The UTMB World Sequence lined up three huge races, in Australia, the U.Okay., and France, whereas each the Golden Path World Sequence and Skyrunner World Sequence moved into Italy.
It was an excellent spring weekend within the Northern Hemisphere with a lot extra path races and ultramarathons. Seize your espresso and let’s dive in!
Il Golfo dell’Isola – Noli, Italy
The 26-kilometer race and it’s 1,430 meters of curler coaster up and down was the 12 months’s third Golden Path World Sequence contest (16 miles, 4,700 ft.) The course mirrored the ultimate race from the 2023 collection.
Males
This 12 months’s collection chief Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) didn’t line up, however 2024 general winner Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) and 2023 general winner Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) made their 2025 debuts.
It was Kipngeno’s coaching mate and frequent runner-up Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) that gained although with a 2:01:47 end. He shook free from Elazzaoui late to attain the win. Elazzaoui was second in 2:02:05 and Paul Machoka (Kenya) took third in 2:02:44.
Philemon Kiriago, the 2025 Il Golfo dell’Isola males’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Il Golfo dell’Isola/@Rising.Story/@antho.dx_Noli
Kenyan runners took 4 of the highest six end spots and Bonnet was approach again in thirty first.
The boys’s high 10 was:
- Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:01:47
- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:02:05
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 2:02:44
- Cesare Maestri (Italy) – 2:03:10
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 2:03:11
- Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) – 2:03:16
- Dominik Rolli (Switzerland) – 2:03:40
- Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) – 2:06:46
- Jan Torrella (Spain) – 2:07:13
- Pierre Galbourdin (France) – 2:08:31
Girls
In 2023, Mădălina Florea (Romania) had a breakout race right here that shot her up the worldwide ranks, and he or she once more discovered success on this course. Florea’s main this 12 months’s collection after a first-place 2:22:25 end. She excelled on the downs and broke free from uphill pacesetter Philaries Kisang (Kenya) for the last word lead.
Kisang and fellow Kenyan Valentine Jepkoech Rutto had been second and third in 2:22:51 and a pair of:25:33.
For the second race in a row, 2024 collection winner Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) didn’t end.
The ladies’s high 10 was:
- Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 2:22:25
- Philaries Kisang (Kenya) – 2:22:51
- Valentine Jepkoech Rutto (Kenya) – 2:25:33
- Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 2:27:44
- Vivien Bonzi (Italy) – 2:31:25
- Alice Gaggi (Italy) – 2:32:17
- Marie Nivet (France) – 2:33:12
- Miriam Chepkirui (Kenya) – 2:35:36
- Silvia Schwaiger (Slovakia) 2:36:44
- Céline Aebi (Switzerland) – 2:37:24
Mădălina Florea, the 2025 Il Golfo dell’Isola girls’s winner. Picture: Golden Path Sequence/Il Golfo dell Isola/@Rising.Story/@JustinGalant_Noli
Extremely-Path Australia by UTMB – Australia
In its seventeenth 12 months, however first as a UTMB World Sequence Main, the occasion introduced some 8,000 runners to the Blue Mountains.
UTAMiler
The primary-year lengthy course went for 100 miles and with nearly 24,000 ft of climbing. Race-day situations had been moist and muddy.
Eric Concé (France) took the lead close to mile 75 and went on to the win the boys’s race in 18:55. Quinton Gill (Canada) and Chris McAuliffe (Australia) completed subsequent in 19:47 and 20:22.
It was an all-Australian girls’s podium with Meghann Coffey, Cecilia Mattas, and Kellie Angel on the rostrum in 21:52, 22:43, and 23:14. It was Coffey’s 100-mile debut.
UTA100
The occasion’s marquee distance stretched 62 miles and completed with simply lower than 15,000 ft of elevation achieve.
Jia-Sheng Shen (China) dominated for the boys in 9:26. That outpaced second- and third-place Australians Mike Carroll and Rhett Gibson and their 9:48 and 10:02 runs.
