From California’s China Wall to China’s Nice Wall, there was loads occurring this weekend!
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Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB – Auburn, California
100 Mile
The 100-mile race began on Friday, April 24, and ran point-to-point on a downhill course.
Aroa Sío (Spain) received the ladies’s race and completed second general in 19:24. Sío was extremely within the second general spot for the whole lot of the race. Alyssa Clark was the second girl in 19:44, and Amanda Basham was the third girl in 20:16. Clark and Basham have been additionally the race’s general third- and fourth-place finishers, and 5 of the general high 10 have been ladies.
Males’s champ Noa Ohms (Germany) was method out in entrance in 17:50. He was two-and-a-half hours higher than the subsequent man. Second- and third-place José Varcasia (Italy) and Jhonathan Castano (Colombia) completed in 20:20 and 20:49, respectively.
100k
The 100-kilometer race was the occasion’s marquee distance. It was a Golden Ticket race with three automated entries to this 12 months’s Western States 100 for ladies and three extra for the lads, too. The race went point-to-point from the China Wall trailhead to the end in Auburn.
Ladies
Riley Brady received their groove again. Brady received the 2025 Black Canyon 100k however was simply ninth at this 12 months’s race in February. Then got here an Eleventh-place end at March’s Massive Alta 50k. Two weeks in the past, issues began to shift, and Brady was third on the Gorge Waterfalls 30k. After which all of it got here collectively at Canyons, and Brady received the race in 9:41. They’re going again to Western States now with eyes on enhancing on 2023’s 14th-place end. Brady’s end time was 5 minutes higher than Emily Hawgood’s 2025 first-place mark. Brady identifies as non-binary and competes within the ladies’s race.
Careth Arnold was greater than 4 minutes in entrance of Brady on the mile 36 Cal 2 checkpoint, however fell to second within the latter half and completed there in 9:56. Third-place Sarah Allaben got here in at 10:14.
Second-place Arnold and third-place Allaben declined their Golden Tickets, and Brady, fourth-place Sarah Humble, and fifth-place Ellaney Matarese all accepted.
Riley Brady received the 2026 Canyons by UTMB 100k and earned a Western States 100 Golden TIcket. Photograph: Howie Stern/The Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB
The ladies’s high 5 have been:
- Riley Brady – 9:41
- Careth Arnold – 9:56
- Sarah Allaben – 10:14
- Sarah Humble – 10:18
- Ellaney Matarese – 10:29
Pre-race favorites Addie Bracy, Anne Flower, and Claudia Tremps (Spain) didn’t end.
Males
On the Cal 2 36-mile checkpoint, Adam Peterman was simply over two minutes in entrance of second-place Can-Hua Luo (China). Everybody chased, however Peterman was uncatchable the remainder of the best way. He received in 8:18. Peterman received right here in 2022, too, and went on to win Western States 100 later that summer season.
With Peterman out in entrance, it grew to become a three-man race for the final two Golden Tickets with a number of place modifications within the closing miles. In the long run, Zach Miller completed as runner-up in 8:21.
After which Hayden Hawks labored for what could be the ultimate Golden Ticket. Hawks handed Luo within the closing 4 miles to complete third in 8:23.
Luo’s late-race slide stopped in a hard-luck fourth at 8:25.
Peterman, Miller, and Hawks took the race’s three Golden Ticket entries to Western States and can add a ton of firepower to that race.
Adam Peterman, 2026 Canyons by UTMB 100k champion. Photograph: Howie Stern/The Canyons Endurance Runs by UTMB
The lads’s high 5 have been:
- Adam Peterman – 8:18
- Zach Miller – 8:21
- Hayden Hawks – 8:23
- Can-Hua Luo (China) – 8:25
- Canyon Woodward – 8:38
Counted as among the many pre-race favorites, Will Murray was Eleventh in 9:16.
50k
Ladies
The ladies’s race was a much-anticipated match-up between Makena Morley, Lauren Gregory, and Molly Seidel.
All three are former NCAA Division I observe and cross nation runners. Morley has run 2:30 for a street marathon and received final 12 months’s Kodiak 50k, Gregory was stepping as much as the 50k distance, and Olympic Marathon bronze medalist Seidel was in the course of her Western States prep.
Morley opened a virtually two-minute lead on Gregory close to midway, and went on to win in 3:47. Gregory completed second 4 minutes later, and Seidel was third in 4:07.
