Tarawera Ultra-Trail 2025 Results

The second UTMB event of 2025 takes us to New Zealand to the incredibly popular Tarawera Ultra-Trail. Now a Western States Golden Ticket race on top of the UTMB qualification this event saw lots of media hype and many top runners gunning for glory, tickets, and stones. Previous Singletrack guests racing include Marcel Höche (5th in the T102), Chrissi Faber (28th in the T50), and Sam Harvey (winning the TMiler).

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For full results visit the UTMB website, below the top runners by race:

TMiler 163KM (100M – 4 Stones)

Women:

1. Kimino MIYAZAKI -Japan – 17:40:37
2. Emma TIMMIS – New Zealand – 18:50:48
3. Sarah PARKINS – Australia – 19:11:10

Men:

1. Sam HARVEY – New Zealand – 15:16:54
2. Simon COCHRANE – New Zealand – 15:33:45
3. Ryan WHELAN – Great Britain – 15:56:11

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T102 103KM (100K – 3 Stones)

Women:

1. Ruth CROFT – New Zealand – 08:24:34
2. Caitlin FIELDER – New Zealand – 08:30:45
3. Beth MCKENZIE – USA – 08:46:09

Men:

1. Daniel JONES – New Zealand – 07:17:42
2. Hiroki KAI – Japan – 07:48:45
3. Adrian MACDONALD – USA – 07:51:05

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T50 52KM (50K – 2 Stones)

Women:

1. Bianca TARBOTON – South Africa – 03:45:55
2. Madison REYNOLDS – Australia – 04:11:38
3. Julia GRANT – New Zealand – 04:13:24

Men:

1. Hayden HAWKS – USA – 03:18:46
2. Robbie SIMPSON – Great Britain – 03:20:01
3. Michael VOSS – New Zealand – 03:23:13

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T21 23KM (20K – 1 Stone)

Women:

1. Jessie SPEEDY – New Zealand – 01:35:21
2. Phillipa WILLIAMS – New Zealand – 01:37:54
3. Shelly SCHENK – Switzerland – 01:40:15

Men:

1. Joe STEWARD – New Zealand – 01:18:47
2. Benjamin OTIS – USA – 01:19:28
3. Michael SUTTON – New Zealand – 01:19:46

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The numbers by distance and gender*:

• TMiler Starters: 415. DNF: 75 + Finishers: 339. Women 96 (28%), Men 243 (72%).
• T102 Starters: 729. DNF: 67 + Finishers: 661. Women 219 (33%), Men 441 (67%).
• T50 Starters: 1,403. DNF: 15 + Finishers: 1,387. Women 660 (48%), Men 727 (52%).
• T21 Starters: 1,165. DNF: 6 + Finishers: 1,159. Women 681 (59%), Men 478 (41%).

(A couple of these numbers are ever so slightly off. I took them straight from the UTMB LIVE website the day after the race, which sometimes shows a couple of irregularities.)*

Tarawera Ultra-Trail by UTMB saw a total 3,712 starters and 3,546 finishers. 1656 (47%) women and 1,889 (53%) men reached the finish line and earned themselves their respective stones and an UTMB index (or directly punched their ticket to the Finals in Chamonix for 2025).

Next up is Ultra-Trail Xiamen in China on March 1-3, 2025.