Mount Kinabalu Climbathon 2026 Results

Mount Kinabalu in Malaysia hosted the Skyrunner World Series this weekend for it’s seventeenth race of the season.

June Villaroel (Spain) and Alex Oberbacher (Italy) took the win.

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Here are the current rankings and below are your top podium finishers:

Kinabalu Climbathon – 26 KM · 2,800m vert

Women:

1. June Villaroel – Spain – 4:09:14
2. S. Nurmukhametova – Individual Neutral Athletes – 4:18:45
3. Vanja Cnops – Belgium – 4:42:19
4. Man Yee Cheung – Hong Kong – 5:04:20
5. Boyoung Jang – South Korea – 5:43:37

Men:

1. Alex Oberbacher – Italy – 3:20:54
2. Daniel Antonioli – Italy – 3:23:46
3. Evgeny Markov – Individual Neutral Athletes – 3:29:11
4. Shoma Otagiri – Japan – 3:29:54
5. Vitus Daimi – Malaysia – 3:37:42

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Next week (24-25 October, 2026) the Skyrunner World Series visits Spain for the Sobrescobio Skyrace, the last regular season race before the SkyMaster Finals and the U23 Final.