Jia-Sheng Shen, the 2025 Extremely-Path Australia 100k males’s winner. Picture: Tim Bardsley-Smith
For the ladies, Eve Moore (U.Okay.) slayed the down underneath course in 10:55. Defending champion Beth McKenzie (U.S.) was second in 11:14, and Emily Brunt (Australia) ran 11:25 for third.
[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).]
Eve Moore, the 2025 Extremely-Path Australia 100k girls’s winner. Picture: Tim Bardsley-Smith
UTA50
Dan Jones (New Zealand) stayed undefeated for 2025 with a 4:01 males’s 50k win. Second- and third-place Miguel Benitez (Spain) and Sam Rout (Australia) pushed to 4:11 and 4:19 podium finishes. Jones and 100k winner Shen will each race June’s Western States 100. Jones was fourth and Shen eighth there a 12 months in the past.
The ladies’s race was shut, barely 5 minutes separated the entrance three. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) acquired to the entrance of the group for a 5:02 win, and Alison Wilson (New Zealand) and Demi Caldwell (Australia) had been subsequent in 5:06 and 5:07.
Extremely-Path Snowdonia by UTMB – Wales, U.Okay.
UTS 100M
The 104-mile race had a beefy 31,167 ft of climbing. Males’s winner Ethan Peters (Canada) pipped the 24-hour mark with a 23:59 end. He was nearly two hours higher than second place.
Paulina Krawczak (Poland) championed the ladies’s race in 28:13.
UTS 100k
Jon Albon (U.Okay.) dominated the 65 miler in 11:34. Mathieu Blanchard (France) and Keith Wigley (U.Okay.) had been second and third in 12:03 and 12:18, respectively.
Barely 4 minutes separated Stephanie Case (Canada) and Lauren Graham (U.Okay.) on the entrance of the ladies’s race. Case ran 16:53 to Graham’s 16:57, and Kimino Miyazaki (Japan) was an in depth third in 17:06.
UTS 50k
The highest three males all went underneath six hours on the 34-mile path. Kristian Jones and Luke Grenfell-Shaw ran 5:33 and 5:49 for the host nation, and Sylvain Cachard (France) was third in 5:57.
Eleanor Davis (U.Okay.) ran down Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) for the ladies’s crown. The 2 completed in 6:44 and seven:11, and third-place Magda Gola (Poland) got here in at 7:40.
Path Alsace Grand Est by UTMB – Alsace, France
The race’s third version had over 6,000 runners between its 5 completely different races.
Extremely-Path des Chevaliers
Ninety-eight miles and 19,028 ft got here in 16:22 for males’s chief Baptiste Derouin (France) and Anna Carlsson (Sweden) gained for the ladies in 18:50. Carlsson gained the occasion’s 100k race in 2024.
Males’s defending champion Sébastien Spehler (France) didn’t end.
Anna Carlsson, the 2025 Path Alsace Grand Est 100 Mile girls’s winner. Picture: UTMB World Sequence
Baptiste Derouin, the 2025 Path Alsace Grand Est 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: UTMB World Sequence
Extremely-Path des Païens
Théo Le Boudec (France) and Juuso Simpanen (Finland) sprinted it out. After 72 miles, solely 10 seconds separated the boys’s first- and second-place runners. Each ran 10:06 with Le Boudec taking the win.
Lena Laukner (Germany) was approach out entrance for the ladies in 11:03.
Path des Celtes
French runners Benjamin Roubiol outpaced Anthony Felber and Augustin Kerhardy within the 50k. The three ran 3:35, 3:40, and three:46.
The ladies got here in shut too. Marie Goncalves (France) put three minutes on second-place Laura Hampel (Germany) with 4:22 and 4:25 finishes, and Astrid Hochart (France) was third in 4:33.
Monte Zerbion Skyrace – Châtillon, Italy
The most recent chapter within the Skyrunner World Sequence went for 22k and a pair of,200 meters of elevation achieve and in each races, all of it got here all the way down to the ultimate downhill.
