We’re dropping into New Zealand, Puerto Rico, and South Africa for the weekend highlights. There was the Skyrunner World Sequence, the XTERRA Path Run World Sequence, and the Two Oceans Marathon on the prime.
Two Oceans Marathon – Cape City, South Africa
The famed 56-kilometer (35 miles) race is dubbed the “world’s most stunning marathon” for its Cape Peninsula course. Though maybe generally regarded as a lead-in to the Comrades Marathon later this 12 months, Two Oceans stands alone as each a giant and aggressive race too. Some 13,000 runners took half and the race winners every earned R250,000, or roughly $13,000.
Males
The lads’s race went into the ultimate kilometers when Khoarahlane Seutloali (Lesotho) finally gapped his chasers. Seutloali completed in 3:10:47, and South Africa’s Sboniso Sikhakhane and Fortunate Mohale got here subsequent in 3:11:18 and three:11:27. It was the slowest males’s successful time since 2016.
The lads’s prime 5 was:
- Khoarahlane Seutloali (Lesotho) – 3:10:47
- Sboniso Sikhakhane (South Africa) – 3:11:18
- Fortunate Mohale (South Africa) – 3:11:27
- Nkosikhona Mhlakwana (South Africa) – 3:11:53
- Mphatso Nadolo (Malawi) – 3:12:09
Ladies
The ladies’s race was solely totally different with Gerda Steyn (South Africa) successful for the sixth straight 12 months, and by a large margin. Steyn completed in 3:29:11. The time was simply over two minutes again of her course document run from 2024. It was her, and the race’s, third quickest time on the course. Shelmith Muriuki (Kenya) and Neheng Khatala (Lesotho) had been second and third in 3:37:51 and three:40:39.
- Gerda Steyn (South Africa) – 3:29:11
- Shelmith Muriuki (Kenya) – 3:37:51
- Neheng Khatala (Lesotho) – 3:40:39
- Carla Molinaro (U.Ok.) – 3:43:45
- Dikeledi Majara (Lesotho) – 3:46:24
Calamorro Skyrace – Benálmadena, Spain
It was already the 12 months’s third Skyrunner World Sequence race. The course went 27k and with 2,700 meters of achieve. That’s 17 miles and eight,900 toes.
As within the collection’ first race, it was once more Luca Del Pero (Italy) and Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) ending first and second. Del Pero beat Delorenzi, and broke Delorenzi’s former course document too. That was price a €500 bonus for the brand new document setter. Del Pero completed in 2:24:19, Delorenzi was second in 2:26:01, and Nicolas Molina (Spain) ran 2:26:56 for third.
Luca Del Pero, the 2025 Calamorro Skyrace males’s champion. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence/Antton Guaresti
Patricia Pineda (Spain) chased down race-long chief Denisa Dragomir (Romania) to attain a late upset win in 3:01:51. Dragomir was second in 3:02:43 and Elisa Desco (Italy) ran 3:05:13 for third.
[From 2010 to 2012, Elisa Desco served a two-year doping ban from the IAAF after she tested positive for EPO at the 2009 World Mountain Running Championships.]
Patricia Pineda, the 2025 Calamorro Skyrace girls’s champion. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence/Antton Guaresti
Reventón El Paso – La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
The Canary Islands don’t go too many weeks with no point out this time of 12 months.
Zaid Ait Malek (Spain) and Cristofer Clemente (Spain) have matching 7:12:05 end occasions on the prime of the 70k Extremely Path race. Silvia Puigarnau Coma (Spain) led a small girls’s group in 8:34.
Within the Maratón, Francisco José Anguita (Spain) took the win eight seconds forward of Yoel de Paz (Spain). The lads’s leaders completed in 3:30 and three:31, respectively. Ladies’s winner Vanessa Caba (Spain) was 24 minutes higher than the ladies’s runner up in 4:31.
The occasion’s hottest and oldest distance, the 31k Traditional race, had Andreu Simon (Spain) and Maria Milara (Spain) atop its podium in 2:23 and three:14. The ladies’s race was notably aggressive with solely 49 seconds separating Milara and second- and third-place Myriam Báez (Spain) and Veronica Suarez (Spain).
