Categories and Prizes

Entry Category

2025 Margaret River Ultra Marathon categories are determined by your age on Saturday 10 May 2025.

80km Ultra Marathon

Individuals: (80km) – Individual runners doing the entire 80km solo

  • Under 20yrs Male and Female
  • 20-39yrs Male and Female
  • 40-49yrs Male and Female
  • 50-59yrs Male and Female
  • 60+yrs Male and Female

Relay teams of 2 or 3 runners: (80km)

Relay teams with either 2 or 3 runners completing the 80km course.

  • Male
  • Mixed
  • Female

Relay teams of 4 or 5 runners: (80KM)

Relay teams with either 4 or 5 runners completing the 80km course.

  • Male
  • Mixed
  • Female
  • Junior

42km Marathon

Individuals: (42km) – Individual runners doing the full 42km solo

  • Under 20yrs Male and Female
  • 20-39yrs Male and Female
  • 40-49yrs Male and Female
  • 50-59yrs Male and Female
  • 60+yrs Male and Female

The Grand Slam

Racing the 80km Ultra as a solo on Saturday AND the 42km Marathon on Sunday. Determined by adding the finish times together for both events.

  • Male – all ages
  • Female – all ages

Kids Run

A fun, kid’s run conducted on Sunday. No categories, no results. It’s a run, not a race!

PRIZES

80km ultra marathon

80km Ultra Overall Individuals 80km (irrespective of age):

  • 1st male and 1st female: will each receive a medal and prize pack, PLUS FREE entry to the Surf Coast Century 2025 and $500 travel allowance to attend.
  • 2nd and 3rd males and females: will receive a medal and prize pack

80km Ultra Individual Age Category

  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd males and females in each individual age category for the 80km will receive a medal.

80km Ultra Relay Teams:

  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each relay team category (Male, Mixed and Female) for Teams of 2-3 AND (Male, Mixed, Female and Junior) Teams of 4-5 will receive a medal and prize pack.
  • BONUS – the fastest team overall, regardless how many runners in the team, will receive a FREE team entry to the Surf Coast Century 2025 and $500 travel allowance**

**for the team (not each).

42km marathon

42km Marathon Individual Age Category

  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd males and females in each individual age category for the 42km will receive a medal.

The Grand Slam

80km and 42km Individual Category

  • 1st, 2nd and 3rd male and female (regardless of age) will receive a medal.


Individual finishers – updated ‘equitable’ cut-off times ***

80km ultra marathon

  • Individual MALE finishers who complete the 80km course in less than 10hrs will receive a large wine glass trophy, newly named the ‘LEEUWIN‘. The newly adjusted individual FEMALE finishers cut-off for the large wine glass is now 11 hours***.
  • Individual MALE finishers who complete the 80km course in a time between 10hrs and 14hrs will receive a medium wine glass trophy, newly named the ‘NATURALISTE‘. The newly adjusted individual FEMALE finishers cut-off for the medium wine glass is now between 11hrs to 15 and a half hours***.
  • All finishers who complete the 80km course will receive a medal

42km marathon

  • All finishers who complete the 42km course will receive a medal

NEW for 2025:

*** The cut off times for the wine glass trophies will be changed for 2025 onwards so they achieve gender equity. The times for female runners is increased by approx 12.5% compared to men, based on global race data that shows proportionally women are 10-13% slower in running races. 
Read more on Rapid Ascent’s Gender Equity announcement, which is also applied to sister event the Surf Coast Century… READ HERE >>

Kids Run

No awards as this is a RUN, not a race. Plenty of SPOT PRIZES though!


UTMB Qualifying Race & ITRA Points

The 80km Margaret River Ultra Marathon individual race is registered with the UTMB as an official qualifying race for the UTMB World Series with a value of 3 points. The Margaret River Ultra Marathon is awarded 3 ITRA points. For further information on UTMB click here.