Each Morley and Gregory bettered Dani Moreno’s former 3:52 course document from 2024.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
- Makena Morley – 3:47
- Lauren Gregory – 3:51
- Molly Seidel – 4:07
- Taylor Deal – 4:11
- Sofie Schunk – 4:20
Males
The lads’s course document went down, too. Second a 12 months in the past, Matt Daniels was on their own on the entrance this 12 months. Daniels rocketed to a 3:21 end, three minutes higher than Seth Ruhling’s year-old former course finest. Daniels will subsequent race the Transvulcania Ultramarathon in Might.
Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) was second in 3:34, and Ryan Forsyth (Eire) was third 3:35. Forsyth ran on the College of Colorado alongside ladies’s winner Morley and males’s 100k winner Peterman.
The lads’s high 5 was:
- Matt Daniels – 3:21
- Jupiter Carera Casas (Mexico) – 3:34
- Ryan Forsyth (Eire) – 3:35
- Cyril Pasturel (France) – 3:44
- Eric Hamel – 3:45
25k
The short-course race was on Friday, April 24, and Alice Baquie (Australia) received the ladies’s race by 45 seconds over Grace Eversaul. The 2 completed in 2:12 and a couple of:13. Aubrey Roberts was third in 2:17.
David Sinclair received a Transvulcania Ultramarathon tune-up and received the lads’s race. He completed in 1:36. Path upstart Ares Studying was 41 seconds behind in 1:37, and Gus Gibbs was third in 1:44.
Madeira Island Extremely-Path – Madeira, Portugal
The MIUT Legend and MIUT Uncover races have been each a part of the World Path Majors.
MIUT Legend
The lengthy course island traverse began because the clock struck midnight on Saturday, and went 109k with 7,165 meters of climbing. That’s almost 68 miles and 23,500 ft. A lot of the climbing was within the race’s first half.
Ladies
Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) boat-raced it. It wasn’t shut, and he or she received by almost an hour in 14:54.
Helen Mino Faukner (U.S.) edged a fast-closing Jazmine Lowther (Canada) for second. The 2 have been solely 4 minutes aside in 15:50 and 15:54.
Germany’s Katharina Hartmuth wins the 2026 Madeira Island Extremely-Path Legend 110k on Saturday, April 25. Photograph: MIUT/João M. Faria
The ladies’s high 5 was:
- Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – 14:54
- Helen Mino Faukner (U.S.) – 15:50
- Jazmine Lowther (Canada) – 15:54
- Valerie Arsenault (Canada) – 17:27
- Kelsey Hogan (Canada) – 17:41
Males
By the 58k checkpoint, Vincent Esmiol (France) had gained the lead from Tyler Inexperienced (U.S.) and Rod Farvard (U.S.), and Esmiol added time on his chasers the remainder of the best way. Esmiol received the lads’s race in 12:48.
Gaitier Airiau (France) received to second in 12:56 and early tempo pusher Inexperienced was third in 13:02.
France’s Vincent Esmiol breaks the tape to win the 2026 Madeira Island Extremely-Path Legend 110k on Saturday, April 25. Photograph: MIUT/João M. Faria
The lads’s high 5 was:
- Vincent Esmiol (France) – 12:48
- Gautier Airiau (France) – 12:56
- Tyler Inexperienced (U.S.) – 13:02
- Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz (France) – 13:24
- Ethan Peters (Canada) – 13:36
For the U.S., Tommy Sullivan and Farvard have been seventh and Eleventh in 13:48 and 14:24.
MIUT Superior
The 77k (48 miles) race had Lindsay Allison (U.S.) and Daniel Jung (Italy) as its winners in 10:26 and eight:52.
MIUT Uncover
At 56k (35 miles), that is the longest of the World Path Majors Brief Sequence races.
Rachel Drake (U.S.) dominated the ladies’s race in 5:54, and Jane Maus (U.S.) was second, 10 minutes again in 6:04. The 2 have been method up on third-place Ana Paula Rodrigues (Portugal) and her 6:33 end. Drake completed ninth general.
Rachel Drake, the 2026 Madeira Island Extremely-Path Uncover ladies’s winner. Photograph: MIUT/João M. Faria
Antoine Charvolin (France) moved rapidly from the beginning of the lads’s race, and Anton Gustafsson (Sweden) tried to hold on. By midway, Gustafsson was over three minutes behind and dropping extra time. Charvolin, final 12 months’s TDS winner, received massive in 5:03. Second-place Billy Curtis (Australia) completed in 5:24, and Gustafsson fell to 3rd in 5:29.
