The lottery for the 2025 Hardrock 100 happened on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Congratulations to the runners who secured locations on the entrants listing!
The Hardrock 100 is a 102.5-mile race by means of Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, beginning and ending within the village of Silverton. The course is infamous for each its magnificence and problem. The route packs in 33,000 ft of elevation achieve, going down at a median altitude of round 11,000 ft. It alternates route annually and can run counterclockwise in 2025.
A bucket listing race for some ultrarunners, the Hardrock 100 is troublesome to realize entry into, with 3,023 making use of for this 12 months’s lottery alone. That is up from 2,796 lotto candidates for the 2024 version, a rise of 227 runners.
In contrast to the Western States 100, which provides a number of avenues to realize entry in addition to an much more troublesome lotto to get by means of, the one approach to safe a assured entry into the Hardrock 100 is to win the earlier 12 months’s race. The 2025 Hardrock 100 could have 146 runners, which is the latest commonplace for the occasion.
On this article, we listing prime rivals on the present entrants lists in addition to these excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in. Then, we clarify how the lottery operates.
Ludovic Pommeret on his approach to profitable and setting a course file on the 2024 Hardrock 100. He’s planning to race in 2025 once more. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
Notable 2025 Hardrock 100 Males’s Entrants
The one approach to achieve entrance to this occasion, other than the lottery, is to win the 12 months earlier than. Males’s 2024 Hardrock 100 champion Ludovic Pommeret has elected to make use of his entry.
Listed here are the notable males chosen to run the 2025 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
- David Ayala – 1st 2024 IMTUF 100 Mile; 2nd 2023 & 2021 Bighorn 100 Mile
- Mathieu Blanchard (France) – 1st 2024 Diagonale des Fous; 4th 2023, 2nd 2022, & third 2021 UTMB; sixth 2023 Western States 100
- Alexandre Boucheix (France) – fifth 2024 Mt Fuji 100 Mile; twenty first 2023 UTMB; tenth 2023 Diagonale des Fous
- Brian Culmo – seventh 2023 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 & 2nd 2022 Hellgate 100k
- Kyle Curtin – 2024 Colorado Path males’s supported FKT in 2024; ninth 2023 & eleventh 2021 Tor des Geants; third 2023 San Juan Solstice 50 Mile
- Tyler Fannin – third 2024 Wasatch 100 Mile; 1st 2021 El Vaquero Loco 50k
- Ian Farris – 1st 2024 Scout Mountain 100 Mile; fifth 2024 & 2022 HURT 100 Mile; eighth 2024 Bear 100 Mile
- Mike Groenewegen – sixth 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile; 2nd 2022 Tahoe 200 Mile
- Hannes Gehring – 1st 2023 Fats Canine 120 Mile; seventh 2021 Leadville 100 Mile; sixth 2019 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Germain Grangier (France) – third 2023 & fifth 2021 UTMB; 2nd 2023 & 4th 2022 Diagonale des Fous; 1st 2023 Mont-Blanc 90k
- Isaiah Hemmen – 2nd 2023 Scout Moutain 100 Mile; 4th 2023 Plain 100 Mile
- Brian Hopton-Jones – twelfth 2021 Hardrock 100
- Gabe Joyes – 2nd 2024 Quad Rock 50 Mile; 2nd 2023 IMTUF 100 Mile; 2nd 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
- Zach Miller – 2nd 2023 & fifth 2022 UTMB; sixth 2023 Path Operating World Championship – Lengthy Path
- Ludovic Pommeret (France) – 1st 2024 Hardrock 100; fifth 2024, fifth 2023, & 4th 2021 UTMB; 1st 2022 TDS
- Sam Ritchie – 4th 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile; thirteenth 2023 Hardrock 100
- Chris Roberts – 4th 2024 Grindstone 100 Mile; 1st 2024 Six Days within the Dome 24 Hour (149 miles)
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Mathieu Blanchard working robust throughout the 2023 UTMB. Picture: iRunFar/Sarah Brady
Notable 2025 Hardrock 100 Girls’s Entrants
Listed here are the notable ladies chosen to run the 2025 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
- Becky Bates (Canada) – seventh 2024 & 2023 Hardrock 100; seventh 2024 IMTUF 100 Mile
- Manon Bohard Cailler (France) – 1st 2023 Diagonale des Fous; third 2023 Path Operating World Championship – Lengthy Path; 1st 2023 Madeira Island Extremely-Path; 1st 2021 TDS
- Stephanie Case (Canada) – 2nd 2022 Hardrock 100; third 2021 Val d’Aran 100 Mile
- Uxue Fraile (Spain) – twelfth 2021 & 2nd 2018 UTMB
- Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – third 2024 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2023 UTMB; 2nd 2023 Path Operating World Championship – Lengthy Path; third 2022 TDS
- Whitney Mickelsen – sixth 2023 Hardrock 100; eighth 2021 Wasatch 100 Mile; 4th 2020 IMTUF 100 Mile
- Shelby Johnson – 2nd 2023 Grindstone 100 Mile; ninth 2022 Leadville 100 Mile
- Aliza Lapierre – seventh 2024 & 2nd 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile; 1st 2022 Vermont 100 Mile; seventh 2021 Leadville 100 Mile
- Katie Schide – 1st 2024, 1st 2022, & sixth 2019 UTMB; 1st 2024 & 2nd 2023 Western States 100; 1st 2023 Diagonale des Fous
- Amber Weibel – ninth 2024 Hardrock 100; third 2023 SwissAlps 100 Mile; fifteenth 2022 Western States 100
- Leah Yingling – tenth 2024, ninth 2023, & sixth 2022 Western States 100; eighth 2023 UTMB
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Katie Schide main the 2024 UTMB, on her approach to setting a brand new course file. Picture courtesy of UTMB.
