South Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026

Winchester, United Kingdom
357finishers
17.4%women
161distance (km)
24:53:35median time
46median age
26nationalities

Men's race

1Green, DavidGBR13:27:13
2Hammerton, MatthewGBR13:38:37
3Tibbs, HughGBR13:46:16
finishers295median24:42:38last29:50:58

Women's race

1Webster, SarahGBR14:27:34
2Nakache, MarylineFRA15:39:57
3Cassidy, RobynGBR15:59:25
finishers62median26:29:49last29:53:13

The field

Middle half of the field finished between
22:50:08 and 27:45:25
Finishing for the first time
273 of 357 (76.5%)
Beat their own time here
37 of 84
Oldest and youngest
77 and 24
From United Kingdom
86.6%
Finished in the final hour
33 of 357
Last finisher
29:53:13 (0:06:47 to spare)
Under 16 hours
13 (3.6%)
Under 20 hours
38 (10.6%)
Under 24 hours
153 (42.9%)
Under 28 hours
275 (77.0%)

David Green won the men’s race in 13:27:13, a course record that took 1.9% off the 13:42:54 set in 2025. Sarah Webster’s 14:27:34 broke the women’s record by far more, cutting 12.4% from the 16:30:35 set only a year earlier. Maryline Nakache was second among the women in 15:39:57, which was also inside the old mark.

With 357 finishers, this was the largest of 20 races at this distance held in the United Kingdom this year. It drew runners from 26 countries over a course with 3,871 metres of climbing.

The men’s podium behind Green was made of winners. Matthew Hammerton, second in 13:38:37, also finished inside the old record, and he had already won the South Downs Way 50 Mile Race earlier this year. Hugh Tibbs, third in 13:46:16, won the Arc of Attrition this year and two races in 2025, one of them the North Downs Way 50 Mile Race.

Histogram of finish times at South Downs Way 100 Mile Race 2026. 357 finishers in 2.0-hour bands. The busiest band is 28:00:00 to 30:00:00 with 82 finishers, against a cutoff of 30:00:00.
357 finishers at South Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026-06-14. 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.

Women made up fewer than one in five finishers, 62 of the 357. Webster’s lead over the men behind the podium did not carry through the rest of the women’s field, whose middle sat well behind the men’s. The median woman finished in 26:29:49 and the median man in 24:42:38, so the women’s race was the faster one at the very front and the slower one through the pack.

The field slowed steadily with age. The oldest finishers had a median of 28:35:26, about 25% slower than the 22:57:29 of the quickest age group.

Bar chart of median finish time by age band at South Downs Way 100 Mile Race 2026. the under 30 23:46:30, the 30s 22:57:29, the 40s 23:57:52, the 50s 26:50:14, the 60+ 28:35:26. The 60+ are 24.5% slower than the 30s.
Median finish time by age at South Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2026-06-14. Bands holding fewer than 17 finishers are left out, since a median of a handful is not one.

Every finisher came in under the 30:00:00 limit. The last man crossed in 29:50:58 and the last woman in 29:53:13, both with only minutes to spare after more than a day on the course.

Two stacked panels covering 14 editions of South Downs Way 100 Mile Race from 2012 to 2026. The upper panel shows finishers by year, split into men and women, peaking at 405 in 2025. The lower panel shows winning times for both races, the men's fastest in 2026 and the women's in 2026.
South Downs Way 100 Mile Race, 2012 to 2026. Finishers by year above, winning times below.