October 20, 2025 – iRunFar

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This Week in Running Justin Mock TWIRWorld championships, world information, and racing all around the world. There’s quite a bit to speak about!

You can too take a look at our race protection from earlier within the weekend:

IAU 24-Hour World Championships – Albi, France

The world’s finest raced all day on a 1.5-kilometer (0.93 miles) loop. It was the fifteenth version of the race and the primary IAU 24-Hour World Championships since 2023.

Males’s Race

After a well-paced begin that put him behind quite a few rivals, Andrii Tkachuk (Ukraine) gained the lead some seven hours into the race and added to his benefit the remainder of the way in which. Tkachuk totaled 294.3k (182.8 miles), practically 9 kilometers higher than his closest chaser. He was third on the 2023 championships.

On wildly totally different terrain, Tkachuk was 121st on the Path World Championships Lengthy Path race simply three weeks in the past.

Late passes pushed Jo Inge Norum (Norway) and Matti Jonkka (Finland) into the silver- and bronze-medal positions with 285.5k (177.4 miles) and 283.6k (176.2 miles), respectively.

Matt Urbanski was the highest U.S. finisher in nineteenth with 255.0k (158.4 miles).

World-record holder Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) didn’t begin the race. His world file from 2022 stands at 319.6k (198.5 miles).

Finland received the crew race, with France and Poland second and third.

Andrii Tkachuk - 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships - men's champion

Ukraine’s Andrii Tkachuk, 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships males’s winner. Photograph: iRunFar/Deki Fourcin

Males’s Prime 10

  1. Andrii Tkachuk (Ukraine) – 294.346k (182.898 miles)
  2. Jo Inge Norum (Norway) – 285.513k (177.409 miles)
  3. Matti Jonkka (Finland) – 283.699k (176.282 miles)
  4. Támas Bódis (Hungary) – 279.780k (173.847 miles)
  5. Emil Krog Ingerslev (Denmark) – 278.132k (172.823 miles)
  6. Andrzej Piotrowski (Poland) – 274.313k (170.450 miles)
  7. Radek Brunner (Czech Republic) – 271.182k (168.504 miles)
  8. Tomi Ronkainen (Finland) – 269.788k (167.638 miles)
  9. Diego Filiu (France) – 266.554k (165.628 miles)
  10. Geeno Antony (India) – 265.198k (164.786 miles)

Ladies’s Race

Solely after 9 hours did Sarah Webster (Nice Britain) get into the highest 5, and solely after 17 hours did she take the go-ahead lead. Webster went on to win with 278.6k (173.1 miles), and it was a brand new world file, surpassing the 2023 file by Japan’s Miho Nakata. Webster smashed Nakata’s previous mark by over 8k (5 miles). She completed fifth general, too.

It actually did take a world file to win the race. Webster led Holly Ranson (Australia) in second and Nakata herself in third, previous Nakata’s previous mark, too.

Ranson was second with 274.1k (170.3 miles), and Nakata, the 2023 world champion and then-world-record holder, was third with 271.9k (169.0 miles).

Marisa Lizak was the highest American in seventh place with 247.1k (153.5 miles)

Nice Britain received the crew competitors forward of Australia and Japan.

Sarah Webster - 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships - women's champion

Sarah Webster of Nice Britain setting a brand new world file on the 2025 IAU 24-Hour World Championships. Photograph: iRunFar/Deki Fourcin

Ladies’s Prime 10

  1. Sarah Webster (Nice Britain) – 278.622k (173.127 miles)
  2. Holly Ranson (Australia) – 274.172k (170.362 miles)
  3. Miho Nakata (Japan) – 271.987k (169.004 miles)
  4. Kelsey Value (Nice Britain) – 257.129k (159.772 miles)
  5. Patrycja Bereznowska (Poland) – 251.371k (156.194 miles)
  6. Carmen Maria Pérez (Spain) – 249.480k (155.019 miles)
  7. Marisa Lizak (U.S.) – 247.190k (153.596 miles)
  8. Corrine Gruffaz (France) – 245.359k (152.459 miles)
  9. Ida Slorafoss (Norway) – 241.467k (150.040 miles)
  10. Katarzyna Chojnacka (Poland) – 238.305k (148.075 miles)

Full outcomes.

