Not one, not two, however three world data occurred this weekend. Wow!
The World Mountain Operating Affiliation’s Mountain Operating World Cup acquired began, and the Skyrunner World Collection saved going too.
You may also try our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Six Days of France – Vallon Pont d’Arc, France
What a few years it’s been for six-day racing. Earlier males’s and girls’s world data had stood for many years, and now each have fallen greater than as soon as.
The principally flat course went for 0.70294 miles per lap, or 1.13128 kilometers, and was the World Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) world championships for the six-day fastened time.
Males
Ivan Zaborsky (Russia) set a brand new males’s world document in his first go on the fastened time. Zaborsky, age 37, totaled 650.920 miles (1,047.554 kilometers). The gap bettered Matthieu Bonne’s earlier world document by only one.26 miles (2.03 kilometers.) Bonne, of Belgium, set the sooner mark in September 2024 on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships in Hungary.
Ivan Zaborsky had a robust ultimate 24 hours to safe a brand new males’s six-day world document. Photograph: Samuel L’hermillier
Behind Zaborsky, Frank Gielen (Belgium) and Jean-Michel Terme (France) totaled 559.537 miles (900.487k) and 523.842 miles (843.042k).
Girls
Megan Eckert (U.S.) thrilled within the ladies’s race with a brand new world document too. Eckert totaled 603.156 miles (970.685 km). The mark topped Camille Herron’s previous world document by 42.7 miles and got here actually near Joe Fejes’ 606.243-mile American document. Herron’s mark had stood because the March 2024 FURTHER race in California.
Megan Eckert placed on a masterclass in pacing over the course of her six days of working. Photograph: Samuel L’hermillier
Behind Eckert, Irina Masanova (Russia) ran 517.564 miles (832.937k) and Mariana Nenu (Belgium) totaled 405.862 miles (653.171k).
As is common, each data are pending ratification.
Legends Yard Belgium – Retie, Belgium
Łukasz Wróbel (Poland) and Jan Vandekerckhove (Belgium) ran 116 and 115 yards, respectively. That’s 483 miles and 479 miles every over 116 and 115 hours. That’s almost 5 days in a row of racing with minimal sleep.
Belgian runners Marijn Geerts, Ivo Steyaert, and Frank Gielen beforehand held the world document at 458 miles, set on the 2024 Yard Extremely World Crew Championships.
Full outcomes (when obtainable).
Zmeu X-Fest – Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
The 12 months’s first Mountain Operating World Cup, placed on by the World Mountain Operating Affiliation (WMRA), race went 20k and with 1,750 meters of climbing throughout three huge climbs (12 miles, 5,740 ft.) The occasion was named for Zmeu, a dragon-like creature from Romanian folklore.
Males
Kenyan runners Paul Machoka and Kevin Kibet went one-two, however Henri Aymonod (Italy) made it a sport late. Machoka and Kibet gapped the sector early and solely within the ultimate climb and supreme descent did Aymonod get shut. Aymonod sprinted to the road two seconds behind Kibet. The three frontrunners completed in 1:48:52, 1:49:13, and 1:49:15, respectively.
After the Kenyan entrance two, Italian runners completed, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.
Paul Machoka, the 2025 Zmeu X-Fest males’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Girls
Scout Adkin (U.Ok.), the collection’s 2024 winner, dominated the ladies’s run. Adkin completed in 2:03:18 and that was means forward of everybody else.
Though it wasn’t shut for the win, it was after that. Valentine Rutto (Kenya) and Madalina Amariei (Romania) sprinted it out and the picture end was known as a tie. Rutto and Amariei completed in 2:18:57.
Romanian runners took six of the subsequent seven end spots to spherical out the highest 10, however fourth place was already one other 14 minutes again of Rutto and Amariei.
Scout Adkin, the 2025 Zmeu X-Fest ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
The following WMRA World Cup races are the Could 24 and 25 Vertical and Trofeo Nasego in Italy.
Amazean Jungle Thailand by UTMB – Thailand
Betong 100M
The occasion’s lengthy course was really simply 68 miles however with 21,095 ft of climbing. Gediminas Grinius (Lithuania) received huge with 16:02 on the clock, over an hour and half higher than second place, and Jun-Yue Zheng (China) led the ladies in 21:23. Zheng was nearly 4 hours forward of the subsequent lady.
Tunnel 100k
Going for 53 miles, Riccardo Montani (Italy) and Jiang-Rong Yuan (China) received in 9:32 and 13:33.
Jungle 50k
Yutaro Yokouchi (Japan) and Priya Rai (Nepal) had been the perfect in 5:27 and 6:28.
Ueda Skyrace – Ueda, Japan
The 12 months’s seventh Skyrunner World Collection race went 24k with 3,000 meters of climbing had a area from 25 completely different nations.
Each races had been runaways. For the lads, Ruy Ueda (Japan) was means out entrance in 3:33. Tsubasa Fuji (Japan) and Marcel Hoche (Germany) hit the rostrum in 3:52 and three:55. It was Ueda’s third time successful the race.
Ray Ueda, the 2025 Ueda Skyrace males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection
After ending within the high 10 the final two weekends at Golden Path World Collection, Takako Takamura (Japan) crossed over to destroy the ladies’s group. Takamura completed in 4:19. Final week’s Skyrunner World Collection winner Iris Pessey (France) was second in 4:41 and Suzuha Kusuda (Japan) was third in 4:53.
