Vive la France! This week’s column is certainly French-heavy. French males swept the Hardrock 100 podium, the nation held nationwide championships on the Excessive Path Vanoise occasion, and a pair of former French Hardrock winners received at Path Verbeier St. Bernard by UTMB in Switzerland.
You may also take a look at our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Hardrock 100 – Silverton, Colorado
The wild and hard run totaled 33,000 toes of elevation acquire, all at a median elevation of 11,000 toes. This yr’s race ran counterclockwise, a course characterised as “up the ramps and down the partitions” for its longer and extra gradual uphills and shorter however steeper downhills. This yr’s race was marked by smoky air early within the race and above-average warmth in the course of the day.
Sadly, the race additionally suffered tragedy when runner Elaine Stypula sadly handed away on account of an unknown medical occasion. In response to official stories, makes an attempt to resuscitate her by each the Hardrock course sweepers and search and rescue personnel had been unsuccessful. iRunFar extends its condolences to all who’re affected by this monumental loss. We’re so sorry.
The beginning of the 2025 Hardrock 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Males
French runners Ludovic Pommeret, Mathieu Blanchard, and Germain Grangier swept everything of the lads’s podium. Pommeret, age 49, scored a repeat win from final yr in 22:21. It was the race’s fifth-fastest end ever and second-best on this course. He opened the race up on the descent into the Sherman support station and elevated it on the climb to the 14,048-foot Handies Peak close to mile 40, and his lead grew the remainder of the way in which.
Ludovic Pommeret operating by Ouray with pacer Jim Walmsley on the way in which to profitable the 2025 Hardrock 100. Photograph: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Blanchard and Grangier had been solidly second and third for many of the race, with Grangier getting near his countryman late. Blanchard was second in 23:44, and Grangier was third in 24:04.
David Ayala was the primary American and fourth general in 24:04.
The all-French males’s podium (l-to-r): 3. Germain Grangier, 1. Ludovic Pommeret, and a pair of. Mathieu Blanchard. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Ladies
Katie Schide constructed up a giant hole on Courtney Dauwalter’s counterclockwise course file from 2023 by the race’s first half. She gave time again to the file within the chilly and difficult in a single day hours however completed in 25:50 for each a brand new directional course file and a brand new general course file. Schide was 24 minutes higher than the earlier counterclockwise file and 21 minutes higher than the general course file. She was hours higher than some other girl on this yr’s race.
Katie Schide touches the rock after profitable the 2025 Hardrock 100 in course file time. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Manon Bohard Cailler (France), final yr’s Diagonale des Fous winner, ran in second for nearly the entire race and completed as runner-up in 28:36. It was the race’s Eleventh-fastest end ever. Final yr’s third-place finisher Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) saved that very same place this yr with a time of 32:39 and suffered the identical imaginative and prescient issues late within the race that she struggled with final yr.
From left to proper, Katie Schide, Manon Bohard, and Katharina Hartmuth chat earlier than the beginning of the 2025 Hardrock 100. This trio went on to change into the ladies’s podium finishers. Photograph: iRunFar/Bryon Powell
Badwater 135 Mile – Lone Pine, California
Simen Holvik (Norway) regained the highest spot within the males’s race. A yr after dropping from the occasion, Holvik rolled the one-way, 135-mile run by Dying Valley in 21:47. He was not too far off Japan’s Yoshihiko Ishikawa’s 21:33 course file from 2019. Holvik received the 2023 version of the race in 22:28. Perennial runner-up Iván Penalba (Spain) made up time on Holvik late however was once more second in 22:07. Pete Kostelnick, the race’s 2016 winner, was third in 22:42.
Marisa Lizak received the ladies’s race in a duel with new six-day world record-holder Megan Eckert. Lizak received in 25:07 to Eckert’s 26:24. Ali Younger (U.Ok.) was third in 28:56.
Excessive Path Vanoise – Val-d’Isère, France
The occasion was the French nationwide championships and a qualifier for the September 2025 World Mountain and Path Operating Championships.
