2021 Spartan Ultra World Championship

2021 – $35,000 Payout – Spartan 24 Hour World Championship

The 2021 Spartan Ultra World Championship has been scheduled for Telluride, Colorado the weekend of October 9-11. After 3 years abroad, the 2020 Spartan 24 Hour Ultra World Championship was supposed to happen in Killington, Vermont in September of 2020. However, Covid cancelled that event.

Spartan introduced their 24 hour version of an obstacle race back in Iceland back in 2017. It took place again there in 2018., In 2019 the event moved to Sweden.

You can register for the 2021 event and learn more details here.

Learn how to qualify here.

2021 Ultra World Championship Male and Female Payouts

1st $ 8,000
2nd $4,000
3rd $ 2,500
4th $ 1,000
5th $ 800
6th $ 600
7th $ 400
8th $ 300
9th $ 200
10th $ 100

History Of The Spartan 24 Hour Race

2017 Iceland		Participants
Men	Women
Joshue Fiore	Morgan McKay	379	Elite	86	Open	293
Pavel Paloncy	Vanessa Gebhardt
David Dietrich	Allison Tai

2018 Iceland		387	Elite	82	AG	117	Open	188
Ryan Atkins	Janka Pepova
Radek Padour	Morgan McKay
Sigyrjon Sturluson	Anette Sande


2019 Sweden		255	Elite	47	AG	92	Open	116
Ryan Atkins	Rea Kolbl
Sebastian Haakannsson	Myriam Guillot-Boisset
Aaron Newell	Janka Pepova

Complete Press Release

Spartan®, the world’s leading endurance sports and wellness brand, will bring the 24-hour “Spartan Ultra World Championship” to the United States for the first time, to Telluride Ski Resort in the town of Mountain Village, Colorado. October 10-11, 2021.

The brand’s most challenging event kicks off Spartan’s Obstacle Course Race (OCR) World Championship Season, bringing some of the best endurance athletes in the world to the picturesque destination, where they will face more than 4,000 feet of vertical elevation per loop, technical terrain and unpredictable weather conditions.

The fourth annual Spartan Ultra World Championship will challenge the mental and physical capacities of racers as they complete multiple laps on a 10-mile course featuring at least 25 obstacles per loop – nearly double that of its previous format — for the 24-hour period. The male and female athletes who complete the most laps in the 24-hour time period will be crowned champions – with the top 10 in each category sharing more than $35,000 in prize money. The ultra-endurance race is gated at the Elite and Age Group levels, with 300 spots available for Elite and 1000 spots available for Age Group categories. An Open heat is also available for non-qualified participants, with limited spots available.

In addition to the 24-hour Ultra World Championship, the event weekend features a 30-obstacle, half-marathon Spartan Beast® race Saturday, October 9.

Registration for the 2021 Spartan Ultra World Championship opens Friday, February 19 at noon ET.

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