Notable Waitlisted Males With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In
These are the quick males who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed within the order wherein they seem on the waitlists:
- Benjamin Bucklin (seventh Completed waitlist) – ninth 2024 Hardrock 100
- Arlen Glick (eleventh Completed waitlist) – 4th 2023 Hardrock 100; third 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile; third 2023 & 2nd 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; thirteenth 2023 & third 2022 Western States 100
- Luke Jay (fifth Completed waitlist) – tenth 2024 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2022 & 1st 2019 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
- Jeff Rome (2nd Completed waitlist) – 4th 2024, 2nd 2018, & seventh 2017 Hardrock 100
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 12 of the Never Finished and Finished men’s waitlists. We’ll add additional men to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
Silverton, Colorado’s Jeff Rome on his approach to taking fourth on the 2024 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Meghan Hicks
Notable Waitlisted Girls With at Least a Distant Likelihood of Getting In
These are the quick ladies who’re excessive sufficient on their respective waitlists to have an opportunity of getting in earlier than race day. They’re listed within the order wherein they seem on the waitlists:
- Addie Bracy (ninth By no means waitlist) – fifth 2023 Canyons 100k; 1st 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Tara Dower (seventh Completed waitlist) – Appalachian Path supported FKT in 2024; 4th 2024 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Emily Halnon (twelfth Completed waitlist) – sixth 2024, ninth 2023, & seventh 2022 Hardrock 100
- Salynda Heinl (twelfth By no means waitlist) – sixth 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 1st 2021 Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile
- Kaori Niwa (Japan) (2nd Completed waitlist) – 4th 2018 Hardrock 100; thirteenth 2022 & 2021 UTMB; third 2023 SwissPeaks 360k
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 12 of the Never Finished and Finished women’s waitlists. We’ll add additional women to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
Tara Dower climbing as much as the KT assist station throughout the 2024 Hardrock 100.
2025 Hardrock 100 Lottery Parameters
The 2025 lottery is split into two classes, the By no means Completed and Completed divisions:
- By no means Completed – Runners who’ve not but completed the Hardrock 100.
- Completed – Runners who’ve completed no less than one Hardrock 100.
For 2025, the group chosen 82 By no means Completed runners and 64 Completed runners.
From 2022 onward, the Hardrock 100 group adopted a brand new coverage whereby the identical proportion of feminine runners who enter the lottery will likely be chosen to run the race. Subsequently, the draw is basically drawn into 4 sections: Feminine By no means, Feminine Completed, Male By no means, and Male Completed. For 2025, 648 lotto candidates have been feminine, representing 21.4% of the applicant pool. Thus, there will likely be 32 feminine starters.
Returning champions are given automated entrance to the occasion. The 2024 ladies’s champion Courtney Dauwalter declined her entry, whereas 2024 males’s champ Ludovic Pommeret claimed his.
Every year, run director (RD) Dale Garland handpicks six entrants who bypass the lottery. Defined on the group’s web site, “[S]ix such runners will likely be chosen, evenly break up between women and men, from a slate of no less than 12 candidates proposed by the RD and accepted by the Hardrock Board of Administrators.” This 12 months, these runners are:
- Mathieu Blanchard
- Manon Bohard Cailler
- Germain Grangier
- Katharina Hartmuth
- Zach Miller
- Katie Schide
Katharina Hartmuth runs into the city of Ouray on her approach to taking third on the 2024 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
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Island Lake throughout the 2023 Hardrock 100. Picture: iRunFar/Bryon Powell