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Within the U.S., 100-mile races Excessive Lonesome, Cascade Crest, and Vermont had been among the many weekend’s highlights, and there have been two Mountain Operating World Cup races in France, too.
Vauban Mountain Path – Briançon, France
The occasion hosted a pair of Mountain Operating World Cup contests. The Uphill race was on Saturday, and the Up and Down race adopted the following day.
Montée Verticale
The vertical race was 5.9 kilometers lengthy and climbed 1,121 meters.
Males
Richard Atuya (Kenya) gained for the second straight yr in 40:40, and it was the very same time that he ran in 2025. Atuya was practically two minutes forward of second place.
After working many of the race in third, Brayan Rodríguez (Mexico) launched an assault over the ultimate 800 meters to complete second in 42:38. Elijah Kariuki (Kenya) was then third in 42:55.
The boys’s prime 10 was:
- Richard Atuya (Kenya) – 40:40
- Brayan Rodríguez (Mexico) – 42:38
- Elijah Kariuki (Kenya) – 42:55
- Henri Aymonod (Italy) – 43:53
- Théodore Klein (France) – 44:16
- Ephantus Njeri (Kenya) – 44:55
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 45:05
- Alric Petit (France) -45:55
- Martin Nilsson (Sweden) – 46:03
- Jon Breivold (Norway) – 46:44
Girls
Solely fifth on the 2.1-kilometer mark, Francesca Ghelfi (Italy) overtook everybody in entrance of her over the race’s steeper second half. On the prime, it wasn’t even shut. Ghelfi gained in 49:18.
Ruth Gitonga (Kenya) and Kirsty Dickson (U.Okay.) had been second and third in 50:12 and 50:21.
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Francesca Ghelfi (Italy) – 49:18
- Ruth Gitonga (Kenya) – 50:12
- Kirsty Dickson (U.Okay.) – 50:21
- Christel Dewalle (France) – 50:46
- Benedetta Broggi (Italy) – 52:35
- Ellen Crombie (U.Okay.) – 53:16
- Miriam Chepkirui (Kenya) – 53:48
- Selina Burch (Switzerland) – 54:12
- Gloria Chebet (Kenya) – 54:29
- Elle Twentyman (U.Okay.) – 54:39
[Christel Dewalle previously served a four-month doping ban after a positive test for the stimulant Heptaminol at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships.]
Grand Parcours
The following day’s Up and Down race stretched 13.9k in distance with 966 meters of climbing.
Males
Kenyan runners once more dominated the highest standings. A breakaway entrance two had Ephantus Njeri edge Vertical winner Richard Atuya for the win. Njeri overtook Atuya on the race’s closing downhill and gained in 1:03:01. Atuya was second in 1:03:28.
It was practically one other two minutes earlier than third-place Elijah Kariuki completed in 1:05:06. It was Kariuki’s second third-place end of the weekend.
The boys’s prime ten was:
- Ephantus Njeri (Kenya) – 1:03:01
- Richard Atuya (Kenya) – 1:03:28
- Elijah Kariuki (Kenya) – 1:05:06
- Brayan Rodríguez (Mexico) – 1:05:43
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 1:06:14
- Théodore Klein (France) – 1:06:42
- Martin Nilsson (Sweden) – 1:07:05
- Lukas Ehrle (Germany) – 1:07:06
- Noé Daviaud (France) – 1:07:41
- Matt Knowles (U.Okay.) – 1:08:04
Girls
As within the males’s race, Kenyan girls swept the rostrum. Additionally, as within the males’s race, the ladies’s race noticed a breakaway entrance two.
Ruth Gitonga beat Gloria Chebet for the win, and the 2 had been 19 seconds aside and each in at 1:14. They had been second and ninth within the Vertical race a day earlier.
Miriam Chepkirui, seventh within the Vertical race, was third in 1:19.
The ladies’s prime ten was:
- Ruth Gitonga (Kenya) – 1:14:03
- Gloria Chebet (Kenya) – 1:14:22
- Miriam Chepkirui (Kenya) – 1:19:08
- Arianna Dentis (Italy) – 1:19:13
- Elle Twentyman (U.Okay.) – 1:20:08
- Benedetta Broggi (Italy) – 1:23:53
- Selina Burch (Switzerland) – 1:23:59
- Céline Jeannier (France) – 1:25:11
- Bethany Bergstrand (U.Okay.) – 1:26:47
- Gabrielle Pilote Fortin (Canada) – 1:27:59
Monte Rosa Walserwaeg by UTMB – Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy
It was the second yr for the occasion within the Italian Alps. The race programs featured vital climbing on alpine trails.
