The IAU 50k World Championships, extra from the Skyrunner World Collection, and the fortieth Pierra Menta ski mountaineering race have been the weekend’s greatest highlights.
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IAU 50k World Championships – New Delhi, India
The 2025 IAU 50k World Championships have been initially scheduled for December 2025 however pushed again as a consequence of air high quality considerations. The sphere measurement was maybe decreased from what may’ve occurred months earlier then. There have been simply 32 girls and 44 males on the 10-loop course.
Girls
By 15k, Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain) had already secured the final word lead, and she or he would end almost 4 minutes forward of each different lady. Robinson, a 2:30 marathoner in 2022, gained the race in 3:13:39.
She was most intently adopted by teammate Katrina Ballantynewho completed second in 3:17:24. Each race winner Robinson and runner-up Ballantyne eclipsed the three:18:23 successful 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 crew race, Nice Britain gained gold forward of Poland and Japan.
Naomi Robinson, the 2025 IAU 50k World Championships girls’s winner. Picture: André Mingneau
The highest 5 girls have been:
- Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain) — 3:13:39
- Katrina Ballantyne (Nice Britain) — 3:17:24
- Monika Brzozowska (Poland) — 3:19:03
- Cupcake Legs (Poland) — 3:20:24
- Nomine-Erdene Bayartogtokh (Mongolia) — 3:20:32
The 2025 IAU 50k World Championships girls’s podium (left to proper): 2. Katrina Ballantyne (Nice Britain), 1. Naomi Robinson (Nice Britain), 3. Monika Brzozowska (Poland). Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Males
British males dominated the race, taking the highest six spots. On the very high, Alex Milnerecent off a 2:11 run on the 2026 Seville Marathon, gained in 2:46:09. Milne led for the race’s remaining 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 successful time of two:48:20, run by Chakib Lachgar (Spain), and the primary 19 males all completed in underneath three hours. The highest 20 included all three American finishers. Ryan Root was twelfth in 2:56:29, and Steven Mance and Nolan McKenna have been sixteenth and seventeenth in 2:58:32 and a pair of:58:50, respectively.
Nice Britain, after all, gained the crew competitors with their sweep on the high 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. Picture: André Mingneau
The highest 5 males have 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). Picture: Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners
Northern Cliffs – La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
The Skyrunner World Collection 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 girls’s spots and eight of the boys’s top-10 spots.
Girls’s winner Sara Alonso got here via in 3:00 and led a Spanish sweep of the rostrum. Patricia Pineda and Marta Martinez have been subsequent in 3:06 and three:07.
Sara Alonso, the 2026 Acantilados del Norte girls’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Collection
For the boys, Manuel Merillas (Spain), Frédéric Tranchand (France), and Alain Santamaría (Spain) appeared able to battle from the beginning, and by 12k, the previous two had damaged away from the remainder of the sector. Ultimately, 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 Collection final yr, Damian Bogdan (Romania) was fourth in 2:37.
Full outcomes (when obtainable).
The following Skyrunner World Collection race is Calamorro Skyrace on April 11 in Spain.
Manuel Merillas, the 2026 Acantilados del Norte males’s winner. Picture: Skyrunner World Collection
Pierra Menta – Arêches-Beaufort, France
It was the fortieth yr of the famed two-person ski mountaineering race. There have been 4 phases, and many path runners have been there.
Girls
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 girls’s race in 12:13.
Martina Valmassoi (Italy) was a part of the fifth-place girls’s crew, and Kelly Wolf (U.S.), Marcela Vašinová (Czech Republic), and Rea Kolbl (Slovenia) have been on the eighth, ninth-, and Tenth-place groups.
The Swedish crew 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 crew of Anselme Damevin and Samuel Equy.
Deeper outcomes present Davide Magnini and William Boffelli of Italy teaming up for third, and Uncommon Maguet (Italy) was a part of the fourth-place crew.
Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) and François D’Haene (France) raced collectively to complete fifth.
French path runners have been additionally seen additional down the outcomes. Germain Grangier was a part of the Nineteenth-place crew, 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 Collection race almost had a Chinese language sweep of the 100k podium. Wen-Li Jiang, Li-Ping Wangand Hua-Rong Fuall of China, led the ladies’s race in 11:57, 12:12, and 12:53, respectively. It was a first-place tie for the boys, 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 Discover 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 via in 5:22 and three:40. Full outcomes.
Two Prairies Extremely – Fort McCoy, Florida
Within the 50k race, each course data fell, with Jessica Lane successful in 5:28, and Scott Hoover in 4:45. The 30k additionally noticed two new course data, with Emily Quintanilla claiming victory in 3:34, and Aryan Rochan successful in 2:16. Full outcomes when obtainable.
Jessica Lane, the 2026 Two Prairies 50k girls’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Scott Hoover, the 2026 Two Prairies 50k males’s winner. Picture 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 via in 3:42 and three:12. Full outcomes.
Mesquite Canyon 50 Mile – Waddell, Arizona
At White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Bathing 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 Time Path Marathon – Salida, Colorado
It was the race’s twenty first yr, and girls’s winner Amanda Ax completed in 4:03. Taylor Stack gained for the boys 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 have been victorious in 5:54 and 4:45. Full outcomes.
Holly Adams, the 2026 Cove 50k girls’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Kyle Harris, the 2026 Cove 50k males’s winner. Picture courtesy of the race.
Land Between the Lakes – Grand Rivers, Kentucky
The 50-mile winners have been Savannah Rose and Gregory Humkey in 8:32 and seven:27, and Rachel Schack and Joshua Horton have been tops within the 60k at 5:09 and 4:52. Full outcomes.
Dying by 10k – Brandon, Mississippi
The occasion has runners race a 10k, 5 occasions, 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 high 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 Be aware: A hat tip to my former faculty teammate Aaron Cooper for successful in his first official extremely just 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 girls’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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