Takako Takamura, the 2025 Ueda Skyrace ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection
Extra Races and Runs
Innsbruck Alpine Trailrun – Innsbruck, Austria
In its tenth 12 months, the massive occasion had three distances better than extremely size. The 110k Masters of Innsbruck was the longest and race winners Johannes Dörr (Germany) and Juliane Röbler (Germany) ran 11:13 and 13:39. The 15k race was the Austrian Championships and winners Hans-Peter Innerhofer (Austria) and Isabell Speer (Austria) scored 62:42 and 78:31 end occasions. Full outcomes.
Isle of Wight Problem – Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Peter Soetens (Belgium) and Irina Tatarinova (Latvia) received the 106k island problem 11:10 and 13:16. Full outcomes.
Vancouver Marathon – Vancouver, Canada
Path runners Sam Hendry and Kat Drew ran 2:27 and a couple of:47 for eighth and fifth, respectively. Full outcomes.
Wild Horse Traverse 52k – Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Race champs Craig Logan and Jayda Jurome took it in 4:32 and 5:10. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Wild Horse Traverse 52k males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Kevin Grigg, 1. Craig Logan, 3. Grant Flagler. Photograph: Wild Horse Traverse 52k
The 2025 Wild Horse Traverse 52k ladies’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Phoebe Cseresnyes, 1. Jayda Jurome, 3. Katie Mayer. Photograph: Wild Horse 52k
Lilac Bloomsday Run 12k – Spokane, Washington
Andy Wacker and Courtney Olsen took to the roads for the aggressive race. Wacker was ninth in 35:25 and Olsen was 14th in 43:54. That’s 4:45 and 5:54 minutes per mile. Full outcomes.
McDonald Forest 50k – Corvallis, Oregon
James Holk and Theresa Fritz-Endres received the longtime run in 4:25 and 4:49. Full outcomes.
Sisters Nation 50k – Sisters, Oregon
A brand new course document and repeat win went to males’s champ Evan Moreau in 3:35 and Rachel Peters led the ladies in 4:12. Full outcomes.
Miwok 100k – Stinson Seaside, California
Colton Ransom received huge within the males’s race in 8:47, and Kristina Randrup edged Amy Cameron for the ladies’s crown, 10:09 to 10:12. Full outcomes.
The 2025 Miwok 100k males’s podium (l-to-r): 2. Mario Mendoza, 1. Colton Ransom, 3. Jacques Saarbach. Photograph: Miwok 100k
The 2025 Miwok 100k ladies’s podium (l-to-r): 3. Laura Westmeyer, 1. Kristina Randrup, 2. Amy Cameron. Photograph: Miwok 100k
Heaven’s Gate 20 Mile – Riggins, Idaho
Zach Garner beat defending champ Mac Moss for the lads’s win and took Moss’s former course document too. Garner ran 3:30 and Moss 3:39 for the massive mountain course. Moss additionally bettered his previous 3:44 greatest. And the primary three ladies all went sooner than the previous document for the second-year race. Pollee Brookings was simply over a minute higher than Natalie Ghelfi in 4:39 and 4:40, and third place Emily Holmes ran 5:02. Full outcomes.
Greenland Path Races – Larkspur, Colorado
Jonathan Aziz went actually fast for a 3:09 males’s win and Rochelle Basil led the ladies in 4:20. Full outcomes.
Collegiate Peaks Path Run – Buena Vista, Colorado
Daniel Metzger and Grace Leslie took the two-lap 50-mile course in 6:57 and 9:06, and Joel Shores and Jenna Bensko received the 25 miler in 3:30 and three:27. Bensko edged Amanda Basham by 45 seconds for the ladies’s crown. Full outcomes.
Daniel Metzger, the 2025 Collegiate Peaks 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: Jordan Chapell
Grace Leslie, the 2025 Collegiate Peaks 50 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: Jordan Chapell
USATF 5k Highway Nationwide Championships – Indianapolis, Indiana
Second on the current USATF 50k Highway Nationwide Championships, Sophie Seward was twenty fourth right here in 17:06. Full outcomes.
Kanawha Hint Path Run – Ona, West Virginia
Caleb Bowen received the 50k for a minimum of the fifth time, ending in 4:20, and Virginia-Bibb Golden nabbed the ladies’s win in 6:43. Full outcomes.
Grayson Highlands 50/50 – Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
The 50-mile winners had been Patrick Wachter and Lindsay Deacon in 7:27 and 9:14, and greatest within the 50k was Joshua Lasky and Nobie Clark in 5:15 and 5:13. Full outcomes.
XTERRA New Jersey Path Run – Wawayanda State Park, New Jersey
The XTERRA Path Run World Collection occasion had marathon and half marathon races. Brent Herring and Claudia Vira received on the lengthy course in 3:58 and 4:20, and Yury Tambasov and Kaitlyn Hurley had been greatest within the half at 1:26 and 1:53. Full outcomes.
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What a enjoyable weekend of racing to observe! And now there’s the Cocodona 250 Mile this week and the Transvulcania occasions subsequent weekend too. Racing season is full on!