Weekend highlights included the 12 months’s first World Path Majors and UTMB World Sequence races. Test all of it out!
You may as well try our race protection from the weekend:
Hong Kong Extremely – Hong Kong, China
The 100k and 50k races have been the 12 months’s first World Path Majors contests.
100k
Course modifications left this 12 months’s race in need of the 100k distance. What the course lacked in distance, it made up for in climbing, accumulating 5,073 meters (16,644 ft) over 93k (58 miles).
Males
Gui-Du Qin (China) began to separate from the sphere close to the midway mark and led the entire second half towards an 8:52 successful time. Qin had earlier positioned contained in the race’s prime 5 twice earlier than, in 2024 and 2025. Guang-Fu Meng (China), winner of the race’s 2024 and 2025 editions, chased to second in 8:58, and Guo-Min Deng (China) was third in 9:09. It was Deng’s third third-place end on the race.
The boys’s prime 5 was:
- Gui-Du Qin (China) – 8:52:36
- Guang-Fu Meng (China) – 8:58:50
- Guo-Min Deng (China) – 9:09:48
- Dakota Jones (U.S.) – 9:15:49
- John Ray Onifa (Philippines) – 9:50:52
Gui-Du Qin wins the 2026 Hong Kong 100k. Photograph: Hong Kong Extremely
Ladies
Veronika Leng (Slovakia, lives in Hong Kong) chased down race-long chief Hậu Hà (Vietnam) within the ultimate hour, and the 2 completed collectively in a first-place tie. Behind the winners’ 10:43 end, Ling-Jie Chi (China) was third in 10:52.
The ladies’s prime 5 was:
- 1. Veronika Leng (Slovakia) – 10:43:35
- 1. Hậu Hà (Vietnam) – 10:43:35
- 3. Ling-Jie Chi (China) – 10:52:22
- 4. Ying Li (China) – 11:28:04
- 5. Wen-Li Jiang (China) – 11:29:46
Hậu Hà (left) and Veronika Leng (proper) tie for the win on the 2026 Hong Kong 100k. Photograph: Hong Kong Extremely
50k
The 50k occasion is a part of the World Path Majors Brief Sequence. Solely the highest three males completed beneath 4 hours on the difficult course. Ru-Qin Wang (China) beat the boys’s discipline in 3:56, and Anton Gustafsson (Sweden) and Guo Shi (China) have been on the rostrum at 3:58 and solely 27 seconds aside.
Barely three minutes cut up the primary three ladies, and race winner and runner-up Xue-Mei Huang (China) and Yan Yang (China) have been solely 44 seconds aside in 4:48. Eszter Csillag (Hungary, lives in Hong Kong) was third in 4:51.
The subsequent World Path Majors occasion is the Black Canyon Ultras in Arizona on February 14 and 15.
Ru-Qin Wang, the 2026 Hong Kong 50k males’s winner. Photograph: Hong Kong Extremely
Xue-Mei Huang, the Hong Kong 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Hong Kong Extremely
Arc of Attrition by UTMB – Coverack, U.Ok.
It was the occasion’s eleventh version, all on point-to-point programs that includes coastal trails in winter climate. British runners dominated the races.
Arc 100
The highest three males have been all from the U.Ok., and solely 4 minutes separated first and second. Hugh Tibbs and Simon Withers completed in 19:10 and 19:14, respectively. Third-place man Samuel Skinner was an hour again in 20:14.
Anne-Sofie Pollestad (Norway) prevented a whole British sweep of the 100-mile podium. Pollestad was means out entrance within the ladies’s race in 22:28. Charlotte Fisher (U.Ok.) and Hannah Rickman (U.Ok.) got here subsequent in 23:49 and 24:47.
Arc 50
British males took the primary 5 end spots, with Kristian Jones victorious in 7:09. Keith Wigley and Lewis Bowness have been second and third in 7:27 and seven:38.
