The Red Bull X-Alps 2025 started in Kitzbühel on 15 June at 11:30 and ended on Schmittenhöhe above Zell am See; an athlete finishes by touching the float, not by entering the last cylinder. The last athlete in the race was eliminated at 08:00 on 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26 June. Every night an athlete had to rest seven consecutive hours between 21:00 and 06:00, except on a Night Pass: once in the race (twice for the three fastest of the prologue), announced by 20:00, an athlete could go on through the night. Flying stayed forbidden from 21:00 to 06:00, Night Pass or not.
Red Bull X-Alps 2025
- Where
- Kitzbühel to Zell am See, Alps
- When
- 15 to 27 June 2025
- Format
- one route over 13 days
- Route
- 1,283 km · 16 turnpoints
- Athletes
- 33 tracked
- In goal
- 21 of 33
- Results
- as published (Red Bull X-Alps results)
Podium
- 1Aaron Durogati7d 08h 31min goal 22 Jun 20:01
- 2Lars Meerstetter7d 09h 02min goal 22 Jun 20:32
- 3Simon Oberrauner7d 09h 18min goal 22 Jun 20:48
Every result, with where each athlete stood at the end of each day.
Highlights
- Best day 270 kmOndrej ProchazkaDay 8 · 22 Jun
- Strongest climber 742 m/hChristian Maurer40 h 46 climbing
- Most on foot 416 kmSebrand Warren33,542 m climbed in 87 h 48 hiking
- Most flown 1,373 kmDavide Sassudelli32 flights, 65 h 05 in the air
The leaders of a few stats boards: measured from the tracks, not taken from the official results.
The route
1,283 km and 16 turnpoints as the organiser presents it. The progress and the stats are measured along the optimised line through every cylinder of the route file (1,275 km).
- SKitzbühel1,283 km to goal
- 1Hahnenkamm1,281 km to goal
- 2Sexten Dolomites1,200 km to goal
- 3Toblinger Knoten1,193 km to goal
- 4Merano 20001,111 km to goal
- 5Schenna1,105 km to goal
- XSt. Moritz998 km to goal
- 7Disentis Sedrun916 km to goal
- 8Niesen827 km to goal
- 9Mont Blanc716 km to goal
- 10Les 2 Alpes610 km to goal
- 11Ascona-Locarno363 km to goal
- 12Bellinzona346 km to goal
- XSt. Moritz274 km to goal
- 14Lermoos, Tiroler Zugspitz Arena146 km to goal
- 15Zugspitze3.5 km cylinder137 km to goal
- 16Schmittenhöhe5 km to goal
- GZell am Seegoal
How this race is read
Rules
- No lifts of any kind. What the tracks show as one (a wing soaring close to a slope, GPS altitude settling after the tracker starts) is read as the flight or the hike around it.
- No flying from 21:00 to 06:00 local time. What the tracks show as a flight in those hours is a GPS glitch on a resting or night-hiking athlete, and is taken as ground.
- The race starts at the route's start gate: the trackers run for a while before it at the start line, and that part is cut.
- It ends for each athlete at their finish or elimination, as the results give it; the fixes after that are the athlete off the course.
Results and progress
Ranks, finish times, eliminations and the distance to goal of an athlete out of the race are the published results (Red Bull X-Alps results), collected by hand and matched to the tracks.
Everything else is measured here from the tracks and is unofficial: the progress along the route every day, where each athlete stood at night, the distance hiked and flown. Turnpoints count in route order, each on the first fix inside its cylinder after the previous one was tagged. The distance to goal from a position is the distance to the edge of the next untagged cylinder plus the optimised route from that turnpoint on, the way the live tracking measures it.
About the tracks
The tracks came as one IGC file per team and day, from 02:00 to 02:00 (midnight UTC), so a night on a Night Pass ends one day at 02:00 and starts the next. Some files interleave the fixes of a second device, a support car’s; those, and any other fix no athlete could have been at, are dropped before anything is measured. The ranking is the 2025 results, the rules the 2025 rulebook as it stood during the race.
burnair’s route file splits some official turnpoints in two (St. Moritz lake and town), so the turnpoint count here runs higher than the official one.
Data
- The route: one XCTrack task over every day, its cylinders as the organiser set them.
- Ground model: Mapterhorn, each country's best open terrain model in one (swissALTI3D in Switzerland).
How a track becomes hiking, flying and stops in general is on the site's about page.