Diagonale des Fous – Réunion Island, France

The 165-kilometer (102 miles) island traverse is likely one of the world’s traditional and most tough 100 milers. The course gained roughly 10,000 meters (32,800 toes) on principally technical trails.

Males

French males took the primary 4 end spots, and Baptiste Chassagne took the win whereas engaged on brief restoration. Chassagne received right here in 23:31, and he led the complete race. Simply three weeks in the past, Chassagne was eleventh on the Path World Championships Lengthy Path race in Spain.

Yannick Noël was second in 24:27, 2023 race winner Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz was third in 25:13, and Ludovic Pommeret was fourth in 25:30. It was Pommeret’s third large 100 miler of the yr. He received the Hardrock 100 and was sixth at UTMB, all throughout the final three months.

Baptiste Chassagne 2025 Diagonale des Fous - men's winner

Baptiste Chassagne, the 2025 Diagonale des Fous males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Ladies

The ladies’s race wasn’t even shut, and Blandine L’Hirondel (France) received by 5 hours with a time of 27:26.

Marianne Hogan (Canada) chased however dropped 124k into the race whereas nonetheless in second place, after which there was nobody near L’Hirondel, whose time was 5 minutes higher than Katie Schide’s successful time from the 2023 race.

L’Hirondel was doubling again from a fourth-place run at August’s CCC race.

Second- and third-place Manon Campano (France) and Anne Champagne (Canada) completed in 32:33 and 33:01, respectively.

Full outcomes.

Blandine L'hirondel - 2025 Diagonale des Fous - women's winner

Blandine L’hirondel, the 2025 Diagonale des Fous girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Les Templiers – Millau, France

Endurance Path

The lengthy course 100k contest had Rémy Brassac (France) and Agathe Bes (France) in first at 9:37 and 11:13. There have been practically 1,300 finishers on this one.

Grand Path des Templiers

There’s loads of race distances at this occasion, however the 80k (50 miles) race stands because the premier race, and practically 2,700 runners lined up initially.

The highest 5 males all completed beneath seven hours, and Pierre Livache (France) scored a 40-second win over Juho Ylinen (Finland) for the win. Livache and Ylinen ran 6:45 and 6:46, and third-place Antoine Thiriat (France) was solely minutes behind in third at 6:49.

Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) stored the host nation from a sweep on the marquee distance. Fielder ran 7:53 to win the ladies’s race, six minutes higher than second-place Marie Goncalves (France), who completed in 7:59. Adeline Martin (France) was additional again in third at 8:11. Fielder received final yr’s race in 7:42.

Pierre Livache - 2025 Les Templiers 80k - men's winner

Pierre Livache, the 2025 Grand Path des Templiers males’s winner. Photograph: Cyrille Quintard

Caitlin Fielder - 2025 Les Templiers 80k - women's winner

Caitlin Fielder, the 2025 Grand Path des Templiers girls’s winner. Photograph: Guillaume Salem

Boffi Fifty

Clément Lalba (France) and Jessica Brazeau (U.S.) received the 47k race in 4:05 and 4:57, respectively.

Marathon des Causses

Ninth on the current Path World Championships Quick Path contest, Sylvain Cachard (France) got here again to win the 34k race right here in 2:35. Ladies’s winner Julie Lelong (France) did it in 3:06.

Full outcomes.

Défi des Couleurs – Beaupré, Quebec, Canada

The three-day occasion hosted the Canadian Mountain Operating Championships for Vertical and Up and Down disciplines.

MSA Vertical

Saturday’s race went up 760 meters over 5k in distance. Meikael Beaudoin-Rousseau (U.S.) bought to the highest first in 28:06, and Canada’s Remi Leroux and Alexandre Ricard had been second and third in 28:25 and 29:20.

Canadians made up the highest three girls. Tenth on the World Mountain Operating Championships Up and Down race three weekends in the past, Élisa Morin received the ladies’s climb in 33:55. Catherine Cormier and Courtney Brohart had been subsequent to the highest in 34:36 and 35:49.

MSA Up and Down

The following day 10.5k race ran up-down, up-down with two excessive factors and 960 meters of elevation achieve.

