TDS 2026 Results: Rémy Brassac Wins in 19:28:43

Rémy Brassac won the 2026 TDS in 19:28:43 on Tuesday evening, with Pierre-Adrien Hivert second in 20:14:26. Third place moved after the race. Davide Rivero came into Chamonix third and a 45-minute penalty put him sixth, which leaves Nicolas Court third in the official results in 20:56:52.

Brassac was not in front until 115 kilometers had gone. The man who was, Clovis Chaverot, is a large part of the story of this race, and he never reached Chamonix.

Sarah Vieuille won the women's race in 22:08:16, ninth overall, and she led it from the first timing checkpoint to the last. The course closed at 8:45 on Wednesday evening with 715 of the 1,290 starters home.

Who won the TDS 2026?

Rémy Brassac of France, in 19:28:43. The men's podium:

1. 1Rémy Brassac (FRA) 19:28:43
2. 2Pierre-Adrien Hivert (FRA) 20:14:26
3. 3Nicolas Court (FRA) 20:56:52

Hivert finished 45 minutes and 43 seconds behind Brassac, and Court 42 minutes and 26 seconds behind Hivert. All three are French.

Why is Davide Rivero not on the TDS 2026 podium?

Because he was given 45 minutes. Rivero reached the finish line at 8:32 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 hours 42 minutes and 43 seconds after the start, third on the road, and UTMB's own split data still shows him third at that point in 20:42:43. His official time is 21:27:43. Both of the race's timing platforms print the difference as a penalty and give the same reason. UTMB Live's runner page carries "PENALITY 45 minutes changement de sac non autorisé", and LiveTrail's says "Penalty 45 minutes Changement de sac non autorisé". An unauthorized pack change. The 45 minutes put him behind Court, Paul Creuzet and Adrien Jacques, sixth.

It is one of two adjustments in the whole race. Of the 715 finishers, 713 have official times that match their own start and finish times to the second. The other exception is Quentin Stephan, a hundredth-place finisher credited 15 minutes, with no reason published.

The penalty was applied after the podium had been reported, so results published on Tuesday night, this page among them, had Rivero third.

Who won the women's TDS 2026?

Sarah Vieuille of France, in 22:08:16, ninth overall and first in the 40-44 category. She crossed at 9:58 p.m. on Tuesday, two hours and forty minutes after Rémy Brassac. The women's podium:

1. 1Sarah Vieuille (FRA) 22:08:16
2. 2Alice Meignié (FRA) 22:30:29
3. 3Alyssa Clark (USA) 22:54:19

Meignié finished 22 minutes and 13 seconds behind Vieuille, eleventh overall. Clark was another 23 minutes and 50 seconds back in fifteenth. All three were inside the top fifteen of a 1,290-runner field.

Vieuille led the race from end to end. Sorting all 135 women at every timing point on the course puts her first at the opening checkpoint above Courmayeur, 7.7 kilometers in, by eight seconds, and first at every point after that. The margin grew the whole way: twelve minutes at Bourg-Saint-Maurice at 51 kilometers, twenty-three at the Cormet de Roselend at 66, forty at Beaufort at 92.

One caveat on that, worth stating because the platform's own leaderboard does not. Vieuille has no recorded time at two of the twenty-five timing points, the Beaufort exit checkpoint and the Barrage de la Girotte, so a sort that only counts the runners it has times for shows Meignié in front at those two. She was ahead at every checkpoint on both sides of both gaps, by between twenty-seven and forty minutes. A missing time hands the lead to the runner behind, and it looks exactly like a lead change.

How Rémy Brassac won the TDS

By waiting, and then by climbing. He ran second or third at every one of the first eighteen timing checkpoints, and he did not lead a single one until the race had about 35 kilometers left.

Clovis Chaverot led everything before that. He was first at the Arête du Mont-Favre at 12.2 kilometers and first at every checkpoint after that, through La Thuile, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, the Cormet de Roselend and Beaufort, all the way to the Barrage de la Girotte at 108.6 kilometers, which he reached in 13:52:14 with Brassac 17 minutes and 41 seconds behind him.

Then came the climb to Signal, 6.7 kilometers and roughly 300 meters of gain. Chaverot took 1:37:50 over it. Brassac took 50:54. Hivert went past too. Brassac crossed Signal in front for the first time all day and was never headed again.

Why did Clovis Chaverot not finish the TDS?

He withdrew at Les Contamines-Montjoie, 122.8 kilometers in, about seven kilometers after losing the lead on the Signal climb. UTMB's timing records his last checkpoint as Signal at 115.4 kilometers and his status as withdrawn. Neither he nor the race has said publicly why, and this page will say so if that changes.

The bare numbers: he led for 96.4 kilometers, gave up 47 minutes on one 6.7-kilometer section, and stopped with the finish in the next valley.

How hard was the 2026 TDS?

Hard enough to take out most of the front of the entry list. Six of the seven highest UTMB Index scores in the race belong to runners who did not finish, and Brassac was the seventh.

Louison Coiffet, who started with the highest index in the field, stopped at Bourg-Saint-Maurice at 51 kilometers while lying fourth. Beaufort, the aid station at 92 kilometers, ended Tyler Green's race out of 18th place and Jeff Browning's and Ragna Debats' behind him. Ida Sophie Hegemann went out at the Beaufort exit checkpoint a few hundred meters later, at 14:00:45; she dropped out of the 2025 TDS at 14:00:21.

Twenty and a half hours in, with the race still half a day short of its 44-hour 55-minute limit, 411 of the 1,290 starters were out. Two hundred and ninety-one had withdrawn. The other 120 were stopped by cutoffs, and they were not stopped in one place: the cutoffs took them all the way down the course, from Lac Combal at 16 kilometers to La Gittaz at 74, with the largest group, 49 of them, caught at the Cormet de Roselend at 66.

It ended better than that reading suggested. The course closed at 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday and the race's timing states 1,290 starters, 575 who did not finish and 715 who did, a finish rate of 55 percent. The women's field held up better than the men's: 85 of 135 women finished, 63 percent, against 630 of 1,155 men, 55 percent.

Nobody was stopped early. The checkpoint times kept coming in until the last minute of the race, and the last finisher, Radu Restivan, was timed at 44:54:19, just 41 seconds inside the limit.

What is the TDS?

Sur les Traces des Ducs de Savoie: 145 kilometers with 9,500 meters of climbing from Courmayeur in Italy to Chamonix in France, over the Savoy side of the Mont Blanc massif. It is the roughest and most technical of the races at UTMB Mont-Blanc and it starts at 11:50 p.m. on the Monday of race week, which sends the whole field into a full night before the first climb is done. The 2026 time limit was 44 hours 55 minutes.

It is not a UTMB World Series final the way OCC, CCC and UTMB are. Entry is a separate sale rather than the December lottery, and a finish inside 44:10 is a Western States qualifier.

The 2025 race was rerouted for landslides and forecast storms and ran short, so Brassac's 19:28:43 and Antoine Charvolin's 18:22:17 from last year are not times on the same course.

Full TDS 2026 results and live tracking

Every runner and every timing point is on UTMB Live. Our TDS 2026 race page carries the podium, the course figures and the results link, and the TDS race page has every edition we cover.

The rest of the week: OCC on Thursday, CCC on Friday, and UTMB from Friday evening.