Ultrarunners internationally tuned in to the lottery attracts, each held on Saturday, to find out who will probably be operating within the 2025 editions of the legendary Western States Endurance Run (WSER) and Hardrock 100 (HR100).
Listed below are the fortunate Canadians who have been chosen to run in both of the storied 100-milers. They put within the work to earn a lottery ticket (or a number of hundred, as your WSER ticket will increase exponentially by 2^[n-1] with n equalling the variety of years you will have entered the lottery unsuccessfully), and their names have been chosen out of the greater than 9,994 lottery entrants for WSER, or 2,414 for HR100.
Western States 100
The 2024 WSER lottery for North America’s oldest 100-mile path race was held at Placer Excessive College in Auburn, Calif., close to the race’s end line. To be on the startline of WSER in 2025, runners should both full a qualifying race and have their title drawn within the lottery, be a top-10 finisher the earlier yr, earn a Golden Ticket by taking a high spot in one in all six races, or acquire entry by means of a sponsor. This yr’s lottery had a file 9,993 entrants, with a mixed whole of 68,724 tickets, and 257 names have been drawn on Saturday (with 75 added to a waitlist).
The 2025 version of WSER will start on June 28.
— Western States 100 (@wser) December 4, 2024
Accepted
Susan Brown (Calgary, Alta.)
Justin Chow (Coquitlam, B.C.)
Mathieu Larrivee (Gatineau, Que.)
Ryan Smook (Grande Prairie, Alta.)
Simon Marcil (Montreal)
Yann Choppe (Montreal)
Aurelien Lorin (Quebec Metropolis)
Shane Mascarin (Wainwright, Alta.)
Waitlist
Razvan Lazareanu (Toronto)
Jun Xian Mississauga, Ont.
Christian Stenner (Calgary, Alta.)
Nick Wagner (Kitchener, Ont.)
Try the complete listing of runners chosen to run the 2025 WSER right here.
Hardrock 100
HR100 begins and finishes in Silverton, Colo., and takes runners up and down 10,000 metres of elevation, looping across the San Juan Mountains. HR100 will not be solely an iconically powerful race however can be notoriously difficult to get into, with greater than 2,000 entrants yearly (3,023) in 2024, and solely 146 runners accepted. The 2025 version will probably be held on July 12.
The HR100 lottery is split into two swimming pools, the “by no means” and “completed” divisions, with the by no means pool containing all of the runners who’ve by no means accomplished the race, and the completed pool containing runners who’ve completed at the very least one Hardrock 100. Starting in 2022, HR100 launched a coverage that states that the proportion of ladies chosen to begin the race is not going to be lower than the proportion of ladies candidates. In 2024, this was 21.4 per cent. Three male and three feminine runners from a choose group (authorized by the HR100 board) is chosen annually to race; this yr’s picks included French-Canadian professional Mathieu Blanchard.
Canada’s Becky Bates, who in 2023 obliterated the feminine course file within the 60-69 age class (in 2022, she additionally smashed the feminine 50-59 age group class) and completed as seventh lady, has been chosen to run HR100 for the third time. Canadian elite runner and human rights lawyer, Stephanie Case, was additionally chosen to run in 2025; she took second place within the 2022 version of HR100.
The 2025 version of HR 100 will happen on July 11.
Canadian Becky Bates dishes on her Hardrock 100 age-group file
Accepted
Becky Bates (Kimberley, B.C.)
Cal Mitchell (Ottawa)
Craig Frizzle (Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Leo Fung (Calgary, Alta.)
Mathieu Blanchard (France, Canada)
Stephanie Case (Canada)
Waitlist
Dana Samis (North Van., B.C.)
Linda Trinh (Toronto)
Fanny Barrette (Calgary, Alta.)
Alissa St Laurent (Edmonton, Alta.)
Mike Sidic (Vancouver, B.C.)
Ben Benvie (Ottawa)
Christopher Aubrey (Sherwood Park, Alta.)
You possibly can see all the listing of runners chosen to run HR100 in 2025 right here.