Antoine Charvolin, the 2026 Madeira Island Extremely-Path Uncover males’s winner. Photograph: MIUT/João M. Faria
Mt. Fuji 100 Mile – Fujiyoshida, Japan
Each the 100-mile and 40k races have been additionally each a part of the World Path Majors.
Fuji 100 Mile
The lengthy course had a 5:00 p.m. begin that ensured everybody ran via the night time. The course was 165k with 6,555 meters of climbing. That’s 102 miles and 21,505 ft.
It was Ying Li (China) and Kaytlyn Gerbin (U.S.) on the entrance of the entire ladies’s race. The pair have been collectively via the 52k checkpoint, and Li turned that right into a seven-minute lead at 74k. Gerbin flipped Li over the subsequent 22k and led the ladies’s race at 97k by two minutes, partly on a sooner aid-station transition. Li wasn’t completed, although, and regained the lead as Gerbin light within the second half. Li received in 22:18, and Gerbin was second in 22:44. It was one other two hours earlier than third-place Nami Iwasaki (Japan) completed in 24:52.
Ying Li, the 2026 Mt. Fuji 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
The lads’s race had a entrance three of Chris Myers (U.S.), Yuya Kawasaki (Japan), and Jia-Ju Zhao (China) via 5 hours of working. Kawasaki was gone from the lead group by 97k, and it was a two-man race between Myers and Zhao for the race’s second half. After 140k collectively, Myers lastly dropped his competitor. Myers received in 17:50. Zhao was second in 18:28, and Kawasaki held on for third in 18:51.
Chris Myers, the 2026 Mt. Fuji 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
Kai 70k
The 70k race wasn’t a part of the World Path Majors, however Klaire Rhodes (U.S.) and Tracen Knopp (U.S.) received in 7:15 and 6:38.
Asumi 40k
Honoka Akiyama (Japan) dominated the ladies’s race with a giant 14-minute win. She completed in 3:24. Yuri Yoshizumi (Japan) topped Brittany Charboneau (U.S.) for second as the 2 ran 3:38 and three:41.
Honoka Akiyama, the 2026 Mt. Fuji Asumi 40k ladies’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
Guidelines are guidelines, they usually enforced them right here. Liam Meirow (U.S.) was disqualified after crossing the end line first. Meirow outsprinted Ru-Qin Wang (China) to cross the road in 2:57, 26 seconds forward of Wang, who additionally crossed in 2:57. A post-race equipment verify confirmed that Meirow didn’t have a required cell phone, although, and he was disqualified. Wang grew to become the winner, and Ruy Ueda (Japan) and Hajime Kasagi (Japan) moved as much as second and third in 2:59 and three:00.
Ru-Qin Wang, the 2026 Mt. Fuji Asumi 40k males’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
Grand Raid Ventoux by UTMB – Malaucène, France
The lengthy course Extremely Géant de Provence went 125k (78 miles) and had Jennifer Lemoine (France) and Andy Symonds (U.Ok.) as its winners in 16:28 and 13:07.
The 87k (54 miles) Grande Epopée Ventoux had Ida Sophie Hegemann (Germany) and Baptiste Chassagne (France) 20 and quarter-hour forward of second place. The winners uniquely completed in 10:00 and eight:00 even.
The Sunday, April 26 Mistral Marathon Path went 51k, and Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya) received in 4:30 and three:58. For Alexandersson, the race was a tune-up for the Zegama Marathon. After being on the entrance of the race at 16k, and nonetheless fourth at 36k, Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) completed seventeenth in 4:31. Like Alexandersson, Bonnet is on the Zegama Marathon begin record in mid-Might too.
French runners Elise Poncet and Frédéric Tranchand received the 26k Path des Coteaux race in 2:14 and 1:43.
Beijing Changping Mountain Races – Beijing, China
The races have been the 12 months’s second and third Mountain Operating World Cup contests.
Changping Beijing Uphill
This one went 3.5k in distance with 509 meters of stair-climbing acquire on the Nice Wall. That’s simply over two miles and 1,670 ft. Runners began in 10-second intervals.
