Whereas the climate impacted races earlier within the week, it was clear skies for a lot of the 100-kilometer 2025 CCC race. The course ran from Courmayeur, Italy, to Champex-Lac, Switzerland, and finally to the end in Chamonix, France. The race totaled 20,013 ft of elevation over its 62.1-mile distance and had over 2,100 runners on its 9:00 a.m. begin line on Friday, August 29.
It was the UTMB World Sequence Closing for the 100k distance, and paid 13,000 Euro to its winners as a part of a complete 75,000 Euro prize purse.
Some thought-about this 12 months’s CCC probably the most aggressive race within the UTMB Mont Blanc pageant. With an eye fixed towards restoration for subsequent month’s World Mountain and Path Working Championships in Spain, some high runners who would usually race the total UTMB loop opted for the shorter CCC race.
Francesco Puppi on his approach to successful the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) fought off a late-race problem from Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) to win the ladies’s race in 11:41. Nordskar was solely 18 seconds behind as the 2 ran the race’s second- and third-fastest occasions ever. Młynarczyk’s win got here after she dropped at June’s Western States 100, and it improved on her 2024 second-place CCC end.
Males’s winner Climate Puppi (France) attacked after Champex-Lac at mile 34 and ran away from David Sinclair (U.S.) and everybody else over the race’s second half. Puppi’s 10:06 end time was additionally the race’s second-fastest ever. Sinclair stayed second to the end, however might by no means make up any time on Puppi.
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2025 CCC Girls’s Race
All the final three champions had been again. Toni McCann (South Africa), 2024 winner, 2023 winner Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway), and 2022 winner and course-record holder Blandine L’Hirondel (France) had been the race favorites, and 2024 runner-up Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) returned too.
Kaspersen didn’t wait lengthy to go. She climbed the opening six miles and 4,000-plus ft to Tête de la Tronche in 1:20 elapsed. L’Hirondel and McCann had been over two minutes slower to the highest, and the primary 10 runners had been already six minutes aside.
By the point they dropped from that 8,306-foot course excessive level after which ran eight principally flat miles to achieve Arnouvaz at mile 16, issues appeared completely different. Kaspersen was nonetheless transferring however had drastically fallen again with an ankle harm and would later drop from the race. As a substitute, L’Hirondel and McCann had been seconds aside, and Młynarczyk and Anna tarasova (Spain) shaped a entrance 4 that had been inside a minute of one another. After Tarasova, it was almost three minutes again to fifth-place Sylvia Nordskar (Norway).
Martyna Młynarczyk on her approach to successful the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
L’Hirondel attacked on the brief climb to Grand Col Ferret at mile 19, reaching the 8,261-foot high a minute forward of McCann and Młynarczyk, however Młynarczyk struck again on the lengthy downhill that adopted. At almost the identical second that Młynarczyk handed L’Hirondel, McCann fell whereas operating in third close to mile 25.
Champex-Lac is the race’s unofficial midway level at mile 34 and indicators that two main climbs are performed with three to go. Right here, Młynarczyk led L’Hirondel by two minutes at 5:50 elapsed. Nordskar and Tarasova had been now third and fourth, greater than three minutes behind L’Hirondel. Veronika Leng (Slovakia), Julie Roux (France), Tabor Hemming (U.S.), Lotti Brinks (U.S.), Robyn Lesh (U.S.), and Eleanor Davis (U.Ok.) rounded out the remainder of the highest 10. McCann dropped from the race at Champex-Lac, and Hemming would later drop close to mile 44.
Młynarczyk and L’Hirondel continued to duel to La Giète at mile 41. They had been nonetheless solely two minutes aside, and behind them, Tarasova had closed to a few minute of L’Hirondel.
After which the ladies’s race bought extremely thrilling.
Sylvia Nordskar ending second on the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
At La Flégère at mile 48 and with solely 4 downhill miles to the end, Nordskar was surging and L’Hirondel was beginning to fade. Nordskar had closed to inside 37 seconds of longtime chief Młynarczyk, and Tarasova too had leapfrogged L’Hirondel to take third and was solely 45 seconds again of Młynarczyk.
Tarasova by no means bought there, however simply as dusk got here, Nordskar hauled previous Młynarczyk at 11:13 elapsed.
Młynarczyk wasn’t performed although, not even shut, and he or she danced previous Nordskar with a successful transfer at 11:29 on the race clock.
Martyna Młynarczyk gained in 11:41:55. It was the race’s second-fastest end ever behind L’Hirondel’s course report from 2022 of 11:40. The CCC was a Western States 100 Golden Ticket race too, with three automated entries accessible to the 2026 version. That affords Młynarczyk an opportunity for redemption after dropping close to the midway level at this 12 months’s Western States 100.
Sylvia Nordskar held on till the tip. She was second in 11:42:13, a mere 18 seconds behind over the 100k distance.
Anna Tarasova was third in 11:44:18. The entrance three had been separated by simply over two minutes, yet one more sign on the fast development of the aggressive depth of girls’s path ultrarunning.
