CCC 2026 Results: Cristian Minoggio and Yngvild Kaspersen Win

Cristian Minoggio won the 2026 CCC in 10:21:48 on Friday evening, and Yngvild Kaspersen won the women's race in 12:01:14, three years after her first win here. UTMB cut the course twice, the second time while they were running it. The course closed at half past one on Saturday afternoon with 1,516 of the 1,974 starters home.

Minoggio came through Champex-Lac at 54 kilometers with four other men within two minutes of him. By Vallorcine at 90 kilometers he was eight minutes ahead of Miguel Arsenio and Hans Troyer, and those two finished second and third behind him. This page has both podiums, the Western States places that go with them, and what happened to the course.

Who won the CCC 2026?

Cristian Minoggio, in 10:21:48. The 40-year-old Italian reached Chamonix at about twenty past seven on Friday evening. He started as one of the two highest-ranked men in the field on UTMB's own index for 100-kilometer races.

He was not clear early on. Five men came out of Champex-Lac, the aid station at 54 kilometers, within two minutes of each other just before two in the afternoon: Minoggio, Hans Troyer and Eli Hemming together, then Andrzej Witek and Miguel Arsenio. Minoggio opened his lead on the stretch UTMB added to this year's course, the long drop to the valley floor at Martigny and the climb back up to Trient. By Vallorcine, at 90 kilometers, he was eight minutes ahead of Arsenio and Troyer.

Arsenio, from Portugal, finished second in 10:27:25, five minutes and 37 seconds behind Minoggio. Troyer, from the United States, was third in 10:33:29. Those three take the men's Golden Tickets, so all three have a place at Western States next June if they want it.

Who won the women's CCC 2026?

Yngvild Kaspersen of Norway, in 12:01:14, three years after she won this race the first time. She took the CCC in 2023, did not finish it in 2025, and has come back and won it again. She was 29th overall, an hour and forty minutes after Minoggio.

She spent most of the day a long way from the front. UTMB's own splits have her 132nd overall at Arnouvaz, 26 kilometers in, and still 92nd coming into Champex-Lac at 54. From there she moved up the whole rest of the way: 60th at Trient, 49th at Vallorcine, 29th at the finish. Her total rest time for the day was three minutes and 45 seconds.

Toni McCann of South Africa was second in 12:06:14, five minutes behind. She has won in Chamonix twice already, the CCC in 2024 and the OCC in 2023, and like Kaspersen she did not finish last year's CCC.

Miao Yao of China was third in 12:15:41. She won the OCC in 2025, and she had entered the CCC this year rather than going back for a third OCC in a row.

All three women on the podium have won a race in Chamonix before, which is unusual for one podium. Kaspersen took the CCC in 2023, McCann took it in 2024 and won the OCC in 2023, and Yao won the OCC in 2025. Those three take the women's Golden Tickets and their places at Western States next June.

What is the CCC race?

Courmayeur, Champex-Lac, Chamonix. The three towns give the race its name. It starts on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif, climbs to the Grand Col Ferret at about 2,530 meters and crosses into Switzerland, runs down the Swiss valley to Champex-Lac, then turns back into France for the last climbs into Chamonix. In a normal year that is the second half of the UTMB course: about 101 kilometers with just over 6,000 meters of climbing. This year's came to 108 kilometers and 6,200 meters.

People call it UTMB's little sister, which undersells it. The field here is one of the strongest of any 100-kilometer race all year, and it finishes in Chamonix on the same weekend, on the same street as UTMB itself. Plenty of runners who could handle the full 174 kilometers enter this instead.

What changed on the CCC course for 2026?

The course was cut twice, on two different days, and the second time runners were already out on it.

The first change came on the Thursday evening, two days before the start. UTMB's race page said the CCC would start from Courmayeur at 9:00 a.m. "with the course modified in two sections in Switzerland", and put the new distance at 108 kilometers with 6,400 meters of climbing, against about 101 kilometers and just over 6,000 for the route it had published for this edition. It gave no reason.

That change falls in the middle of the race. The original line went from Champex-Lac up over La Giète and down into Trient, which is the way the UTMB field still goes. The new one leaves Champex-Lac and keeps dropping, down to about 500 meters near Martigny, then turns and climbs back up the Trient valley, rejoining the old course at Trient about eight kilometers further along than before. From Trient it runs as it always has: Les Tseppes, Vallorcine, Chamonix.

The second change came on race day itself. The notice on the race page now reads "CCC: No passage through La Flégère > Updated GPX track below", and the climbing has dropped again, to 6,200 meters. La Flégère sits at about 101 kilometers and was the last aid station and the last climb before the long descent into Chamonix. It has gone from the checkpoint list on UTMB's live results and on LiveTrail, which means Vallorcine at 90 kilometers is now the last place runners are timed before the finish.

UTMB has not said why it made that change. It has said when, though not on its own website: its UTMB World Series account posted a clip of Toni McCann on Friday afternoon captioned "When the course changes mid-race, you might have to change your plans too." The notice was not on the race page at ten to four that morning and it was there by three in the afternoon, six hours into the race. The UTMB was cut and delayed the same day, for thunderstorms forecast over the massif that evening.

The start time and the waves stayed as published. The time limit is where it gets confusing, because two different figures are still in circulation. The race page now says 28 hours. The runner's guide UTMB published for this edition on August 24, alongside the 101-kilometer course, says 26 hours 30 minutes. Both are still up, and the race has never said that one replaced the other. The 28 hours is the figure the timing system actually holds runners to, and it is the one that goes with the longer course.

What are the Golden Tickets, and what does the CCC 2026 decide?

