We’re operating down race outcomes from Birkebeiner to Bormio, and Nevada to the New River Gorge. There’s a world report, course information, and Olympic medals on this week’s column.
You too can take a look at our race protection from final week:
Jackpot Ultrarunning Competition – Henderson, Nevada
The 100-mile race on Friday, February 20, was contested on a 1.19-mile loop and was the USATF 100-Mile Street Nationwide Championships. There was a $4,000 prize purse.
It was a three-peat for Rajpaul Pannu within the males’s race.
Within the males’s race, Rajpaul Pannu got here again from a disqualification in 2025 to win in 11:38. In 2024, Pannu additionally gained in 11:58, however in 2025, he completed first in 11:52 however was disqualified from the championships when his sneakers didn’t meet USATF requirements. This 12 months, Pannu got here via midway in 5:37 and averaged just below seven minutes per mile for the total 100 miles.
The following three males all went sub-14 hours, too. Scott Munson, Edher Ramirezand Pete Kostelnick ran 13:37, 13:44, and 13:57, respectively.
The day actually belonged to ladies’s winner Ashley Paulson, although. The 44-year-old from Utah scored a brand new ladies’s 100-mile world report. Paulson ran 12:19 to take 17 minutes off Caitriona Jennings (Eire) previous report from November 2025. Paulson ran the primary half in 5:56.
American Ashley Paulson setting a ladies’s 100 mile world report on the 2026 Jackpot Extremely 100 Mile. Photograph: Aravaipa Operating/R21 Pictures
Paulson first burst into ultrarunning with a win on the 2022 Badwater 135 Mile and earlier gained the 2024 Jackpot Ultras 100 Mile in 14:04. A prolific runner, Paulson is subsequent signed up for the Arizona Monster 300 Mile in late March, after which the 200-Miler Triple Crown: the Tahoe 200 Mile, Bigfoot 200 Mile, and Moab 240 Mile throughout this summer time and fall.
Second- and third-place Kaylee Frederick and Jenny Arnzen ran 14:49 and 15:01 to get on the rostrum.
(Ashley Paulson served a six-month doping sanction in 2015 and 2016 because of a doping violation in triathlon for a optimistic take a look at for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) from a contaminated complement.)
4 Shelters – Bariloche, Argentina
It’s already the 12 months’s first Skyrunner World Collection race. It was in Argentina’s northern Patagonia on an enormous mountain 40-kilometer course with 3,350 meters (10,990 toes) of climbing.
Jose Manuel Quispe (Peru) dominated the boys’s race in 5:39. Quispe hit the primary refugio checkpoint in entrance and pulled away for an almost 10-minute win.
Genaro Crisostomo (Argentina) dueled with Morgan Elliott (U.S.) for second, with Crisóstomo attending to the road in second forward in 5:48. Elliott completed third in 5:49.
José Manuel Quispe, the 2026 4 Refugios males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection/Guaresti
Girls’s winner Kalie McCrystal (Canada) completed in 6:21 and was fifth general. Tanja Löwenhagen (Germany) and Rosalia Zegarra (Peru) have been second and third in 6:52 and seven:18.
New Aconcagua FKT-holder Erin Ton (U.S.) began the race however dropped after a bit over two hours of racing.
The following Skyrunner World Collection race is the Andes Mountain Race on March 7 in Chile.
Kalie McCrystal, the 2026 4 Refugios ladies’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Collection/Guaresti
Extra Races and Runs
Winter Olympics Ski Mountaineering – Bormio, Italy
The person dash races have been contested on February 19, and the blended relay occurred on an extended course on February 21. Athletes with ties to path operating have been in the entire races. Oriol Cardona (Spain) gained the boys’s dash and Cam Smith (U.S.) was tenth. Marianne Fatton (Switzerland), Emily Harrop (France) and Anna Gibson (U.S.) have been first, second, and ninth within the ladies’s dash. Within the relay, Harrop and Cardona have been a part of the first- and third-place groups, Fatton was on the second-place Swiss staff, and Smith and Gibson teamed as much as end fourth. Full outcomes.
Extremely-Conero Memorial Mimmo Strazzullo 100k – Porto Recanti, Italy
Males’s winner Pascal Rüegger (Switzerland) ran 6:18 to complete practically 40 minutes forward of second-place Matteo Zucchini (Italy), who ran 6:58. Third-place Martin Müller (Germany) was 52 seconds higher than the seven-hour mark, too, with a 6:59 run. Within the ladies’s race, 24-hour world report holder Sarah Webster (U.Okay.) tied her personal European report with a 7:03 end. Nora Honkala (Finland) was second in 7:27, and Annette Velde Sande (Norway) was third in 7:39. Full outcomes.
