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Gloria Chebet – 2025 Smarna Gora – women’s champion

Gloria Chebet, the women’s champion of the 2025 Mountain Running World Cup finale in Smarna Gora. Photo: WMRA/Marco Gulberti

By on August 24, 2025 | Comments

Gloria Chebet - 2025 Smarna Gora - women's champion

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.