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The lottery for the 2025 Hardrock 100 took place on Saturday, December 7, 2024. Congratulations to the runners who secured places on the entrants list!
The Hardrock 100 is a 102.5-mile race through Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, starting and finishing in the village of Silverton. The course is notorious for both its beauty and challenge. The route packs in 33,000 feet of elevation gain, taking place at an average altitude of around 11,000 feet. It alternates direction each year and will run counterclockwise in 2025.
A bucket list race for some ultrarunners, the Hardrock 100 is difficult to gain entry into, with 3,023 applying for this year’s lottery alone. This is up from 2,796 lotto applicants for the 2024 edition, an increase of 227 runners.
Unlike the Western States 100, which offers several avenues to gain entry as well as an even more difficult lotto to get through, the only way to secure a guaranteed entry into the Hardrock 100 is to win the previous year’s race. The 2025 Hardrock 100 will have 146 runners, which is the recent standard for the event.
In this article, we list top competitors on the current entrants lists as well as those high enough on their respective waitlists to have a chance of getting in. Then, we explain how the lottery operates.
Notable 2025 Hardrock 100 Men’s Entrants
The only way to gain entrance to this event, aside from the lottery, is to win the year before. Men’s 2024 Hardrock 100 champion Ludovic Pommeret has elected to use his entry.
Here are the notable men selected to run the 2025 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
- David Ayala – 1st 2024 IMTUF 100 Mile; 2nd 2023 & 2021 Bighorn 100 Mile
- Mathieu Blanchard (France) – 1st 2024 Diagonale des Fous; 4th 2023, 2nd 2022 & 3rd 2021 UTMB; 6th 2023 Western States 100
- Alexandre Boucheix (France) – 5th 2024 Mt Fuji 100 Mile; 21st 2023 UTMB; 10th 2023 Diagonale des Fous
- Brian Culmo – 7th 2023 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 & 2nd 2022 Hellgate 100k
- Kyle Curtin – Colorado Trail men’s supported FKT in 2024; 9th 2023 & 11th 2021 Tor des Géants; 3rd 2023 San Juan Solstice 50 Mile
- Tyler Fannin – 3rd 2024 Wasatch Front 100 Mile; 1st 2021 El Vaquero Loco 50k
- Ian Farris – 1st 2024 Scout Mountain 100 Mile; 5th 2024 & 2022 HURT 100 Mile; 8th 2024 Bear 100 Mile
- Hannes Gehring – 1st 2023 Fat Dog 120 Mile; 7th 2021 Leadville 100 Mile; 6th 2019 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Germain Grangier (France) – 3rd 2023 & 5th 2021 UTMB; 2nd 2023 & 4th 2022 Diagonale des Fous; 1st 2023 Mont-Blanc 90k
- Mike Groenewegen – 6th 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile; 2nd 2022 Tahoe 200 Mile
- Isaiah Hemmen – 2nd 2023 Scout Mountain 100 Mile; 4th 2023 Plain 100 Mile
- Brian Hopton-Jones – 12th 2021 Hardrock 100
- Gabe Joyes – 2nd 2024 Quad Rock 50 Mile; 2nd 2023 IMTUF 100 Mile; 2nd 2021 High Lonesome 100 Mile
- Zach Miller – 2nd 2023 & 5th 2022 UTMB; 6th 2023 Trail World Championships – Long Trail
- Ludovic Pommeret (France) – 1st 2024 Hardrock 100; 5th 2024, 5th 2023, & 4th 2021 UTMB; 1st 2022 TDS
- Sam Ritchie – 4th 2021 High Lonesome 100 Mile; 13th 2023 Hardrock 100
- Chris Roberts – 4th 2024 Grindstone 100 Mile; 1st 2024 Six Days in the Dome 24 Hour (149 miles)
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Notable 2025 Hardrock 100 Women’s Entrants
Here are the notable women selected to run the 2025 Hardrock 100, in alphabetical order:
- Becky Bates (Canada) – 7th 2024 & 2023 Hardrock 100; 7th 2024 IMTUF 100 Mile
- Manon Bohard Cailler (France) – 1st 2024 Diagonale des Fous; 3rd 2023 Trail World Championships – Long Trail; 1st 2023 Madeira Island Ultra-Trail; 1st 2021 TDS
- Stephanie Case (Canada) – 2nd 2022 Hardrock 100; 3rd 2021 Val d’Aran 100 Mile
- Uxue Fraile (Spain) – 12th 2021 & 2nd 2018 UTMB
- Katharina Hartmuth (Germany) – 3rd 2024 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2023 UTMB; 2nd 2023 Trail World Championships – Long Trail; 3rd 2022 TDS
