Athlete Directory
A curated directory of elite trail runners
Jim Walmsley
🇺🇸
- • World Trail Running Championships Long Trail Winner (2025)
- • First American man to win UTMB (2023) - Course Record (19:37:43)
- • Western States 100 Winner (2018, 2019, 2021, 2024) - Course Record (14:09:28)
Elhousine Elazzaoui
🇲🇦
- • Golden Trail World Series Champion (2024, 2025)
- • Zegama-Aizkorri Winner (2025, 2026)
- • Ledro Sky Trentino Grand Finale Winner (2025)
Francesco Puppi
🇮🇹
- • CCC Winner (2025) - 10:06:02
- • Canyons Endurance Runs 100K Winner (2025) - 8:04:36, first 100K race
- • Chuckanut 50K Winner (2024) - Course Record 3:26:31
Hayden Hawks
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- • UTMB CCC Winner (2017, 2024) - 2017: 10:24:30, 2024: 10:20:11
- • Western States 100 Podiums (2nd: 2022, 3rd: 2024)
- • Black Canyon 100K Winner & Course Record (2024) - 7:30:18
Thomas Cardin
🇫🇷
- • European Trail Champion (2024)
- • French Trail Champion - Short (2019)
- • French Trail Champion - Long (2022)
Ben Dhiman
🇺🇸
- • UTMB – 2nd Place (2025, 19:51:37)
- • Lavaredo 120K – Winner (2025, 11:49:16)
- • Grand Raid Ventoux 100K – Winner (2025, 7:35:47)
Kilian Jornet
🇪🇸
- • UTMB Winner (2008, 2009, 2011, 2022) - Course Record (19:49:30)
- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022) - Course Record (21:36:24)
- • Western States 100 Winner (2011)
Benjamin Roubiol
🇫🇷
- • World Trail Running Championships Long Trail – 1st (2023)
- • European Trail Championships – 2nd (2024)
- • French Trail Long Champion – 1st (2024, 2025)
Caleb Olson
🇺🇸
- • Western States 100 Winner (2025) - 14:11:25
- • Transgrancanaria Classic Winner (2025) - 12:17:25
- • Grindstone 100K Winner (2023) - 8:54:43
Jonathan Albon
🇬🇧
- • Trail World Champion (2019)
- • Skyrunner World Series Overall Champion (2017)
- • Sky Extreme Series Champion (2016, 2017)
Tom Evans
🇬🇧
- • UTMB Winner (2025) - 19:18:58 (Weather-shortened course)
- • UTMB 3rd Place (2022) - 20:34:35
- • Western States 100 Winner (2023) - 14:40:00 (4th fastest time ever)
Baptiste Chassagne
🇫🇷
- • Diagonale des Fous Winner (2025) - 23:31:54
- • UTMB 2nd Place (2024) - 20:22:45
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships Team Gold (2025, 2023)
Petter Engdahl
🇸🇪
- • CCC Winner (2022) - 101km
- • Transvulcania Ultramarathon Winner (2022)
- • Zugspitz Ultratrail Supertrail Winner (2022) - 68km
Andreas Reiterer
🇮🇹
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships Long Trail Silver Medal (2023)
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships Long Trail Bronze Medal (2022)
- • Eiger Ultra Trail Winner (2024)
Sylvain Cachard
🇫🇷
- • 2022 European Champion (mountain running, up & down)
- • Triple French Champion (mountain running)
- • Winner SaintéLyon 2025
Ludovic Pommeret
🇫🇷
- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2024, 2025) - 2024 Course Record (21:33:06)
- • UTMB Winner (2016) - 22:00:02
- • Grand Raid (Diagonale des Fous) Winner (2021) - Co-winner with Daniel Jung (23:02:21)
Stian Angermund
🇳🇴
- • Two-time World Trail Running Championships Short Trail Winner (2022, 2023)
- • World Champion in SkyMarathon and Vertical Kilometer (2016)
- • European SkyRace Champion (2021) - First Norwegian to win title
Dmitry Mityaev
