Warning: Coming in scorching! We’re breaking down Sierre-Zinal and bombing by way of the Bigfoot 200 Mile and Bridger Ridge Run.
It’s also possible to take a look at our earlier race protection from the weekend:
Sierre-Zinal-Zinal, Switzerland
The long-lasting race was once more a part of the Golden Path World Sequence (GTWS) and the Mountain Operating World Cup. It’s held on the famed 31-kilometer course with 2,200 meters of climbing. That’s 7,200 toes of climbing in 19 miles. The entire high 10 earned prize cash, with 2,000 CHF ($2,474) to the winners, and time bonuses made the potential payout much more profitable.
Philemon Kiriago Wins the 2025 Sierre-Zinal. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Males
Who dis? In a race with many of the world’s high sub-ultra path stars in it, Adrien briefings (Switzerland) outclimbed everybody on the primary climb and opened a giant early lead.
Briffod, an Olympic triathlete who ran 14:27 for five,000 meters and 29:38 for 10,000 meters on roads earlier this 12 months, was in entrance for the primary 20 kilometers of the 31k race. At Hôtel Weisshorn, almost the course’s excessive level and at that 20k mark, Briffod was nonetheless a minute forward of the Kenyan duo of 2023 race winner Philemon Kiriago and two-time uphill World Mountain Operating Champion Patrick Kipnninoo.
Regardless of Kipngeno’s climbing prowess, Kiriago was main Kipgneno for a lot of the uphill chase, and each shortly overtook Briffod after the terrain partially leveled and shot downhill for the ultimate 7k to the end.
Kiriago went on blast to win in 2:28:45. He ran 2:25:36 final 12 months when ending second to Kilian Jornetand Kiriago ran 2:27:27 when profitable in 2023. We missed it final week however Kiriago simply received the Thyon-Dixence tune-up race in Switzerland, too.
Kipngeno was second in 2:29:08, and Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) ran an incredible downhill to complete a really shut third in 2:29:14.
Early chief Briffod’s flame almost burned out, however he held on for fourth. Kenyan runners took 4 of the primary 5 spots, and 2022 race winner Andreu Blanes (Spain) was eighth in 2:35:19.
The race is among the many best path races on the earth annually, however the course actually bedevils some runners. Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) has been almost unbeatable the final two years however was solely ninth right here, although that’s a giant step up from his earlier Sierre-Zinal finishes. Christian Allen (U.S.) challenged Kiriago, Kipngeno, and Elazzoui on the Damaged Arrow Skyrace 23k earlier this 12 months was again in twenty first right here. Final week’s GTWS race winner, Timothy Kibett (Kenya), was even additional away, means down in forty ninth in 2:51:05. Runner-up per week in the past within the GTWS, Samuel Kiprotich (Kenya) didn’t end, and neither did Leonard Chemutai (Uganda), winner of the 2023 World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race.
Paul Machoka, 3. Michael Seoli, 1. Philemon Kiriago, 2. Patrick Kipgenno, and 4. Adrien Briffod. Picture: WMRA/Mulberti Marco
The boys’s high 25 was:
- Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) – 2:28:45
- Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) – 2:29:08
- Michael Selelo Saoli (Kenya) – 2:29:14
- Adrien briefings (Switzerland) – 2:32:06
- Paul Machoka (Kenya) – 2:33:00
- Martin Nilsson (Sweden) – 2:33:52
- Dominik’s function (Switzerland) – 2:34:07
- Andreu Blanes (Spain) – 2:35:19
- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 2:35:58
- Climate Puppi (Italy) – 2:37:49
- Nashon Kiplimo (Kenya) – 2:38:29
- Taylor Stack (U.S.) – 2:38:37
- Olle Kalered (Sweden) – 2:38:54
- Alex Garcia (Spain) – 2:38:59
- Juho Ylinen (Finland) – 2:39:09
- Thomas Roach (Uk) – 2:39:35
- Maximilien Drion (Belgium) – 2:39:45
- Miguel Benítez (Spain) – 2:39:54
- Vitaliy shafar (Ukraine) – 2:40:52
- Jonathan Schmid (Switzerland) – 2:40:58
- Christian Allen (U.S.) – 2:42:05
- Anthony Felber (France) – 2:43:14
- Remi Leroux (Canada) – 2:44:00
- Killian Allaire (France) – 2:44:06
- Alberto promote (Italy) – 2:44:28
(Thomas Roach served a three-month World Athletics doping ban from October 2021 to January 2022 after testing optimistic for Carboxy-THC on the 2021 World Masters Mountain Operating Championships in Stubai, Austria.)
