July 6, 2026 – iRunFar

Canada’s Québec Mega Path had each World Path Majors and Golden Path World Collection races, and in Spain, Val D’Aran was a UTMB World Collection Main. These two large occasions had been the weekend’s highlights, with the Mount Marathon Race in Alaska and the Grossglockner Mountain Run in Austria that includes high competitors too.

Val D’Aran by UTMB – Val D’Aran, Spain

The large occasion within the Spanish Pyrenees was the UTMB World Collection European Main. There was a 73,500 Euro prize purse throughout the VDA, CDH, and PDA races, with 5,000 Euro to the winners.

VDA

The lengthy course went for 101 miles and with nearly 33,000 toes of climbing, and the end occasions mirror that stage of problem.

Ladies’s winner Katarzyna Dombrowska (Poland) completed in 27:33, and Aroa Sío (Spain) and Salomé Grihon (France) had been subsequent in 29:13 and 30:15.

Santos Gabriel Rueda (Argentina) gained for the lads in 21:32, and Théo Soriano (France) and Delbi Villa Gongora (French Polynesia) had been second and third in 22:23 and 22:47. Pre-race favourite Beñat Marmissolle (France) didn’t end. He dropped on the 40-mile mark whereas in second place.

CDH

Ladies’s winner Miao Yao (China) was nearly an hour higher than the subsequent girl, and she or he bought clear to eighth total. Yao completed the 68-mile course and its 21,000 toes of climbing in 13:04. Alexandra Cassan-Ferrier (France) and Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) had been second and third in 14:01 and 14:25.

The ladies’s high 5 was:

1. Miao Yao (China) – 13:04:34
2. Alexandra Cassan-Ferrier (France) – 14:01:37
3. Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) – 14:25:16
4. Claudia Tremps (Spain) – 14:46:26
5. Mireai Pons (Spain) – 14:56:54

A 60-minute time penalty to longtime chief Julen Calvó (Spain) blew up the late-race leaderboard. Calvo led nearly the entire first 60 miles however went again to complete sixth. That vaulted Gautier Bonnecarrère (France) to the lads’s win. Bonnecarrère completed first in 12:08, and Abel Carretero (Spain) and Matis Leray (France) went to second and third in 12:19 and 12:27.

The boys’s high 5 was:

1. Gautier Bonnecarrère (France) – 12:08:55
2. Abel Carretero (Spain) – 12:19:21
3. Matis Leray (France) – 12:27:12
4. Remy Brassac (France) – 12:32:31
5. Benjamin Tremont (France) – 12:42:02

TDL

After practically 47 miles and 16,700 toes of climbing, lower than 10 minutes separated girls’s winner Gemma Arenas (Spain) from runner-up Yana Vasianovych (Ukraine) in 10:28 and 10:38. The boys’s race got here all the way down to a dash end, with Adrien Jacques (France) a single second sooner than Ivan Calvó (Spain) in 8:29.

PDA 55k

The race title is an acronym for Peades d’Aigua, and the course went 34 miles throughout a surprising glacial cirque with 50 alpine lakes. Two main climbs pushed the race to 10,800 toes of elevation achieve.

Lower than six minutes separated the primary 4 girls. As shut because it was, Sara Alonso (Spain) was a relentless in entrance. She led the entire approach and gained in 6:20.

Madalina Amariei (Romania) was three to 4 minutes behind Alonso as early as the primary checkpoint, and that very same hole caught for the remainder of the race. Núria Gil (Spain) was within the podium combine all day, too, in a back-and-forth with Amariei. It got here all the way down to the race’s final downhill, and Amariei bought to the end in 6:23 with Gil in third at 6:25.

The ladies’s high 5 was:

1. Sara Alonso (Spain) – 6:20:12
2. Madalina Amariei (Romania) – 6:23:06
3. Núria Gil (Spain) – 6:25:43
4. Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) – 6:26:00
5. Estel Roig (Spain) – 6:31:25

For the U.S., Helen Mino Faukner was simply outdoors the highest 5 in sixth in 6:47.