Les Sentiers des Valdôtains
At practically 76 miles and with virtually 28,000 toes of climbing, this was the occasion’s lengthy course.
Lower than six minutes separated girls’s winner and runner-up Lisa Borzani (Italy) and Claire Bannwarth (France) in 19:19 and 19:25. Martina Potrč (Slovenia) was a really shut third in 19:30. Bannwarth was 13 minutes forward of Borzani as late as mile 66, however by mile 72, Borzani had made her successful transfer.
Jérôme Vanderschaeghe (Belgium) led the entire second half and gained the lads’s race in 15:33. His countryman Florian Descamps was second in 16:00, and defending champion Simone Corsini (Italy) completed third in 16:05.
Monte Rosa Path
The race was 50.9 miles in distance with 20,833 toes of elevation acquire. At mile 25, Emelie Forsberg (Sweden) was over three minutes in entrance of Martina Valmassoi (Italy). The order flipped by the following checkpoint at mile 30, and Valmassoi stretched her lead over the race’s second half. Valamassoi gained in 11:29, and Forsberg completed second in 11:56. Mahauld Granier (France) was third in 12:32.
The boys’s race ran equally, with Cristian Minoggio (Italy) main the race’s first 38 miles. Martin Anthamatten (Switzerland) was higher late, although, and gained in 9:32. Minoggio, the race’s defending champ, solely misplaced just a little floor and completed second in 9:37. Louis Théron (France) was third in 10:19.
Walserwaeg Path
Petter Engdahl (Sweden) led the entire males’s race and edged William Boffelli (Italy) for the win. Engdahl was virtually two minutes higher than Boffelli, with the 2 frontrunners ending in 4:19 and 4:21. Luca Del Pero (Italy) was third in 4:35, and Manuel Merillas (Spain) was fourth in 4:41.
Fabiola Conti gained the ladies’s race for the host nation in 5:30. Emily Schmitz (U.S.) and Bleunwenn Heleu (Belgium) had been second and third in 5:39 and 5:43.
Regina Margherita Path
The quick course race was 9 miles, and Cesare Maestri (Italy) and Kate Avery (U.Okay.) gained in 1:07 and 1:23.
Eiger Extremely Path by UTMB – Grindelwald, Switzerland
E101
Stian Dahl (Norway) and Alina Wyleżałek (Poland) gained the massive mountain run in 11:44 and 14:01. It was a bounce-back run for Dahl after dropping at June’s Marathon du Mont Blanc. The E101 race was over 62 miles, with virtually 22,000 toes of elevation acquire.
E51
Girls’s winner Sofia Haajanen (Finland) took the 31-mile race and its 10,170 toes of climbing in 5:53. An orienteering star, she was the ladies’s race’s solely sub-6-hour finisher. Julianne Rössler (Germany) and Deborah Chiarello (Switzerland) had been second and third in 6:02 and 6:15, respectively.
Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.Okay.) led the entire males’s race and gained in 4:45. A yr in the past, he was third right here. Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) edged Chris Myers (U.S.) for second with the pair ending in 4:59 and 5:02.
Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile – Salida, Colorado
Girls
Becca Bramley and Isabella Poulos went backwards and forwards on the entrance of the ladies’s race via the primary half, but it surely was all Bramley late, and she or he chased down Rachel Entrekin’s year-old course report. Bramley gained in 21:55:49, 27 seconds higher than Entrekin’s 2025 end. Bramley was second to Riley Brady ultimately yr’s Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile in her solely different 100-mile end.
Poulos stayed second to complete in 24:19, and 2021 race winner Salynda Heinl was third in 25:19.