From 2026 the CCC hands out Western States 100 Golden Tickets. The top three men and the top three women get an automatic place at Western States the following June, which for this race means June 2027. If a runner in the top three turns the place down, it passes to the next finisher, as far down as seventh. Western States is otherwise a lottery, and most people who apply wait years to get in, so a top-three finish in Chamonix is worth a good deal more than the podium itself.

Who was racing the CCC in 2026?

Chamonix's two shorter finals swapped runners this year. Miao Yao of China won the OCC in 2024 and again in 2025, and entered the CCC rather than going for a third. Cristian Minoggio, who came within twenty seconds of winning that 2025 OCC, moved up with her, and so did Andrzej Witek, who was third in it. Francesco Puppi went the other way: he won the CCC last year in the second-fastest time it has ever been run, and this year he ran the OCC.

UTMB scores runners on an index for each race length, based on their recent results. On the 100-kilometer index, the men's list was headed by Benjamin Roubiol and Minoggio, level on 943. Guangfu Meng followed on 932, then Witek, Daniel Jones and the two Hoka Americans, Hans Troyer and Adam Peterman. Nadir Maguet, Eli Hemming, Bart Przedwojewski and Dakota Jones were all entered.

Jennifer Lichter was the clear name in the women's race on 850, thirty-three points ahead of anyone else on that index. Lingjie Chi was next on 817, then Toni McCann, Honoka Akiyama, Caitlin Fielder and Veronika Leng. Yao's general UTMB Index of 827 would have placed her second on the list, but she has no 100-kilometer index at all, which is why the page sorts her to the bottom instead.

Those lists come from UTMB's own top-ranked runners page and they moved all week, so an entry was not a start. Several names came off the OCC and UTMB lists with nothing said about it: see the withdrawals.

What time did the CCC 2026 start, and when does the course close?

Courmayeur sent its first runners away at 9:00 a.m. CEST on Friday, August 28, in five waves grouped at 9:00, 9:15 and 9:30. UTMB measures every cutoff from the last wave rather than the first, so on the 28-hour limit the race page now gives, the finish line closes at 1:30 p.m. CEST on Saturday, August 29. The timing platform's own cutoff table says 1:30 too.

There is one figure worth not confusing with that. UTMB's runner's guide for this edition gives noon on Saturday as the finish cutoff, which goes with the 26-hour 30-minute limit and the 101-kilometer course, and that time no longer matches anything on the course people are actually running. With La Flégère gone, the last checkpoint before the finish is Vallorcine at 90 kilometers, and it closes at 8:30 on Saturday morning.

How big is the CCC field?

1,974 runners started, 488 of them women. That is a little more than the OCC's 1,945 starters the day before, on a race more than twice the distance.

How the CCC 2026 was followed

UTMB Live carries the leaders, and LiveTrail, which times the race, carries everybody. The checkpoints with a cutoff on them are Bertone, Arnouvaz, La Fouly, Champex-Lac, Plan de l'Au, Trient, Vallorcine and Chamonix.

If you are following the Golden Tickets rather than the win, Vallorcine is the one to watch, because it is the last checkpoint on the course now and the tickets go three deep rather than to the winner alone. Places and times go up on the CCC 2026 race page as well as here.

What happened at the 2025 CCC

Martyna Młynarczyk held off a late charge from Sylvia Nordskar to win the women's race in 11:41:55, the second-fastest CCC ever run behind Blandine L'Hirondel's 2022 time. Nordskar went past her with about six kilometers left, Młynarczyk came back at her in the closing stretch and won by 18 seconds. Anna Tarasova was third, with the whole podium inside just over two minutes.

Francesco Puppi broke the men's race open after Champex-Lac and ran alone from there to finish in 10:06:02, also the second-fastest time in the race's history. David Sinclair held second all the way home, and Drew Holmen was third.

How many people finished the CCC 2026?

1,516 of the 1,974 who started, 394 of them women, which is the figure UTMB's own timing platform states. That is a finish rate of just under 77 percent.

457 runners left the course, and where they left it says something about the reroute. 155 stopped at Champex-Lac, at 54 kilometers, which was the last aid station before the new section down to Martigny, and another 104 stopped at Trient at the far end of it. Between them those two points account for more than half of everyone who did not finish. Most of that number is not people giving up: UTMB counts runners stopped by a cutoff in the same figure.

The organiser's own numbers do not quite add up, by one runner. 1,516 finishers plus 457 who left the course is 1,973, against 1,974 starters.

Were any CCC 2026 times adjusted?

Eight runners' official times are not the times they ran, and every one of the adjustments made them faster. UTMB's timing data records a credit against each: 14 minutes for Luke Grenfell-Shaw, 12 for Simon Paccard, 10 for Daniel Jones, and six minutes each for Ji Duo, Guillaume Tiphene and Mathieu Delpeuch. Those six all finished between fourth and ninth, and they crossed the line within four minutes of each other. The other two credits went a long way back: 10 minutes for Tim Davis, who finished 1,310th, and five for Olivier Poujade in 1,487th.

Only the last two come with a reason, and it is the same reason in two languages. Davis's says "10 minutes bonus for helping another runner. Thank you!" and Poujade's says "assistance à un coureur." UTMB has published nothing about why the six at the front got theirs, and there is nothing in their splits to show where the time went.

None of it changed the result. The order of the first fourteen men is the same whether you rank them on their official times or on the time they actually spent on the course, and nobody on either podium was adjusted in either direction.

Where are the full CCC 2026 results?

UTMB Live has every runner, and LiveTrail, which timed the race, has the checkpoint splits. The podiums and the course figures are on the CCC 2026 race page too.

No one on either podium picked up a time penalty, and none of the six spent more than six minutes stopped in aid stations across the whole race.