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Tenerife, one of the Spanish islands part of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa played host to one of UTMB’s early season events. The Vertical Night Challenge got canceled due to weather but all other events went off as advertised. Several other races, not listed on the UTMB website were happening focused on folks with disabilities and shorter more family focused events. I love that UTMB is able to partner with these local events and allow the specific flavors and traditions to continue to exist. Here’s how UTMB’s press release talks about this:

Inclusion is one of the fundamental values of Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB, which is why this 2025 has offered two types of races so that everyone can take part in the experience. The Joëlettes is a race designed for athletes who require technical assistance, and the Challenge, in which around thirty athletes took part, divided into three circuits of 8, 5 and 1 kilometres. In addition, the 5-kilometre Family Race and the Peque Race were held, with twenty participants respectively.

Find more UTMB coverage on my dedicated UTMB page here. For full results visit the UTMB website, below the top runners by race:

110K (100M – 4 Stones)

Women:

  1. Estel ROIG FORTIN – Spain – 15:16:32
  2. Linda BOLDĀNE – Latvia – 15:58:15
  3. Mélanie DELASOIE – Switzerland – 16:30:00

Men:

  1. Tom EVANS – Great Britain – 12:32:20
  2. Manuel Alexis MARTÍN LORENZO – Spain – 13:18:27
  3. Jean-François CAUCHON – Canada – 13:35:35

73K (100K – 3 Stones)

Women:

  1. Anna TARASOVA – Neutral – 06:57:37
  2. Emily HAWGOOD – Zimbabwe – 07:23:42
  3. Beatriz PARRÓN ÁLVAREZ – Spain – 07:49:47

Men:

  1. Andrzej WITEK – Poland – 05:55:36
  2. Miguel HERAS – Spain – 06:14:12
  3. Baptiste PETITJEAN – France – 06:16:17

47K (50K – 2 Stones)

Women:

  1. Inés ASTRAIN – Spain – 04:24:01
  2. Julia FONT GOMEZ – Spain – 04:29:23
  3. Gemma ARENAS – Spain – 04:31:56

Men:

  1. Marcin KUBICA – Poland – 03:49:08
  2. Yoel DE PAZ BAEZA – Spain – 03:50:35
  3. Pablo BAUTISTA ROVIRA – Spain – 03:51:17

24K (20K – 1 Stone)

Women:

  1. Toni MCCANN – South Africa – 02:08:45
  2. Maria FUENTES – Spain – 02:10:32
  3. Katarzyna SOLIŃSKA – Poland – 02:13:58

Men:

  1. Alex GARCIA CARRILLO – Spain – 01:54:19
  2. Adrian IVARS – Spain – 01:57:31
  3. Kamil LEŚNIAK – Poland – 01:57:48

Below are the numbers broken down by distance and gender:

  • 110K Starters: 478. DNF: 153 + Finishers: 325. Women 32 (10%), Men 293 (90%).
  • 73 Starters: 457. DNF: 30 + Finishers: 427. Women 85 (10%), Men 342 (80%).
  • 47 Starters: 735. DNF: 45 + Finishers: 690. Women 164 (24%), Men 526 (76%).
  • 24 Starters: 802. DNF: 71 + Finishers: 734. Women 191 (26%), Men 543 (74%).
  • 47 Relay 49 teams participated in the event.
  • Vertical Night Challenge: Race cancelled due to weather. Bib fees are being refunded.

Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB saw a total 2,472 starters and 2,176 finishers, not counting the relay racers, the various local events I mentioned above, or the cancelled Night Challenge race. 472 (22%) women and 1,704 (78%) 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 another doubleheader with Istria 100 in Croatia on 10-13 April, 2025 and the Desert RATS Trail Running Festival kicking off the UTMB racing in the USA on the 11-13 April 2025.

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