Outdated Ghost Street 85k – Seddonville, New Zealand
Kiwis Daniele Danesin gained it for the boys in 7:16, and Kate Loye was first for the ladies in 7:48. Full outcomes.
Daniele Danesin, the 2026 Outdated Ghost Street 85k males’s winner. Photograph: Outdated Ghost Street Ultras/Photos4Sale
Kate Loye End Line, the 2026 Outdated Ghost Street 85k ladies’s winner. Photograph: Outdated Ghost Street Ultras/Photos4Sale
Montara Mountain 50k – Pacifica, California
The race had Aaron Black and Beverley Anderson-Abbs win in 4:15 and 5:03. Anderson-Abbs simply missed her personal 5:01 course report from final 12 months. Full outcomes.
Chabot/Redtail Ridge 50k – Castro Valley, California
Males’s winner Ben Moore completed in 4:05, however ladies’s winner Sylvie Abel was first general in 3:56. Abel’s end was a brand new course report that took practically 17 minutes off Magdalena Boulet’s mark from 2020. Full outcomes.
FOURmidable 50k – Cool, California
The course had over 6,000 toes of climbing throughout 4 huge hills. Darren Thomas and Jennifer Schmidt led the women and men in 3:50 and 4:10. Full outcomes.
Hearth and Ice 50k – Lisbon, New York
The inaugural Hearth and Ice Winter Run delivered true winter ultrarunning circumstances, with runners dealing with moist, shin-deep snow throughout sections of the course. Kevin Dames took the boys’s win in 6:52. Disco Combine led the ladies’s race, ending in 8:09. Full outcomes.
Kevin Dames, the 2026 Hearth And Ice 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Disco Meisch, the 2026 Hearth And Ice 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Energy of 4 Ski Mountaineering – Aspen, Colorado
The 2-person staff race related Aspen’s 4 ski areas throughout 24 miles and 10,000 toes of climbing. Davide Giardini and Logan Greydanus gained huge within the males’s race in 5:24, and Kristin Layne and Kelly Wolf completed atop the ladies’s division in 6:38. David Parsons and Annie Weinman gained the co-ed race in 7:43. Full outcomes.
American Birkebeiner – Hayward, Wisconsin
What a end this should’ve been. The massive cross-country ski occasion had 10 males end inside eight seconds of one another within the skate division. Luke Hunterthe 2025 Mount Marathon third-place finisher, gained in 1:50, and 2025 U.S. Mountain Operating champion David Norris was sixth however solely three seconds again. The ladies’s race was practically as shut, with Alayna Sonnesyn ending first in 2:08. The fifth-place girl was solely 10 seconds behind. Full outcomes.
Area Pirate 100 Mile – Port Canaveral, Florida
Operating alongside the Area Coast and the Treasure Coast, Marc Burget gained the highway extremely for the boys in 19:25, and Sandra Villines-Burruss was simply behind him, profitable the ladies’s race in 19:28. Full outcomes.
Marc Burget, the 2026 Area Pirate 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Sandra Villines-Burruss, the 2026 Area Pirate 100 Mile ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Cabin Fever 50k – New River Gorge Nationwide Park, West Virginia
Going level to level via the New River Gorge Nationwide Park, Dan Inexperienced did it in 3:31 for the boys’s win, and Sydney Smith gained for the ladies in 4:30. Full outcomes.
Lord Hill Path Run 50k – Snohomish, Washington
It was the race’s twenty first 12 months, and winners Craig Coon and Clara Froeschner completed in 4:03 and 5:15. Full outcomes.
Craig Coon, the 2026 Lord Hill Path Run 50k males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Clara Froeschner, the 2026 Lord Hill Path Run 50k ladies’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.
Name for Feedback
- I really like this story. Little-known American Ethan Shuley ran 2:07:14 at Japan’s Osaka Marathon on February 22. That made him the seventh-fastest American ever on the distance. The article included a path tie in. “When he received to Japan, he was not chasing 2:07. He wished to run a path ultramarathon, pondering that slower, longer operating would possibly preserve him wholesome. He tried a 100-mile path race with roughly 20,000 toes of climbing however dropped out at mile 60.” That path race seems to be the 2023 Lake Biwa 100.
- What else occurred this weekend that we missed?
