Austria, Alberta, and Aspen are among the many hotspots on this week’s rundown.
Compensate for one other week of climate issues, course information, and prize cash beneath.
Pitz Alpine Glacier Path – Mandarfen, Austria
Climate shortened the Golden Path World Sequence occasion. What was meant to be a 23.5-kilometer course with 1,700 meters had its excessive level minimize off and was as an alternative restricted to 20k and 1,000 meters of up. That’s simply over 12 miles, and all of it was muddy.
With subsequent week’s Sierre-Zinal race a extra aggressive occasion, the entire sequence frontrunners have been absent from this one. For the ladies, none of Mădălina Florea (Romania), Joyce Njeru (Kenya), Sara Alonso (Spain) have been on the beginning line, and males’s leaders Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco), Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya), and Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) have been all absent too
A scene from alongside the 2025 Pitz Alpine Glacier course. Picture: Golden Path World Sequence / Rising Story / Mathis Decroux
Girls
Kenya’s Caroline Kimutai, Philaries Kisang, and Religion Kiplagat ran to the early lead, however by the point they’d executed the course’s solely climb and ran downhill, Naomi Lang (U.Okay.) had opened an enormous hole.
Lang stayed in entrance of the race’s third and closing loop and solely Malen Osa (Spain) was shut. Lang received in 1:49:51 and Osa was nearly thirty seconds again in second at 1:50:20.
The entire Kenyans fell outdoors the highest three and Andrine Benjaminsen (Norway) bought onto the rostrum third in 1:52:28.
Naomi Lang profitable the 2025 Pitz Alpine Glacier. Picture: Golden Path World Sequence / Rising Story / Justin Galantd
The highest 10 girls have been:
- Naomi Lang (U.Okay.) – 1:49:51
- Malen Osa (Spain) – 1:50:20
- Andrine Benjamin (Norway) – 1:52:28
- Maria Fuentes (Spain) – 1:53:30
- Religion Kiplagat (Kenya) – 1:53:49
- Philaries Kisang (Kenya) – 1:56:28
- Caroline Kimutai (Kenya) – 1:56:56
- Weronika Matuszczak (Poland) – 1:58:03
- Sara Willhoit (U.Okay.) – 1:58:15
- Sarah Carter (U.S.) – 1:58:15
Males
As with the ladies’s race, the downhill proved important for the boys too. Timothy Kibett (Kenya) escaped the chase group right here and stayed in entrance the remainder of the best way for a 1:32:43 first-place end.
Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya) closed properly late for a second-place 1:32:47 run, and Taylor Stack (U.S.) scored the best GTWS end by a U.S. man this yr. Stack was third in 1:33:40.
Kenyan runners took 4 of the primary 5 end spots.
The boys;’s prime 5 on the 2025 Pitz Alpine Glacier with winner Timothy Kibett within the heart. Picture: Golden Path World Sequence / Rising Story / Justin Galant
The highest 10 males have been:
- Timothy Kibett (Kenya) – 1:32:43
- Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya) – 1:32:47
- Taylor Stack (U.S.) – 1:33:40
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 1:33:42
- Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya) – 1:34:56
- Pierre Galbourdin (France) – 1:35:12
- Dominik Rolli (Switzerland) – 1:35:27
- Thomas Roach (U.Okay.) – 1:36:04
- Ephantus Mwangi Njeri (Kenya) – 1:36:14
- Jonas Soldini (Switzerland) – 1:37:05
Christian Allen (U.S.) was again in fifteenth at 1:39:05 and pointed to a journey harm on social media.
[Thomas Roach served a three-month World Athletics doping ban from October 2021 to January 2022 after testing positive for Carboxy-THC at the 2021 World Masters Mountain Running Championships in Stubai, Austria.]
FlettaTrail Malonno – Malonno, Italy
The occasion has some 62 years of historical past and had uphill and up-and-down races on back-to-back days.
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Climate impacted this one too. The course caught, however the schedule was moved up and the race began earlier to keep away from inclement climate. The uphill race climbed 1,000 meters over 3.4 kilometers in distance.
Eight occasions a winner, Andrea Mayr (Austria) bought to the highest first and it was her eighth win at this race. Mayr ran 39:25. That’s a step up from final week’s fourth-place end on the Giir di Mont uphill, however the time’s nearly a minute slower than her 2024 profitable time and nearly two minutes again of her course document from 2023.
Benedetta Broggi (Italy) and Gloria Chebet (Kenya) have been second and third in 41:36 and 41:59.
Italian climbers took the primary 5 males’s spots. Andrea Rostan beat Andrea Elia and Michael Galassi to the excessive level. Rostan ran 33:36 to Elia and Galassi’s 34:08 and 34:26.
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A day later, the up-and-down race went 21k with 1,100 meters of elevation acquire. Third within the uphill race, Gloria Chebet ran down longtime chief Tereza Hrochova (Czech Republic) on the downhill. Chebet received in 1:40:35 and Hrochova chased to second in 1:41:32. Andrea Mayr doubled again to take third in 1:44:06.
2023 Mountain Working Up and Down world champion Leonard Chemutai (Uganda) received the boys’s race in 1:27:07. Elija Kamau Kariuki (Kenya) was second in 1:27:45 and Martin Nilsson (Sweden) was third on the rostrum in 1:28:11.
Canadian Loss of life Race – Grande Cache, Alberta, Canada
It was the occasion’s twenty fifth working. The 118k race (73 miles) goes over three mountain summits and has a serious river crossing on its method to 17,000 ft of wilderness climbing.
