The final weekend of June all the time brings Western States, Lavaredo, and the Marathon du Mont Blanc. We’ve received all of that, and the Leadville Marathon, World Masters Mountain Working Championships, and the Skyrunner World Collection, too.
You can too take a look at our race protection from the weekend:
Lavaredo Extremely Path – Cortina, Italy
Lavaredo 120k
The king of Lavaredo is again. Hannes Namberger (Germany) gained right here in 2021, 2022, and 2024, and his 11:56 run in 2022 was the course report. However whereas Namberger was racing Western States final yr, Ben Dhiman (U.S.) swooped in and broke that course report with an 11:49:16 end.
Namberger got here again in 2026 and gained for the fourth time and regained his course report, too. Namberger pulled away from Andreas Reiterer (Italy) and Tobias Geiser (Italy) within the final 10 miles to complete in 11:45:31.
Longtime buddies Reiterer and Geiser completed collectively in a second-place tie in 11:55:26.
The highest 5 males have been:
- 1. Hannes Namberger (Germany) – 11:45:31
- 2. Andreas Reiterer (Italy) – 11:55:26
- 2. Tobias Geiser (Italy) – 11:55:26
- 4. Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) – 12:32:57
- 5. Andreas Rieder (Austria) – 12:41:38
Sunmaya Budha (Nepal) and Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) dueled for the entire girls’s race. At mile 50, Bartholomew was seven minutes in entrance. My mile 67, Budha had reduce the result in three minutes, and by mile 70, she’d gained the lead. Budha went on to win by simply over a minute in 13:33. Bartholomew was second in 13:34, and each have been means up on Rosanna Buchauer’s outdated 14:09 occasion finest from 2024.
Emma Stuart (Eire) was a distant third in 14:47.
The highest 5 girls have been:
- Sunmaya Budha (Nepal) – 13:33:18
- Lucy Bartholomew (Australia) – 13:34:59
- Emma Stuart (Eire) – 14:47:42
- Manon Gras (France) – 15:07:51
- Eszter Csillag (Hungary) – 15:11:25
Lavaredo 80k
Race winners Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) and Elísa Kristinsdóttir (Iceland) completed in 7:40 and eight:59, respectively.
Lavaredo 50k
After second-place runs on the Zegama Marathon and European Off-Street Championships in Might and June, Daniel Pattis (Italy) scored a win and a brand new course report. Pattis ran 4:00, and that bettered Francesco Puppi’s outdated report of 4:02 from the race’s 2024 version. Nadir Maguet (Italy) and Lorenzo Rota (Italy) have been second and third in 4:06 and 4:13, respectively.
Malen Osa (Spain) gained for the ladies in 4:49, and that simply missed Toni McCann’s 4:45 course report from 2025. Patricia Pineda (Spain) was solely three minutes behind in 4:49, and Silvia Schwaiger (Slovakia) was third in 5:01.
Lavaredo 20k
As with the 50k, Italian males swept the lads’s 20k podium, and Andrea Rostan was means forward in 1:32. Isacco Costa and Luca Pescollderungg have been second and third, each in 1:38 and 30 seconds aside.
The ladies’s race was nearer, however Anna Hofer (Italy) was out entrance for the win in 1:51, and it was her second straight win at this race. Klara Velepec (Slovenia) and Sonia Samuels (U.Okay.) completed subsequent in 1:54 and 1:56, respectively.
Western States 100 – Olympic Valley, California
Males
4-time winner and course report holder Jim Walmsley, 2011 winner Kilian Jornet (Spain), and 2022 winner Adam Peterman have been all among the many area, however it was Hans Troyer who pushed the early tempo. Profiting from traditionally cool climate, Troyer set a tempo for a lot of miles that was means beneath the course report.
Francesco Puppi (Italy), a 100-mile rookie, ultimately left a chase group of Walmsley and Vincent Bouillard (France) and chased Troyer down. Bouillard moved previous Walmsley close to mile 55 and entered the Foresthill support station at mile 62 in third. Walmsley exited the race right here.
After taking on the lead from Troyer, Puppi led from miles 70 to 85. Troyer went backward down the leaderboard and dropped from the race at mile 78.
Behind Puppi, Bouillard was now hauling and took over the final word race lead after mile 85.
Bouillard, the 2024 UTMB winner, avenged a drop ultimately yr’s race and gained the 2026 Western States 100 in 13:46. That reset Walmsley’s outdated 14:09 course report from 2019. Puppi completed second in 13:51.
Ryan Montgomery was simply minutes behind Puppi for a lot of the second half however couldn’t fairly totally shut the hole. Montgomery completed third in 13:53. A yr earlier, he was seventh in 15:54. Montgomery identifies as non-binary however competes within the males’s division.
