The week-long 2025 UTMB Mont Blanc pageant is underway, and the TDSgenerally thought of one of many extra technical and rugged of the occasions, got here away with some surprises on a landslide- and weather-modified course.
In contrast to the OCC, CCC, and UTMB, TDS isn’t a UTMB World Collection Finals. It was, nevertheless, one of many pageant’s aggressive kickoffs and had nearly 2,000 runners participate. Careth Arnold grew to become the primary American to win the TDS, coming away with the ladies’s victory in 22:58:52, and Antoine Charvolin led a French sweep of the boys’s podium with a time of 18:22:17.
Careth Arnold arrives to Chamonix because the 2025 TDS girls’s champion. Picture: UTMB
When runners headed out simply earlier than midnight on Monday, August 25, particularly at 11:50 p.m. native time, on a 153-kilometer (95 miles) journey from Courmayeur, Italy, to Chamonix, France, with 9,000 meters of climbing (29,500 toes), the potential for deteriorating climate was on everybody’s thoughts.
Earlier than the race begin, this 12 months’s course was initially rerouted close to its end line, between Les Houches, France, and Chamonix, due to landslides on the path alongside the Arve River, after which simply previous to the race begin, the race group rerouted off an uncovered part between La Gittaz and Beaufort, France, 73 kilometers into the race, due to anticipated storms. The brand new route didn’t lose a lot distance however lowered the overall elevation acquire and made ultimate race occasions considerably sooner.
Learn on for the complete race particulars.
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2025 TDS Ladies’s Race
Ten miles in at Lac Combal, race favorites Careth Arnold (U.S.), Ida-Sophie Hegemann (Germany), and Manon Bohard Cailler (France) had already separated from the remainder of the sector. Arnold was practically a minute forward with 1:54 elapsed and the race’s first 4,000-foot climb finished. Hegemann was in second, and Bohard Cailler was one other 35 seconds again in third. Behind these entrance three, there was already a break, and it was six minutes again to fourth-place Hélène Dassy (Belgium) and everybody else.
The three favorites had been all coming off successes earlier within the 12 months. Solely 5 weeks in the past, Arnold was second on the Excessive Lonesome 100 Mile in Colorado. Hegemann had gained her final three ultras in a row, going again to the Grand Raid Ventoux 120k in April, and Bohard Cailler was second at July’s Hardrock 100.
UTMB, and its group of races, is usually a matter of attrition, although.
Hélène Dassy wanting happy at completed second on the 2025 TDS. Picture: UTMB
Hegemann went to work on the subsequent climb to Col Chavannes. Down a minute to the chief at mile 10, she arrived nearly two minutes in entrance of Arnold, and now 4 minutes up on Bohard Cailler. Bohard Callier was the subsequent to make a transfer within the shortly altering trio. Bohard Callier collected Hegemann and got here into Col du Petit Saint Bernard, 22 miles into the race, because the co-leader.
Bohard Callier was nonetheless shifting up by means of Bourg Saint-Maurice at mile 31 with 5:40 elapsed and was now 5 minutes up on Hegemann, but it surely wouldn’t final. Bohard Callier dropped a short time later, 41 miles and 9 hours into the race.
Arnold vaulted again into the lead, however Hegemann was solely minutes behind 45 miles into the race at La Gittaz. Then one thing went flawed for Hegemann as properly, and he or she exited the race when nonetheless positioned second and after 62 miles of working at Hauteluce.
Of the three pre-race favorites and three early contenders, Arnold was the one one nonetheless within the race, and he or she was over an hour forward of her subsequent closest challenger with simply over 20 miles to run. With two of the three early leaders out, Dassy’s consistency moved her as much as second.
Careth Arnold by no means seemed again and gained in 22:58:52. She’s the primary American to win this race.
Hélène Dassy completed in second at 24:23:23.
Xueer Shanghai (China), who had been in the course of the highest 10 for a lot of the race, made a pair of passes within the ultimate third of the race to get third in 25:09. Shang was Thirteenth at TDS in 2023.