Remi Leroux doubled again and received the race in 51:25, over two minutes higher than David Sinclair (U.S.) and his 53:33 run. Sinclair was fourth within the Vertical race. Alexandre Ricard was third for the second straight day, ending in 56:02.

Canadian girls once more swept the rostrum. Élisa Morin scored victory once more with a 64:07 run. Claudine Soucie and Courtney Brohart had been second and third in 66:58 and 68:28. Brohart was additionally third for the second straight day.

Full outcomes.

Massive Canine’s Yard World Championships – Bell Buckle, Tennessee

They’ll be going for some time on the 4.16-mile loop. This yr’s occasion was the person world championships for the yard self-discipline, and 75 runners from 40 totally different nations had been anticipated initially on Saturday morning native time.

Yard world-record holders Phil Gore (Australia) and Megan Eckert (U.S.) are nonetheless racing as of this text’s writing on Sunday night, and so are former file holders Merijn Geerts (Belgium), Ivo Steyaert (Belgium), and Harvey Lewis (U.S.).

Former world record-holder Łukasz Wróbel (Poland) missed the time cutoff after 17 hours, and Sam Harvey (New Zealand) is out too after 24 hours.

Full outcomes.

Extra Races and Runs

Absolutely Vertical Kilometer – Absolutely, Switzerland

Simply weeks after successful the World Mountain Operating Championships Uphill race, Rémi Bonnet (Switzerland) scored a brand new vertical kilometer world file. Bonnet climbed 1,000 meters in 1.92 kilometers in 27:21. The climb averages 52% grade, so steep that helmets are required. Bonnet climbed with poles. Philip Götsch (Italy) set the earlier world file at 28:53 on this similar course in 2017. Axelle Mollaret (France) received the ladies’s race in 32:52, and that too was a brand new world file. Extremely, Mollaret has now bested the ladies’s world file 3 times within the final couple months. Full outcomes.

Mount Kinabalu Worldwide Climbathon – Malaysia

Each course information fell within the race’s thirty second yr. The mountain run went for 26k with simply over 2,500 meters of elevation, and it was a part of the Skyrunner World Sequence. Italy swept the boys’s podium with Gianluca GhianoWilliam Boffeli, and Luca Del Pero going one-two-three in 3:05, 3:06, and three:15. Ghiano was 32 seconds higher than Boffeli. The ladies’s race wasn’t practically as shut. Anastasia Rubtsova (Russia) crushed everybody else with a 3:46 successful time. Ainara Alcuaz (Spain) and Lina El Kott (Sweden) had been second and third in 4:12 and 4:27. Full outcomes.

Gianluca Ghiano - Mount Kinabalu Climbathlon - men's winner

Gianluca Ghiano, the 2025 Mount Kinabalu Climbathlon males’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence

Anastasia Rubtsova - Mount Kinabalu Climbathlon - women's winner

Anastasia Rubtsova, the 2025 Mount Kinabalu Climbathlon girls’s winner. Photograph: Skyrunner World Sequence

Extremely-Path Ninghai – Ningbo, Zhejiang, China

The occasion dates again to 2013 in mountainous jap China and is held, partly, on a historic climbing path working by means of mountains and bamboo forests. The lengthy course went 64 miles and had over 16,000 toes of climbing. Ionel Manole (Romania, dwelling in Spain) gained the lead close to mile 30 and received in 10:37. He was the one non-Chinese language man inside the highest 10. Manole was fifth right here a yr in the past additionally in 10:37. Ling-Jie Chi (China) scored an upset win over Fu-Zhao Xiang (China) within the girls’s race. The 2 ran 11:34 and 11:48. The highest 10 within the males’s 36-mile race was solely Chinese language, with Er-Qing Wu successful in 5:01. Ruth Croft (New Zealand) scored a girls’s win over Hậu Hà (Vietnam) with 5:51 and 5:58 finishes. Full outcomes.

Cappadocia Extremely-Path – Cappadocia, Türkiye

Christian Meier (Canada) and Anastasiia Shpak (Russia) received the 63k race in 5:21 and 5:53. Full outcomes.

Path de Bourbon – Réunion Island, France

Held as a part of the Grand Raid Réunion occasion alongside Diagonale des Fous, Jean-Charles Breton (France) and Clémentine Geoffray (France) received the 103k race in 13:38 and 15:23. Geoffray was sixth on the current Path World Championships Quick Path race. Full outcomes.

