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'Ueda Skyrace 2025 - Highlights'

2025 Ueda Sky Race

Ueda, Nagano, 4 May 2025
26 km, 3050 elevation change

Men
1. Ruy Uuda (Japan/Redbull) - 3:33:12
2. Tsubasa Fuji (Japan/Nnormal) - 3:52:31
3. Marcel Hoche (Germany/Adidas Terrex) - 3:55:53
4. Kesete Habtetsion (Eritrea) - 4:02:44
5. Shota Matsumoto (Japan/The North Face) - 4:06:05
6. Lucas Mouret (France/Inverse) - 4:08:05
7. Fujio Ichige (Japan/Skywolf Kyoto) - 4:08:11
8. Tomofumi Miyagawa (Japan/Merrell) - 4:08:16
9. Blake Turner (Australia/ADCO Cons.) - 4:10:24
10. John Ray Onifa (Philippines/T8) - 4:13:42

Women
1. Takako Takamura (Japan/Skywolf Kyoto) - 4:19:55
2. Iris Bessey (France/Scott) - 4:41:20
3. Suzuha Kusuda (Japan/Sky Kyoto) - 4:53:05
4. Nikola Matkova (Slovakia) - 4:53:19
5. Simone Brick (Australia/Salomon) - 5:07:00
6. Kaede Hayashi (Japan/Ssessionzz) - 5:17:43
7. Mami Saito (Japan) - 5:31:19
8. Chihiro Aibara (Japan/Merrell) - 5:31:45
9. Akari Samata (Japan) - 5:42:38
10. Rachel Hebaus (U.S.A./Hagan SkiMo) - 5:45:02
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