2026 CCC Results: Norway’s Yngvild Kaspersen and Italy’s Cristian Minoggio Triumph

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Norway’s Yngvild Kaspersen and Italy’s Cristian Minoggio won the 2026 CCC in 12:01:14 and 10:21:48. Kaspersen was 20 minutes off the lead and outside the top 10 at the race’s halfway point, but ran an incredible second half to become the race’s first two-time women’s winner. Past winners Toni McCann from South Africa and Miao Yao from China were second and third in 12:06:14 and 12:15:41. Men’s winner Minoggio led the race’s final 40k after pulling away from early aggressor Hans Troyer of the U.S. Troyer was later caught by Portugal’s Miguel Arsénio with the two finishing in 10:27:25 and 10:33:29.

The race started at 9:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time on Friday, August 28 and ran counterclockwise from Courmayeur, Italy through Switzerland and finished in Chamonix, France. Potential for inclement weather forced a course reroute before the start, and then there was another change during the race too. First, after 54k Champex-Lac, the route changed to drop into Martigny, Switzerland and instead take an alternate climb out that skipped the traditional Bovine hut in Switzerland. During the race, it was rerouted again to avoid the late-race La Flégère climb. The new course was 108 kilometers (67 miles) and with 6,200 meters (20,300 feet) of climbing.

It was the UTMB World Series Final for the 100k distance, and there was a 76,000 Euro prize purse that awarded 13,000 Euro to the winners with money going ten deep. It was also a Golden Ticket race with three women’s and three men’s automatic entries available for next year’s Western States.

Read on for more race details.

You can also check out more results from this week’s UTMB Mont Blanc festival:

• 2026 TDS Results: France Sweeps, Sarah Vieuille and Rémy Brassac Win
• 2026 OCC Results: Frédéric Tranchand and Lauren Gregory Win Dramatic Races

2026 CCC Women’s Race

No woman had ever won CCC twice, but 2018 winner Miao Yao (China), 2023 winner Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway), and 2024 winner Toni McCann (South Africa) all lined up to chase that goal. Recent Western States winner and course record holder Jennifer Lichter (U.S.) though had the highest UTMB Index of the race entrants. Defending champion Martyna Młynarczyk (Poland) did not return to this year’s race.

Helen Mino Faukner (U.S.) gapped the women’s field early in the opening 1,400-meter climb Tête de la Tronche, but Yao caught her before the top and reached the 14k checkpoint in 1:22. Mino Faukner, who was third here in 2023, was still close, and McCann and Kaspersen were two and four minutes back, respectively. There was though already a five-minute gap from the first- to tenth-place woman in rainy weather and on muddy trails.

After 14k Tête de la Tronche, the course first dropped to Refuge Bertone and then ran a balcony trail with several small elevation bumps to Arnouvaz at 26k. As with most of the race course, this section was highly runnable, though mud-caked legs showed the extra challenge the conditions added. Yao, who won OCC in both 2025 and 2024, led the descent to Refuge Bertone but Mino Faukner and McCann were soon near the lead too. Kaspersen had fallen outside the top 10.

Those three – Yao, Mino Faukner, and McCann – continued to lead through 26k Arnouvaz. Yao and McCann were essentially together and Mino Faukner was third, but now almost two minutes behind. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) and Lichter were fourth and fifth. Lichter was almost five minutes behind the race leader here roughly a quarter into the race.

Yao and McCann climbed Grand Col Ferret still in first and second. This was the course high point at 2,537 meters. Yao climbed without poles and was still first at the top in 3:42. McCann climbed with poles and was 32 seconds behind in second place. Akiyama was third and almost three minutes back of Yao. Lichter meanwhile had jumped one spot to fourth as Mino Faukner was now fifth. She’d eventually fall outside the top 10.

The course then turned massively downhill while moving from the Italian mountains to Switzerland’s rolling green hills. The race dropped roughly 1,500 meters over 20k in distance in the next section before then climbing to a crew access spot at 54k Champex-Lac.

At 3:54 elapsed, early on that downhill section after Grand Col Ferret, McCann passed Yao. They were again together at 41k La Fouly in 4:29 though, and Lichter and Akiyama were 30 seconds apart in third and fourth in 4:35. Although moving up the podium, Lichter had lost over two minutes to the leader in the 10k from Grand Col Ferret to La Fouly. Behind McCann, Yao, Lichter, and Akiyama, Fabiola Conti (Italy) was now in fifth place.