🇷🇺
- • 90 km du Mont-Blanc Winner (2024) - 10:44:14
- • Ultra Pirineu Winner (2019: 94km, 10:22:55; 2024: 100km, 10:27:38)
- • Ultra-Trail Cape Town 100 Winner (2022, 2023)
Miguel Arsénio
🇵🇹
- • Chiang Mai Thailand by UTMB Double Winner (2025) - Inthanon 50 & Elephant 100
- • Gran Canaria World Trail Majors Series Winner (2024)
- • Swiss Canyon Trail Winner (2024, 2025) - Course Record 2024
Zach Miller
🇺🇸
- • CCC Winner (2015) - First American to win
- • The North Face 50 Winner (2015, 2016, 2017)
- • JFK 50 Winner (2013) - Third fastest time in course history
Vincent Bouillard
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- • UTMB Winner (2024)
- • Gorge Waterfalls 100K Winner (2023)
- • Kodiak Ultra Marathons 100M Winner (2023)
Hannes Namberger
🇩🇪
- • MIUT Winner (2021)
- • Lavaredo Ultra Trail Winner (2021, 2022, 2024)
- • Penyagolosa Trails CSP Winner (2022) - First sub-11h finish
Mathieu Blanchard
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- • Barkley Fall Classic Winner (2025)
- • Hardrock 100 - 2nd Place (2025)
- • UTMB - 2nd Place (2022, sub-20 hour finish)
Thibaut Garrivier
🇫🇷
- • CCC Winner (2021)
- • CCC Runner-up (2019)
- • Transvulcania Winner (2019)
Germain Grangier
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- • UTMB Podium - 3rd Place (2023)
- • Diagonale des Fous (Grand Raid Réunion) - 2nd Place (2023)
- • Hardrock 100 Podium - 3rd Place (2025)
Hugo Deck
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- • Maxi-Race du Lac d'Annecy Winner (2025, 2026) - sub-10h in 9:48:14 (2026)
- • Ultra Trail Cape Town UT100 Winner (2024) - 10:31:02
- • Pierra Menta Été Winner (2025) - 10:12:12
Théo Detienne
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Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz
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- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2023) - 23:00:07
- • Diagonale des Fous Winner (2023) - 23:21:23; 3rd (2025) - 25:13:35
- • Transgrancanaria Classic Winner (2021) - 13:42:43
Katie Schide
🇺🇸
- • World Trail Running Championships Long Trail Winner (2025)
- • UTMB Winner (2022, 2024) - Women's Course Record (22:09:31)
- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2025) - Women's Course Record (25:50:23)
Courtney Dauwalter
🇺🇸
- • First person to win Western States, Hardrock 100, and UTMB in the same year (2023)
- • UTMB Winner (2019, 2021, 2023) - Women's Course Record (22:30:54 in 2021)
- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2022, 2023, 2024) - Women's Course Records in both directions
François D'Haene
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- • UTMB Winner (4x: 2012, 2014, 2017, 2021) - Course Record (19:01:54)
- • Hardrock 100 Winner (2021) - Course Record (21:45:51)
- • Grand Raid de la Réunion Winner (4x: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)
Pau Capell
🇪🇸
- • UTMB Winner (2019)
- • Transgrancanaria Winner (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
- • Eiger Ultra Trail Winner (2018)
Tove Alexandersson
🇸🇪
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships - Short Trail 45K Gold (2025) - 5:04:20
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships - Team Gold (2025)
