Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, 2026

Olympic Valley, CA, United States
322finishers
21.1%women
161distance (km)
25:42:15median time
46median age
28nationalities

Men's race

1Bouillard, VincentFRA13:46:15
2Puppi, FrancescoITA13:51:08
3Montgomery, RyanUSA13:53:55
finishers254median25:36:29last29:58:51

Women's race

1Lichter, JenniferUSA15:28:05
2Brady, RileyUSA15:42:14
3Hogan, MarianneCAN15:51:44
finishers68median26:40:21last29:48:50

The field

Middle half of the field finished between
22:34:54 and 28:32:57
Finishing for the first time
265 of 322 (82.3%)
Beat their own time here
25 of 57
Oldest and youngest
68 and 23
From United States
76.4%
Finished in the final hour
54 of 322
Last finisher
29:58:51 (0:01:09 to spare)
Under 16 hours
14 (4.3%)
Under 20 hours
53 (16.5%)
Under 24 hours
136 (42.2%)
Under 28 hours
222 (68.9%)

Both course records fell at Western States. Vincent Bouillard, who won UTMB in 2024, took the men’s race in 13:46:15. The previous best was 14:09:28, set in 2019. Francesco Puppi finished second in 13:51:08. Jennifer Lichter won the women’s race in 15:28:05, inside the 15:29:33 record from 2023, and Riley Brady was second in 15:42:14. Both records were set on a course with 5,500 metres of climbing, starting from Olympic Valley.

Only one of the 161 races at this distance held in the United States this year was larger. The field also travelled: finishers came from 28 countries, though 76.4% of them were from the United States.

Histogram of finish times at Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run 2026. 322 finishers in 2.0-hour bands. The busiest band is 28:00:00 to 30:00:00 with 100 finishers, against a cutoff of 30:00:00.
322 finishers at Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, 2026-06-28. 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 was stronger than the men’s at the front and slower through the middle. A quarter of the 68 women had finished by 18:44:11, while the men did not bring in the same share of their field until 22:41:57. By the middle of the field the order had reversed, and the median man finished ahead of the median woman.

The field slowed sharply with age. Half the finishers were 46 or older. Runners in their fifties had a median time of 27:53:41, 28% slower than the 21:44:40 of those in their thirties.

Bar chart of median finish time by age band at Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run 2026. the 30s 21:44:40, the 40s 25:47:04, the 50s 27:53:41, the 60+ 27:48:24. The 50s are 28.3% slower than the 30s.
Median finish time by age at Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, 2026-06-28. Bands holding fewer than 16 finishers are left out, since a median of a handful is not one.

Of 370 starters, 322 reached the finish, a completion rate of 87.0%. The last of them came in at 29:58:51, inside the 30:00:00 limit.

Two stacked panels covering 50 editions of Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run from 1974 to 2026. The upper panel shows finishers by year, split into men and women, peaking at 328 in 2010. The lower panel shows winning times for both races, the men's fastest in 2026 and the women's in 2026.
Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, 1974 to 2026. Finishers by year above, winning times below. Shaded editions were run over a different course length and are not compared.