Victor Richard is a Franco-Belgian ultrarunner who specializes in mega-distance mountain trail races, the kind that exceed 300 kilometers through high alpine terrain. Born in Reims in 1986, he found long-distance running during university studies in the Liege region of Belgium. He now splits his time between Passy in the French Alps and Belgium, and runs a company called Ultratiming that provides sports timing solutions for trail and ultra events. Rather than chasing the UTMB or Western States circuit, Richard has built his career around the longest races on the planet. In 2023, he won the Petite Trotte a Leon (PTL), the UTMB ecosystem's most extreme offering at 300 km around Mont Blanc. In 2024, he won the SwissPeaks Trail 660, billed as the world's longest ultra-trail at 660km with 49,000 meters of elevation gain. His biggest win came in September 2025 at the Tor des Geants, the 330km race through the Aosta Valley. Richard took the lead and held it the entire way, finishing in 66:08:22 for a new course record. He slept roughly 90 minutes over the entire 2.75-day effort.