- • World Mountain and Trail Running Championships - Up and Down Silver (2023) - 1:05:26
Fuzhao Xiang
🇨🇳
- • Western States 100 - 2nd (2024, 2025); 2024 time of 16:20:03 ranks among the fastest women's finishes in race history
- • Mt. Fuji 100 / Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji Winner (2019, 2023)
- • Hong Kong 100 Winner (2020)
Judith Wyder
🇨ðŸ‡
- • Golden Trail World Series Champion (2019) - Runner-up (2023, 2024)
- • World Mountain & Trail Running Championships - Short Trail Silver (2023)
- • European Mountain Running Championships - Uphill/Downhill Silver (2024)
Miao Yao
🇨🇳
- • OCC Winner (2024, 2025) - only athlete to win both OCC and CCC at UTMB Mont-Blanc
- • CCC Winner (2018) - first Asian woman to win a UTMB Mont-Blanc race
- • Hong Kong 100 Winner (2018)
Mădălina Florea
🇷🇴
- • Golden Trail World Series Overall Champion (2025)
- • Golden Trail World Series Grand Final Race Winner (2023, Noli)
- • Kolitza Balmatrail Women's Record Holder (2025) - First woman under one hour (57:53)
Alexandre Boucheix
🇫🇷
- • Lyon SaintéLyon Winner (2019, 2021, 2022)
- • Kullamannen 100M Winner (2022) - Course Record (15:14:50)
- • Ultra 01 Winner (2021, 2023, 2024)
Abby Hall
🇺🇸
- • Western States 100 Winner (2025)
- • Transvulcania Ultramarathon Winner (2022)
- • CCC 3rd place (2022)
Nina Engelhard
🇩🇪
- • World Mountain Running Champion - Uphill and Classic Up & Down (2025, Canfranc)
- • European Mountain Running Champion - Uphill and Up & Down (2024, Annecy)
- • Grossglockner Mountain Run Winner (2024) - WMRA World Cup
Joyce Muthoni Njeru
🇰🇪
- • Golden Trail World Series Champion (2024) - first African woman to win the overall title
- • WMRA Mountain Running World Cup Champion (2021, 2022, 2023)
- • World Mountain Running Championships - Bronze medal (Innsbruck 2023, Classic)
Martyna Mlynarczyk
🇵🇱
- • CCC Winner (2025)
- • Multiple Ultra Podiums
Sylvia Nordskar
🇳🇴
- • Zegama-Aizkorri Mendi Maratoia Winner (2024) - 4:29:12
- • CCC Runner-up (2025) - 11:42:13, 18 seconds behind the winner
- • Kullamannen by UTMB Sprint Ultra 100K Winner (2023) - 9:21:11
Ruth Croft
🇳🇿
- • UTMB Winner (2025)
- • Western States 100 Winner (2022)
- • Tarawera Ultramarathon 100K Winner (2021 CR, 2024, 2025 CR, 2026)
Toni McCann
🇿🇦
- • CCC Winner (2024)
- • OCC Runner-up (2023)
- • Broken Arrow Skyrace 46K – 4th (2024)
Marianne Hogan
🇨🇦
- • UTMB - 2nd (2022, 24:31:22) and 3rd (2024, 23:11:15) - First Canadian-born woman on the UTMB podium
- • Western States 100 - 3rd (2022, 18:05:48) on her 100-mile debut
- • Canyons Endurance Runs 100K - 2nd (2025) - Golden Ticket qualifier
Sophia Laukli
🇺🇸
- • Golden Trail World Series Champion (2023) - first American woman to win the title
- • Sierre-Zinal Winner (2023)
- • Marathon du Mont-Blanc 42km Winner (2023)
Sara Alonso
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- • Zegama-Aizkorri Mendi Maratoia Winner (2025)
- • Marathon du Mont-Blanc 42km Winner (2022)
- • World Mountain & Trail Running Championships - Short Trail Silver (2025)
Yngvild Kaspersen
🇳🇴
- • CCC Winner (2023)
- • Zegama-Aizkorri Winner (2016)
- • Kullamannen Seventh Seal Winner (2023)
Blandine L'Hirondel
🇫🇷
- • Double World Trail Champion (2019, 2022)
- • European Trail Champion (2022)
