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Trail del Cinghiale 100K - Course Data, Elevation and Cutoffs
- Palazzuolo sul Senio, Italy
- 99.7 km62 mi
- 5,091 m16,703 ft D+
- 4 ITRA points
The 2026 edition
The 2026 edition of Trail del Cinghiale 100K has finished.
The 2026 edition in numbers
- Finishers
- 93
- Median finish time
- 19:47:27
Map, checkpoints and cutoffs Map · checkpoints · forecast opens Oct 20 Race-day forecast is live
Race-day conditions
Weather and daylight along the course and at all 2 checkpoints, set to the 22:00 start.
- Start
- 22:00
- Daylight at the start
- 07:45-18:09
- Distance
- 99.7 km62 mi
- Elevation
- +5,091 m+16,703 ft-5,091 m-16,703 ftAbout 51 m of climb per kmAbout 270 ft of climb per mile
Next editionEst. Fri 29 Oct 2027
Estimated from the 2026 edition (Fri 30 Oct 2026). Not yet announced by the organiser.
- Start
- Sunrise9h47 after the start
- Winner~13h4213h42 after the start
- Median finisher2026 median19h47 after the start
- Sunset20h08 after the start
- Cutoff25h after the start
A median finisher runs 9h47 in the dark.
Trail del Cinghiale 100K is a 99.7 km loop out of Palazzuolo sul Senio, on the Romagna side of the Tosco-Romagnolo Apennines, with 5,091 m of climbing and the same again of descent. It starts at 22:00 on Friday 30 October 2026 and runs to a 25-hour limit, so the whole field takes the first night on its feet.
This is an Apennine race rather than an Alpine one, and the difference is the shape of the climbing rather than its size. There is no single pass to cross: 5,091 m accumulates over ridge after ridge of beech wood, forest road and single track between the Senio and Lamone valleys, with the high ground around 1,100 m and the course dropping back towards the village repeatedly. Palazzuolo itself is the hub, and the organiser runs a base life there. What the race asks for is the night and the cold. A 22:00 start puts eight hours of darkness in front of runners before they have settled, the ridges at the end of October are wet and often in cloud, and the second half is run tired on ground that never gives a long runnable stretch. The organiser publishes nine aid points but no kilometre marks for them and no intermediate time gates, so the table below carries the start, the finish and the 25-hour limit and nothing between.
Data is approximate and courses change between editions - always verify against the official race guide.
Other distances at Trail del Cinghiale
| Race | Distance | D+ | Cutoff | Next start |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinghiale 100K (this page) | 99.7 km62 mi | 5,091 m16,703 ft | 25h00 | Oct 29, 2027 (est.) |
| Cinghiale 50K | 50.9 km31.6 mi | 2,814 m9,232 ft | 14h00 | Oct 30, 2027 (est.) |
| Cinghiale 20K | 20 km12.4 mi | 1,041 m3,415 ft | 6h00 | Oct 30, 2027 (est.) |
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Course math
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TrailMath effort-km
176 effort-km
About 21 h for a mid-pack finisher (index 500). Not a pacing guarantee.
Distance + gain ÷ 100 + loss ÷ 200, beside ITRA's gain-only km-effort. Model TM1.0.
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100K
150 km-effort (distance + gain ÷ 100). Calculated from the course figures, not an official classification.
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Trail del Cinghiale 100K · 2026
Finish times, 2026 edition
93 runners finished. Half of them took longer than 19:47:27.That left the median finisher 5:12:33 inside the 25h cutoff.
Median finish
19:47:27
Half of the 93 finishers were still out there at this point.
5:12:33in hand before the 25h cutoff
Average 19:19:55, 0:27:32 quicker than the median: a fast front pulls it down.
The start line
Men and women
Two medians on the same scale. The bars run from the start to the cutoff, so the gap between them is the gap in time.
Men
19:42:10
median finish; average 19:18:16
82 finishers, 88% of the field
Women
20:18:00
median finish; average 19:32:20
11 finishers, 12% of the field
0:35:50 separates the two medians, across 82 men and 11 women.
