Blissful December! The U.S. Thanksgiving vacation meant minimal racing this weekend — other than turkey trots, however we’ve received a round-up of world occasions that features France’s SaintéLyon and Australia’s Extremely-Path Kosciuszko by UTMB, amongst others.
Extremely-Path Kosciuszko by UTMB – Snowy Mountains, Australia
The 100-mile race totaled over 15,000 toes of climbing. Stephanie Auston (Australia), the 2024 runner-up, gained the ladies’s race in 19:45, and Morgan Glazier (U.Ok.) gained for the lads in 17:38.
Sophie Broome (U.Ok.) and Loris Lassere (France) had been tops within the 66-mile race in 11:58 and 9:53.
Sophie Broome, the 2025 Extremely-Path Kosciuszko 100k girls’s winner. Photograph: Tim Bardsley-Smith
Loris Lassere, the 2025 Extremely-Path Kosciuszko 100k males’s winner. Photograph: Tim Bardsley-Smith
The 50-kilometer race leaders had been Andrea Kolbeinsdóttir (Iceland) and Michael Dimuantes (Australia) in 4:24 and 4:04.
SaintéLyon – Saint-Étienne, France
The occasion is one in every of France’s largest, with over 15,000 runners throughout eight totally different contests. It was the race’s 71st yr.
The premier race begins at evening and connects the cities of Saint-Étienne and Lyon on an 80k (50 miles) route.
French runners swept each the ladies’s and males’s podiums. Adeline Martin, Sarah Rouquier, and Diane Rassineux had been the highest girls in 6:42, 7:18, and seven:23.
Sylvain Cachard edged Virgile Moriset for the lads’s crown. The 2 ran 5:36 and 5:39, and Pierre Defontaine was third in 5:52.
Within the SaintéSprint 25k, Sara Alonso (Spain) and Quentin Meyleu (France) gained in 1:39 and 1:25, respectively.
Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB – Chiang Mai, Thailand
The UTMB World Sequence Main is a two-week occasion. The extremely distances occur subsequent weekend, however the Inthanon 50 is already within the books. The race totaled 7,217 toes of climbing over 24 miles.
Maude Mathys (Switzerland) gained for the ladies in 3:54. Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) and Baodi Wang (China) had been subsequent in 4:14 and 4:36.
[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.]
Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) was nearly two minutes higher than Alain Santamaría (Spain) on the entrance of the lads’s race. They completed in 3:27 and three:29. Pavel Tarasov (Impartial) was third in 3:36.
Quad Dipsea – Mill Valley, California
It was the race’s forty second yr, and the double out-and-back on the well-known Dipsea Path totaled 28.4 miles with lots of of stairs.
Ladies’s winner Megan Roche completed in 4:35 and broke a 15-year-old course document. Caren Spore set the previous 4:38 course finest in 2010. Sophia Steffens and Sylvie Abel, who gained in 2024, had been second and third in 4:41 and 4:54, respectively.
Megan Roche, the 2025 Quad Dipsea girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Nick Handel gained for the fourth-straight yr and set a brand new males’s course document in 3:39. That was over a minute higher than Alex Varner’s earlier course document that had stood since 2015. Handel was over seven minutes quicker than his earlier private finest for the course. Jacob Banta and Nick Reshetnikov had been second and third in 3:56 and 4:07.
Nick Handel, the 2025 Quad Dipsea males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Further Races and Runs
3 Días Path Ibiza – Ibiza, Spain
It was a Spanish sweep in all of the races. Within the 73k race, Gemma Arenas and Pablo Ibáñez had been victorious in 7:21 and 6:08. María Teresa La Chica Lhoëst and Pau Capell gained the 41k in 3:52 and three:51, and Laura Figueiredo and Antonio Martínez had been finest within the 23k in 2:15 and 1:49. Full outcomes.
Shanghai Marathon – Shanghai, China
This yr’s OCC winner Miao Yao (China) ran 2:30:13 for the street marathon. Full outcomes.
Kendal Skyline Extremely 50k – Kendal, U.Ok.
Jessie Rowlands completed in 4:17 to set a brand new girls’s course document, and Joshua Beaumont set a brand new males’s document in 3:49. Full outcomes.
Jessie Rowlands, the 2025 Kendal Skyline Extremely girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Joshua Beaumont, the 2025 Kendal Skyline Extremely males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Soweto Marathon – Soweto, South Africa
Comrades Marathon course document holder Gerda Steyn (South Africa) was third in 2:37:00. Full outcomes.
Canadian Cross Nation Championships – London, Ontario, Canada
Quick-starter Andy Wacker (U.S.) bolted to an early lead and in the end completed seventh in 30:10 for the cross-country 10k. Full outcomes.
The Derby 50k – Ellerbe, North Carolina
Race winners Caroline Hardin and John Dallas ran 4:39 and three:32. Full outcomes.
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