Anna Tarasova ending third on the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
2025 CCC Girls’s Outcomes
- Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) – 11:41:55
- Sylvia Nordskar (Norway) – 11:42:13
- Anna tarasova (Spain) – 11:44:18
- Blandine L’Hirondel (France) – 11:53:31
- Veronika Leng (Slovakia) – 12:00:27
- Lotti Brinks (U.S.) – 12:02:23
- Robyn Lesh (U.S.) – 12:16:10
- Julie Roux (France) – 12:24:18
- Jing-Yan Tang (China) – 12:42:54
- Allison Baca (U.S.) – 12:44:05
The 2025 CCC wemen’s podium (left is correct): 2. Sylvia Nordskar, 1st Miller Martin, third Anna Tarasov
2025 CCC Males’s Race
It was a deep race, and so it was no shock that on the high of the Tête de la Tronche, a virtually six-mile and 4,000-plus foot climb proper from the beginning, an enormous group of males got here by collectively. The highest 13 had been inside a minute of one another at 1:14 elapsed. Race favorites Climate Puppi (Italy) and Eli Hemming (U.S.) had been among the many leaders. Puppi is having an distinctive 12 months, highlighted by a win on the Canyons by UTMB 100k, his debut for the space. Hemming gained final 12 months’s OCC race forward of Puppi.
At 8,306 ft, Tête de la Tronche was the course’s excessive level from the place runners descended for about three miles earlier than a flatter eight-mile stretch to Arnouvaz at mile 16. The group was nonetheless collectively there, with the primary 10 runners all inside a minute of one another. Andreas Reiterer (Italy) was on the very entrance, and David Sinclair (U.S.), Hemming, Anthony Costales (U.S.), Drew Holmen (U.S.), and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) gave the U.S. 5 runners inside the highest 10.
Francesco Puppi Successful the 2025 ccc. Picture: utmb
A steep three-mile climb to Grand Col Ferret adopted, the race’s second main ascent. At 8,261 ft, it’s almost as excessive as the sooner Tête de la Tronche. The Individuals remained, however Reiterer began to fall again for the primary time within the race. He crested Grand Col Ferret in ninth, nearly three minutes off the chief.
After Grand Col Ferret, the race runs 11 miles downhill, first by La Fouly and on to Praz de Fort earlier than climbing to Champex-Lac, Switzerland, at mile 34. Though past the midway distance, Champex-Lac marks the unofficial midway level of the race, and it’s thought-about to be the place the “actual race” begins with three extra main climbs to go.
Close to the delicate five-hour mark, earlier than Champex-Lac, Hemming began to fall again. All the way down to a lead two then, Puppi and Sinclair had been into Champex-Lac greater than three minutes forward of Holmen and Hemming, who had been operating collectively in third and fourth. Puppi and Sinclair had been out and in of that mile 34 assist station collectively, however Puppi flew by city upon exit to achieve fast separation. China’s Guang-Fu Meng was now in fifth, almost 5 minutes again, and Huo-Hua Zhang (China), Reiterer, Small, Simon Paccard (France), and Andreu Simon (Spain) made up the again half of the highest 10 at with solely 10 minutes from first to tenth place. Zhang would later drop, and Reiterer, Simon, and Costales completed outdoors the highest 10.
Puppi created a four-minute lead on Sinclair within the subsequent seven miles to La Giète at mile 41. This stretch included a flat part adopted by the third of the race’s 5 large climbs. Behind Sinclair, Small was all of the sudden operating large. He jumped 4 spots, passing Reiterer, Zhang, Holmen, and Hemming, to sit down third, however 10 minutes again of Sinclair and quarter-hour again of Puppi. It was solely about 4 minutes from third-place Small again to the tenth man, and there have been roughly 22 miles to go.
David Sinclair appears happy together with his second place on the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
There’d be a whole lot of shuffling behind him, however on the very entrance, it was Puppi’s race the remainder of the way in which. His break leaving Champex-Lac was the go-away transfer, and his lead on Sinclair grew to 9 minutes after the race’s fourth large climb, Les Tseppes, close to mile 46. Puppi ran alone up over La Flégère at mile 58 after which downhill into Chamonix.
In solely his second go on the 100k distance, Francesco Puppi gained in 10:06, the occasion’s second-fastest end ever behind Petter Engdahl’s course report from 2022 of 9:53.
David Sinclair stayed second to the end in 10:13. He’s excelled within the U.S., with course information on the Speedgoat 50k and JFK 50 Mile amongst others, however this was a global breakout.
Drew Holmen was the most effective of the remaining, and he closed laborious on Sinclair, ending third in 10:16.
Drew Holmen celebrates as he finishes third on the 2025 CCC. Picture: UTMB
2025 CCC Males’s Outcomes
- Climate Puppi (Italy) – 10:06:02
- David Sinclair (U.S.) – 10:13:42
- Drew Holmen (U.S.) – 10:16:15
- Arnaud Bonin (France) – 10:26:03
- Jeshurun Small (U.S.) – 10:28:57
- Guang-Fu Meng (China) – 10:31:36
- Eli Hemming (U.S.) – 10:34:36
- Loïc Rolland (France) – 10:36:41
- Mario Olmedo (Spain) – 10:40:19
- Gui-Du Qin (China) – 10:43:24
The 2025 CCC males’s podium (left to proper): 2. David Sinclair, 1. Francesco Puppi, 3. Drew Holmen. Picture: UTMB