Bouillard, Puppi, Montgomery, and fourth-place Thomas Cardin (France) all ran sooner than the outdated course report.
Vincent Bouillard leads Francesco Puppi in the course of the early miles of the 2026 Western States 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
We go lengthy right here. The pre-race preview had 27 prime males begin the race, and right here’s how all of them did.
- 1. Vincent Bouillard (France) – 13:46:15
- 2. Francesco Puppi (Italy) – 13:51:08
- 3. Ryan Montgomery – 13:53:55
- 4. Thomas Cardin (France) – 14:07:58
- 5. Zach Miller – 14:20:09
- 6. Adam Peterman – 14:26:11
- 7. Jeff Mogavero – 14:38:36
- 8. Canyon Woodward – 14:45:24
- 9. Will Murray – 15:23:12
- 10. Hiroki Kai (Japan) – 15:26:34
- 11. Jørgen Jevne (Norway) – 16:24:35
- 12. Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) – 16:26:00
- 13. Jeshurun Small – 16:27:25
- 14. Colton Gale – 16:27:45
- 16. Justin Grunewald – 16:34:28
- 17. Jacob Banta – 16:43:25
- 18. Anthony Costales – 17:18:41
- 19. Tracen Knopp – 17:36:59
- 22. Jeff Browning – 18:03:38
- 23. John Kelly – 18:15:42
- 42. Jordan Bramblett – 21:07:53
Drops included Hayden Hawks, Dan Jones (New Zealand), Kilian Jornet (Spain), Hans Troyer, Jim Walmsley, and Max Yanzick (New Zealand).
The largest overachiever — the primary man not recognized within the preview — was Fifteenth-place Isaac Frank.
Ryan Montgomery climbs to 3rd in the course of the 2026 Western States 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Ladies
A deep girls’s area included eight of final yr’s prime 10 finishers, together with defending champ Abby Corridor. Challengers included 100-mile debutante Jenn Lichter, 2020 Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Molly Seidel, and up to date Canyons 100k winner Riley Brady, amongst others.
By mile 30, Lichter and Brady had moved into the lead forward of a deep chase group. Lichter climbed previous Brady to Satan’s Thumb at mile 48, and the 2 held these first- and second-place positions for the remainder of the race.
The hole was solely three minutes at Inexperienced Gate at mile 80, however Lichter added minutes to the lead within the race’s closing 20 miles.
Lichter gained the ladies’s race in 15:28:05, and that was a brand new course report. Lichter’s time was simply over a minute higher than Courtney Dauwalter’s prior report of 15:29:33 from the race’s 2023 version.
Brady, who identifies as non-binary and competes within the girls’s division, was second in 15:42. It was the race’s third-fastest end ever.
Regardless of extremely bettering her private finest for the race, Hogan grew to become a three-time third-place finisher in 15:51.
The ladies’s race was traditionally quick, with seven of the race’s 10-fastest finishes all occurring this yr. Whereas ending seventh, Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) is now the race’s Tenth-fastest lady ever.
Jenn Lichter on her strategy to profitable the 2026 Western States 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Identical to with the lads, it’s enjoyable to see how each lady within the pre-race preview did.
- 1. Jenn Lichter – 15:28:05
- 2. Riley Brady – 15:42:14
- 3. Marianne Hogan (Canada) – 15:51:44
- 4. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 15:57:09
- 5. Lotti Brinks (Germany) – 16:04:38
- 6. Tara Dower – 16:13:07
- 7. Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) – 16:25:59
- 8. Fiona Pascall (U.Okay.) – 16:32:05
- 9. Hậu Hà (Vietnam) – 16:40:38
- 10. Hannah Allgood – 16:45:56
- 11. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) – 16:57:41
- 12. Sarah Humble – 17:03:50
- 14. Lauren Puretz – 17:24:37
- 15. Holly Ranson (Australia) – 17:46:45
- 16. Ellaney Matarese – 17:54:04
- 17. Emily Hawgood (Zimbabwe) – 18:10:59
- 18. Amy Cameron – 18:55:16
- 20. Addie Bracy – 19:08:27
- 22. Sarah Ostaszewski – 23:01:03
- 28. Molly Seidel – 24:29:27
Drops included Abby Corridor, Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway), and Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland)
The primary lady to complete that wasn’t within the prerace preview was Thirteenth-place Laura Hansen.
Marianne Hogan crossed the American River on her strategy to third place on the 2026 Western States 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Marathon du Mont Blanc – Chamonix, France
90k
The occasion’s lengthy course ran in a large mountain loop across the Chamonix Valley with 6,200 meters (20,341 toes) of climbing. Race winners earned 3,000 Euro, and there was prize cash paid 5 deep.
