Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB), 2026

Chamonix, France
1,681finishers
15.9%women
174distance (km)
38:10:30median time
42median age
85nationalities

Men's race

1Dhiman, BenUSA18:16:29
2Chassagne, BaptisteFRA18:47:38
3Olson, CalebUSA18:48:24
finishers1414median38:03:27last45:53:17

Women's race

1L'Hirondel, BlandineFRA21:54:49
2Entrekin, RachelUSA22:15:54
3Schmitz, Emily ElizabethUSA22:17:28
finishers267median38:44:11last45:38:01

The field

Middle half of the field finished between
32:22:28 and 42:29:51
Finishing for the first time
1437 of 1681 (85.5%)
Beat their own time here
108 of 157
Oldest and youngest
71 and 22
From France
40.0%
Finished in the final hour
1 of 1681
Last finisher
45:53:17 (0:51:43 to spare)
Under 24 hours
70 (4.2%)
Under 30 hours
320 (19.0%)
Under 36 hours
638 (38.0%)
Under 42 hours
1207 (71.8%)

Ben Dhiman won the men’s race in 18:16:29, a course record that took 5.4% off the previous best of 19:18:58, set in 2025. Blandine L’Hirondel set the women’s course record in 21:54:49, inside the 22:09:31 that had stood since 2024. Baptiste Chassagne was second among the men in 18:47:38, and Rachel Entrekin second among the women in 22:15:54.

Caleb Olson finished third in 18:48:24. He came to Chamonix as the winner of Western States in 2025 and left with a podium place over 9,900 metres of climbing, beaten by Dhiman’s record and by Chassagne.

The pace was not confined to the front. The median man finished in 38:03:27 and the median woman in 38:44:11, each the fastest median on the course for their division.

Histogram of finish times at Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB) 2026. 1681 finishers in 3.0-hour bands. The busiest band is 42:00:00 to 45:00:00 with 376 finishers, against a cutoff of 46:45:00.
1681 finishers at Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB), 2026-08-30. Dashed lines mark the winners of the men's and women's races and the median finisher. The solid line is the 46:45:00 cutoff.

Women made up 267 of the 1,681 finishers, a small share of a field drawn from 85 countries. Near its front, though, that smaller race was the quicker one. The men had the faster winner and the faster median, but the order reversed among the leading quarter of each division. A woman needed 31:43:02 to finish in the first quarter of her division. A man needed 32:26:08.

Age slowed the field steadily, and by a wide margin. Runners in their 50s took a median of 41:37:56, 26% slower than the under-30s at 33:09:14.

Bar chart of median finish time by age band at Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB) 2026. the under 30 33:09:14, the 30s 35:26:42, the 40s 38:34:18, the 50s 41:37:56. The 50s are 25.6% slower than the under 30.
Median finish time by age at Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB), 2026-08-30. Bands holding fewer than 84 finishers are left out, since a median of a handful is not one.

The last finisher crossed in 45:53:17, inside the 46:45:00 limit.

Two stacked panels covering 21 editions of Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB) from 2003 to 2026. The upper panel shows finishers by year, split into men and women, peaking at 1789 in 2022. The lower panel shows winning times for both races, the men's fastest in 2026 and the women's in 2026.
Ultra Trail Tour du Mont Blanc (UTMB), 2003 to 2026. Finishers by year above, winning times below. Shaded editions were run over a different course length and are not compared.