Slovenia, Sunapee, and Summit County had been the weekend’s sizzling spots. The most important highlights had been the European Off-Highway Working Championships, the USATF Mountain Working Championships Up and Down, and the GoPro Mountain Video games.
European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Uphill – Kamnik, Slovenia
Friday’s Uphill race went 9 kilometers in distance and 1,280 meters up, and it occurred in actually dangerous climate. There was rain, wind, and a ton of fog up excessive. Each races featured a British winner, and each, maybe surprisingly given the race’s aggressive depth, gained convincingly by over two minutes.
Girls
Girls’s winner Morven Goodrum (Nice Britain) was the one lady to get to the highest in beneath an hour. Racing in her first worldwide competitors, Goodrum had a great run and completed in 58:00. Laura Hottenrott (Germany) and Nélie Clément (France) had been subsequent in 60:31 and 60:42.
Clément and Hottenrott had been eighth and ninth ultimately 12 months’s World Mountain Working Championships (WMRC) Uphill race, and fourth-place Lucia Arnoldo (Italy) was seventh on the WMRC Uphill in 2025.
Morven Goodrum 2026 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Uphill ladies’s winner. Photograph: ITRA
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Morven Goodrum (Nice Britain) – 58:00
- Laura Hottenrott (Germany) 60:31
- Nélie Clément (France) – 60:42
- Lucia Arnoldo (Italy) – 60:59
- Scout Adkin (Nice Britain) – 61:13
- Tereza Hrochová (Czech Republic) – 61:54
- Hanna Gröber (Germany) – 62:16
- Lili Beck (France) – 62:24
- Ana Hernández (Spain) – 62:30
- Nienke Brinkman (The Netherlands) – 62:55
Males
Males’s winner Jacob Adkin (Nice Britain) was manner out entrance, too. He summited in 49:21. Petter Engdahl (Sweden) got here down in distance after Might’s Transvulcania Ultramarathon to complete second in 51:28, and Andrea Elia (Italy) ran up third in 51:40.
For a world perspective, Adkin and Elia had been fifth and eighth on the WMRC Uphill in 2025.
Jacob Adkin, the 2026 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Uphill males’s winner. Photograph: ITRA
The lads’s prime 10 was:
- Jacob Adkin (Nice Britain) – 49:21
- Petter Engdahl (Sweden) – 51:28
- Andrea Elia (Italy) – 51:40
- Quentin Meyleu (France) – 52:17
- Dominik Rolli (Switzerland) – 52:24
- Jonathan Schmid (Switzerland) – 52:45
- Jan Torrella (Spain) – 52:58
- Tobias Ulbrich (Germany) – 53:03
- Romain Discher (France) – 53:14
- Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) – 53:18
European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Path – Kamnik, Slovenia
Girls
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) led all the ladies’s 52k race. Lower than a month in the past, she was solely sixth on the Zegama Marathon, however she was completely golden right here in 4:36.
Solely 14 seconds separated second- and third-place María Teresa La Chica (Spain) and Emma Eriksson (Sweden) as each completed in 4:40. La Chica was second on the Chianti Extremely Path 46k earlier this 12 months, whereas Eriksson seems to have been racing exterior Sweden for the primary time.
Judith Wyder, the 2026 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Path ladies’s winner. Photograph: ITRA
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 4:36:41
- María Teresa La Chica (Spain) – 4:40:24
- Emma Eriksson (Sweden) – 4:40:38
- Barbora Bukovjan (Czech Republic) – 4:44:55
- Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 4:45:18
- Audrey Tanguy (France) – 4:47:51
- Adeline Martin (France) – 4:49:28
- Silvia Schwaiger (Slovakia) – 4:51:14
- Elísa Kristinsdóttir (Iceland) – 4:51:43
- Marie Goncalves (France) – 4:56:01
Males
Completely happy belated birthday to Frédéric Tranchand (France). He turned 38 lower than two weeks in the past and gained the lengthy race in 3:55. After breaking the chase group open, Tranchand was alone for the race’s downhill second half.
Simply weeks after taking second on the Zegama Marathon, Daniel Pattis (Italy) once more needed to accept the runner-up spot. He fought by abdomen issues within the race’s second half to complete in 3:59.
Antoine Charvolin (France), final 12 months’s TDS winner, was third in 4:05.
