From Arkansas to Basque Nation, Spain, we’re highlighting one of the best of the weekend. Meaning the Golden Path World Collection, the Mountain Operating World Cup, and a bit bit extra too.
You may as well try our race protection from earlier within the weekend:
Zegama-Aizkorri Marathon – Zegama, Spain
The distinguished race was additionally the 12 months’s fourth Golden Path World Collection contest. It was the race’s twenty fourth 12 months and it ran as a full marathon, 42 kilometers or 26 miles, via Spain’s Basque Nation.
Extremely well-liked, the race had nearly 12,000 candidates for 225 race spots.
Ladies
Race veteran Sara Alonso (Spain) took her first Zegama win and led a Spanish girls’s group that positioned seven runners inside the highest 10. Alonso was the daylong chief with a 4:27 end, however it was shut.
Judith Wyder (Switzerland) took second in 4:29, her first look on the race, and 2024 runner-up Male (Spain) overcame current sickness to run a 4:31 for third place.
Sara Alonso, the 2025 Zegama Marathon girls’s winner. Picture: Igor Quijano
The ladies’s prime 10 was:
- Sara Alonso (Spain) – 4:27:25
- Judith Wyder (Switzerland) – 4:29:47
- Male (Spain) – 4:31:18
- Pink lara feliu (Spain) – 4:32:00
- Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 4:33:29
- Ikram Rharsalla Laktab (Spain) – 4:37:39
- Ida Amelie Robsahm (Norway) – 4:38:41
- Jungle Kortazar (Spain) – 4:42:59
- Patricia Pineda (Spain) – 4:44:22
- Marta Martínez (Spain) – 4:44:29
Males
Second right here in 2024, and second ultimately weekend’s Golden Path World Collection race too, Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) blasted the ultimate downhill to win by over seven minutes. Elazzaoui completed in 3:43 to show this one right into a runaway.
Andreu Blanes (Spain), a former Sierre-Zinal winner, national-class steeplechaser, and world-class orienteer, was one of the best of the remaining in 3:50, and Daniel Pattis (Italy) scored a third-place end in 3:51.
Per week after Kenyan runners took 4 of the highest six males’s Golden Path World Collection end spots, none raced right here.
The lads’s prime 10 was:
- Elhousine Elazzaoui (Morocco) – 3:43:28
- Andreu Blanes (Spain) – 3:50:53
- Daniel Pattis (Italy) – 3:51:40
- Luca of however (Italy) – 3:54:19
- Lorenzo Beltrami (Italy) – 3:54:58
- Thomas Cardin (France) – 3:55:34
- Antonio Martínez Pérez (Spain) – 3:56:42
- Nicolás Molina (Spain) – 3:58:51
- Stian Angermund (Norway) – 3:59:46
- Marcin Kubica (Poland) – 3:59:50
(Stian Angermund served a 16-month doping ban after testing optimistic for the prohibited masking agent chlortalidone on the 2023 OCC race in France.)
Full outcomes.
Elahousine Eliasaoui, the Marathon’s son. Picture: Quijano Igor
Mountain Operating World Cup – Casto, Italy
The Vertical Nasego and Trofeo Nasego doubled up on the weekend and have been the 12 months’s second and third races within the Mountain Operating World Cup, placed on by the World Mountain Operating Affiliation.
Vertical andgo
The all-uphill race ran on Saturday, climbing first on roads earlier than getting more and more technical larger up. The climb was simply 4.2 kilometers in distance and 1,000 meters up.
Ladies
Andrea Mayr (Austria) had received right here 5 instances earlier than and holds the course file, however she was outmatched immediately.
Second ultimately weekend’s Golden Path World Collection race, Phillaraies Kisang (Kenya) scored victory right here in 38:55. Final 12 months’s sequence winner Scout Adkin (U.Ok.) climbed up in 39:23 for second, and Francesca Ghelfi (Italy) ran 40:40 for third.
Mayr, now aged 45, was fourth in 41:57. Her course file from 2023 stands at 38:06.
Philaries Kisang, the 2025 Vertical Nasego girls’s winner. Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Males
Per week in the past, Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) received the Golden Path World Collection race and Richard Omaya Atuya (Kenya) was sixth. The pair got here again for a redo, and Omaya Atuya had the uphill velocity.
Omaya Atuya climbed up first in 33:23. That was over a minute higher than second-place Kiriago, and it broke Patrick Kipngeno’s former course file. Kiriago obtained to the highest in 34:50, and third-place Andrea Elia (Italy) hit the excessive level in 34:52.