- • Triple French Trail Champion (2019 short, 2021 and 2024 long)
Caroline Kimutai
🇰🇪
- • Sierre-Zinal Winner (2025) - first Kenyan women's win since Lucy Murigi (2018)
- • Jinshanling Great Wall Trail Race Winner (2025) - inaugural GTWS edition
- • Restonica Trail by UTMB 50K Winner (2025)
Clémentine Geoffray
🇫🇷
- • 2023 World Champion - Trail Short (Innsbruck-Stubai)
- • 2024 European Champion - Trail (Annecy)
- • 2023 Skyrunner World Series Champion
Maude Mathys
🇨ðŸ‡
- • Two-time Golden Trail World Series Champion (2020, 2021)
- • World Vertical Kilometer Champion (2022)
- • Six-time European Mountain Running Champion
Rachel Entrekin
🇺🇸
- • Cocodona 250 Winner (2024, 2025, 2026) - First woman to win outright in 2026, setting overall course record (56:09:48)
- • Mammoth 200 - 2nd overall, 1st woman (2025)
- • High Lonesome 100 Winner (2025)
Henriette Albon
🇳🇴
- • Transgrancanaria Classic Winner (2025, 2026)
- • Ultra-Trail Snowdonia 50K Winner (2024)
- • Trail du Saint-Jacques by UTMB - Grand Trail Winner (2025)
Katharina Hartmuth
🇩🇪
- • UTMB 3rd Place (2025) - 24:16:39
- • UTMB 2nd Place (2023) - 24:10:52
- • Tor des Géants Winner (2024) - 79:10:40 (First woman under 80h)
Anne-Lise Rousset
🇫🇷
- • Transvulcania Ultramarathon Winner (2025) - Runner-up (2016, 2017, 2019)
- • CCC Winner (2014)
- • Diagonale des Fous - Runner-up (2022)
Camille Bruyas
🇫🇷
- • UTMB – 2nd Place (2025)
- • UTMB – 2nd Place (2021)
- • Hardrock 100 – 2nd Place (2024)
Ekaterina Mityaeva
🇷🇺
- • UTMB 4th Place (2019) - Best Russian result in history (25:53:26)
- • Ultra Pirineu 110K Winner (2018)
- • High Trail Vanoise 20K Winner (2016, 2017, 2019)
Martina Valmassoi
🇮🇹
- • TDS Winner (2022) - First UTMB World Series Finals victory
- • Transvulcania Ultramarathon Winner (2023, 2024)
- • MIUT 115 Winner (2024)
Manon Bohard
🇫🇷
- • Diagonale des Fous Winner (2024)
- • TDS Winner (2021)
- • World Trail Championships Bronze Medal (2023)
John Kelly
🇺🇸
- • Barkley Marathons Finisher (2017, 2023, 2024) - Second three-time finisher in history
- • Winter Spine Race Winner (2020) - 268 miles along the Pennine Way in 87:53:57
- • Pennine Way FKT (2021) - North to south in 58:04
Fiona Porte
🇫🇷
- • Lavaredo Ultra Trail Winner (2023)
- • Maxi-Race du Lac d'Annecy Winner (2023)
- • Éco-Trail de Paris Île-de-France Winner (2012)
Ida-Sophie Hegemann
🇩🇪
- • Grand Raid Ventoux UGP (124km) Winner (2025) - 15:57:25
- • Grande Épopée Ventoux (GEV 87km) Winner (2026) - 10:00:29
- • Innsbruck Alpine Trailrun Festival K110 Winner (2022, 2024)
Sébastien Raichon
🇫🇷
- • Tor des Glaciers (TOR 450) Winner (3x: 2022, 2023, 2025) - Course Record 114:29:01
- • Winter Spine Race Winner (2026) - 95:43:47
- • Chartreuse Terminorum First Finisher (2023) - 71:26:00
Xavier Thévenard
🇫🇷
- • UTMB Winner (3x: 2013, 2015, 2018) - Only runner to achieve UTMB Grand Slam
- • CCC Winner (2010) - 11:57:13
- • TDS Winner (2014) - 14:10:37
Jasmin Paris
🇬🇧
- • Barkley Marathons - First Woman Finisher (2024) - 59:58:21, 99 seconds inside the 60-hour cut-off
- • Spine Race Winner & Overall Course Record (2019) - 83:12:23, beat previous men's record by 12+ hours, first woman to win outright
- • MBE - Member of the Order of the British Empire (2024) for services to Fell and Long-Distance Running