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The 2025 Trail Running World Championships don’t work like UTMB or Western States. At Worlds, athletes run in their national jerseyand edals aren’t just for individuals—they’re also for teams.
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Event Team Medals
For each race at the 2025 Trail Running World Championships—Long Trail, Short Trail, Vertical, Classic Up & Down, and U20—there’s a separate team podium.
• Each country can enter up to six athletes.
• The top three finisher count for the team
• Their finishing times are added together, and the team with the lowest cumulative time wins.
Innsbruck 2023
Men
France won gold with Benjamin Roubiol (9:52:59), Thibaut Garrivier (10:14:49), and Baptiste Chassagne (10:35:21) combining for 30:43:09. The U.S. (Holmen, Miller, LiPuma) took silver at 30:48:17, only five minutes back. Italy, led by Andreas Reiterer, earned bronze in 31:29:55.
Women
France won again with Marion Delespierre (11:22:31), Manon Bohard Cailler (11:34:22), and Audrey Tanguy (12:01:30), totaling 34:58:23. Germany claimed silver in 35:32:01, and Italy took bronze in 36:20:08.
The Federation Award @ 2025 Trail Running World Championships
It’s not about who wins individually. It’s about whether three athletes from the same nation can stay close enough on the clock.
There’s also an Overall Federation Award—effectively, the “team of teams.”
Athletes are assigned points based on finish: 190 for 1st, 189 for 2nd, 188 for 3rd, and so on.
Each federation can count up to three athletes per event, across a maximum of six events.
That means up to 18 scoring performances.
To qualify, a federation must field at least one men’s team and one women’s team, and at least one mountain event and one trail event.
The nation with the highest cumulative points total wins.
This format rewards breadth. To win the Federation Award, a country needs not only stars but depth across disciplines.
Why It Matters
For the U.S., the headlines will focus on Schide, Walmsley, and Peterman.
But medals won’t be decided by them alone. Team gold in Canfranc will come down to whether the second and third Americans can stay close on the clock—and whether the U.S. has the depth across disciplines to contend for the Federation Award.
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