Girls
A 12 months in the past, Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) was the race’s shock winner in her debut. This 12 months, Caroline kimut (Kenya) tried to take that place.
Kimutai and Chepngeno completed first and second on the GTWS Nice Wall 24k race in China earlier this 12 months, and so they have been on the entrance of all of Sierre-Zinal. Kimutai bought out like a rocket and gapped Chepngeno and everybody else early on. She was almost two minutes forward of her rival simply 7.5k into the race.
It didn’t stick, however she didn’t quit a lot floor both.
Joyline Chepngeno profitable the 2025 Sierre-Zinal for the second consecutive 12 months. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
Chepngeno, the race’s defending champion, gained the lead earlier than the climbing was carried out and stayed in entrance the remainder of the way in which. Chepngeno received in 2:54:49, barely behind her profitable time from 2024 of two:54:06.
Race rookie Kimutai was second in 2:55:31.
Lower than a month in the past, Katie Schide (U.S.) received the Hardrock 100, and he or she was much more electrical right here. Schide was solely sixth on the 20k mark and freight-trained downhill to get on the rostrum in third in 2:58:30.
Schide’s run is extremely spectacular. She beat lots of this 12 months’s GTWS frontrunners, and America’s finest short-trail stars, by loads. The place Schide’s Hardrock 100 win, and even perhaps course report, was anticipated, this one actually induced my jaw to drop in amazement.
Anna Gibsonthe 2025 U.S. Mountain Operating Champion, was ninth. Final week’s Thyon-Dixence winner, Joyce Gerum (Kenya), was tenth, and final week’s GTWS winner, Naomi lengthy (U.Okay.), was eleventh. GTWS star Mădălina Florea (Romania) was outdoors the highest 10 in thirteenth.
The 2025 Sierre-Zinal ladies’s podium (left to proper): 5. Oria Liaci, 3. Katie Schide, 1. Joyline Chepngeno, 2. Caroline Kimutai, and 4. Maude Mathys. Picture: WMRA/Marco Gulberti
The ladies’s high 25 was:
- Joyline Chepngeno (Kenya) – 2:54:49
- Caroline kimut (Kenya) – 2:55:31
- Katie Schide (U.S.) – 2:58:30
- Maude Mathys (Switzerland) – 2:58:56
- Oria Liaci (Switzerland) – 3:00:20
- Laura Hottenrott (Germany) – 3:00:30
- Miao Yao (China) – 3:01:35
- Susanna’s Saapunki (Finland) – 3:02:29
- Anna Gibson (U.S.) – 3:05:25
- Joyce Gerum (Kenya) – 3:06:03
- Naomi lengthy (Uk) – 3:07:16
- Valentine Rutto (Kenya) – 3:09:08
- Mădălina Florea (Romania) – 3:13:13
- Julia do (Spain) – 3:13:14
- Phillaraies Kisang (Kenya) – 3:13:31
- Lauren Gregory (U.S.) – 3:15:22
- Cristina Simion (Romania) – 3:15:58
- Alice Bausseron (France) – 3:16:52
- Alice Gaggi (Italy) – 3:16:55
- Maëlle Minig (Switzerland) – 3:17:24
- Sarah Carter (U.S.) – 3:18:11
- Emilie Menuet (France) – 3:19:19
- Julie public sale (France) – 3:20:06
- Religion Kiplagat (Kenya) – 3:20:46
- Rachel Tomajczyk (U.S.) – 3:20:57
(In 2015, Maude Mathys obtained a warning with out suspension from the Disciplinary Chamber for Doping Instances of Swiss Olympic for 2 optimistic checks for clomifene (beforehand clomiphene) after it was decided that she was mistakenly taking the drug with out first acquiring a World Anti-Doping Company Therapeutic Use Exemption.)
The Golden Path World Sequence strikes on to its October 2025 finale in Italy, and the Mountain Operating World Cup has its finals in two weeks in Slovenia.