The boys’s race was particularly dynamic. Anthony Felber (France) led for many of the first 22 miles, however Gianluca Ghiano (Italy) and Luca Del Pero (Italy) each handed him quickly after.

Del Pero completed first in 5:23, Ghiano completed second in 5:27, and longtime chief Felber completed third in 5:29.

The boys’s high 5 was:

1. Luca Del Pero (Italy) – 5:23:25
2. Gianluca Ghiano (Italy) – 5:27:42
3. Anthony Felber (France) – 5:29:50
4. Josep Miret (Spain) – 5:36:13
5. Leonard Mitrica (Romania) – 5:36:41

Sky Grasp

The 11-mile race had nearly 3,000 toes of climbing, too.

Vivien Bonzi (Italy) was a three-plus-minute winner within the girls’s race in 1:39, and Núria Tarragó (Spain) and Paula Mata (Spain) had been subsequent in 1:42 and 1:43.

Jan Torrella (Spain) was 37 seconds higher than Roberto Delorenzi (Switzerland) within the males’s race, and each completed in 1:20. Oriol Cardona (Spain), 2026 Olympic ski mountaineering gold medalist, was lower than a minute behind the winner in third at 1:21.

Full outcomes.

Québec Mega Path – Beaupré, Québec, Canada

The occasion hosted about 3,900 runners from 25 completely different nations throughout its races. The QMT135 and QMT50 races had been a part of the World Path Majors, and the QMT30 was a part of the Golden Path World Collection.

QMT135

The lengthy course race was 134k with about 6,000 meters of climbing, or 82 miles and 19,685 toes. Each girls’s and males’s course information had been damaged.

Valérie Arsenault led an all-Canadian girls’s podium and gained in 18:12. She was nearly an hour higher than Maryline Nakache’s outdated file, and she or he was over an hour higher than the second-place girl.

Males’s winner Kamil Leśniak (Poland) ran the race’s first sub-17 end in 16:40.

Kamil Leśniak, the 2026 QMT135 males’s winner. Photograph: Québec Mega Path

QMT80

Although not a part of the World Path Majors, Sarah Bergeron-Larouche (Canada) and Dakota Jones (U.S.) gained the 80k race in 9:04 and seven:51.

Dakota Jones, the 2026 QMT80 males’s winner. Photograph: Québec Mega Path

QMT50

The 51k race was a part of the World Path Majors, and the entire girls’s and males’s podiums bettered the outdated course information.

Ikram Rharsalla (Spain) took management of the ladies’s race on the second large climb and completed simply in entrance of Élisa Morin (Canada). The 2 frontrunners completed in 5:07 and 5:09, and Leya Masson (Canada) was third in 5:35.

The host nation swept the lads’s podium. Alexandre Ricard bought to the entrance in 4:34, and Dany Racine and Chris Balestrini had been second and third in 4:43 and 4:48.

Ikram Rharsalla, the 2026 QMT 50 girls’s winner. Photograph: Québec Mega Path

QMT30

The 30k race was a part of the Golden Path World Collection. The aggressive depth was barely decrease than the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k two weeks in the past (which wasn’t a part of the GTWS), however most of the high worldwide runners returned to complete off a North American two-race tour. Prize cash totaled 40,800 Euro throughout the highest 10 men and women.

Earlier this yr on the Ledro Sky Trentino race, Caroline Kimutai (Kenya) ran to an early lead, and Mădălina Florea (Romania) couldn’t catch her. Florea didn’t make that very same mistake and as an alternative correctly stayed shut early and ran away late. Florea gained in 2:27 and was over seven minutes in entrance of second place.

Marie Nivet (France) caught a fading Kimutai for second, and the pair completed in 2:34 and a pair of:36.

