The Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon was the runaway weekend headliner, and we even have worldwide studies from Extremely-Path Australia and Extremely-Path Snowdonia, and a few U.S. outcomes from Merciless Jewel, Massanutten, and extra.
It’s also possible to take a look at our race protection from the weekend:
Extremely-Path Australia – Katoomba, Australia
It was the occasion’s 18th yr, and it was the UTMB World Collection Main within the Oceania area.
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The 100-mile race had practically 24,000 toes of climbing by means of the Blue Mountains. Impartial runners Aleksei Tolstenko and Aleskei Beresnev have been on the entrance of the lads’s race in 17:38 and 17:44, and Chris Lenkic (Australia) was third in 18:34.
Aleksei Tolstenko, the Extremely-Path Australia 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Extremely-Path Australia
Girls’s winner Antonina Iushina (Impartial) was sixth general in 19:51. Stephanie Auston (Australia) and Emma Timmis (New Zealand) have been second and third in 22:01 and 22:57.
Antonina Iushina, the 2026 Extremely-Path Australia 100 Mile girls’s winner. Picture: Extremely-Path Australia
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Solely 5 minutes separated males’s first and second, Michael Dunstan (Australia) and Gui-Du Qin (China), who completed in 9:04 and 9:09. Race native Dunstan gained the lead close to midway and held the sting to the end. Two-time Leadville 100 Mile winner Adrian Macdonald (U.S.) was third in 9:32.
The ladies’s race was shut too, with Katarzyna Dombrowska (Poland) edging Beth McKenzie (U.S.) for the win by 4 minutes. Dombrowska and McKenzie ran 10:50 and 10:55, with McKenzie quickly closing on Dombrowska on the notorious 951-step Furber Steps part of the path. Emilie Mann (Canada) was third in 11:34. [From 2016 to 2018, Beth McKenzie (née Gerdes) served a two-year doping sanction after testing positive at the 2016 Ironman Australia for ostarine, a prohibited selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
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Dan Jones (New Zealand) dominated the lads’s race in 4:04. It was a repeat win for Jones, together with his 2026 end about three minutes slower than in 2025. Hajime Kasagi (Japan) and Blake Turner (Australia) have been subsequent in 4:15 and 4:18.
Daniel Jones, the Extremely-Path Australia 50 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Natalie Wong
Miao Yao (China) ran the ladies’s race 90 seconds quicker than Ruth Croft (New Zealand) for the victory. The pair ran 4:33 and 4:34. Yao led by about two minutes for a lot of the race till Croft caught her on the Furber Steps part. Reportedly, Croft dropped a flask and began to cramp when stopping to retrieve it. Yao then pulled away for the win. Holly Ranson (Australia) was third in 4:57.
Miao Yao, the 2026 Extremely-Path Australia 50 Mile girls’s winner. Picture: Natalie Wong
Full outcomes.
Extremely-Path Snowdonia – Llanberis, United Kingdom
UTS 100M
The lengthy course went for 101 miles, and Beñat Marmissolle (France) received in 21:59. Joaquín López (Ecuador) and Franco Collé (Italy) have been subsequent on the rostrum in 22:38 and 25:18.
It was a completely British girls’s podium with Myvanwy Hanna, Charlotte Fisher, and Rachel Sergeant operating 29:14, 32:56, and 33:17.
UTS 100k
Males’s winner Paul Cornut Chauvinc (France) completed in 11:51, and second- and third-place Jean-Philippe Tschumi (Switzerland) and Keith Wigley (U.Ok.) ran 12:12 and 12:53.
Ariane Wilhelm (Switzerland) was a runaway winner within the girls’s race in 16:02. U.Ok. runners Katie Kaars Sijpesteijn and Mel Sykes completed subsequent in 18:40 and 19:41.
UTS 80k
Josh Wade (U.Ok.) was over an hour higher than second place with a 6:56 successful time. Lowri Morgan (U.Ok.) received the ladies’s race in 9:21. Wade has been right here yearly since 2021 and received the 100 miler in 2023 and the 100k in 2022.
UTS 50k
Race winners Jonathan Albon (U.Ok.) and Giuditta Turini (Italy) ran 5:34 and seven:00. The 2021 Western States 100 winner Beth Pascall (U.Ok.) was second girl in 7:34.
Full outcomes.
Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon – Zegama, Spain
Marathon
This was the occasion’s twenty fifth yr, it was the primary race of the 2026 Golden Path World Collection, and it was exceptionally aggressive.
Within the males’s race, Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) opened an enormous early lead however finally completed sixth.
Defending champ Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) and 2025 third-placer Daniel Pattis (Italy) hauled previous Bonnet close to the midway mark, and Elazzaoui once more used his late-race kick to attain the win. Each Elazzaoui and Pattis completed in 3:45, with Elazzaoui 20 seconds in entrance.
Taylor Stack (U.S.) moved up for the entire race and bought onto the rostrum on the race’s remaining downhill to complete third in 3:52. Individuals on the Zegama podium are uncommon, so Stack’s efficiency stands out towards U.S. historical past.
The 11-time champ Kilian Jornet (Spain) was within the combine early however pale over the second half with a reported leg subject to complete forty first.
The lads’s prime 5 was:
Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 3:45:07
Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 3:45:27
Taylor Stack (U.S.) – 3:52:17
Manuel Merillas (Spain) – 3:53:14
Robert Pkemoi (Kenya) – 3:53:28
Morocco’s Elhousine Elazzaoui navigates the crowds of the well-known Sancti Spiritu climb, en path to successful the 2026 Zegama Marathon. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
For the ladies, Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) rocketed across the Aizkorri Massif in 4:08. Regardless of the muddy situations, it was a brand new course document by eight minutes, bettering Nienke Brinkman’s outdated finest from 2022. Alexandersson was over 16 minutes higher than everybody else this yr, too.