McCann finally gained some meaningful separation from Yao on the climb to 54k Champex-Lac. The pair came in at 5:42 and 5:44 and were almost two and a half minutes apart. The Champex-Lac aid station was one of only two crew access points, and it was nearly the halfway point of the race. McCann had created a gap to Yao, and both McCann and Yao had further separated from Akiyama and Lichter too. Lichter was now over 10 minutes off the lead. Anna-Stiina Erkkilä (Finland) overtook Conti for the fifth-place position, and further back, Kaspersen got back into the top 10 as the 10th-place woman.

At 7:05 while still leading, McCann was held up by a passing train. That two-minute wait allowed Yao to catch her and when the train passed, Yao pulled away from McCann to regain the lead. Yao was into aid at 79k Trient in 8:32 and McCann was over three minutes behind in second. And the race was turning dynamic behind those front two. Kaspersen was surprise third into aid. She’d incredibly jumped seven spots, and made up time on Yao. Kaspersen was 20 minutes behind Yao at 54k Champex-Lac and had cut that to just 11 minutes at 79k Trient. Kaspersen’s move put each of the three defending champs at the top of the leaderboard, too. Lichter and Akiyama were pushed back to fourth and fifth, and Conti fell outside the top 10.

Yao’s lead over McCann was down to 88 seconds at 90k Vallorcine, but Kaspersen was moving the fastest and had further cut into the gap. She was now only four and a half minutes behind Yao in third. Just like in OCC one day earlier, it was a three-woman battle late in the race.

McCann first passed Yao, and then Kaspersen passed Yao. And then improbably Kaspersen gained the ultimate lead in the race’s final 10k. She would continue moving at a speed that would keep anyone from challenging her over the final kilometers.

Yngvild Kaspersen won the 2026 CCC in 12:01:14. She became the race’s first two-time women’s finisher. The course changes prevented any record chances, but for comparison, Blandine L’Hirondel’s course record from 2022 is 11:40:55.

Toni McCann was second in 12:06:14 and longtime leader Miao Yao was third in 12:15:41.

Jennifer Lichter stayed fourth in 12:24:01.

Honoka Akiyama fell off the front pace late and Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) had a fast second half to get fifth in 12:25:17.

1. Yngvild Kaspersen (Norway) – 12:01:14
2. Toni McCann (South Africa) – 12:06:14
3. Miao Yao (China) – 12:15:41
4. Jennifer Lichter (U.S.) – 12:24:01
5. Caitlin Fielder (New Zealand) – 12:25:17
6. Anna-Stiina Erkkilä (Finland) – 12:36:12
7. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) – 12:37:02
8. Adeline Martin (France) – 12:45:38
9. Marie Goncalves (Portugal) – 12:51:08
10. Theres Leboeuf (Switzerland) – 12:58:47

Full results.

2026 CCC Men’s Race

Cristian Minoggio (Italy), Benjamin Roubiol (France), Daniel Jones (New Zealand), and Thomas Cardin (France) were the top-ranked entrants by UTMB Index. Minoggio had famously finished second at OCC in 2025, Roubiol finished second at the 2025 Trail World Championships Long Trail, and Jones and Cardin most recently raced Western States. Jones dropped, but Cardin had a great fourth-place finish at Western States. There was a long list of other globally-competitive runners sure to impact the race too. Defending champion Francesco Puppi (Italy) instead raced OCC and finished seventh one day prior.

The race started with a long 1,400-meter climb to Tête de la Tronche at grades that sometimes reached 35%, all over 14k in distance. At the top at least the first 17 men were within a minute of each other. Minoggio, Roubiol, and Cardin were all among the frontrunners in 1:14 elapsed time, and Jones was two minutes back. The course then turned downhill and ran 12k to Arnouvaz. Eli Hemming (U.S.), 7th here in 2025, soon joined the front group and later on a balcony trail traverse, Hans Troyer (U.S.), Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.K.), and Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) were all among the leaders too. Adam Peterman (U.S.) was in the top 10 early too, but soon fell out of contention.

