About
Sébastien Raichon (born 1972) is a French ultra-endurance athlete from Vaucluse who spent over 30 years as a physical education teacher while assembling one of the most extraordinary endurance racing résumés in the world. His foundation is in adventure racing: as team captain he led his crew to multiple Adventure Racing World Championship titles across a decade of competition, including a World Championship victory in Ecuador in 2024. In solo ultra racing he is a three-time winner of the Tor des Glaciers — the 450km mountain epic through the Aosta Valley with 32,000m of elevation gain — winning in 2022, 2023, and 2025. Then, at the age of 52, he completed what may be the most audacious double in ultra-endurance sport: winning the Montane Winter Spine Race — 430km along the Pennine Way from Edale to Kirk Yetholm — in January 2026 in a time of 95:43:47, before becoming the sole finisher of the Fun Run at the Barkley Marathons in March of that year. Winning the Spine Race and completing the Barkley Fun Run in the same winter is a feat known in French ultra circles as the 'SPARKLEY', and Raichon is believed to be the first person to achieve it. A master of patience, navigation, and sleep management, he races on the conviction that composure and experience, compounded over decades, are the most powerful forces in long-distance running.
Notable Wins
- — Adventure Racing World Championship 2024
- — Tor des Glaciers 2022
- — Tor des Glaciers 2023
- — Tor des Glaciers 2025
- — Montane Spine Race 2026 (95:43:47)
- — Barkley Marathons Fun Run 2026 (sole finisher)
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