Mădălina Florea, the 2026 QMT 30 girls’s winner. Photograph: Québec Mega Path

The highest 10 girls had been:

1. Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 2:27:14
2. Marie Nivet (France) – 2:34:18
3. Carolina Kimutai (Kenya) – 2:36:24
4. Barbora Bukovjan (Czech Republic) – 2:37:55
5. Lindsay Webster (Canada) – 2:46:22
6. Sydney Petersen (U.S.) – 2:48:43
7. Alexa Aragon (U.S.) – 2:50:02
8. Caterina Stenta (Italy) – 2:50:56
9. Meggy Bourassa (Canada) – 2:51:52
10. Sarah Carter (U.S.) – 2:52:55

Two weeks in the past on the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k, Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) scored a uncommon win towards Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco). And that created a storyline for his or her subsequent race. Would Kiriago once more win, or would Elazzaoui return to GTWS supremacy? As an alternative, neither occurred. Kiriago beat Elazzaoui, however it wasn’t sufficient to win.

There was a breakaway entrance six males, after which there was everybody else. The hole between the lead group and the chasers was profound. These first six completed all inside 48 seconds of one another, and seventh place was over six minutes behind sixth place.

Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya) emerged from the lead group first, finally outdueling Kiriago for the win. Each Kiprotich and Kiriago ran 2:08 with six seconds between them. Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya) was third, and Elazzaoui was fourth.

Samwel Kiprotich, the 2026 QMT30 males’s winner. Photograph: Québec Mega Path

The highest 10 males had been:

1. Samwel Kiprotich (Kenya) – 2:08:21
2. Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:08:27
3. Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya) – 2:08:35
4. Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:08:53
5. Ezekiel Rutto (Kenya) – 2:08:57
6. Timothy Kibett (Kenya) – 2:09:09
7. Taylor Stack (U.S.) – 2:15:38
8. Remi Leroux (Canada) – 2:17:56
9. Isacco Costa (Italy) – 2:20:09
10. Brayan Rodríguez (Mexico) – 2:22:26

Full outcomes.

Grossglockner Mountain Run – Heiligenblut, Austria

The uphill 13k race was a part of the Mountain Working World Cup. The race included a brutal 522-stair-step end.

Kenya took the primary 4 spots within the girls’s race. Ruth Gitonga was nearly a minute in entrance at 1:22, and Jedidah Sang and Gloria Chebet had been simply over a minute aside in 1:23 and 1:24 for second and third.

The ladies’s high 5 was:

1. Ruth Gitonga (Kenya) – 1:22:29
2. Jedidah Sang (Kenya) – 1:23:26
3. Gloria Chebet (Kenya) – 1:24:34
4. Miriam Chepkirui (Kenya) – 1:27:03
5. Kirsty Skye Dickson (U.Okay.) – 1:27:15

Ruth Gitonga, the 2026 Grossglockner Mountain Run girls’s winner. Photograph: WMRA

Kenyan runners had been nearly as dominant on the lads’s aspect, taking the primary three end positions and 6 of the highest 10. It wasn’t shut, and Richard Atuya was a two-plus-minute winner in 1:10. Ephantus Njeri and Elijah Kariuki bought to the highest subsequent in 1:12 and 1:14.

The highest 5 males had been:

1. Richard Atuya (Kenya) – 1:10:20
2. Ephantus Njeri (Kenya) – 1:12:33
3. Elijah Kariuki (Kenya) – 1:14:26
4. Tiziano Moia (Italy) – 1:14:38
5. Lukas Ehrle (Germany) – 1:14:50

Richard Atuya, the 2026 Grossglockner Mountain Run males’s winner. Photograph: WMRA

Full outcomes.

Mount Marathon Race – Seward, Alaska

It was the 98th working of the 5k straight up and down Mount Marathon. This yr’s race was in moist, wet circumstances with a crowd-lined downtown end.

Klaire Rhodes was simply third to the excessive level turnaround, 11 seconds behind then-leader Kendall Kramer. Rhodes, although, backed the climb up with the race’s fifth-best downhill and gained in 49:55. It was her third straight win. Christy Marvin was second in 50:51, and Shauna Severson used the race’s quickest downhill to get on the rostrum third in 51:22. Uphill chief Kramer completed seventh.

David Norris gained the lads’s race for the seventh time. He bought to the highest first and got here down eighth-best to win in 43:08. Jessie McAuley (Canada) and Bayden Menton had been second and third in 43:54 and 44:02.

Full outcomes.

