April 26, 2025  ·  Retie, Belgium

Legends Backyard
Ultra 2025

6.706km loop  ·  Last one standing wins  ·  Start: 10 am

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Winner
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Legends Backyard Ultra 2025 results: the race was held April 26 in Retie, Belgium, on a 6.706km loop, one lap every hour until only one runner remained. Łukasz Wróbel outlasted the field, completing 116 loops and covering more than 777km across 116 straight hours. Below are the full results, lap pacing, and DNF breakdown.

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Lap-by-Lap Pace
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DNFs by Loop
Number of runners who completed their final loop at each point in the race

The first night cut the field in half

Ninety-eight runners started at 10 am. By loop 12, around 10 pm, that was down to 83. Then came the collapse: 70 were still going after loop 15, and just one hour and one loop later, only 54 remained. Sixteen runners finished loop 15 in the small hours of Sunday morning and didn't go back out for loop 16, the single biggest cut of the race, all inside sixty minutes.

The thinning didn't stop there. Thirty runners were left after 24 loops, thirteen after 30, eight after 36. By the two-day mark, loop 48, only four remained. The median finisher managed 16 loops, meaning half the field never made it past that first brutal night.

Fifty-six hours, two men

Bert Verbist held third place until loop 59, stopping just short of two and a half days on course. From loop 60 onward it was Łukasz Wróbel and Jan Vandekerckhove alone, and they stayed out there together for another 56 loops, well over two more full days, before Vandekerckhove's race ended during loop 116.

It was close. Vandekerckhove's slowest loop of the entire race, 58:51, came on loop 114, seconds from the hour cutoff, on his fourth night without real sleep. He recovered to run 48:10 on loop 115, but couldn't complete a 116th. Wróbel, by contrast, was still finding sub-41-minute loops in that same stretch: 40:57, 40:39, 40:42 across loops 110 to 112.

Across the whole race Wróbel averaged 43:13 a loop to Vandekerckhove's 44:36, banking roughly three hours more total rest over the four and a half days. His fastest loop was 38:26, on the very first lap; his slowest was 51:54, on loop 44. It was a one-loop margin at the very top of a race that ran nearly five days.

Best of the rest

Kathleen Van Winckel was the strongest of the twelve women in the field, running 21 loops to finish 32nd overall.

Final Standings
All 98 starters · loops, distance and time on course
Pl. Runner Loops Distance Total time
1 Łukasz Wróbel 116 777.9 km 115:42:35
2 Jan Vandekerckhove 115 771.2 km 114:48:10
3 Bert Verbist 59 395.7 km 58:52:01
4 Szilard Fodor 53 355.4 km 52:54:32
5 Sebastian Sikora 39 261.5 km 38:55:38
6 Barthelemy Geldof 38 254.8 km 37:41:58
7 Matthias Pelgrims 37 248.1 km 36:58:46
8 Jesse Rottiers 36 241.4 km 35:58:49
9 Julian Bilo 34 228.0 km 33:58:39
10 Filip Germeys 34 228.0 km 33:51:23
11 Jimmy Van Den Kieboom 32 214.6 km 31:50:45
12 Kristof de Cauter 30 201.2 km 29:43:00
13 Vincent Rigouts 30 201.2 km 29:47:57
14 Michał Sitarek 29 194.5 km 28:57:30
15 Hans De Croo 28 187.8 km 27:55:22
16 Gaston Metselaar 27 181.1 km 26:53:54
17 Joren Van Herck 27 181.1 km 26:55:56
18 Wouter Huysmans 26 174.4 km 25:53:55
19 Sam Lauwen 26 174.4 km 25:47:07
20 Chris Maes 26 174.4 km 25:46:53