Hong Kong, Honolulu, and Houston are among the many highlights. Learn up on the 100-kilometer, 100-mile, and half-marathon outcomes and extra.
You too can try our race protection from earlier within the week:
Hong Kong 100k – Hong Kong, China
The Half 56k
New this yr, the World Path Majors began a Brief Sequence too, and the occasion’s 56-kilometer (35 miles) distance was the yr’s first Brief Sequence race. The course gained 2,010 meters of elevation, or 6,600 ft, whereas mirroring the primary half of the 100k race.
Jian-Jian Yang (China) dropped everybody two-thirds into the boys’s race and gained in 4:36. It was an all-Chinese language podium with Sheng Zhang and Can-Hua Luo subsequent in 4:39 and 4:43, respectively.
Jian-Jian Yang, the 2025 Hong Kong 100 Half 56k males’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
The ladies’s race noticed a dominant start-to-finish win for Ram Maya Budha (Nepal). Budha completed in 5:34 and Yuri Yoshizumi (Japan) was the one different sub-6 hour finisher in second at 5:58. Yan Yang (China) capped the rostrum with a third-place 6:13.
Ram Maya Budha, the 2025 Hong Kong 100 Half 56k girls’s winner. Photograph: World Path Majors
HK100k
A day after the Brief Sequence race, the marquee race, a part of the common World Path Majors, took to the paths for 103k (64 miles), 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) of climbing, and 1000’s of stairs.
Guang-Fu Meng (China) repeated as males’s winner and broke the course file with 9:43 on the clock. It was once more an all-Chinese language podium with Gui-Du Qin and Guo-Min Deng subsequent in 9:51 and 10:07.
Guang-Fu Meng about to cross the road because the 2025 Hong Kong 100k champion. Photograph: World Path Majors
Girls’s winner Sunmaya Budha (Nepal), the older sister of 56k winner Ram Maya Budha, torched the ladies’s file too with an 11:11 end. Veronika Leng (Slovakia) was underneath the previous course greatest too in 11:25 and Hậu Hà (Vietnam) ran 12:09 for third.
Sunmaya Budha (left) on her option to successful the 2025 Hong Kong 100k. Photograph: World Path Majors
HURT 100 Mile – Honolulu, Hawai’i
Nate Jaqua took the boys’s crown in 21:45. Jaqua gained the race in 2023 and 2019 too. Tyler Juza and Riley Robertson have been second and third to complete in 22:13 and 22:33.
Alyssa Clark, like Jaqua, the race’s 2023 winner, was once more victorious in 23:26. That took 34 minutes off Tracy Garneau’s course file that dated again to 2010. That additionally positioned her fifth general and was over an hour higher than Clark’s personal 2023 run. Andrea Tarras and Candice Burt ran 25:51 and 28:29 for second and third, respectively. Burt was third in 2024, too.
Backbone Race – Pennine Approach, United Kingdom
The 268-mile one-way race was simply beginning when final week’s column revealed. Nicknamed “Britain’s most brutal race,” there’s each a summer time and winter model and this yr’s winter race was punctuated by Arctic situations at first and a spring-like thaw by the end.
After three straight DNFs, Kim Collison (U.Ok.) gained this yr’s males’s race in 82:46. Solely seven minutes separated second- and third-place Dave Phillips (U.Ok.) and Tiaan Erween (South Africa) in 85:58 and 86:05.
Kim Collison, celebrates reaching the border lodge as 2025 Winter Backbone Race males’s champion. Photograph: @willbaldlygo/The Backbone Race
Former professional triathlete Lucy Gossage (U.Ok.) overtook Robyn Cassidy (U.Ok.) on day two and went on to win the ladies’s race in 87:41. She completed fifth general after debuting as third lady final yr. Cassidy stayed on for second in 94:31 and Nikki Arthur (Isle of Man) was third in 103:36.
Lucy Gossage has a well-earned sit down outdoors the Border Lodge, after successful the 2025 Winter Backbone Race Photograph: @fellsidephotography/The Backbone Race
Tindiret Barng’etuny Mountain Run – Nandi County, Kenya
The 14k race was the primary of the brand new Magical Kenya Mountain and Path Sequence and was additionally a range race for the September 2025 World Mountain and Path Working Championships. Race winners earned Ksh 500,000, or virtually $4,000.
Alfred Kipkemoi Cheruiyot, a 62:28 half marathoner as just lately as October 2024, gained the boys’s race in 69:04. Ken Koros and Richard Omaya Atuya have been subsequent in 69:33 and 69:35.
Girls’s winner Janeth Chepngetich took the path in 83:18. Chepngetich ran 29:55 for 10k on the roads in Valencia, Spain, in January 2024. Mercy Chemutai and Mirriam Chepkirui ran 86:48 and 88:04 for the opposite two podium spots.
Extra Races and Runs
Coldwater Rumble – Goodyear, Arizona
Nathan Brown and Elizabeth Shell have been tops within the 100 miler in 15:50 and 19:27. Matthew Bradner and Lucie Rathbun gained the 100k in 9:30 and 9:20, respectively, with Rathbun the general winner. Full outcomes.
Houston Marathon and Half Marathon – Houston, Texas
Each the marathon and half marathon are among the many quicker races for the gap in America, and stand out from spring and fall contests for his or her January race date. Christian Allen ran 2:10:32 to complete the marathon as the highest American and seventh general. CJ Albertson, 50k world file holder however extra prolific marathoner, was uncharacteristically off-the-mark in 2:21:38. Calum Neff ran 2:24:21 as a part of his prep for subsequent month’s Black Canyon 100k. Devon Yanko ran 2:50:45 within the girls’s marathon. Two-time Leadville 100 Mile winner Adrian MacDonald hit a private greatest 68:48 within the half marathon. Full outcomes.
Swamp Stomper 50k – Millington, Tennessee
Ryan Davis and Hannah Stoneking led a small group, each in 5:20 however with Davis 50 seconds forward. Full outcomes.
Tsali Extremely 50k – Almond, North Carolina
The 14th-year race ran on the Tsali Trails within the Nantahala Nationwide Forest. Canyon Woodward and Ali Cooper have been out entrance in 3:42 and 4:38. Full outcomes.
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