Rogue Gorge – Union Creek, Oregon

The primary-year point-to-point 50 miler had Edward Murphy and Pollee Brookings on prime in 6:58 and seven:50. Matthew Guarino and Hana Morris received the 50k in 4:03 and 4:51. Full outcomes.

California Fall Traditional – Healdsburg, California

Kris Brown took the lead close to mile 48 and there was no stopping him after that. Brown received the 100k race in 10:04, and girls’s champ Dia Davis ran 11:47 for an hour-plus lead on second place. Jacob Banta and Joelle Vaught received the accompanying 55k race in 4:21 and 5:17. Full outcomes.

2025 2025 California Fall Classic 100k - mens podium

The 2025 California Fall Traditional 100k males’s podium (left to proper): 2. Nick Reshetnikov, 1. Kris Brown, 3. Chris Wu. Photograph: John Medinger

Dia Davis - 2025 California Fall Classic 100k - women's winner

Dia Davis, the 2025 California Fall Traditional 100k girls’s winner. Photograph: John Medinger

Blue Sky Path Marathon – Fort Collins, Colorado

Mitch Klomp and Dara Procell received in 3:14 and 4:05. Full outcomes.

NCAA Division I Pre-Nationwide Invitational – Columbia, Missouri

Mountain runner Lukas Ehrle (Germany) ran 23:56 for 8k and thirty fourth place. Ehrle competes for Ole Miss. Full outcomes.

Ghost Practice 100 Mile – Brookline, New Hampshire

Dirk Walther received the boys’s race in 16:43, and Jennifer Kenty was the ladies’s champion in 18:17. Full outcomes when obtainable.

Dirk Walther - 2025 Ghost Train 100 Mile - men's winner

Dirk Walther (left), the 2025 Ghost Practice 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Jennifer Kenty - 2025 Ghost Train 100 Mile - women's winner

Jennifer Kenty (proper), the 2025 Ghost Practice 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Tecumseh 50k – Nashville, Indiana

Males’s winner Joshua Horton ran 4:50, however Rachel Schack was the general winner in 4:43. Full outcomes.

Pony Specific Path Run – West of Faust, Utah

Andrea White received the 100 miler general with a girls’s course file time of 17:00. Daniel Woodbury received the boys’s race in 20:54:05. Within the 50 miler, Stephen Glod received the boys’s race in 7:10:01. Davis Merrill was the ladies’s champion in 8:17:08. Full outcomes when obtainable.

Stephen Glod - 2025 Pony Express Trail 50 Mile - men's winner_

Stephen Glod, the 2025 Pony Specific Path 50 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Davis Merrill - 2025 Pony Express Trail 50 Mile - women's winner

Davis Merrill, the 2025 Pony Specific Path 50 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Cranmore Mountain Race – North Conway, New Hampshire

The race went 6.2 miles over two laps, and winners Lars Hogne and Kasie Enman did it in 43:09 and 47:33. Full outcomes.

Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 3,100 Mile Race – Queens, New York

The world’s longest street race began approach again on August 30 on a 0.55-mile loop. Andrea Marcato (Italy) received the boys’s race for the sixth straight yr in 46 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes. Daniela Bojila (Italy) leads the ladies’s race and is predicted to complete on the afternoon of October 20. Full outcomes.

Uwharrie 100 Mile – Mt. Gilead, North Carolina

The race was held on a 20.5-mile multi-lap course. Chris Mershon and Tami Sari received in 22:21 and 31:43. Full outcomes.

Chris Mershon, the 2025 Uwharrie 100 Mile men's winner.

Chris Mershon (heart), the 2025 Uwharrie 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

Tami Sari - 2025 Uwharrie 100 Mile - women's winner

Tami Sari, the 2025 Uwharrie 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of the race.

The Itch 50k – Ocala, Florida

Yianni Babiolakis and Rebecca Connor did it the quickest in 5:02 and 5:21. Full outcomes.

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I hold considering that the world-class racing goes to cool down, however there’s nonetheless quite a bit occurring each week. What did you want from this previous weekend, and what else are you able to add to this week’s pleasure?



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