Finish time by age group
Every track runs from the start to the 25h cutoff, so the empty part of a bar is the time that group's median finisher still had. Men and women are drawn on the same scale.
| Age | Median finish | Median against the cutoff | Finishers |
|---|---|---|---|
| MU | 18:30:39 | 49 | |
| MO | 20:57:08 | 33 |
| Age | Median finish | Median against the cutoff | Finishers |
|---|---|---|---|
| FU | 19:47:27 | 10 - small sample, read with care | |
| FO | - | 1 - too few finishers to publish a time |
Full bar: 20 finishers or more. Tick alone: fewer than 20, too few for a median to say much. The shaded row is the biggest group.
Where the finishers came from
89% of the finishers came from Italy alone.
| Nation | Finishers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| ItalyIT | 8389.2% | |
| BelgiumBE | 33.2% | |
| SwitzerlandCH | 22.2% | |
| MaltaMT | 22.2% | |
| BulgariaBG | 11.1% | |
| United KingdomGB | 11.1% | |
| SlovakiaSK | 11.1% |
Bar length is against the largest nation. The smallest counts are drawn at a minimum visible width, so their bars are not to scale.
Edition by edition
Every edition we have recomputed in full, newest first. The course, the weather and the field change from year to year, so a slower edition is not a harder one.
| Edition | Distance run | Starters | Finishers | Finish rate | Median finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Latest | 99.7 km62 mi | - | 93 | - | 19:47:27 |
| 2025 | 100.71 km62.6 mi | - | 80 | - | 19:19:45 |
How these numbers were computed
These are times for runners who finished. They exclude everyone who started and did not, so they describe how long finishing took, not how long the race takes. Bands with only a handful of finishers move a lot from one edition to the next.
We plot the median, not the average. A handful of very quick runners drags the average well below the time half the field actually beat, so the median is the honest number to plan against.
Nationality here shows who travels to this race, not who runs it best. That alone is why a host nation tops almost every list.
Computed from the full official results, verifiedNovember 7, 2026 - Official results
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Aid stations and checkpoints
| Checkpoint | KmMi | Cumulative gain (m)Cumulative gain (ft) | Cumulative loss (m)Cumulative loss (ft) | Cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start - Palazzuolo sul Senio | 00 | 00 | 00 | - |
| Palazzuolo sul Senio (Finish) | 99.762 | 5,09116,703 | 5,09116,703 | Sat 23:00 |
Data is approximate and courses change between editions - always verify against the official race guide. Source: official race guide, verifiedSeptember 20, 2026 - Official race website
Compare your time with the 2026 finishers
Official 2026 results, medians only. Categories with fewer than 20 finishers are left out.
FAQ
How long is Trail del Cinghiale 100K?
Trail del Cinghiale 100K covers 99.7 km (about 62 miles) as a loop starting and finishing in Palazzuolo sul Senio, in the Apennines between Tuscany and Romagna.
How much elevation gain does Trail del Cinghiale 100K have?
The organiser gives 5,091 m of climbing and 5,091 m of descent. It is a loop, so the two are equal. The 2025 edition ran a slightly different measurement of the same course at 100.71 km and 5,220 m.
What is the cutoff time for Trail del Cinghiale 100K?
The overall limit is 25 hours from the 22:00 start on Friday 30 October 2026, so the finish closes at 23:00 on the Saturday. Time gates are placed at the exit of the aid points, but the organiser has not yet published their times for 2026.
What is a typical finish time for Trail del Cinghiale 100K?
Of the 80 finishers in 2025, the median time was 19:19:45 - half the field took longer - against a mean of 19:29:14. Mark Penna won in 13:43:32 and the last finisher came in at 24:47:30, inside the 25-hour limit.
When does Trail del Cinghiale 100K start?
At 22:00 on Friday 30 October 2026, from Palazzuolo sul Senio. The event's other three distances all start on the Saturday morning: the 50K at 06:30, the 35K at 07:30 and the 20K at 09:30.
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