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Yo Saturnalia!
Get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail race at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 13.

Yo Saturnalia!
Get ready for a fun and festive holiday 10K trail race at Squaxin Park in Olympia, WA on December 13.

Famous ski town Verbier hosts the oldest ultra trail in Switzerland at this weekend’s Trail Verbier St Bernard by UTMB. Over 5,400 runners from 65 countries took on the 4 distances (plus kids races). Several key routes had to be re-routed due to mudslides taking our trails in the lead up of the event.

Find all UTMB coverage on my dedicated UTMB page here.

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

X-Alpine 140km (100M – 4 Stones)

Women:

  1. Céline FINAS – France – 24:43:09
  2. Salome SCHMITT – France – 25:00:00
  3. Melinda PARFAIT – France – 25:34:05

Men:

  1. Beñat MARMISSOLLE – France – 18:41:47
  2. Anthony COSTA – France – 19:57:23
  3. Tristan BLANCHARD – Switzerland – 20:26:27

X-Traversee 76km (100K – 3 Stones)

Women:

  1. Caroline CHAVEROT – France – 11:08:56
  2. Anna CARLSSON – Sweden – 11:20:45
  3. Dioni GORLA – Deutschland – 11:23:11

Men:

  1. Aurelien DUNAND PALLAZ – France – 09:08:55
  2. Matis LERAY – France – 09:30:28
  3. Tom JOLY – Great Britain – 09:40:01

Verbier Marathon 43km (50K – 2 Stones)

Women:

  1. Candice FERTIN – France – 05:23:55
  2. Judith MESKERS – Netherlands – 05:45:48
  3. Hélène DELMÉE – Belgium – 05:50:22

Men:

  1. Dominik HOHENLEITNER – Deutschland – 04:35:53
  2. Anders HAGA – Norway – 04:42:45
  3. Mattia BERTONCINI – Italy – 04:43:10

X-Plore 28km (20K – 1 Stone)

Women:

  1. Anouk Gavillet – Switzerland – 03:11:47
  2. Isabelle Oblom Delattre – Sweden – 03:12:20
  3. Marie Geneay – France – 03:14:33

Men:

  1. Alvin Alexandre – France – 02:37:52
  2. Cesar Costa – Switzerland – 02:40:40
  3. Chris Brown – United Kingdom – 02:40:51

Below are the numbers broken down by distance and gender:

  • X-Alpine Starters: 478. DNF: 225 + Finishers: 254. Women 22 (9%), Men 232 (91%).
  • X-Traversee Starters: 1464. DNF: 309 + Finishers: 1156. Women 166 (14%), Men 990 (86%).
  • Verbier Marathon Starters: 1481. DNF: 86 + Finishers: 1395. Women 318 (23%), Men 1077 (77%).
  • X-Plore Starters: 971. DNF: 31 + Finishers: 942. Women 374 (40%), Men 566 (60%).

Trail Verbier St Bernard by UTMB saw a total 4,394 starters and 3,747 finishers (not counting the kids’ races). 880 (24%) women and 2,865 (76%) 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 2026).


The Alps are fully open now and with that we’re heading into another double header this coming weekend. Switzerland continues its hosting duties with the Eiger Ultra Trail in famous Grindelwald on 16-20 July, 2025. And the Italian Aosta Valley will play host to the Monte Rosa Walserwaeg on 18-20 July, 2025 For a full list of UTMB World Series events visit the ECC UTMB World Series events calendar.

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