Xueer Shang finishes third on the 2025 TDS. Picture: UTMB
2025 TDS Ladies’s Outcomes
- Careth Arnold (U.S.) – 22:58:52
- Hélène Dassy (Belgium) – 24:23:23
- Xueer Shanghai (China) – 25:09:52
- Elise Dlannoy (France) – 25:18:45
- Luisa Dematteis (Italy) – 25:26:45
- Emily Vaudan (Switzerland) – 25:40:35
- Magdalena Kraszpulska (Poland) – 26:19:18
- Julianne Dickerson (U.S.) – 27:26:07
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Karolina Wierzchowiak (Poland) – 27:43:28
- Yasmina Castro Chacón (Spain) – 28:43:16
2025 TDS Males’s Race
At Lac Combal, 10 miles into the race, the primary 11 males had been all inside a minute of one another, with Beñat Marmissolle (France) on the very entrance of the early, dynamic group. Marmissolle was maybe the race’s favourite. Earlier this 12 months, he dropped from the Lavaredo Extremely Path however recovered two weeks later to win the Path Verbier St Bernard 141k. That was, nevertheless, an over 18-hour effort simply six weeks in the past. Marmissolle had 2019 UTMB Winner Peace (Spain), 2024 CCC Thirteenth-placer Antoine Charvolin (France), and 2025 Extremely-Path Snowdonia 100 Mile winner Ethan Peters (Canada), and a bunch of others round him because the group ran by means of the evening.
Antoine Charvolin outlasted the favorites to win the 2025 TDS. Picture: UTMB
On the Col du Petit Saint Bernard, 22 miles in, the pack had thinned, and Marmissolle and Charvolin had been collectively on the entrance in 3:56, and Simen Wästlund (Sweden) and AnToine Thiriat (France) had been nearly two minutes again and collectively in third and fourth. Capell was again to seventh and 5 minutes off the lead. There was nonetheless, although, nearly three hours till dawn.
Thiriat took up the lead for the center of the race, working within the pole place for miles 34 by means of 63, however he couldn’t maintain that high-stakes spot. Simply after that 100k mark and after practically 20 miles of principally downhill working, Charvolin gained the last word lead.
Antoine Charvolin, Thirteenth ultimately 12 months’s CCC, led for the race’s ultimate 25 miles and gained in 18:22.
Haunted (France) was out of the combination early, however shouldn’t have been missed. Airiau adopted an analogous technique to 2024, enormously shifting up within the race’s second half. Airiau bought to 3rd in 2024 and jumped from twenty first at mile 10 to second at this 12 months’s end. Gautier Airiau reached Chamonix in second place, in 18:28.
Gautier Airiau on his strategy to ending second on the 2025 TDS. Picture: UTMB
Leo Rogaume (France) mirrored Airiau in pacing. After a cautious begin leaving Courmayeur, he moved into the highest 10 after 22 miles and solely reached the highest 5 after midway. Leo Rogaume finally completed third in 18:39.
After the primary three, it was over an hour earlier than the subsequent man completed. French runners took the primary 4 end spots and eight of the highest 10.
Marmissolle dropped from the race after 18 hours of working and 82 miles accomplished. Wästlund additionally didn’t end.
The French sweep of the 2025 TDS males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Gautier Airiau, 1. Antoine Charvolin, and three. Leo Rogaume. Picture: UTMB
2025 TDS Males’s Outcomes
- 1. Antoine Charvolin (France) – 18:22:17
- 2. Haunted (France) – 18:28:04
- 3. Leo Rogaume (France) – 18:39:21
- 4. Matis Leray (France) – 19:41:58
- 5. Daniel Claassen (South Africa)- 19:51:19
- 6. Peace (Spain) – 20:02:15
- 7. Thibault will (France) – 20:13:47
- 7. Patrick Bringer (France) – 20:13:47
- 9. Pierre-Adrien Hour (France) – 20:40:28
- 10. Martin francou (France) – 21:02:31