Frederic Tranchand, the 2026 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Path males’s winner. Photograph: ITRA
The lads’s prime 10 was:
- Frédéric Tranchand (France) – 3:55:14
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 3:59:54
- Antoine Charvolin (France) – 4:05:13
- Alain Santamaría (Spain) – 4:07:27
- Marcin Kubica (Poland) – 4:08:59
- Stian Angermund (Norway) – 4:10:32
- Remy Brassac (France) – 4:11:41
- Luke Grenfell-Shaw (Nice Britain) – 4:12:44
- Marcel Fabian (Poland) – 4:13:32
- Rafał Matuszczak (Poland) – 4:13:55
[Stian Angermund served a 16-month doping ban after testing positive for the prohibited masking agent chlortalidone at the 2023 OCC race in France.]
European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Up and Down – Kamnik, Slovenia
Lots of the prime Uphill runners doubled again for the Up and Down race, and each the ladies’s and males’s contests once more had a dominant winner. The race was simply over 13k in distance with 825 meters of climbing.
Girls
Hanna Gröber (Germany) gained the lead on the opening climb and stretched the hole the remainder of the way in which. She hit the excessive level in entrance and pushed the downhill for a virtually 90-second win in 1:09. Gröber was seventh within the weekend-opening Uphill race.
Nancy Scott (Nice Britain) was seven seconds higher than Nélie Clément (France) for the runner-up spot in 1:11. It was the second particular person bronze medal of the weekend for Clément, including to her Uphill end.
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Hanna Gröber (Germany) – 1:09:41
- Nancy Scott (Nice Britain) – 1:11:07
- Nélie Clément (France) – 1:11:14
- Scout Adkin (Nice Britain) – 1:12:56
- Claudia Corral (Spain) – 1:13:05
- Céline Aebi (Switzerland) – 1:13:39
- Karoline Holsen Kyte (Norway) – 1:13:52
- Maria Fuentes (Spain) – 1:13:57
- Marie Nivet (France) – 1:14:04
- Axelle Genoud (Switzerland) – 1:14:11
Males
Dominik Rolli (Switzerland) and Petter Engdahl (Sweden) led up the climb, however Jan Torrella (Spain) hauled previous each of them on the ultimate downhill. The rocket descent delivered Torrella a first-place end in 1:00. Rolli was 45 seconds higher than Engdahl for second, each ending in 1:01.
All three had been within the prime 10 within the Uphill race, too. Like the ladies’s winner, Gröber, Torrella scored seventh- and first-place finishes between the 2 races. Rolli and Engdahl had been fifth and second within the Uphill race, too.
Jan Torrella, the 2026 European Athletics Off-Highway Working Championships Up and Down males’s winner. Photograph: ITRA
The lads’s prime 10 was:
- Jan Torrella (Spain) – 1:00:09
- Dominik Rolli (Switzerland) – 1:01:03
- Petter Engdahl (Sweden) – 1:01:48
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 1:01:57
- Maximilien Drion (Belgium) – 1:02:01
- Martin Nilsson (Sweden) – 1:02:05
- Isacco Costa (Italy) – 1:02:24
- Manuel Innerhofer (Austria) – 1:02:28
- Alberto Vender (Italy) – 1:02:44
- Alejandro García (Spain) – 1:03:00
USATF Mountain Working Championships Up and Down on the Sunapee Scramble – Sunapee, New Hampshire
This was the USATF Mountain Working Championships Up and Down race. The highest 4 men and women earned entries to this 12 months’s Mountain Working World Cup remaining in October in Canada. There was additionally a $30,000 prize purse, with $10,000 going to the winners. The 2-lap race was 9.3 miles in distance with 3,300 ft of climbing.
Girls
It was the U.S. championships, however Canada’s Élisa Morin spoiled it. She pushed the race’s second-lap downhill to win in 1:23.
It was extremely shut with path newcomer Maya Rayle solely seven seconds again, additionally in 1:23. Rayle was the U.S. champion then, and she or he’ll subsequent be on the Damaged Arrow 23k. Ryale was fourth on the Gorge Waterfalls 30k earlier this 12 months.
Rena Schwartz had a extremely robust race to get on the rostrum in third in 1:26. Schwartz was fifth right here in 2025 in almost the identical time.
Morin took dwelling the $10,000 first-place prize.
The highest 5 ladies had been:
- Élisa Morin (Canada) – 1:23:52
- Maya Rayle – 1:23:59
- Rena Schwartz – 1:26:18
- Courtney Coppinger – 1:26:26
- Tayler Peavey – 1:26:41
Males
Mason Coppi ran away with the lads’s win in 1:09. He was over a minute quicker than everybody else, and he ran 12 seconds quicker than he did when ending second right here in 2025.