Solely 40 seconds separated the lads’s winner Louison Coiffet (France) and Ben Dhiman (U.S.). The 2 completed in 9:37 and 9:38, respectively, and third-place Cristian Minoggio (Italy) was shut in 9:41.
Coiffet and Dhiman dueled for the entire race. At 70k, Dhiman was 70 seconds in entrance. Coiffet took the lead by 76k and was nearly two minutes forward at 81k. Dhiman closed among the hole within the closing 7k. Minoggio was forward of Coiffet as late as 70k, too, earlier than slowing within the closing 20k.
The boys’s prime 5 was:
- Louison Coiffet (France) – 9:37:22
- Ben Dhiman (U.S.) – 9:38:02
- Cristian Minoggio (Italy) – 9:41:54
- Baptiste Chassagne (France) – 10:02:39
- Baptiste Coatantiec (France) – 10:20:50
The ladies’s race wasn’t as shut, and Candice Fertin-Baccon (France) gained for the host nation. She completed in 11:53 and was the one sub-12-hour lady. Fertin-Baccon gained the lead close to 40k and held that place for the remainder of the race.
Audrey Tanguy (France) and Ekaterina Mityaeva (Impartial) have been second and third in 12:12 and 12:15, and, like Fertin, they have been in these spots for the entire second half. Mityaeva ran 13:03 in 2025 to complete third then, too.
The ladies’s prime 5 was:
- Candice Fertin-Baccon (France) – 11:53:31
- Audrey Tanguy (France) – 12:12:31
- Ekaterina Mityaeva (Impartial) – 12:15:12
- Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – 12:21:05
- Eléa Kopf (France) – 13:01:43
42k
There was an enormous 57,200 Euro prize purse for the marathon. Winners earned 10,000 Euro, and cash went ten deep.
Males
Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) bounced again from a late-race slide on the Zegama Marathon to win right here in 3:33. Bonnet took the lead close to midway from red-hot Frédéric Tranchand (France) and gained by over two minutes. Bonnet additionally gained right here in 2023, then operating 3:35.
Tranchand was second in 3:35, one spot however six minutes higher than frequent challenger Manuel Merillas (Spain).
The highest ten males have been:
- Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) – 3:33:14
- Frédéric Tranchand (France) – 3:35:46
- Manuel Merillas (Spain) – 3:41:43
- Adrien Briffod (Switzerland) – 3:46:20
- Kevin Kibet (Kenya) – 3:46:42
- Antonio Martínez (Spain) – 3:51:16
- Loïc Robert (France) – 3:53:10
- Miquel Corbera (Spain) – 3:53:35
- Sammy Chelangat (Kenya) – 3:54:00
- Pierre Galbourdin (France) – 3:54:54
Ladies
Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) is the very best on the earth proper now, and she or he was with out problem right here. She led the entire girls’s race and completed in 3:55, nearly a full minute per mile sooner than anybody else.
Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) and Naomi Lang (U.Okay.) have been second and third in 4:18 and 4:21, respectively.
The highest ten girls have been:
- Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) – 3:55:07
- Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) – 4:18:28
- Naomi Lang (U.Okay.) – 4:21:23
- Emilie Bulle (France) – 4:35:58
- Bianca Tarboton (Zimbabwe) – 4:43:35
- Agnes Josefsson (Sweden) – 4:45:29
- Kirsten De Baey-Ruszin (Germany) – 4:47:48
- Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet (France) – 4:49:58
- Holly Wootten (U.Okay.) – 4:53:04
- Camille Poquet (France) – 4:54:25
23k
The 23k race paid out 2,000 Euro to its winners. Benjamin Polin (France) gained the lads’s race by practically a minute in 2:06, and Oria Liaci (Switzerland) was simply over a minute in entrance of the ladies’s race in 2:26.
World Masters Mountain Working Championships – Janské Lázně, Czech Republic
Almost 1,000 masters runners, aged 35-plus, challenged the Krkonoše Mountain programs. There have been Uphill, Lengthy Distance, and Up and Down races throughout three days of racing.
Andrew Douglas (U.Okay.) and Nadine Hübel (Germany) gained the Uphill race in 42:15 and 50:22, respectively. The Uphill race was practically 8k in distance with an 851-meter climb up Černá Hora.
Nadine Hübel, the 2026 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Uphill girls’s winner. Picture: WMRA
The Lengthy Distance race was roughly a half marathon at 22k in distance with 1,332 meters of climbing, and the help station depend was greater than doubled in response to distinctive warmth. Miłosz Szcześniewski (Poland) gained for the lads in 1:39:45, and Olga Krčálová (Czech Republic) was the quickest lady in 1:58:07.