Further Races and Runs
XTERRA Rotorua Pageant – Rotorua, New Zealand
The XTERRA Path Run World Sequence rolled on. The path run was a part of a seven-race occasion, together with triathlon and duathlon contests too. On the North Island half marathon course, Andrew Briant (New Zealand) and Baiba Muzikante (New Zealand) scored 1:33 and 1:52 wins. The race winners had been three and 5 minutes higher than the remainder of the sphere. Full outcomes.
Runners on the leafy route of the 2025 XTERRA Rotorua Pageant. Photograph: XTERRA
XTERRA Puerto Rico – Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
This one too was a part of the XTERRA Path Run World Sequence and paid out $1,200 in prize cash for its half marathon race. As in New Zealand, the race had a pair of breakaway winners minutes in entrance of the competitors. Kelvin González Ramírez (Puerto Rico) and Maria Medina (Puerto Rico) ran 1:35 and 1:53 on the entrance. Full outcomes.
Ötzi Trailrun – Naturns, Italy
On a 30k course, Daniel Pattis (Italy) received massive over Andreas Reiterer (Italy). Pattis received in 2:43 and Reiterer, stepping method down in distance from his standard ultrarunning, was second in 2:53. Anna Plattner (Austria) led the ladies’s race in 3:14. Full outcomes.
Shotgun Blast 50k – Marcola, Oregon
On the Shotgun Creek Recreation Space, Gavin Ross and Kim Slate led a small group in 4:06 and 4:52. Full outcomes.
American River 50 Mile – Folsom, California
Timothy Smith and Jennifer Sunahara received the point-to-point traditional in 7:20 and eight:58. Full outcomes.
Diablo Trails Problem 50k – Walnut Creek, California
Race winners Brandon Costa and Christina Cazares went 4:32 and 6:31. Full outcomes.
Carlsbad 5000 – Carlsbad, California
Andy Wacker is on a roll. He ran 14:05 for eighth on the highly-competitive 5k highway race. Full outcomes.
Operating Up For Air – Moab, Utah
It was the second 12 months for the charity run in Moab on a course that climbed 890 toes in simply lower than a mile. Brennan and Alexis Crellin received the three-hour contest with seven laps carried out. Within the six-hour race, Samuel Collins and Michaela Holst Blomqvist totaled 14 and 11 laps, and within the 12-hour group, Kyle Zelt and Anita Ortiz went for 20 and 21 laps. Full outcomes.
From left to proper are Darcy Piceu, Sarah Lavender Smith, Meghan Hicks, Maggie Guterl, and Sarah Ostaszewski on the 2025 Operating Up for Air Moab. Photograph: Operating Up for Air/Buzz Burrell
Hells Hills Path Run – Smithville, Texas
At Rocky Hill Ranch, Jerry Hanna and Samantha Braun ran 10:04 and 12:50 for 50 miles, and Kwok Hin Lai and Sarah June had been greatest within the 50k at 4:15 and 5:55. Full outcomes.
Brazos Bend 50 – Needville, Texas
Russ Ford and Ally Hagen received the 50 miler in 7:36 and eight:33, and Timothy Nolan and Courtney Rouse led the 50k in 4:43 and 4:25. Rouse was the general winner, and second lady Laura Keaton in 4:31 additionally got here in forward of the lead man. Full outcomes.
Fall Creek Falls 50k – Spencer, Tennessee
First man Todd Randles completed in 6:15, however that was solely good for fourth total and Shannon Wheeler DeBoef was the primary to complete in 5:16. Full outcomes.
Bootlegger 100 Mile – Flovilla, Georgia
Jeff Browning racked up one other 100-mile win, this time in 17:22. He was nearly 5 hours higher than the outdated course document for the third-year race. Mortgage Vo received for the ladies in 22:38 and that was a brand new course document too. Full outcomes.
Bull Run Run – Clifton, Virginia
It was the race’s thirty first 12 months and Andrew Simpson and Justyna Wilson had been victorious in 7:06 and eight:13. Full outcomes.
Mt. Toby Extremely 50k – Sunderland, Massachusetts
Matt Pacheco and Lila Gaudrault received in 5:05 and 5:30, respectively. The race summited its namesake peak thrice. Full outcomes.
Umstead 100 Mile – Raleigh, North Carolina
The primary 4 males all ran beneath 16 hours and Brian Zickefoose edged Christopher Miller for the win, 15:28 to fifteen:31. Kate Pallardy and Jana Grindheim had been atop the ladies’s leaderboard in 18:16 and 18:46. Full outcomes.
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