Extremely 118k
Kim Cameron repeated as girls’s winner in 15:19 and Ethan Peters received for the boys in 11:36. Peters took time without work Rickey Gates’s 12:15 course document from 2011. Peters received the race in 2022 too.
Ethan Peters (left) and Kim Cameron (proper) after their wins on the 2025 Canadian Loss of life Race. Picture courtesy of race.
Close to Loss of life Marathon
First throughout the end have been Stephanie Masur and Brandon Miller in 4:55 and three:58, respectively. Miller’s time was a brand new course document.
Extra Races and Runs
La 6000D – Aime, France
It was the race’s thirty fourth yr and Kaline Osaki (France) and Sébastien Spehler (France) received the 43-mile distance in 7:49 and 6:10. Full outcomes.
Quito Path by UTMB – Quito, Ecuador
Within the 48-mile race, Rebeca Pusay (Ecuador) and 2024 UTMB third-placer Joaquin Lopez (Ecuador) received in 11:39 and eight:07. Full outcomes.
Fjällmaraton – Ottsjö, Sweden
The Swedish mountain pageant takes place over eight days and a number of other prime athletes are racing greater than as soon as. Anna Jönsson Haag received large within the 100k at 12:42 and 2020 Speedgoat 50k winner Noah Brautigam led the boys in 9:38. Barbro Fjällstedt Oljans took the 45k crown in 4:32 alongside males’s winner Oscar Claesson in 3:50. Eef von Dongen received each the 27k and the Vertical Okay, and Claesson received the boys’s 27k forward of second-place Brautigam. Kilian Jornet received the boys’s Vertical Okay forward of runner-up Claesson. Full outcomes.
HURL Elkhorn – Helena, Montana
The oldest ultramarathon in Montana hosts a pair of ultra-distances occasions, which have been received by a pair of married {couples} this yr. Within the 50 Mile, it was Leanne and Duke Wasteney crossing the road first in 11:04 and 9:29, respectively, whereas Chandra and Riley McCarthy bested the 50k fields in 6:44 and 5:39. Full outcomes.
Leanne and Duke Wasteney, the winners of the 2025 HURL Elkhorn 50 Mile. Picture courtesy of race.
Volcanic 50k – Cougar, Washington
The race went round Mt. St. Helens. Katherine Boere and Andrew Bumbalough received in 6:23 and 5:28. Full outcomes.
Waldo 100k – Oakridge, Oregon
Missy Lotz received the ladies’s race in 12:28 and Mario Mendoza squeaked underneath the 10-hour mark with a 9:59:31 profitable time within the males’s race. Full outcomes.
U.S. Observe & Subject Championships – Eugene, Oregon
On Thursday, July 31, Allie Ostrander ran 9:40 for seventh in her preliminary warmth of the 3000-meter steeplechase. That certified her for the ultimate, however she didn’t begin that race on Saturday, August 2. Additionally on Thursday, July 31 path newcomer Jeret Gillingham ran 8:47 for eleventh in his preliminary warmth of the 3000-meter steeplechase. That didn’t qualify in him for the ultimate. Full outcomes.
[In 2023, Ostrander was suspended for four months after testing positive for canrenone, a metabolite of spironolactone, after it was determined that she mistakenly took the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
Rodeo Valley 50k – Sausalito, California
Teresita Gomez and Jayson Hefner have been tops in 4:49 and 4:03. Full outcomes.
Angeles Crest 100 Mile – Wrightwood, California
Jian Springer was first for the ladies in 27:57 and Max Jolliffe received for the boys in 21:23. Full outcomes.
El Vaquero Loco 50k – Afton, Wyoming
The race had nearly 9,000 ft of elevation acquire. Race winners Amanda Sullivan and Ethan Linck did it in 7:11 and 5:31. Full outcomes.
Rendezvous Mountain Hill Climb – Jackson Gap, Wyoming
The race climbed 4,139 ft over 6.2 miles and paid $1,000 to the winners and a $1,000 course document bonus too. Anna Gibson repeated as girls’s winner and broke her personal course document with a 1:07:04 summit. Each Joseph Grey and Tyler McCandless went underneath the outdated course document too with 59:02 and 59:19 on the clock. Full outcomes.
Aspen Backcountry 50k – Aspen, Colorado
Mary Baughman and Kevin Carson received the first-year 50k in 4:55 and 4:30. Within the marathon, Rachel Entrekin doubled again from the Excessive Lonesome 100 solely two weeks in the past to win 4:12. It was Entrekin’s 18th race win in a row. Joseph Demoor led the boys’s marathon in 3:18, and Megan and David Roche have been greatest within the half marathon in 2:22 and 1:54. Full outcomes.
Emerald Mountain Epic – Steamboat Springs, Colorado
The path marathon had Sarah Pizzo and David Norris as its winners in 4:03 and three:07. Full outcomes.
Badger Path Races – Belleville, Wisconsin
The occasion had 4 extremely distances. Lindsay Phenix and Martin Erl did the 100 miler the quickest in 17:50 and 14:42. Erl has the race’s course document at 14:05 from 2021. Full outcomes.
Blue Hill Mountain Path 50k – Blue Hill, Maine
Each Maggie Weber and Isaac Vaccaro set new course information. Weber ran 6:26 and Vaccaro ran 5:08. Vaccaro has received all three editions of the race. Full outcomes.
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