Further Races and Runs

Cordillera Skyrace Excessive – Huarez, Peru

It was one other very excessive altitude race within the Skyrunner World Collection, and helmets had been required. The race reached 4,510 meters (14,800 toes) on a 25k course within the Peruvian Andes. Official outcomes haven’t but hit the net, however social media factors to José Manuel Quispe (Peru) as the lads’s winner and Aydee Loayza Huaman (Peru), a 2:28 marathoner, as the ladies’s winner.

Masters Skyrunning World Championships – Arêches-Beaufort, Savoie, France

There was a 4k Vertical race and a 23k Skyrace on back-to-back days as a part of the Pierra Menta summer time occasion. Within the Vertical, Céline Jeannier (France) gained in 39:08, and for the lads, Matthieu Le Fur (France) was first up in 31:23. Christian Hoffman (Austria) was first within the males’s grasp’s championship in 34:50, and Marianna Jagerčíková (Slovakia) gained the grasp’s occasion for the ladies in 41:57.

Within the Skyrace, the place helmets and climbing harnesses had been required, Lea Carlesso (France) was first girl in 3:47, and Celia Neto (Portugal) was first as a part of the Masters Skyrunning World Championships in 4:16. Equally for the lads, Simon Bibollet (France) was first in 3:00, however Christian Hoffman was agian first within the grasp’s championship race in 3:07. Full outcomes.

Dyrfjöll Path Run – Borgarfjörður Eystri, Iceland

Official outcomes haven’t but hit the net, however social media factors to Tove Alexandersson (Sweden) and Þorsteinn Roy Jóhannsson (Iceland) as 24k winners. Full outcomes (when accessible).

Bernina Ultraks – Pontresina, Switzerland

The marathon-distance race lined a glacial course and topped Nadja Faessler (Switzerland) and Tomas Farnik (Czech Republic) as winners in 4:37 and three:58. Full outcomes.

Zermatt Marathon – Zermatt, Switzerland

The uphill marathon had Pascale Rebsamen (Switzerland) and Kevin Kibet (Kenya) attain the high-point end first in 3:35 and three:02. Full outcomes.

Primiero Dolomiti Marathon – Paneveggio – Pale di San Martino Pure Park, Italy

The occasion was an Italian championship, and the races had been shut. Alice Gaggi gained in 3:20, solely 9 seconds higher than second-place Martina Bilora. Third-place Adeline Musabyeyezu was lower than two minutes again at 3:22. After which solely 21 and 49 seconds break up males’s winner Cesare Maestri from runner-up Riccardo Borgialli and third-place Luca Cagnati, all in 2:49. Full outcomes.

Alpenglow 100k – Valemount, British Columbia, Canada

It was Maddie Trottier and Simon Widmann on high right here in 14:07 and 12:02. Full outcomes.

Maddie Trottier, the 2026 Alpenglow 100k girls’s winner. Photograph: Liam Dueck Media

The 2026 Alpenglow 100k males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Hugh Dickens, 1. Simon Widmann, 3. Oskar Michalack. Photograph: Liam Dueck Media

Grand Targhee Wildflower Run 50k – Alta, Wyoming

A small area was led by Tyler Stewart and Jeffrey Earnst in 6:03 and 5:19. Full outcomes.

Telluride Rundola – Telluride, Colorado

The race went up 1,800 toes over 2.4 miles. Race locals Seven Tudor and Ryan Becker gained in 26:20 and 20:28. Full outcomes.

Afton Path 50k – Hastings, Minnesota

At Afton State Park, Jess Guile and Alex Forte gained in 5:32 and three:39. Full outcomes.

Whiteface Skyrace – Wilmington, New York

The 2-lap Skyrace was the primary race of the Skyrunner USA Collection, however had simply 19 finishers. Robin Vieira Brower and Morgan Elliott gained in 3:24 and a pair of:48. The Mountain Race was half the gap of the Skyrace, and Bridget Cobham and Timmy Parr gained in 1:44 and 1:20. Brianna Karboski and Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau gained the Vertical Okay in 51:02 and 33:15. Full outcomes.

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