At 26k Arnouvaz, the first seven men were within 10 seconds of each other and there was only a 27-second spread from first to tenth. Troyer led out of the aid station and all of the same players were still in the mix. The course then turned up to climb Grand Col Ferret and that mountain pass was the course high point at 2,537 meters. On the Italian-Swiss border, this spot was also 31k into the race and it had the potential to thin the still very large men’s front group.

It didn’t happen yet, though. There were still five men within a minute of each other at the top of Grand Col Ferret though. Cardin came across the top first in 3:15 with Hemming, Troyer, Grenfell-Shaw, and Arsénio stretched behind him. Bartłomiej Przedwojewski (Poland) and Peter Fraňo (Slovakia) were next through. After reaching the top of Grand Col Ferret, the race left Italy and dropped into Switzerland with a long, quad-busting downhill that lost about 1,500 meters of elevation over 20k in distance.

Troyer got aggressive on the long downhill and separated from the group, and Minoggio surged through the frontrunners clear into second place. At the 54k Champex-Lac checkpoint, the unofficial halfway point and a crew access spot, Troyer, Minoggio, and Hemming were within 20 seconds of each other. Andrzej Witek (Poland) had run a strong downhill too, and then pushed the short climb that followed, to get into aid fourth. Roubiol, Arsénio, and Cardin were there fifth through seventh and there was just over a four-minute spread from first-place Troyer to seventh-place Cardin. Przedwojewski had fallen out of the top 10 and would later drop from the race.

Another long downhill followed, approximately 16k in distance to Martigny and the lowest point on the course. This was part of the new, rerouted course. From that low spot, they’d climb again, going 1,000 meters up to 79k Trient. On this climb Minoggio and Troyer were, at first, side by side. As the grade increased though, Minoggio started to pull away from Troyer and he’d get to the top three minutes faster. Once part of the lead three, Hemming was dropped from the group early in the climb and was later spotted on the race live stream stopping to stretch. Arsénio would pass him on this climb for third and was eight minutes behind race leader Minoggio. Dan Jones jumped more than 10 spots on the climb to get to eighth place, his first time inside the top 10. On the other end, after running in the top five and top 10 earlier, Cardin and Witek dropped, and Roubiol did later too.

Minoggio added another two minutes to his lead on the climb to 83k Les Tseppes and at 90k Vallorcine, the last crew access point, Minoggio led everyone by over seven minutes in 8:33 elapsed. Troyer and Arsénio were into the aid station together in second and third, and Hemming and Grenfell-Shaw fourth and fifth. While Minoggio was out front and looked uncatchable, Troyer, Arsénio, Hemming, and Grenfell-Shaw were six minutes apart in the podium chase. Hemming, though, dropped and did not finish.

Cristian Minoggio stayed in front the rest of the way, and was in front for the race’s last 40k. He won the 2026 CCC in 10:21:48. Because the UTMB start was delayed two hours, Minoggio finished in front of all of the UTMB starters. The rerouted course took away the chance for any records, but for perspective, the course record is Petter Engdahl’s 9:53:02 from 2022.

Miguel Arsénio finally got away from Hans Troyer for second. Arsénio was runner-up and Troyer was third in 10:27:25 and 10:33:29, respectively. They both finished just before the UTMB start too.

Luke Grenfell-Shaw was fourth in 10:47:23. He and the next several finishers arrived into Chamonix as UTMB was starting, and so their finishes were paused until after the UTMB race start with the finish times being adjusted accordingly.

Simon Paccard was fifth in 10:50:59.

2026 CCC Men’s Results

• 1. Cristian Minoggio (Italy) – 10:21:48
• 2. Miguel Arsénio (Portugal) – 10:27:25
• 3. Hans Troyer (U.S.) – 10:33:29
• 4. Luke Grenfell-Shaw (U.K.) – 10:47:23
• 5. Simon Paccard (France) – 10:50:59
• 6. Daniel Jones (New Zealand) – 10:54:14
• 7. Ji Duo (China) – 10:58:26
• 7. Guillaume Tiphène (France) – 10:58:26
• 9. Mathieu Delpeuch (France) – 10:59:16
• 10. Anthony Felber (France) – 11:06:39

Full results.

2026 CCC Results: Norway’s Yngvild Kaspersen and Italy’s Cristian Minoggio Triumph by Justin Mock.