Males
A yr in the past, Ryan Sullivan and Jeff Colt dueled via the race’s first half earlier than Sullivan dropped at mile 75 and Colt went on to win and set the course report at 18:52. The 2 got here again for a rematch, and in 2026, Sullivan gained, and Colt dropped. Sullivan completed in 19:56. Sullivan was among the many early leaders and was the one chief after mile 31. He’s subsequent signed up for the Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile, a race the place he was fourth in 2025.
iRunFar’s Gabe Joyes was second in 20:11. He was half-hour behind Sullivan at mile 68, and closed it to a few minutes at mile 92, earlier than Sullivan added time again over the ultimate part. Race native Brett Carlson was third in 22:00.
Defending champ Colt stopped at mile 68.
Cascade Crest 100 Mile – Easton, Washington
This yr’s race was rerouted to keep away from a piece impacted by wildfires. The altered course was an out-and-back that was barely longer and with extra climbing than the normal course.
Devon Olson got here from behind to win the lads’s race in 18:33. Olson handed longtime chief Noah Dusseau within the final 15 miles. Dusseau completed second in 18:49, and hours later, Kyle Peterson was third in 22:11.
Girls’s winner Andrea Tarras (Canada) completed in 22:06, and Abby Jahn was simply forward of Bailey Dantonio for second and third in 23:18 and 23:39.
Vermont 100 Mile – West Windsor, Vermont
The longtime race totaled 17,000 toes of elevation on a course that combined dust roads with horse trails.
Each races had a breakaway winner. For the lads, Keith Nadeau was out entrance in 15:41, and Aaron Stevens and Cody Cutler had been subsequent in 16:12 and 16:15.
Megan Eckert gained the ladies’s race and was practically an hour higher than everybody else in 17:19. Joanna Fortier was simply forward of Camille Herron in second and third in 18:16 and 18:31.
Extra Races and Runs
Gruyère Path Charmey – Charmey, Switzerland
Within the 54k, Nicolas Firmin (France) was first within the males’s race in 6:46, simply forward of Xavier Thevenard (France) in 6:52, and Céline Ferrara (Switzerland) gained for the ladies towards Margot Van Oost (Belgium) in 8:30 and eight:39. Full outcomes.
Laugavegur Extremely Marathon – Landmannalaugar, Iceland
The distant 55k ran point-to-point in southern Iceland. Þorsteinn Roy Jóhannsson (Iceland) and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) picked up their second win in two weeks. The pair completed in 4:06 and 4:14. Full outcomes.
Harding Hustle 50k – Modjeska Canyon, California
The race via Orange County’s Santa Ana Mountains noticed Esteban Prado set a brand new course report in 3:42 and Katherine Hoolihan reset the ladies’s mark to 4:35. Full outcomes.
Tahoe Rim Path – Carson Metropolis, Nevada
Within the 100 miler, Kyle Roberts gained for the lads and edged Lindsey Dwyer for the general crown. Roberts and Dwyer completed in 21:57 and 21:59. The 50k winners Christian Finkbeiner and Rachael Knudson completed in 5:18 and 5:59, respectively. Full outcomes.
Rise and Run 50k – Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Within the fourth version of the race, Ashley Moser gained in 7:33, and Philip Maynard introduced house the win in 5:18. Full outcomes.
Bob Marshall Path 50k – Seeley Lake, Montana
The race was simply outdoors the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Jason Delaney and Katie Barker gained in 4:46 and 5:25. Full outcomes.
Silverton Alpine Marathon – Silverton, Colorado
The 50k winners had been Ryan Raff and Jade Irizarry-Swordy in 3:56 and 5:21, and Billy Grimes and Jade Ellis gained the marathon in 4:24 and 5:09. Raff was 22 seconds again of a course report that’s stood since 2022. Full outcomes.
Barr Path Mountain Race – Manitou Springs, Colorado
It was the race’s twenty fifth yr, and it went 12.6 miles on an up-and-down course on the decrease a part of Pikes Peak. Race winners every earned $350. Grant Colligan led the lads in 1:39, and Janelle Lincks was the primary lady in 1:57. Lincks gained right here in 2021, too. Full outcomes.
Energy of 4 50k – Aspen, Colorado
The race linked Aspen’s 4 ski areas. Julian Schima and Sophie Linn gained in 5:41 and 6:08. Full outcomes.
Loopy Bear 50k – Sioux Falls, North Dakota
Jennifer Hickey gained with a time of seven:02, and Connor O’Hara was first again in 5:42. Full outcomes.
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