From Arkansas to Basque Nation, Spain, we’re highlighting one of the best of the weekend. Meaning the Golden Path World Sequence, the Mountain Working World Cup, and just a little bit extra too.
You can even try our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon – Zegama, Spain
The celebrated race was additionally the 12 months’s fourth Golden Path World Sequence contest. It was the race’s twenty fourth 12 months and it ran as a full marathon, 42 kilometers or 26 miles, by Spain’s Basque Nation.
Extremely well-liked, the race had virtually 12,000 candidates for 225 race spots.
Girls
Race veteran Sara Alonso (Spain) took her first Zegama win and led a Spanish ladies’s group that positioned seven runners inside the highest 10. Alonso was the daylong chief with a 4:27 end, nevertheless it was shut.
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) took second in 4:29, her first look on the race, and 2024 runner-up Malen Osa (Spain) overcame current sickness to run a 4:31 for third place.
Sara Alonso, the 2025 Zegama Marathon ladies’s winner. Photograph: Igor Quijano
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Sara Alonso (Spain) – 4:27:25
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 4:29:47
- Malen Osa (Spain) – 4:31:18
- Rosa Lara Feliu (Spain) – 4:32:00
- Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 4:33:29
- Ikram Rharsalla Laktab (Spain) – 4:37:39
- Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) – 4:38:41
- Oihana Kortazar (Spain) – 4:42:59
- Patricia Pineda (Spain) – 4:44:22
- Marta Martínez (Spain) – 4:44:29
Males
Second right here in 2024, and second finally weekend’s Golden Path World Sequence race too, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) blasted the ultimate downhill to win by over seven minutes. Elazzaoui completed in 3:43 to show this one right into a runaway.
Andreu Blanes (Spain), a former Sierre-Zinal winner, national-class steeplechaser, and world-class orienteer, was one of the best of the remainder in 3:50, and Daniel Pattis (Italy) scored a third-place end in 3:51.
Per week after Kenyan runners took 4 of the highest six males’s Golden Path World Sequence end spots, none raced right here.
The lads’s prime 10 was:
- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 3:43:28
- Andreu Blanes (Spain) – 3:50:53
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 3:51:40
- Luca Del Pero (Italy) – 3:54:19
- Lorenzo Beltrami (Italy) – 3:54:58
- Thomas Cardin (France) – 3:55:34
- Antonio Martínez Pérez (Spain) – 3:56:42
- Nicolás Molina (Spain) – 3:58:51
- Stian Angermund (Norway) – 3:59:46
- Marcin Kubica (Poland) – 3:59:50
(Stian Angermund served a 16-month doping ban after testing optimistic for the prohibited masking agent chlortalidone on the 2023 OCC race in France.)
Elhousine Elazzaoui, the Zegama Marathon males’s winner. Photograph: Igor Quijano
Mountain Working World Cup – Casto, Italy
The Vertical Nasego and Trofeo Nasego doubled up on the weekend and had been the 12 months’s second and third races within the Mountain Working World Cup, placed on by the World Mountain Working Affiliation.
Vertical Nasego
The all-uphill race ran on Saturday, climbing first on roads earlier than getting more and more technical larger up. The climb was simply 4.2 kilometers in distance and 1,000 meters up.
Girls
Andrea Mayr (Austria) had gained right here 5 instances earlier than and holds the course file, however she was outmatched at this time.
Second finally weekend’s Golden Path World Sequence race, Philaries Kisang (Kenya) scored victory right here in 38:55. Final 12 months’s collection winner Scout Adkin (U.Okay.) climbed up in 39:23 for second, and Francesca Ghelfi (Italy) ran 40:40 for third.
Mayr, now aged 45, was fourth in 41:57. Her course file from 2023 stands at 38:06.
Philaries Kisang, the 2025 Vertical Nasego ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Males
Per week in the past, Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) gained the Golden Path World Sequence race and Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) was sixth. The pair got here again for a redo, and Omaya Atuya had the uphill velocity.
Omaya Atuya climbed up first in 33:23. That was over a minute higher than second-place Kiriago, and it broke Patrick Kipngeno’s former course file. Kiriago received to the highest in 34:50, and third-place Andrea Elia (Italy) hit the excessive level in 34:52.