Ladies
Maude Mathys (Switzerland) stormed the Nice Wall in 26:13 for the ladies’s win. Joyce Njeru (Kenya) was the closest in 26:51, and Courtney Coppinger (U.S.) hit the excessive level end in third at 28:18.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
- Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 26:13
- Joyce Njeru (Kenya) – 26:51
- Courtney Coppinger (U.S.) – 28:18
- Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 28:31
- Sara Willhoit (U.Ok.) – 28:44
[In 2015, Maude Mathys received a warning without suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Cases of Swiss Olympic for two positive tests for clomifene (previously clomiphene) after it was determined that she was mistakenly taking the drug without first obtaining a World Anti-Doping Agency Therapeutic Use Exemption.]
The 2026 Changping Beijing Uphill ladies’s podium (left to proper): 2. Joyce Njeru, 1. Maude Mathys, 3. Courtney Coppinger. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Males
Italy received the higher of Kenya within the males’s race. Isacco Costa (Italy) received the race in 22:31. Costa was tenth finally 12 months’s World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race. Earlier this 12 months, he ran 1:03 for a half marathon and a 29:08 street 10k. Paul Machoka (Kenya) and Alex Baldaccini (Italy) have been second and third in 22:59 and 23:24.
The lads’s high 5 was:
- Isacco Costa (Italy) – 22:31
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 22:59
- Alex Baldaccini (Italy) – 23:24
- Luca Merli (Italy) – 23:31
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 23:31
The Changping Beijing Uphill males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Paul Machoka, 1. Isacco Costa, 3. Alex Baldaccini. Photograph: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Changping Beijing Basic Up and Down
The following day, 18k (11 miles) of racing packed in 1,200 meters (3,937 ft) of climbing. Everybody from the Uphill race got here again for a redo.
Ladies
The Uphill podium held, however the order flipped. Njeru received to the end in 1:45, virtually two minutes higher than second-place Coppinger.
Mathys, who received on the Uphill course, fell to 3rd in 1:47, 27 seconds behind Coppinger.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
- Joyce Njeru (Kenya) – 1:45
- Courtney Coppinger (U.S.) – 1:46
- Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 1:47
- Camilla Magliano (Italy) – 1:48
- Jun-Hui Liu (China) – 1:48
Joyce Njeru, the 2026 Changping Beijing Basic Up and Down ladies’s winner. Photograph: WMRA/Christian Rizzi
Males
Solely fifth within the Uphill race, Selelo Saoli didn’t wait to go to the entrance right here. He led from the soar and was over two minutes higher than everybody else in 1:25.
Costa, the Uphill winner, was second on this up-and-down course in 1:28, and Machoka, the Uphill runner-up, was now third. Each Costa and Machoka ran 1:28 however have been 58 seconds aside.
The lads’s high 5 was:
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 1:25
- Isacco Costa (Italy) – 1:28
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 1:28
- Andrew Douglas (U.Ok.) – 1:29
- Luca Merli (Italy) – 1:30
The following Mountain Operating World Cup races are the Might 7 and 9 Transvulcania Vertical Kilometer and Half Marathon in Spain’s Canary Islands.
Michael Selelo Saoli, the 2026 Changping Beijing Basic Up and Down males’s winner. Photograph: WMRA/Christian Rizzi
Penang Skyrace – Penang, Malaysia
The race was the 12 months’s fifth Skyrunner World Sequence contest, and it went 30k (19 miles) with 2,250 meters (7,382 ft) of elevation on a jungle observe. Each races featured a global entrance 5, with Malaysian runners filling the again half of the highest 10.
Svetlana Nurmukhametova (Impartial) outkicked Elena Karanfiloska (North Macedonia) for the ladies’s win in 4:09. The 2 have been solely three seconds aside.
Vanja Cnops (Belgium) was a methods again in third at 4:26.
The ladies’s high 5 was:
- Svetlana Nurmukhametova (Impartial) – 4:09
- Elena Karanfiloska (North Macedonia) – 4:09
- Vanja Cnops (Belgium) – 4:26
- Karina Anderson (U.S.) – 4:38
- Lin-Ping Wang (China) – 4:50
The lads weren’t so shut. Skyrunning ace Nicolas Molina (Spain) was a runaway winner in 3:34, and Shoma Otagiri (Japan) and Kristjan Chapman (Iceland) have been second and third in 3:41 and three:55.
The lads’s high 5 was:
- Nicolas Molina (Spain) – 3:34
- Shoma Otagiri (Japan) – 3:41
- Kristjan Chapman (Iceland) – 3:55
- Weston Hill (New Zealand) – 3:55
- Lucas Mouret (France) – 4:04
The following Skyrunner World Sequence race is the Might 3 Skyrace des Matheysins in France.