- Whitney Mickelsen – 6th 2023 Hardrock 100; 8th 2021 Wasatch 100 Mile; 4th 2020 IMTUF 100 Mile
- Shelby Johnson – 2nd 2023 Grindstone 100 Mile; 9th 2022 Leadville 100 Mile
- Aliza Lapierre – 7th 2024 & 2nd 2023 Cocodona 250 Mile; 1st 2022 Vermont 100 Mile; 7th 2021 Leadville 100 Mile
- Katie Schide – 1st 2024, 1st 2022, & 6th 2019 UTMB; 1st 2024 & 2nd 2023 Western States 100; 1st 2023 Diagonale des Fous
- Amber Weibel – 9th 2024 Hardrock 100; 3rd 2023 SwissAlps 100 Mile; 15th 2022 Western States 100
- Leah Yingling – 10th 2024, 9th 2023, & 6th 2022 Western States 100; 8th 2023 UTMB
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
Notable Waitlisted Men With at Least a Remote Chance of Getting In
These are the fast men who are high enough on their respective waitlists to have a chance of getting in before race day. They are listed in waitlist order:
- Jeff Rome (2nd Finished waitlist) – 4th 2024, 2nd 2018, & 7th 2017 Hardrock 100
- Luke Jay (5th Finished waitlist) – 10th 2024 Hardrock 100; 2nd 2022 & 1st 2019 High Lonesome 100 Mile
- Benjamin Bucklin (7th Finished waitlist) – 9th 2024 Hardrock 100
- Arlen Glick (11th Finished waitlist) – 4th 2023 Hardrock 100; 3rd 2024 Cocodona 250 Mile; 3rd 2023 & 2nd 2022 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 13th 2023 & 3rd 2022 Western States 100
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 12 of the Never Finished and Finished men’s waitlists. We’ll add additional men to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
Notable Waitlisted Women With at Least a Remote Chance of Getting In
These are the fast women who are high enough on their respective waitlists to have a chance of getting in before race day. They are listed in waitlist order:
- Kaori Niwa (Japan) (2nd Finished waitlist) – 4th 2018 Hardrock 100; 13th 2022 & 2021 UTMB; 3rd 2023 SwissPeaks 360k
- Tara Dower (7th Finished waitlist) – Appalachian Trail supported FKT in 2024; 4th 2024 Hardrock 100; 1st 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Addie Bracy (9th Never waitlist) – 5th 2023 Canyons 100k; 1st 2021 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile
- Emily Halnon (12th Finished waitlist) – 6th 2024, 9th 2023, & 7th 2022 Hardrock 100
- Salynda Heinl (12th Never waitlist) – 6th 2023 Run Rabbit Run 100 Mile; 1st 2021 High Lonesome 100 Mile
Full entrants lists and waitlists.
[Editor’s Note: We’re listing runners from the top 12 of the Never Finished and Finished women’s waitlists. We’ll add additional women to this section at a later date if there’s lots of movement on the waitlists.]
2025 Hardrock 100 Lottery Parameters
The 2025 lottery is divided into two categories, the Never Finished and Finished divisions:
- Never Finished – Runners who’ve not yet finished the Hardrock 100.
- Finished – Runners who’ve finished at least one Hardrock 100.
For 2025, the organization selected 82 Never Finished runners and 64 Finished runners.
From 2022 onward, the Hardrock 100 organization adopted a new policy whereby the same proportion of female runners who enter the lottery will be selected to run the race. Therefore, the draw is essentially drawn into four sections: Female Never, Female Finished, Male Never, and Male Finished. For 2025, 648 lotto applicants were female, representing 21.4% of the applicant pool. Thus, there will be 32 female starters.
Returning champions are given automatic entrance to the event. The 2024 women’s champion Courtney Dauwalter declined her entry, while 2024 men’s champ Ludovic Pommeret claimed his.
Each year, run director (RD) Dale Garland handpicks six entrants who bypass the lottery. Explained on the organization’s website, “[S]ix such runners will be selected, evenly split between men and women, from a slate of at least 12 applicants proposed by the RD and approved by the Hardrock Board of Directors.” This year, those runners are:
- Mathieu Blanchard
- Manon Bohard Cailler
- Germain Grangier
- Katharina Hartmuth
- Zach Miller
- Katie Schide
Call for Comments
- Are you one of the lucky entrants for the 2025 event?
- From the runners listed above, who are your top picks to excel?