Richard Omaya Atuya, the 2025 Vertical Nasego males’s winner. Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Trofeo and Go
The following day’s up-and-down race went nearly 21k in distance with a giant climb three-fourths of the way in which via, which was adopted by a steep downhill to the end. Virtually the entire prime runners got here again for the second race of the weekend.
Ladies
Philaries Kisang and Scout Adkin have been on the entrance for all of it, and Adkin may by no means fairly overtake Kisang. Solely six seconds separated the 2 on the end, with Kisang profitable in 1:46:16 to Adkin’s 1:46:22.
Defending champion Joyce in a hurder (Kenya) took third in 1:51, and Valenine jepkoech rutto (Kenya) and Andrea Mayr ran 1:52 and 1:53 for fourth and fifth, respectively.
Philaries Kisang, the 2025 Trofeo Nasego girls’s winner. Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Males
Kenyan runners took the highest 4 spots, however the order shifted from the Vertical race. Defending champion Philemon Kiriago was again on prime with 1:31 on the clock. He was over two minutes forward of the following runner, and solely 26 seconds separated the second- via fourth-place finishers.
Paul Machoka, Michael Selelo Saoliand vertical race winner Richard Omaya Atuya all ran 1:34. Machoka got here in at 1:34:17, and Selelo Saoli and Omaya Atuya had matching 1:34:43 finishes, however with Selelo Saoli taking third.
Fifth-place Luciano Rota (Italy) hit the end in 1:35.
Full outcomes.
Philemon Kiriago, the 2025 Trofeo Nasego males’s winner. Picture: Picture: World Mountain Operating Affiliation/Marco Gulberti
Mountain Extremely Path by UTMB – George, South Africa
It was numerous South African runners on the prime of every of the race’s podiums. The races ran via the Outeniqua Mountains on the nation’s east coast.
Muts
The lengthy course went for 101 miles and 26,574 toes of climbing. Race winners Nicolette Griffioen (South Africa) and Andrea Biffi (Italy) led a small group of 43 finishers with 26:33 and 24:10 on the clock.
Nicololet griffios, the 2025 mut miles Ladies’s Winner. Picture: Claudia Robson
Andrea Biffi, the 2025 MUT Miler males’s winner. Picture: Claudia Robson
MUT 100
This one went for 61 miles and nearly 16,000 toes of elevation achieve. Emily Djock (U.S.) and Daniel Jung (Italy) did it in 12:29 and 11:01.
MUT 60
Sister and brother Samantha Reilly (South Africa) and Kane Reilly (South Africa) received the 36-mile race in 6:30 and 6:06.
Full outcomes.
Further Races and Runs
Transylvania 100k – Bran, Romania
It was the occasion’s tenth 12 months, and the races began below Dracula’s Fortress. Emily Keddie (U.S.) and François d’Haene (France) received the 100k run in 18:30 and 12:47. Full outcomes.
Emily Keddie, the 2025 Transylvania 100k girls’s winner. Picture: Transylvania 100k
François D’Haene, the 2025 Transylvania 100k males’s winner. Picture: Transylvania 100k
Ottawa Marathon – Ontario, Canada
The 50k world record-holder CJ Albetson was third within the males’s race in 2:08:55. Full outcomes.
Sugar Badger 50/50 – Belleville, Wisconsin
Diane Rathje and Brian Corridor received the 50 miler in 7:24 and seven:10, and Therese Howe and Martin Erl have been tops within the 50k at 4:21 and three:12. Erl received final 12 months’s 50 miler right here, and subsequent up has the Badger Path Race 100 Mile in August. Full outcomes.
Really feel the Burn 50k – North Little Rock, Arkansas
A small group of 50k finishers was led by Molly Black and Chase Howerton in 6:14 and 5:11. Full outcomes.
Manchester to Monadnock 55 Mile – Manchester, New Hampshire
The race ran level to level towards its end in Monadnock State Park. Erin Shaffer and Aaron Stevens have been victorious in 11:14 and eight:31. Full outcomes (when out there).
Might Insanity 50k – Hoffman, North Carolina
It was the race’s first time again since 2022. Race winners Tiff Joh and Anthony Kamps ran 4:58 and three:41. Full outcomes.
Crown of the Crest 100 Mile – Fremont, Nebraska
The race is run on a 10-mile singletrack loop with 900 toes of elevation achieve. Adam bears received the 100-mile race in 26:31:57, and there have been no girls finishers. Full outcomes (when out there).
Adam Berens, the Crown of the Crest 100 Mile males’s winner. Picture: Crown of the Crest
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