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The lengthy course went 72k by the French Alps. Winner of the 2023 Path World Championships – Lengthy Path, Benjamin Roubiol, is presumably going again to worlds this yr after a 7:48 profitable time at this occasion. Louison Coiffet was a really shut second in 7:50, and Baptiste Chassagne ran 7:57 for third.
American Hillary Gerardi spoiled the French podium with a first-place end of 9:25 within the girls’s race. Jennifer Lemoine and Anne-Cecile Thevenot of France had been second and third in 9:32 and 9:34.
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The occasion’s shorter race was 32k in distance. Skyrunning ace Frédéric Tranchand received in 3:06, and Sylvain Cachard and Thomas Butez had been subsequent on the rostrum in 3:10 and three:17.
Cécile Jarousseau gapped the ladies’s group with a 3:48 run. Lucille Germain and Émilie Menuet had been second and third in 3:54 and 4:01, respectively.
Extra Races and Runs
Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB – Verbier, Switzerland
It was the occasion’s sixteenth version with 5,400 runners throughout its 4 completely different races, and French runners completed on the prime of the 2 longest races. Beñat Marmissolle and Céline Finas received the 140-kilometer X-Alpine race in 18:41 and 24:43. It was a brand new course file for Marmissolle. Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz and Caroline Chaverot, who had been the respective 2023 and 2017 Hardrock 100 winners, had been the very best within the 76-kilometer X-Traversée race in 9:08 and 11:08. Full outcomes.
Beñat Marmissolle, the 2025 Path Verbeier St. Bernard 140k males’s winner. Photograph: UTMB World Collection
Céline Finas, the 2025 Path Verbeier St. Bernard 140k girls’s winner. Photograph: UTMB World Collection
North Downs 50 – Guildford, U.Ok.
The 50k race noticed Theo-Brenner Roach (U.Ok.) and Jemina Bean (U.Ok.) run 4:16 and 4:58. Full outcomes.
Knee Knackering North Shore Path Run – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Within the 30-mile occasion, Simon Widmann (Belgium) led the entire males’s race in 5:05, and Darbykai Standrick (Canada) was method up within the girls’s race at 5:33. Full outcomes.
Mt. Hood Races – Timothy Lake, Oregon
The 50 miler had Sidney Noble and Lindsey Hagen atop its podium in 6:16 and seven:55. Full outcomes.
Siskiyou Out Again – Ashland, Oregon
Males’s 50k winner Dylan Humberger completed with a 3:48, and Caitlin Standifer led the ladies in 4:57. Jamie Hunyor and Cheryl Matson took wins within the 100k in 10:05 and 12:47. Full outcomes.
The Peak 50k – Julian, California
Each Kelsey Davis and Melissa Anderson set new course information. The 2 winners completed in 6:06 and 4:41. Full outcomes.
Mt. Baldy 5000 – Mt. Baldy, California
Sage Canaday and Allie McLaughlin received the uphill 5k. Full outcomes when accessible.
Beaverhead Endurance Runs – Salmon, Idaho
Canyon Woodward was hours out entrance within the males’s 100k race at 9:57. Ladies’s winner J.T. Wynn was second general in 11:32. Nick Cornell and Lana Dalton had been tops within the 55k in 5:23 and seven:27. Full outcomes.
Cirque Collection – Snowbird Resort, Utah
The 8.7-mile race totaled 3,610 toes of climbing, and race winners every earned $1,000. Mason Coppi received a good males’s race over Hawk Name and Sam Hendry (Canada). Coppi ran 1:20:28, Name completed in 1:21:20, and Hendry accomplished the rostrum in 1:21:57. The entrance three girls had been all about three minutes aside. Jane Maus acquired to the entrance in 1:37, Alexa Aragon got here subsequent in 1:40, and Rachel Tomajczyk was third in 1:43. Full outcomes.
Teton Mountain Runs – Teton Village, Wyoming
Taylor Neil and Lindsay Allison completed collectively on the entrance of the 30k in 3:07. Full outcomes.
Silver Rush 50 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Thomas Croshaw was 25 minutes in entrance of everybody at 6:36, and Anne Flower was practically an hour forward within the girls’s race with a time of seven:08. Full outcomes.
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