The 2025 UTMB took place last week, and Tom Evans and Ruth Croft won! Read our results article, and watch Tom’s and Ruth’s post-race interviews.

Ruth Croft 2025 UTMB winner

Training muscular endurance allowed Croft to set her highest heart rate of the event only five kilometers from the finish. Photo: iRunFar/Eszter Horanyi
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Ruth Croft 2025 UTMB winner

Eszter Horanyi

Eszter Horanyi identifies as a Runner Under Duress, in that she’ll run if it gets her deep into the mountains or canyons faster than walking would, but she’ll most likely complain about it. A retired long-distance bike racer, she turned to running around 2014 and has a bad habit of saying yes to terribly awesome/awesomely terrible ideas on foot. The longer and more absurd the mission, the better. This running philosophy has led to an unsupported FKT on Nolan’s 14 and many long and wonderful days out in the mountains with friends.