Extra Races and Runs
Pieniny Extremely-Path – Szczawnica, Poland
The occasion hosted mountain basic, quick path, and uphill nationwide championships on programs within the Pieniny Mountains. The uphill race went first on Friday, April 24, and winners Martyna Młynarczyk and Dominick Tabor completed the almost 7k climb in 44:35 and 38:05. Two days later, Młynarczyk and Maciej Lachowski received the mountain basic 13k race in 59:04 and 51:42. The quick path race was 44k in distance and winners Catherine Dombrowska and David Raspberry did it in 3:47 and three:10. Full outcomes.
Velká Cena Krkonoš – Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic
This was a nationwide championship too, and climbed 800 meters over 13.6k on the Czech ski space. Tereza Hrochová wins each Czech nationwide championship on each potential terrain — street, cross nation, mountain — and he or she hit the excessive level first in 61:01. Jáchym Kovář beat the lads up in 53:59. Full outcomes.
Bucharest Worldwide Half Marathon – Bucharest, Romania
Golden Path World Sequence star Madalina Florea (Romania) blended it up on the roads and was third in 1:10:49. Full outcomes.
Three Peaks Fell Race – Horton-in-Ribblesdale, England, United Kingdom
It was the 71st working of the roughly 23-mile race. Helen Leigh and Tom Evans received in 3:49 and three:02. Full outcomes.
Extremely-trail Drakensberg – South Drakensberg, South Africa
The lengthy course 160k (99 miles) took in some distant terrain in South Africa. Race winners Rinel McLaren and Thato Kabeli completed the journey in 41:23 and 24:24. The 62k ran the complete size of the famed Large’s Cup Path. Defending champ Olivia Dubern (France) received once more within the ladies’s race in 6:42, and Cody Lind (U.S.) led the lads in 5:24. Full outcomes.
Olivia Dubern, the 2026 Extremely-trail Drakensberg Giants Cup Extremely 65k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Extremely-trail Drakensberg
Cody Lind, the 2026 Extremely-trail Drakensberg Giants Cup Extremely 65k males’s winner. Photograph: Extremely-trail Drakensberg
Royal Gorge Groove – Cañon Metropolis, Colorado
Ladies’s winner Devon Yanko set a brand new course document in 4:46. Braedon Sitmann received for the lads in 4:23. Full outcomes.
C&O Canal 100 Mile – Knoxville, Maryland
Race winners Brittney Yuronich and Yurii Bondarchuk completed in 19:13 and 15:58. Full outcomes.
Hell’s Dells 50k – Prescott, Arizona
Racing across the distinctive Granite Dells, Latisha Thornton received the ladies’s race in 7: 58, and Jesus Escalera took residence the lads’s win in 5:44. Full outcomes
Latisha Thornton, the 2026 Hell’s Dells ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Jesus Escalera, the 2026 Hell’s Dells males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Boston Marathon – Boston, Massachusetts
The Monday, April 20 race had nice temperatures and a tailwind that helped to push quick occasions. Kodi Kleven led a variety of the ladies’s race and completed 14th in 2:24:48. Every week after ending third on the Marathon des Sables Legendary desert race, Des Linden ran 2:35:49. For the lads, among the many typically path and ultrarunners, CJ Albertson ran 2:09:59. Charlie Lawrence hit a private finest 2:14:23 and Mason Coppi scored an Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time in 2:15:06. Petter Engdahl (Sweden) had a giant optimistic break up to complete in 2:23:37. Full outcomes.
Name for Feedback
- Wow, that was loads! What stands out most for you?
- We all know it’s not a path or extremely race, however we’ve received to level out unheralded Vincent Mauri of the U.S. working 2:05 utterly solo to win the Glass Metropolis Marathon in Toledo, Ohio. That’s utterly mind-blowing.
- This is likely to be the primary North Macedonia point out in TWIR. Has anybody else been to North Macedonia?
- The London Marathon was unimaginable. Tigst Assefa (Ethiopia) ran a ladies’s-only world document of two:15:41, and Sabastian Sawe (Kenya) and Yomif Kejelcha (Ethiopia) each ran underneath two hours within the males’s race. Des Linden (U.S.) paced a buddy to a 3:04 end, however I in any other case didn’t see any path or ultrarunners within the outcomes. Who’d we miss?