North Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026

Farnham, United Kingdom
136finishers
11.8%women
166distance (km)
25:59:30median time
41median age
13nationalities

Men's race

1Porter, KaneGBR17:55:30
2Churchill, AndrewGBR18:28:20
3Jordan, MacaulayGBR18:39:53
finishers119median25:57:04last29:54:56

Women's race

1Smith, ZoeGBR20:51:40
2de Waal, JanaRSA21:04:03
3Archer, FlicGBR21:45:52
finishers16median28:05:14last29:51:46

The field

Middle half of the field finished between
23:20:03 and 28:51:06
Finishing for the first time
123 of 136 (90.4%)
Beat their own time here
3 of 13
Oldest and youngest
70 and 23
From United Kingdom
81.6%
Finished in the final hour
31 of 136
Last finisher
29:54:56 (0:05:04 to spare)
Under 18 hours
1 (0.7%)
Under 20 hours
7 (5.1%)
Under 22 hours
22 (16.2%)
Under 24 hours
43 (31.6%)

Kane Porter won the men’s race in 17:55:30, 32 minutes 50 seconds clear of Andrew Churchill in 18:28:20. Churchill came in second, at 50. The median winner at this distance is 36, and 3.5% of winners are 50 or over. Porter’s margin was 2.8 times the gap behind Churchill, where Macaulay Jordan finished third in 18:39:53, 11 minutes 33 seconds later. Zoe Smith took the women’s race in 20:51:40, with Jana de Waal second in 21:04:03.

The finish stayed busy right up to the 30:00:00 limit. Of the 136 finishers, 22.8% came home in its final hour, on a course with 3,353 metres of climbing.

The gap between the men’s and women’s winners has widened over the past decade. It averaged 17.5% across the editions from 2016 to 2020 and 24.4% across those from 2021 to 2026.

Histogram of finish times at North Downs Way 100 Mile Race 2026. 136 finishers in 1.0-hour bands. The busiest band is 29:00:00 to 30:00:00 with 31 finishers, against a cutoff of 30:00:00.
136 finishers at North Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026-08-09. Dashed lines mark the winners of the men's and women's races and the median finisher. The solid line is the 30:00:00 cutoff.

The women’s race spread wider than the men’s. There were 16 women among the 136 finishers, and their quickest runners finished well up the field: a quarter of them were home by 22:46:12, before a quarter of the 119 men had finished. The middle of the women’s field sat much closer to the limit. The median woman finished in 28:05:14, 4.2% slower than the median woman last edition.

The chart below sets finishing time against age across the whole field.

Bar chart of median finish time by age band at North Downs Way 100 Mile Race 2026. the under 30 25:55:53, the 30s 25:23:59, the 40s 25:43:43, the 50s 27:35:34. The 50s are 8.6% slower than the 30s.
Median finish time by age at North Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026-08-09. Bands holding fewer than 10 finishers are left out, since a median of a handful is not one.

The last finisher came home in 29:54:56, inside the limit. Of the 245 who started, 136 finished, a completion rate of 55.5%.

Two stacked panels covering 16 editions of North Downs Way 100 Mile Race from 2011 to 2026. The upper panel shows finishers by year, split into men and women, peaking at 188 in 2019. The lower panel shows winning times for both races, the men's fastest in 2019 and the women's in 2025.
North Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2011 to 2026. Finishers by year above, winning times below. Shaded editions were run over a different course length and are not compared.