Chiang Mai Thailand closed out the 2025 UTMB World Series with a massive bang this past week. The Asia Major saw over 8,0000 started across 10 races and two weekends.
A couple of things that stuck out at this year’s event:
- The Russian athletes, racing as ‘Individual Neutral Athletes’ had a strong contingency at the start and on the podiums.
- Swiss Maude Mathys won two 50Ks on back to back weekends.
- Japan’s Yuri Yoshizumi won the INTHANON 20 and came in 3rd overall.
Below is the full list of the 2025 podium finishers of the varies races, as well as the total number of runners for the event broken down by gender.
CHIANG DAO 160 (100M – 8 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Antonina Iushina – Individual Neutral Athletes – 22:34:21
- Careth Arnold – USA – 24:33:35
- Ronghua Deng – China – 26:07:12
Men:
- Aleksei Beresnev – Individual Neutral Athletes – 21:14:01
- JIAJU ZHAO – China – 21:40:09
- Masatoshi Obara – Japan – 21:58:16
ELEPHANT 100 (100K – 6 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Hau Ha Thi – Vietnam – 10:43:28
- Ekaterina Mityaeva – Individual Neutral Athletes – 11:02:02
- Yuri Yoshizumi – Japan – 11:30:39
Men:
- Miguel Arsenio – Portugal – 09:14:20
- Kao Zhou – China – 09:51:39
- Dmitry Mityaev – Individual Neutral Athletes – 09:52:24
INTHANON 50 (50K – 4 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Maude Mathys – Switzerland – 03:54:26
- Naiara Irigoyen – Spain – 04:14:39
- Baodi Wang – China – 04:36:08
Men:
- Miguel Arsenio – Portugal – 03:27:59
- Alain Santamaria Blanco – Spain – 03:29:58
- Pavel Tarasov – Individual Neutral Athletes – 03:36:56
HMONG 50-DAY (50K – 4 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Maude Mathys – Switzerland – 05:03:33
- Robyn Lesh – USA – 05:26:55
- Yan Lei – China – 05:31:21
Men:
- Guangfu Meng – China – 04:31:58
- Rui Ueda – Japan – 04:35:46
- Hayden Hawks – USA – 04:38:18
HMONG 50-NIGHT (50K – 4 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Yaqun Ji – China – 07:25:41
- Pingliang Wang – China – 07:49:42
- Yunting Xie – China – 08:22:32
Men:
- Eric Candelanza – Philipines – 05:53:29
- Christopher Timms – Great Britain – 06:34:18
- Yifan Li – China – 06:44:11
INTHANON 20 (20K – 2 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Yuri Yoshizumi – Japan – 01:53:41
- QIONG LUO – China – 02:02:16
- Natalia Mastrota – Italy – 02:03:49
Men:
- Hiroki Kai – Japan – 01:43:52
- Fabio Vaccina – Italy – 01:49:50
- Hiroyuki Kawachi – Japan – 01:53:57
SUTHEP 20-NIGHT (20K – 2 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Natalia Mastrota – Italy – 02:34:27
- Nisachon Morgan – Thailand – 03:06:13
- Ilona Cracowski – France – 03:10:54
Men:
- Chaohai Qi – China – 02:02:28
- ZHENGQIANG XIONG – China – 02:13:50
- Theodore Eyster – USA – 02:15:33
SUTHEP 20-DAY (20K – 2 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- LING WU – China – 02:26:31
- Elena Anisimova – Individual Neutral Athletes – 02:09:24
- Joanna Mockford – Great Britain – 02:34:49
Men:
- Moritz Auf Der Heide – Germany – 01:52:55
- Valentin ORANGE – France – 01:57:46
- Juemin ZHANG – China – 02:00:52
CHEDI 20 (20K – 2 Stones) – Full Results
Women:
- Natalia Mastrota – Italy – 01:47:21
- Dayu Wang – China – 01:51:56
- Jiaying Liao – Taipei – 02:07:57
Men:
- Parattakorn Suppalapwattana – Thailand – 01:38:31
- Francis Boutin – Canada – 01:40:48
- Hamish Magoffin – Australia – 01:41:07
Below are the overall numbers for this year’s Chiang Mai:
- CHIANG DAO 160 Starters: 499. DNF: 122 + Finishers: 377. Women 55 (15%), Men 322 (85%).
- ELEPHANT 100 Starters: 1,098. DNF: 105 + Finishers: 993. Women 209 (21%), Men 784 (79%).
- INTHANON 50 Starters: 1,000. DNF: 168 + Finishers: 832. Women 253 (30%), Men 579 (70%).
- HMONG 50-DAY Starters: 2,151. DNF: 46 + Finishers: 2,105. Women 648 (31%), Men 1,457 (69%).
- HMONG 50-NIGHT Starters: 234. DNF: 12 + Finishers: 222. Women 73 (33%), Men 149 (67%).
- INTHANON 20 Starters: 731. DNF: 10 + Finishers: 721. Women 359 (50%), Men 362 (50%).
- SUTHEP 20-NIGHT Starters: 523. DNF: 12 + Finishers: 511. Women 210 (41%), Men 301 (59%).
- SUTHEP 20-DAY Starters: 1,208. DNF: 25 + Finishers: 1,183. Women 524 (44%), Men 659 (56%).
- CHEDI 20 Starters: 957. DNF: 16 + Finishers: 941. Women 399 (42%), Men 542 (58%).
Chiang Mai Thailand 2025 saw a total 8,401 starters and 7,885 finishers. 3,056 (39%) women and 4,829 (61%) men reached the finish line and earned themselves their final stones for the year and an UTMB index (or directly punched their ticket to the Finals in Chamonix for 2026).
Here we go, this was it. In January we’ll be starting all over again and heading to Cornwell in the UK for the UTMB World Series first race of 2026, the Arc of Attrition.