The IAU 50k World Championships, extra from the Skyrunner World Sequence, and the fortieth Pierra Menta ski mountaineering race had been the weekend’s largest highlights.
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IAU 50k World Championships – New Delhi, India
The 2025 IAU 50k World Championships had been initially scheduled for December 2025 however pushed again attributable to air high quality considerations. The sector dimension was maybe decreased from what may’ve occurred months earlier then. There have been simply 32 ladies and 44 males on the 10-loop course.
Ladies
By 15k, Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain) had already secured the last word lead, and he or she would end practically 4 minutes forward of each different girl. Robinson, a 2:30 marathoner in 2022, gained the race in 3:13:39.
She was most intently adopted by teammate Katrina Ballantyne, who completed second in 3:17:24. Each race winner Robinson and runner-up Ballantyne eclipsed the three:18:23 profitable time that Carla Molinaro (Nice Britain) ran on the 2023 IAU 50k World Championships, additionally in India.
Third-place Monika Brzozowska (Poland) escaped from the chase group to get on the rostrum in 3:19:03.
Melissa Tanner led the U.S. in eleventh at 3:33:49. Additionally for the U.S., Alexandra Niles was twenty third in 4:07:18, however Sophie Seward dropped on the midway level.
Within the workforce race, Nice Britain gained gold forward of Poland and Japan.
Naomi Robinson, the 2025 IAU 50k World Championships ladies’s winner. Photograph: André Mingneau
The highest 5 ladies had been:
- Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain) — 3:13:39
- Katrina Ballantyne (Nice Britain) — 3:17:24
- Monika Brzozowska (Poland) — 3:19:03
- Magdalena Patas (Poland) — 3:20:24
- Nomine-Erdene Bayartogtokh (Mongolia) — 3:20:32
The 2025 IAU 50k World Championships ladies’s podium (left to proper): 2. Katrina Ballantyne (Nice Britain), 1. Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain), 3. Monika Brzozowska (Poland). Photograph: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Males
British males dominated the race, taking the highest six spots. On the very prime, Alex Milne, recent off a 2:11 run on the 2026 Seville Marathon, gained in 2:46:09. Milne led for the race’s closing 15k. Charlie Davis handed Logan Smith on the ultimate 5k loop to complete second in 2:47:14, and Smith was third in 2:47:29.
The primary 4 males all bettered the 2023 IAU 50k World Championships profitable time of two:48:20, run by Chakib Lachgar (Spain), and the primary 19 males all completed in below three hours. The highest 20 included all three American finishers. Ryan Root was twelfth in 2:56:29, and Steven Mance and Nolan McKenna had been sixteenth and seventeenth in 2:58:32 and a couple of:58:50, respectively.
Nice Britain, after all, gained the workforce competitors with their sweep on the prime of the person rankings. The host nation, India, was second, and the U.S. was third.
Alex Milne, the 2025 IAU 50k World Championships males’s winner. Photograph: André Mingneau
The highest 5 males had been:
- Alex Milne (Nice Britain) — 2:46:09
- Charlie Davis (Nice Britain) — 2:47:14
- Logan Smith (Nice Britain) — 2:47:29
- Sean Michael Hogan (Nice Britain) — 2:47:59
- Henry Hart (Nice Britain) — 2:48:32
The 2025 IAU 50k World Championships males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Charlie Davis (Nice Britain), 1. Alex Milne (Nice Britain), 3. Logan Smith (Nice Britain). Photograph: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Acantilados del Norte – La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
The Skyrunner World Sequence took to the coastal cliffs of northern La Palma for its third race. A 28k course stuffed with volcanic terrain and Atlantic Ocean panoramas packed in 2,200 meters of climbing. That’s 17 miles and seven,218 toes.
Spanish runners dominated each races, taking seven of the top-10 ladies’s spots and eight of the lads’s top-10 spots.
Ladies’s winner Sara Alonso got here by means of in 3:00 and led a Spanish sweep of the rostrum. Patricia Pineda and Marta Martínez had been subsequent in 3:06 and three:07.
Sara Alonso, the 2026 Acantilados del Norte ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
For the lads, Manuel Merillas (Spain), Frédéric Tranchand (France), and Alain Santamaría (Spain) regarded able to battle from the beginning, and by 12k, the previous two had damaged away from the remainder of the sphere. In the long run, Merillas gained in 2:31, Tranchand was second in 2:33, and Santamaría was third in 2:36. After working largely within the Golden Path World Sequence final yr, Damian Bogdan (Romania) was fourth in 2:37.
Full outcomes (when obtainable).
The subsequent Skyrunner World Sequence race is Calamorro Skyrace on April 11 in Spain.
Manuel Merillas, the 2026 Acantilados del Norte males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence
Pierra Menta – Arêches-Beaufort, France
It was the fortieth yr of the famed two-person ski mountaineering race. There have been 4 phases, and plenty of path runners had been there.