Richard Omaya Atuya, the 2025 Vertical Nasego males’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Trofeo Nasego
The subsequent day’s up-and-down race went virtually 21k in distance with a giant climb three-fourths of the way in which by, which was adopted by a steep downhill to the end. Nearly all the prime runners got here again for the second race of the weekend.
Girls
Philaries Kisang and Scout Adkin had been on the entrance for all of it, and Adkin might by no means fairly overtake Kisang. Solely six seconds separated the 2 on the end, with Kisang successful in 1:46:16 to Adkin’s 1:46:22.
Defending champion Joyce Muthoni Njeru (Kenya) took third in 1:51, and Valenine Jepkoech Rutto (Kenya) and Andrea Mayr ran 1:52 and 1:53 for fourth and fifth, respectively.
Philaries Kisang, the 2025 Trofeo Nasego ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Males
Kenyan runners took the highest 4 spots, however the order shifted from the Vertical race. Defending champion Philemon Kiriago was again on prime with 1:31 on the clock. He was over two minutes forward of the subsequent runner, and solely 26 seconds separated the second- by fourth-place finishers.
Paul Machoka, Michael Selelo Saoli, and vertical race winner Richard Omaya Atuya all ran 1:34. Machoka got here in at 1:34:17, and Selelo Saoli and Omaya Atuya had matching 1:34:43 finishes, however with Selelo Saoli taking third.
Fifth-place Luciano Rota (Italy) hit the end in 1:35.
Philemon Kiriago, the 2025 Trofeo Nasego males’s winner. Photograph: Photograph: World Mountain Working Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Mountain Extremely Path by UTMB – George, South Africa
It was a whole lot of South African runners on the prime of every of the race’s podiums. The races ran by the Outeniqua Mountains on the nation’s east coast.
MUT Miler
The lengthy course went for 101 miles and 26,574 toes of climbing. Race winners Nicolette Griffioen (South Africa) and Andrea Biffi (Italy) led a small group of 43 finishers with 26:33 and 24:10 on the clock.
Nicolette Griffioen, the 2025 MUT Miler ladies’s winner. Photograph: Claudia Robson
Andrea Biffi, the 2025 MUT Miler males’s winner. Photograph: Claudia Robson
MUT 100
This one went for 61 miles and virtually 16,000 toes of elevation achieve. Emily Djock (U.S.) and Daniel Jung (Italy) did it in 12:29 and 11:01.
MUT 60
Sister and brother Samantha Reilly (South Africa) and Kane Reilly (South Africa) gained the 36-mile race in 6:30 and 6:06.
Further Races and Runs
Transylvania 100k – Bran, Romania
It was the occasion’s tenth 12 months, and the races began underneath Dracula’s Citadel. Emily Keddie (U.S.) and François D’Haene (France) gained the 100k run in 18:30 and 12:47. Full outcomes.
Emily Keddie, the 2025 Transylvania 100k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Transylvania 100k
François D’Haene, the 2025 Transylvania 100k males’s winner. Photograph: Transylvania 100k
Ottawa Marathon – Ontario, Canada
The 50k world record-holder CJ Albertson was third within the males’s race in 2:08:55. Full outcomes.
Sugar Badger 50/50 – Belleville, Wisconsin
Diane Rathje and Brian Corridor gained the 50 miler in 7:24 and seven:10, and Therese Howe and Martin Erl had been tops within the 50k at 4:21 and three:12. Erl gained final 12 months’s 50 miler right here, and subsequent up has the Badger Path Race 100 Mile in August. Full outcomes.
Really feel the Burn 50k – North Little Rock, Arkansas
A small group of 50k finishers was led by Molly Black and Chase Howerton in 6:14 and 5:11. Full outcomes.
Manchester to Monadnock 55 Mile – Manchester, New Hampshire
The race ran level to level towards its end in Monadnock State Park. Erin Shaffer and Aaron Stevens had been victorious in 11:14 and eight:31. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Could Insanity 50k – Hoffman, North Carolina
It was the race’s first time again since 2022. Race winners Tiff Joh and Anthony Kamps ran 4:58 and three:41. Full outcomes.
Crown of the Crest 100 Mile – Fremont, Nebraska
The race is run on a 10-mile singletrack loop with 900 toes of elevation achieve. Adam Berens gained the 100-mile race in 26:31:57, and there have been no ladies finishers. Full outcomes (when accessible).
Adam Berens, the Crown of the Crest 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Crown of the Crest
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