Native U.S. Northeast runner Daniel Curts dominated the downhill to complete second in 1:11, and Christian Allen avenged a drop ultimately 12 months’s race to complete third, additionally in 1:11.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Mason Coppi – 1:09:48
- Dan Curts – 1:11:03
- Christian Allen – 1:11:26
- Ares Studying – 1:13:25
- Darius Parker – 1:14:22
GoPro Mountain Video games – Vail, Colorado
The mountain competition had three path races on Sunday. The 10k and 20k had been on the similar time, and the Pepi’s Face-Off race was just a few hours later.
10k Spring Runoff
The occasion’s traditional race paid $12,200 in prize cash, with $2,750 to the winners.
Girls
Janelle Lincks scored a payday with a 51:39 successful time within the ladies’s race. She’ll be on the Damaged Arrow Ascent and 23k in two weeks, too.
Former Colorado Faculty of Mines runner Grace Strongman was second in 53:02, and present Colorado Faculty of Mines runner Emily LaMena was third in 53:09.
The highest 5 ladies had been:
- Janelle Lincks – 51:39
- Grace Strongman – 53:02
- Emily LaMena – 53:09
- Natalie Kalin – 55:05
- Chrissy Lofgren – 55:50
Janelle Lincks, the 2026 GoPro Video games Spring Runoff 10k ladies’s winner. Photograph: GoPro Video games
Males
Cam Smith is a daily on the GoPro Mountain Video games. Final 12 months, he was fourth within the 10k, and this 12 months, he gained in 42:45.
4-time Pikes Peak Marathon winner Jonathan Aziz outran defending champ Tyler McCandless for second. Aziz and McCandless completed in 43:29 and 44:13.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Cam Smith – 42:45
- Jonathan Aziz – 43:29
- Tyler McCandless – 44:13
- Sean McCauley – 44:46
- Ace Brown – 45:45
Cam Smith, the 2026 GoPro Video games Spring Runoff 10k males’s winner. Photograph: GoPro Video games
20k Path Run
The only-loop race ran all around the frontside of Vail Mountain, topping out at 9,900 ft with 2,500 ft of climbing over simply shy of a half-marathon distance. Just like the 10k, there was $12,200 in prize cash right here, too.
Girls
Tabor Hemming was almost three minutes higher than everybody else. She cashed in with a 1:43 end time.
Second- and third-place Carmen Graves and Brianne Nelson completed in 1:46 and 1:53, respectively.
The highest 5 ladies had been:
- Tabor Hemming – 1:43:44
- Carmen Graves – 1:46:42
- Brianne Nelson – 1:53:02
- Molly Thomsen – 1:54:47
- Megan Burke – 1:54:47
The 2026 GoPro Video games 20k ladies’s podium (left to proper): 4. Molly Thomsen, 2. Carmen Graves, 1. Tabor Hemming, 3. Brianne Nelson, 5. Megan Burke. Photograph: GoPro Video games
Males
Eli Hemming gave the married couple a sweep of the highest spots. He was over two minutes quicker than his closest chaser and gained $2,750 along with his 1:24 end time.
Final 12 months’s fifth-place finisher, Paul Knight, moved up three spots to complete second in 1:26, and up to date highschool graduate Dylan Blair was third in 1:27.
The highest 5 males had been:
- Eli Hemming – 1:24:46
- Paul Knight – 1:26:50
- Dylan Blair – 1:27:00
- Grant Colligan – 1:29:08
- Calbert Visitor – 1:29:35
The 2026 GoPro Video games 20k males’s podium (left to proper): 4. Grant Colligan, 2. Paul Knight, 1. Eli Hemming, 3. Dylan Blair, 5. Calbert Visitor. Photograph: GoPro Video games
Pepi’s Face-Off
This was a 30-minute up-and-down race on a ski slope, and there was $9,600 in prize cash on the road right here. The race began at 1:00 p.m., 5 hours after the 10k and 20k begin.
The entire prime ladies began their fifth lap earlier than the 30-minute cutoff, and Natalie Kalin completed that fifth lap in 33:57. Samantha Lewis and Amelia Shea had been subsequent in at 34:33 and 35:55.
The highest males began their sixth lap earlier than time expired, and Cam Smith ran down in 32:04. It was, in fact, his second win of the day. Joseph DeMoor and Tate Knight had been second and third to complete in 33:36 and 34:13.
The 2026 GoPro Video games Pepi’s Face-Off ladies’s podium (left to proper): 2. Samantha Lewis, 1. Natalie Kalin, 3. Amelia Shea. Photograph: GoPro Video games
The 2026 GoPro Video games Pepi’s Face-Off males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Joseph DeMoor, 1. Cam Smith, 3. Tate Knight. Photograph: GoPro Video games
Further Races and Runs
Tiger Mountain Path Run – Issaquah, Washington
Daughter and father Sophia Rodriguez and Gabriel Rodriguez gained the 12k in 1:05 and 1:08. Sophia competed within the junior race ultimately 12 months’s World Mountain Working Championships. Full outcomes.