Ladies
Contemporary off an Olympic blended relay gold and particular person dash silver, Emily Harrop teamed with Margot Ravinel for France to win the two-person ladies’s race in 12:13.
Martina Valmassoi (Italy) was a part of the fifth-place ladies’s workforce, and Kelly Wolf (U.S.), Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic), and Rea Kolbl (Slovenia) had been on the eighth, ninth-, and Tenth-place groups.
The Swedish workforce of Tove Alexandersson and Emelie Forsberg didn’t end.
Males
William Bon Mardion and Xavier Gachet of France gained males’s gold in 10:24, and gained by solely 38 seconds after 4 phases of racing over a second French workforce of Anselme Damevin and Samuel Equy.
Deeper outcomes present Davide Magnini and William Boffelli of Italy teaming up for third, and Nadir Maguet (Italy) was a part of the fourth-place workforce.
Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) and François D’Haene (France) raced collectively to complete fifth.
French path runners had been additionally seen additional down the outcomes. Germain Grangier was a part of the Nineteenth-place workforce, Louison Coiffet (France) twenty first, Ludovic Pommeret (France) and Arthur Joyeux-Bouillon collectively in twenty ninth, and Thibaut Garrivier thirty third.
Further Races and Runs
Extremely-Path Xiamen by UTMB – Xiamen, China
The UTMB World Sequence race practically had a Chinese language sweep of the 100k podium. Wen-Li Jiang, Li-Ping Wang, and Hua-Rong Fu, all of China, led the ladies’s race in 11:57, 12:12, and 12:53, respectively. It was a first-place tie for the lads, with Jia-Ju Zhao (China) and Ionel Cristian Manole (Spain) each working equal-to-the-second 9:52, and Sheng Zhang (China) was third in 11:01. Full outcomes.
Santa Barbara 9 Trails – Santa Barbara, California
The 35-mile race crowns went to Leah Yingling and Finn James in 6:44 and 6:04. Full outcomes.
Outdated West Path Runs 50k – Julian, California
Race winners Mariela Jennings and Damon Valenzona got here by means of in 5:22 and three:40. Full outcomes.
Two Prairies Extremely – Fort McCoy, Florida
Within the 50k race, each course information fell, with Jessica Lane profitable in 5:28, and Scott Hoover in 4:45. The 30k additionally noticed two new course information, with Emily Quintanilla claiming victory in 3:34, and Aryan Rochan profitable in 2:16. Full outcomes when obtainable.
Jessica Lane, the 2026 Two Prairies 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Scott Hoover, the 2026 Two Prairies 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Marin Extremely Problem – Sausalito, California
The occasion had 50-mile and 50k distances. Lengthy course champs Leandra Zimmermann and Reed Breur ran 8:05 and seven:18, and YiOu Wang and Zander Geddes gained the 50k in 4:30 and 4:03. Full outcomes.
Catalina Island Marathon – Avalon, California
It was the forty eighth version of the path marathon, and winners Katya Meyers and Alex Heuchert got here by means of in 3:42 and three:12. Full outcomes.
Mesquite Canyon 50 Mile – Waddell, Arizona
At White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Mandi Goudie and Matthew Bradner gained the 50 miler in 11:48 and 9:06, and Alicia Woodside and Cody McKesson led the 50k in 5:23 and 4:32. Full outcomes.
Run By means of Time Path Marathon – Salida, Colorado
It was the race’s twenty first yr, and ladies’s winner Amanda Ax completed in 4:03. Taylor Stack gained for the lads in 2:59. Stack gained right here in 2024, too. Full outcomes.
The Cove 50k – Chickamauga, Georgia
Racing within the McLemore Cove, Holly Adams and Kyle Harris had been victorious in 5:54 and 4:45. Full outcomes.
Holly Adams, the 2026 Cove 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Kyle Harris, the 2026 Cove 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Land Between the Lakes – Grand Rivers, Kentucky
The 50-mile winners had been Savannah Rose and Gregory Humkey in 8:32 and seven:27, and Rachel Schack and Joshua Horton had been tops within the 60k at 5:09 and 4:52. Full outcomes.
Loss of life by 10k – Brandon, Mississippi
The occasion has runners race a 10k, 5 instances, each 2.5 hours aside. Veronica Steele and Joshua Alston did it in 5:24 and 4:22. Full outcomes.
Bel Monte – Waynesboro, Virginia
The longtime race had Marisa Romeo and Aaron Cooper on the prime of the 50 miler in 8:42 and eight:30, and Teresa Domin and Patrick Wachter in entrance of the 50k in 6:12 and 4:01. Full outcomes.
[Founding Editor’s Note: A hat tip to my former college teammate Aaron Cooper for winning in his first official ultra only a few days after turning 50! – Bryon]
NYC Half Marathon – New York, New York
The internationally aggressive highway race completed inside Central Park. Lauren Gregory was 14th in 1:11:12 within the ladies’s race, and 50-mile world record-holder Charlie Lawrence ran 1:04:55 within the males’s race. Full outcomes.
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