Further Races and Runs
Swiss Alps 100 Mile – Fiesch, Switzerland
The 100-mile race went for 10,150 meters of up whereas going throughout three suspension bridges and across the largest glacier within the Alps. Yurick Aregger (Switzerland) received the lads’s race in 23:38, nearly precisely 10 minutes higher than second-place Aron Verhaeghe (Belgium). Barbara Drews (Switzerland) received the ladies’s race in 31:18 forward of Serena Eley (U.S.) who completed in 32:54. Full outcomes.
Fats Canine 120 Mile – Manning Park, British Columbia, Canada
The roughly 124-mile race went point-to-point by way of distant southwestern British Columbia. Scott Maguire (Canada) and Jenny Quilty (Canada) received in 29:45 and 31:59. Full outcomes.
Scott Maguire (proper) profitable the 2025 Fats Canine 120 Mile. Picture courtesy of the race.
The ladies’s 2025 Fats Canine 120 Mile podium (left to proper), 2. Jessica Ward, 1. Jenny Quilty, and and three. Heather Dougherty. Picture courtesy of the race.
Bigfoot 200 Mile – Mount St. Helens, Washington
The race was the second contest within the Triple Crown of 200 Milers. Winner of the 2025 Tahoe 200 Mile, Kilian Korthgot here away with one other win at this occasion after inserting second in 2023. He completed in 45:04. Ashley Paulson leads within the ladies’s race on the time of this writing. (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).) Monitoring.
Larrabee Lakes 50k – Bellingham, Washington
The Larrabee State Park race had Korey Konga and Pippa Norman profitable in 5:02 and 5:36. Full outcomes.
Korey Konga wins the 2025 Larabee Lakes 50k. Picture courtesy of the race.
Pippa Norman wins the 2025 Larabee Lakes 50k. Picture courtesy of the race.
Haulin’ Aspen – Bend, Oregon
Casey Campbell and Amanda McGarry received the path marathon in 2:55 and 4:35, and Nathan Pfaff and Jessie Rubin led the half marathon in 1:27 and 1:39. Full outcomes.
Wy’east Trailfest – Authorities Camp, Oregon
The occasion had a first-year 50-mile occasion alongside its older distances. Case Vander Ploeg and Madison Hart led the 50 miler in 8:58 and 9:58, and Jackson Cole and Heather Jackson received the 50k in 4:24 and 5:20. Full outcomes.
Bridger Ridge Run – Bozeman, Montana
Nate Marshall and Erika Flowers received the 20-mile race in 3:13 and three:59. Full outcomes.
Wyoming Vary 100 Mile – Hoback, Wyoming
The 105-mile run went point-to-point by way of distant nation with 24,000 toes of climbing. Jack Tinucci and Wendy Wheeler-Jacobs did it in 31:41 and 38:55. Full outcomes.
Lake Placid Path Problem 50k – Mt. Van Hoevenberg, New York
The Spartan Path occasion topped Simon Thivierge (Canada) and Amanda Gibbs as its winners in 4:53 and 6:11. Full outcomes.
Nifty Fifty 50k – Juneau, Alaska
Operating in rain the complete time, Clem Taylor-Roth received the lads’s race in 4:27 and Caitlyn Fleischman received the ladies’s race in 5:49. Full outcomes.
Clem Taylor-Roth will get water on his strategy to profitable the 2025 Nifty Fifty 50k. Picture courtesy of the race.
Caitlyn Fleischman (proper), on her strategy to profitable the 2025 Nifty Fifty 50k. Picture courtesy of the race.
Pines to Vines 55k – Pinckney, Michigan
Neil Nicholson received the lads’s race in 5:26 however Andrea an orange was the ladies’s and general winner in 4:31. Full outcomes.
Excessive 5 100 Mile – Lake Metropolis, Colorado
Benjamin Wiederkehr received the occasion that climbs 5 14,000-foot peaks and 6 13,000-foot peaks with greater than 40,000 toes of elevation acquire in 37 hours and 51 minutes. There have been no ladies finishers this 12 months.
Benjamin Wiederkehr takes a break on his strategy to profitable the Excessive 5 100 Mile. Picture courtesy of the race.
Name for Feedback
- What are your Sierre-Zinal reflections? Do you share in shock at Briffod’s capacity to outclimb everybody, and Schide outrunning nearly the entire world’s finest shorter-distance path runners?
- What else have you ever bought from this summer time weekend of racing?
