It was the race’s thirty fifth yr via the Sierra Nationwide Forest. Kristina Holman and Oscar Perez-Lopez have been the quickest in 4:30 and 4:13. Full outcomes.

Dipsea Race – Mill Valley, California

There’s longtime races after which there’s Dipsea. It was the race’s 114th yr. The distinctive age- and gender-handicapped race goes 7.4 miles on a stair-stepped course from Mill Valley to Stinson Seaside. Audrey MacLean, age 19, was the general winner in 46:28. Mark Tatum was second total and first man in 46:48. Later outcomes present path runners Chris Lundy in third, Eddie Owens and Alex Varner in sixth and seventh, and Paddy O’Leary (Eire) in tenth, amongst others. Full outcomes.

Hiawatha Path Run 50k – Taft, Montana

Hannah Valerio and Justin Alpaugh have been atop the rankings in 4:39 and three:42. Full outcomes.

Pi within the Sky – Phoenix, Arizona

The second-year race went 9 miles round Piestewa Peak. Jacquelyn Lombari gained the ladies’s race in 1:50 and Quinton Burden repeated as males’s winner in 1:24. Full outcomes.

Sinks Canyon 50k – Lander, Wyoming

First-place runners Hannah Jochem and Andy Altepeter hit the end in 5:25 and 5:23. Full outcomes.

XTERRA Cameron Park Path Run – Waco, Texas

The 21k race was a part of the XTERRA Path Run World Collection. Race winners Kerri Dickey and Ty Cervantes ran 3:02 and 1:53. Full outcomes.

Crater Path Run 50k – Decorah, Iowa

The race was in northeast Iowa’s bluff nation. Margaret Ho and Cooper Mumford have been out entrance in 5:16 and 4:34. Full outcomes.

MoMoFo100 – Martinsville, Indiana

The race will get its title from its Morgan Monroe State Forest course. Lauren Manuel and Lester Burris gained the 100k in 17:23 and 14:20. Full outcomes.

Scout Mountain Ultras – Pocatello, Idaho

Happening within the Bannock Vary, south of Pocatello, Idaho, the Scout Mountain 100 Mile, taking in round 22,000 toes of climb, was gained by Dalton McCurdy in 25:23 and Thaddeus Labrum in 21:32.

Dalton McCurdy, the 2025 Scout Mountain 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Scout Mountain/Jana Herzogova

Thaddeus Labrum, the 2025 Scout Mountain 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Scout Mountain/Jana Herzogova

Huron 100 Mile – Grass Lake, Michigan

The second-year race had Johanna Ylanen and Nick Insley on prime in 22:14 and 18:29. Viktoryia Kalesnikava and Zach Crim gained the accompanying 50 miler in 8:58 and 6:35. Full outcomes.

Summer time Sasquatch 50k – Lore Metropolis, Ohio

Stephanie Bauman and Coen Dunkin gained in 6:43 and 5:45. Full outcomes.

Eagle Up Extremely – Canal Fulton, Ohio

Run on a five-mile loop, Alec Cline went 13:38 for the 100 miler. Official outcomes haven’t but hit the net and it’s not clear who gained the ladies’s race, so please depart a remark to allow us to all know! Full outcomes (when accessible).

Previous Dominion 100 Mile – Woodstock, Virginia

Ladies’s winner Whitney Richman ran 18:39, the race’s second-fastest run in its 47-year-history. Males’s winner Andrew Simpson did it in 15:33, the third-fastest ever. Full outcomes (when accessible).

Warfare Eagle 50k – Rogers, Arkansas

Race champs Erika Ashley and Matt Lewis got here in at 5:30 and 4:54. Full outcomes.

Cirque Collection – Cannon Mountain, New Hampshire

It was shut! After 6.5 miles and three,180 toes of climbing, Laurel Moyer beat Jamie Brusa by a single second. The 2 ran 69:15 and 69:16. Remi Leroux (Canada) topped Dan Curts for the lads’s win with 55:11 and 56:02 runs. Full outcomes.

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