Sidney Noble won the 2026 Bear 100 in 17 hours, 39 minutes and 23 seconds, while Kristin Johnson led the women's race home in 18:50:37, according to the Ultramarathon Database. The race started in Logan, Utah on Friday, September 25 and covered 100 miles through the Bear River Range with 20,321 feet of climbing and a 36-hour cut-off.
Mike McMonagle was second in the men's race in 18:25:27 and Eli White third in 19:39:04. In the women's race Anna Fisher finished second in 20:20:07 and Maria Guy third in 22:14:14. Noble's winning margin over McMonagle was just over 46 minutes, and the top two men were both well inside 19 hours.
The 2026 edition was not run over the same course as previous years. The race organisers now finish at Conestoga Ranch in Garden City, Utah, rather than in Fish Haven, Idaho, a change to roughly the last quarter of the route. The revised route carries around 350 fewer feet of climbing than before, so comparisons with earlier results have to be made with caution.
That caveat matters for the headline times. The database notes that Johnson's winning time beat the previous women's course record by a little over a minute and a half, but the changed finish means it is best read as a new benchmark for the reworked course rather than a like-for-like improvement. For reference, the fastest times at last year's race were 18:34:50 for the men and 21:12:16 for the women, and 252 runners finished the 2025 edition.
For the Bear 100, which has grown from nine finishers at its first running in 1999 into one of the biggest 100-mile fields in the United States, the change reflects how race logistics evolve alongside participation. Noble and Johnson now hold the first winning times on the new course, and the results will set the reference points for those who return in 2027.