The 2025 season of the UTMB circuit officially kicks off next week, and the last three winners of the men's finals at Mont Blanc are set to duke it out in what's sure to be a thrilling face-off. Kilian Jornet, Jim Walmsley and Vincent Bouillard are all starting at the UTMB Ultra Trail Chianti Castles 120k race in Italy on March 22, the first time that the three runners have started together.
The 74.5 mile-race starts and ends in the Tuscan commune of Radda in Chianti and takes the runners across characteristically mountainous terrain gaining over 5,200 meters in elevation. If you think in imperial terms, that's just over 17,000ft, which is about half of what they face in Chamonix, so we're expecting to see them moving at a good pace.