The Kan 50k – Spokane, Washington
Race winners Taylor Nowlin and Brandon Benefield led the sphere in 5:22 and 4:31. Full outcomes.
Shadow of the Giants 50k – Fishcamp, California
The highway race by the redwoods had Kristen Holman as the ladies’s and general winner in 4:20, and Chris Martinez was the primary man in 4:26. Full outcomes.
The 2026 Shadow of the Giants 50k ladies’s podium (left to proper): 2. Jessica Bennink, 1. Kristen Holman, 3. Yanet Arikian. Photograph courtesy of the race.
The 2026 Shadow of the Giants 50k males’s podium (left to proper): 1. Chris Martinez, 3. Clemente Lemus. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Hiawatha Path Run 50k – Taft, Montana
Race winners Katie Koenig and Hint Heavener completed in 3:57 and three:44. Full outcomes.
Pi within the Sky – Phoenix, Arizona
The eight-mile races summits Piestewa Peak and noticed Hannah Bernier and Quinton Burden win in 2:04 and 1:16. Burden’s time was a brand new course document, and it was his third straight win right here. Full outcomes.
The 2026 Pi within the Sky males’s podium (left to proper): 1. Quinton Burden, 2. Ruairi Moynihan, 3. Joe Mlachak. Photograph courtesy of the race.
The 2026 Pi within the Sky ladies’s podium (left to proper): 2. Rhonda Bompensa-Zimmerman, 1. Hannah Bernier, 3. Lucy Simone. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Rose Canyon Extremely – Herriman, Utah
Each Katherine Hauska and Jesse Wealthy set new course data within the 50 miler in 12:22 and eight:43. Baylee Vogler and Steve Meads gained the 50k in 5:27 and 5:09, and Vogler’s time too was a brand new course document. Full outcomes.
FANS Extremely Races – Minneapolis, Minnesota
The fixed-time race had Nicole Morningstar and Nicholas Metal atop its 24-hour leaderboard with 114 and 128 miles, respectively. Full outcomes.
Hells Gap Hundred – Bethera, South Carolina
Rebekah Garcia gained it for the ladies in 28:47, and Nathan Blair set a brand new course document, ending in 15:30. Full outcomes when accessible.
Rebekah Garcia, the 2026 Hell Gap Hundred ladies’s winner. Photograph: Ruben Felix Visuals
Nathan Blair, the 2026 Hell Gap Hundred males’s winner. Photograph: Ruben Felix Visuals
Scout Mountain Extremely Path – Pocatello, Idaho
Each 100-mile course data went down. Caroline Hardin gained for the ladies in 24:25, and Tyler Inexperienced was quickest man in 19:48. The 50-mile winners had been Sarah Clark and Alex Proctor in 10:30 and eight:47, and within the 50k, Tessa Chesser and Cody Draper had been on prime in 6:14 and 6:08. Full outcomes.
MoMoFo100 – Martinsville, Indiana
The 100k race ran inside Morgan Monroe State Forest. Amanda Tomasikiewicz and Noah Underhill gained in 15:42 and 12:53. Full outcomes.
Summer time Sasquatch 50k – Lore Metropolis, Ohio
At Salt Fork State Park, Danelle Villers and Thomas Szymanski gained in 6:27 and 5:01. Full outcomes.
Outdated Dominion 100 Mile – Fort Valley, Virginia
The outdated race options 14 main climbs with 14,000 ft of elevation acquire. Tatiana Rypinski gained in 20:40, and Olivier Leblond was first again in 17:33. Full outcomes when accessible.
The 2026 Outdated Dominion 100 Mile winners: Tatiana Rypinski and Olivier Leblond. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Huron 100 Mile – Grass Lake, Michigan
The race ran point-to-point by the Huron River Watershed. Erica Aikman and Jack Miller gained in 21:11 and 19:02. Full outcomes.
Chocorua Mountain Race – Tamworth, New Hampshire
The 23k race topped Haley Heinrich as its ladies’s winner in 2:49, and Timmy Parr checked one other field on his quest to win a path race in each state by successful in 2:24. Full outcomes.
Vashon Island 50k – Vashon Island, Washington
Within the sixteenth version of the race, native Alice Might gained it for the ladies in 4:39, and Bjorn Syse introduced dwelling the lads’s win in 3:52. Full outcomes when accessible.
The 2026 Vashon Path Run 50k winners, Bjorn Syse and Alice Might. Photograph: Nick Keenan
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