Evans
Tom Evans is a former Captain in the Welsh Guards, commissioned through the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2012, who spent eight years in the British Army before turning to professional ultra running. His first ultra was the 2017 Marathon des Sables, a 251km multi-stage race through the Sahara, which he entered on a bet. He finished third. The following year, he won the CCC, UTMB's 101km sister race, and his career in mountain running took off from there. Evans has an unusual range for an ultrarunner: he has represented Great Britain at the World Half Marathon Championships and was part of the gold medal-winning team at the European Cross Country Championships. He won Western States in 2023 in 14:40:22, and his trademark military salute at finish lines has become one of the sport's most recognizable celebrations. His path to UTMB was rocky. In late 2023, he was mugged at knifepoint during a training run on Table Mountain in Cape Town. Then came two consecutive DNFs at UTMB in 2023 and 2024. In August 2025, he overcame brutal blizzard-like alpine conditions to win UTMB in 19:18:58, becoming the first British man to win the race in nearly 20 years.