Miłosz Szcześniewski, the 2026 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Lengthy Distance males’s winner. Picture: WMRA
Olga Krčálová, the 2026 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Lengthy Distance girls’s winner. Picture WMRA
The top-of-weekend Up and Down race was nearly 9k with 594 meters of climbing, and Andrew Douglas doubled again for one more particular person gold. Douglas gained the lads’s race in 38:09. To not be outdone, Nadine Hübel doubled again too and gained for the second time on the weekend in 45:34.
Andrew Douglas, the 2026 World Masters Mountain Working Championships Up and Down males’s winner. Picture: WMRA/Héctor Rubio
Extra Races and Runs
Ibarra Skyrace – Ibarra, Ecuador
The usually 21k race was the newest within the Skyrunner World Collection and was supposed to achieve a 4,650-meter (15,256 toes) excessive level, however the race course was modified on account of inclement climate. Social media indicated it was 16k lengthy. Jose Manuel Quispe (Peru) and Amanda Nilsson (Sweden) gained in 1:57 and a couple of:26. Full outcomes (when out there).
Minotaur Skyrace – Crowsnest Cross, Alberta, Canada
The 33k race was the Canadian Nationwide Skyrunning Championships, and race winners earned $1,400. Adam Loomis gained for the lads in 4:18, and second- and third-place Alexandre Campbell and Jackson Cole completed in 4:28 and 21 seconds aside. Ladies’s winner Ailsa MacDonald was nearly two minutes higher than second-place Nicole Gilman. The 2 completed in 5:31 and 5:33, and third-place Megan Cooke got here in at 5:44. The separate 4k VK race climbed 970 meters up, and $500 went to winners Jessie McAuley and Emma Cook dinner-Clarke for his or her 41:27 and 47:16 runs. Full outcomes.
Wy’east Surprise – Parkdale, Oregon
The race ran point-to-point alongside Mount Hood. Peter Buckley, Leah Drebin, and Greer Klepacki gained the lads’s, girls’s, and non-binary 50 miler in 7:33, 9:28, and 12:50, respectively, and Leif Van Acker, Ally Bray, and Morgan Trapp have been finest within the males’s, girls’s, and non-binary 50k in 4:44, 4:48, and seven:19. Full outcomes.
Peter Buckley, the 2026 Wy’east Surprise males’s winner. Picture: Fontaine Rittlemann
Leah Durbin, the 2026 Wy’east Surprise girls’s winner. Picture: Fontaine Rittlemann
Yeti 100 Mile – North Bend, Washington
Within the Cascade Mountains, Matt Chan and Emily Erickson gained the 100 miler in 14:24 and 17:55. Full outcomes.
Leadville Marathon – Leadville, Colorado
The race to the highest of 13,185-foot Mosquito Cross and again went to Seth Demoor and Caitlin Standifer in 3:39 and 4:37. Full outcomes.
Black Hills 100 Mile – Sturgis, South Dakota
The race was practically 108 miles on an out-and-back from Sturgis to Silver Metropolis and again. Jefferey Pratt and Eleanor Willkie gained in 22:12 and 27:46. And within the 50 miler, it was Corbin Lehn and Heidi McCarty ending first in 8:29 and 10:44. Full outcomes.
Buckeye Path 50k – Brecksville, Ohio
It was a second-straight win right here for Aiman Scullion. He gained the lads’s race in 3:52, and Emily Moran gained for the ladies in 4:38. Scullion bettered a 3:53 course report that had stood since 2017. Full outcomes.
Tiger Peak Problem 50k – Issaquah, Washington
Racing by means of Tiger Mountain State Forest, Shota Ida gained the lads’s race in 5:56, and Emily Cusick took residence the win in 7:08. Full outcomes.
Shota Ida, the 2026 Tiger Peak Problem 50k males’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Emily Cusick, the 2026 Tiger Peak Problem 50k girls’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Cirque Collection – Killington, Vermont
The mountain run was 8.2 miles in distance with 3,010 toes of climbing. The primary-place $1,000 prize went to Everett Hackett and Lindsay Webster (Canada) in 1:05 and 1:16. It was Webster’s second-straight Cirque Collection win. Full outcomes.
Mount Washington Street Race – Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire
It was the sixty fifth version of the 7.6-mile street climb. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau scored a uncommon sub-hour end and gained for the lads in 59:52. Remi Leroux (Canada) and eight-time winner Joseph Grey have been second and third in 61:54 and 62:24. Beaudoin-Rousseau gained a $1,000 first-place prize and a $500 time bonus. The 2023 race winner Amber Ferreira gained once more for the ladies in 73:54. Hali Hafeman and Hannah Rowe have been on the rostrum subsequent in 77:03 and 78:09. Full outcomes.
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