Malen Osa (Spain) handed 2025 winner Sara Alonso (Spain) late to attain second in 4:23, and Alonso was third in 4:25. Though nicely behind Alexandersson, Osa’s time was the race’s third-fastest ever.
The ladies’s prime 5 was:
Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) – 4:08:09
Malen Osa (Spain) – 4:23:56
Sara Alonso (Spain) – 4:25:51
Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) – 4:28:19
María Fuentes (Spain) – 4:33:10
Sweden’s Tove Alexandersson, 2026 Zegama Marathon champion and new course document holder. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Vertical
Heavy rainfall compelled a course change to the Vertical Kilometer. The course distance was restricted to 5k with about 760 meters of climbing. The race was exceptionally muddy.
Previous marathon winners Nienke Brinkman (The Netherlands) and Stian Angermund (Norway) received in 38:21 and 32:47.
[Stian Angermund served a 16-month doping ban after testing positive for the prohibited masking agent chlortalidone at the 2023 OCC race in France.]
Stian Angermund, the 2026 Zegama Vertical Kilometer males’s winner. Picture: José Antonio Bellido Puebla
Nienke Brinkman, the 2026 Zegama Vertical Kilometer girls’s winner. Picture: José Antonio Bellido Puebla
Full outcomes.
Further Races and Runs
Path Alsace by UTMB – Obernai, France
The lengthy course went for practically 100 miles. Race winners Baptiste Derouin (France) and Manuela Soccol (Belgium) ran 16:27 and 19:17, and within the 100k, it was Kamil Leśniak (Poland) and Lin Chen (China) successful in 9:00 and 10:44. Leśniak was solely 29 seconds in entrance of runner-up Corentin Play (France), and Chen beat second-place Anna Li (China) by 18 minutes. Christian Allen (U.S.) edged native runner Benjamin Polin (France) by 11 seconds to win the 50k in 3:11, and Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) received the ladies’s 50k in 3:48. Camila Magliano (Italy) was second in 4:02. Full outcomes.
Valhöll Extremely Path – Valhöll, Argentina
The 50k winners have been Argentinians Sergio Gustavo Pereyra and Marcela Casadey in 5:08 and 6:19. Full outcomes.
Solar Mountain 50k – Winthrop, Washington
The Rainshadow Working race had Stephen Kersh and Andrea Lin win the 50 miler in 6:30 and eight:04, and Carl Koopmans and Nicole Bergstrom have been finest within the 50k in 4:10 and 4:22. Full outcomes.
Tillamook Burn Path Run – Tillamook, Oregon
The 50-mile winners have been Matthew Guarino and Angela Bates in 7:06 and 10:16, and the next-day 55k had Colton Gale and Leigh Kingsbury on prime in 4:54 and 6:15. Full outcomes.
Ram Get together – Colorado Springs, Colorado
Race champs within the 55 miler have been John Harris and Addie Bracy in 9:13 and eight:02, with Bracy successful general and setting a brand new course document. Daniel Finger and Molly Thomsen led the 50k in 3:27 and three:57. Full outcomes.
Black Canyon Ascent – Montrose, Colorado
The race is a six-mile highway climb to the doorway of Black Canyon of the Gunnison Nationwide Park. Joseph Grey and Marisa Borchardt received in 39:26 and 63:20. Full outcomes.
Rothrock by UTMB – Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
The occasion in Rothrock State Forest had Eli Hemming and Sarah Carter because the 50k winners in 4:22 and 5:15, and Samuel Lanternier and Tabor Hemming have been finest within the 25k in 2:27 and a couple of:58. Full outcomes.
Merciless Jewel – Blue Ridge, Georgia
The 104-mile race was deep inside the Chattahoochee Nationwide Forest on a course with 33,000 toes of climbing. Brian Kallhof and Rachel Doxey received in 25:04 and 27:45. Cody Naked and Holly Adams received the 50 miler in 12:02 and 14:03. Full outcomes.
Brian Kallhof, the 2026 Merciless Jewel 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Emily Cameron
Rachel Doxey, the 2026 Merciless Jewel 100 Mile girls’s winner. Picture: Emily Cameron
Free Spirit 50k – Leyden, Massachusetts
The principally flat race ran on grime roads. Jacob Varekamp was the lads’s winner in 4:19, however Kayla Lampe received general in 3:38. Lampe is a two-time U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier. Full outcomes.
Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile – Fort Valley, Virginia
Racing by means of the George Washington Nationwide Forest, Andrew Simpson and Cali Janulis received in 18:26 and 23:35. Full outcomes.
Quest for the Crest – Burnsville, North Carolina
The 50k race ran point-to-point, with three massive climbs totaling virtually 11,000 toes of elevation acquire. David Wenzel and Chantalle Falconer received in 8:01 and eight:52. Lance Harden and Becca Morris have been quickest within the 25k in 2:16 and a couple of:59. Full outcomes.
Keys Ultras – Key West, Florida
The far south Florida highway extremely had three extremely distances. Iván Penalba (Spain), the 2025 Badwater 135 Mile runner-up, received the 100 miler in 15:55. Ashley Leisher received for the ladies in 18:35. Jeffrey Adams and Nicole Coccia have been finest within the 50 miler in 8:47 and eight:05, and Calum Blow and Emily Paradis received the 50k in 4:39 and three:56. Full outcomes.
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