Elias Kadi

About

Elias Kadi is a French mountain ultrarunner sponsored by Salomon who has built a deep win record across the French and international trail circuits since 2017. His victories include the Grand Trail de Serre-Ponçon (86km) in 2021, the Trail du Ventoux (71.7km) in 2022, the Mafate Trail Tour (63.4km) on Réunion Island in 2023, and the Trail Sainte-Victoire (60km) and Black River Peak by UTMB (138.1km) in Mauritius, both in 2024 — the latter a full outright win on one of the Indian Ocean's most demanding courses. On the bigger European stage, he took third overall at the 2022 Eiger Ultra Trail in Switzerland in 19 hours 49 minutes, and he continued winning into 2025 with an outright victory at the Trail des Contreforts du Piolit. With a peak UTMB Index of 636 and more than 30 finished ultra races, Kadi represents the substantial depth of competitive French trail talent that races and wins consistently without necessarily topping the UTMB World Series headlines.

Notable Wins

• — Black River Peak by UTMB 2024 (winner)
• — Trail Sainte-Victoire 60K 2024 (winner)
• — Mafate Trail Tour 2023 (winner)
• — Trail du Ventoux 2022 (winner)
• — Grand Trail de Serre-Ponçon 2021 (winner)
• — Eiger Ultra Trail 2022 3rd (19:49:51)

Race History