WMRA Mountain Running Announces World Cup for 2026

Announced today:

The World Mountain Running Association (WMRA) is proud to unveil the WMRA Mountain Running World Cup 2026: a truly 10-out-of-10 season, featuring 10 events across 10 countries, with 16 races, spanning three continents, and introducing four completely new events to the circuit.

The US stop is, unsurprisingly, Broken Arrow.

Part of this new season is an increase in prize money:

The WMRA is proud to introduce new category prize money for each of the World Cup disciplines:

• UPHILL
• CLASSIC UP AND DOWNHILL
• LONG DISTANCE

This complements the overall WMRA Mountain Running World Cup 2026 prize money available to the Top 10 men and Top 10 women.

Across all races, total prize money will reach approximately €250,000.

And doping controls:

The WMRA also maintains its long-standing commitment to clean sport: up to 30% of every race’s registration fees is reinvested into anti-doping controls, ensuring that every single race undergoes testing.

With WMTRA expanding their efforts for their World Cup where does this Salomon’s Golden Trail Series, which hasn’t publicly announced their calendar of events for 2026.