The ladies’s race was considerably extra unfold out. Gemma Hillier Moses (U.Ok.) dominated the group with an 8:12 successful time. That positioned her eighth general. Aroa Sío (Spain) edged Katie Kaars Sijpesteijn (U.Ok.) for the runner-up spot in 9:31 and 9:33.
Arc 25
The race was simply in need of the marathon distance, and Robbie Simpson (U.Ok.) and Raoul Raus (Belgium) have been solely 43 seconds aside. Simpson gained in 2:45, and Raus was second in 2:46. Third-place Ben Rothery (U.Ok.) was barely a minute behind race winner Simpson in 2:46, too.
It wasn’t as shut within the ladies’s race. Naomi Lang (U.Ok.) ran away with the win in 3:09. Núria Gil (Spain) got here subsequent in 3:16, and Maëlle Beauvir (France) was third in 3:25.
Further Races and Runs
Worldwide Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF) Andorra World Cup – Andorra
The ski mountaineering world cup occasion once more had Vertical and Dash races, and Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) once more gained the Vertical race. He completed in 27:21 with practically a 10-second hole on second place. Cam Smith (U.S.) was sixth in 28:26. Axelle Mollaret (France) gained the ladies’s Vertical race in 31:44. The Dash race will occur right this moment, January 26. Full outcomes.
UTMS La Primavera – Guadalajara, Mexico
Gabriel Boin (France) and María Guadalupe Fregoso Nieves (Mexico) gained the 51k race in 4:36 and 5:47, respectively. Full outcomes.
Golden Gate Spartan Path Traditional – San Francisco, California
The 50-mile champs have been Aidan Bohley and Mari Sullivan in 8:44 and 10:10, and Noah Seto and Julie Mooney gained the 50k in 4:30 and 5:13. Full outcomes.
Diplo’s Run Membership 5k – Phoenix, Arizona
Path runners took the well-known DJ’s run and rave. Ruairi Moynihan gained for the boys in 15:13, and Tara Dower was second lady in 18:10. Full outcomes.
Wilson Creek Frozen 50k – Melba, Idaho
Racing on the Wilson Creek Path, Anthony Jacobs and Emily Soulek gained in 4:21 and 5:34. Full outcomes.
Pemberton Path – Fountain Hills, Arizona
Racing by McDowell Mountain Regional Park, Steven Terry and Sarah Connor gained the 50k in 4:08 and 4:23, and Jarred Ervin and Natalie Horn gained the 25k occasion in 1:54 and 1:55. Full outcomes.
Sarah Connor and Steven Terry, the 2026 Pemberton Path 50k winners. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Jarred Ervin and Natalie Horn, the 2026 Pemberton Path 25k winners. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Tatonka 50k – Waiteville, West Virginia
The primary-year race noticed Caleb Bowen and Anne Tisdell win in 3:54 and 5:59. Full outcomes.
Southern Freeze – Columbus, Georgia
The small 50-mile race was led by Thomas Chelednik and Caroline Hively in 8:03 and 11:07. Full outcomes.
Monroe Cross Path 50 Mile – DeBary, Florida
The primary man was Preston Berryman in 7:56, however he was solely third general. Ladies’s winner Addie Inexperienced beat everybody in 7:09. Full outcomes.
Clearwater Operating Pageant – Clearwater, Florida
The street 50k wins went to Duane Wesemann and Kate Kornucik in 3:34 and 4:25. Full outcomes.
Name for Feedback
- The April 2026 Boston Marathon will probably be its one hundred and thirtieth version, and the just-dropped elite entrant listing consists of some path runners and ultrarunners. The boys’s listing consists of, listed alongside their private bests, CJ Albertson (2:08:17), Christian Allen (2:09:58), Garrett Corcoran (2:15:46), Charlie Lawrence (2:16:10), and Petter Engdahl (debut).
- The thirty second version of Alabama’s Mountain Mist 50k occurred in chilly climate, and outcomes haven’t but hit the net. Would possibly a reader know one thing?