On that pivotal downhill, Gianluca Ghiano (Italy) outran Alex Oberbacher (Italy) for the win, and Manuel Merillas (Spain) vaulted forward of the chase group to get on the rostrum. Ghiano ran 2:12, Oberbacher 2:15, and Merillas 2:18.
Gianluca Ghiano, the 2025 Monte Zerbion Skyrace males’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Sequence
Girls’s winner Lucille Germain (France) dropped Denisa Dragomir (Romania) on the downhill and pushed to an enormous lead on the end. Germain ran 2:40 to Dragomir’s 2:45. Fabiola Conti (Italy) was third in 2:48.
Lucille Germain, the 2025 Monte Zerbion Skyrace girls’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Sequence
Extra Races and Runs
Solar Mountain – Winthrop, Washington
The Rainshadow Operating occasion had 50-mile and 50k races. Jordan Perry and Christine Mosley gained the lengthy course in 7:15 and 9:21, and Eric Jones and Allison Kean had been victorious within the 50k in 4:07 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Born to Run 100 Mile – Los Olivos, California
The weekend-long occasion had Ian Seabury and Challis Popkey atop its leaderboard in 18:29 and 22:11. Full outcomes.
Bishop Excessive Sierra – Bishop, California
The longtime occasion had three extremely distances, and 6 races in whole. Barry Principal and Kristina Pattison gained the 100k in 12:22 and 12:54 and Zachary Sonoga and Juliana Ruhstrat topped the 50 miler in 6:59 and 9:10. Full outcomes.
Ram Get together – Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Aravaipa Operating race had Mackenzie Mau and Elena Ormon run 7:57 and 9:11 in its 55-mile distance, and Ryan Sullivan went a fast 3:10 within the 50k. Nicole Hanson and Ginna Reid each ran 4:01 for the ladies’s 50k with Hanson six seconds in entrance for the win. Full outcomes.
Black Canyon Ascent – Montrose, Colorado
The highway race climbed six miles and nearly 2,000 ft to the doorway of the Black Canyon Nationwide Park. Brandon Birdsong was a three-plus-minute winner over Peter Maksimow with 41:33 and 44:52 instances, and Allie McLaughlin clipped former Mount Washington Highway Race winner Brittni Birdsong for the ladies’s win. McLaughlin and Birdson ran 48:06 and 50:01. Full outcomes.
Possum’s Revenge – Graford, Texas
The Blaze Trails occasion at Possum Kingdom Lake noticed German Garcia and Shaheen Henderson win the 52 miler in 10:26 and eight:40. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Superior Spring Path Race – Lutsen, Minnesota
The 50k race took on the Superior Mountain climbing Path via the Sawtooth Mountain Vary. Tyler Morey ran 4:09 and Emma Spoon beat the ladies’s group in 4:54. Full outcomes.
Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 Mile – Fort Valley, Virginia
The race within the George Washington Nationwide Forest totaled 18,000 ft of climbing. Nicholas Wirz and Kristen Kelman championed the race in 20:11 and 24:47. Full outcomes.
Merciless Jewel Ultras – Blue Ridge, Georgia
The lengthy course went 104 miles via the Chattahoochee Nationwide Forest. Matt Pruitt took the boys’s win in 27:31 and Shannon Wheeler-Deboef gained for the ladies in 28:22. Wheeler-Deboef gained the race in 2023 too. Adam Schwendt and Jane Murawski had been tops within the 50 miler in 11:11 and 13:42. Full outcomes.
Keys Ultras – Key West, Florida
Brett Sanborn was approach out entrance within the 100 miler in 14:21, and Nicole Coccia edged Line Caliskaner for the ladies’s win with 18:24 and 18:26 marks. Ian Jensen and Salud Cerruti ran 7:45 and eight:08 on the entrance of the 50 miler, and 50k champs Troy Bethune and Whitney Dancaster ran 5:57 and 5:14. Full outcomes.
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