If you are wondering how you can watch the 2026 HOKA UTMB Mont-Blanc, there are two quite different approaches.
You can follow the racing from home through UTMB Live, official broadcasters and real-time runner tracking, or place yourself closer to the cowbells at the event’s Fan Experience and spectator zones.
The 23rd edition runs from 24 to 30 August 2026, with all eight races covered across the event’s various platforms.
For the three UTMB World Series Finals — OCC, CCC and UTMB — the main live broadcast will again be UTMB Live.
How to watch UTMB Mont-Blanc 2026 live from home
UTMB Live will broadcast the three Finals in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, with 15 commentators covering the elite women’s and men’s races.
Coverage will combine race pictures with LiveTrail data, statistics, live chat and guest contributions. The organisers have also committed to giving the women’s and men’s race leaders equal broadcast time.
The week begins on Wednesday 26 August at 3.30 pm CEST with the official presentation of the elite athletes and Team Adaptive by UTMB.
OCC coverage starts on Thursday 27 August at 7.45 am. CCC follows on Friday 28 August from 8.30 am, before UTMB coverage begins at 5 pm.
On Saturday 29 August, full UTMB coverage starts from 2 am. Set an alarm if you must. Nobody will judge you, although anybody else in the house may reserve the right.
Sunday brings the Champions Walk from 10.30 am, featuring interviews with the six UTMB World Series Finals winners. Coverage returns from 4 pm to 6 pm for the final finishers, prize-giving ceremony and event close.
Where else can you watch UTMB 2026?
The Finals will also be carried live and free of charge by a range of official broadcasters.
These include L’Equipe in France, Eurovision Sport across Europe, Flosport.tv in the USA, Tencent Sport, QIYI Sports and RunYeah in China and DAZN globally, excluding the USA.
Other official HOKA UTMB Mont-Blanc broadcasters include Swiss Sport TV, Sport Digital, WeDoTV, TV3 Catalunya, PX Sports, beIN SPORTS and Welcome In, covering territories including Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Catalonia, Mexico, Argentina, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy.
For most remote viewers, though, UTMB Live remains the simplest starting point.
How to track individual runners at UTMB Mont-Blanc
Anyone following one particular runner will probably spend as much time looking at a map as watching the broadcast.
The live.utmb.world platform provides course profiles, real-time rankings and individual athlete tracking, with LiveTrail calculating estimated arrival times at key points along the route.
The event says the predictive system has become 30% more accurate this year. Its model has been refined using more than 240 ultra-trail races and considers factors including technical trail difficulty, race profile and an individual runner’s history.
LiveTrail has also been given a refresh for 2026, adding a 3D map, Livecams, offline mode, SOS alerts and real-time geolocation alerts.
It is particularly useful further down the field, where your favoured runner may be doing something heroic several valleys away from the nearest television camera.
Watch the racing at the UTMB Fan Experience
Those attending in person have a more sociable option.
The Fan Experience, located in the heart of the Ultra-Trail Village, will be open from Monday 24 to Saturday 29 August. The 600m² space is designed as a meeting point for spectators, runners, supporters and local residents.
There will be live race coverage on a giant screen, athlete meet-and-greets, presentations of UTMB World Series events, activities, food, conferences and round-table discussions.
From Monday to Thursday, the main stage will also host “Le 6-7 by L’Equipe” from 6 pm to 7 pm. The daily live show will feature athlete interviews, discussion of the day’s highlights, technical analysis and an interactive audience game.
It offers something online coverage cannot quite reproduce: other people making exactly the same inexplicably large emotional investment in somebody reaching a checkpoint.
Les Contamines gets its own UTMB fan zone
There is another new option for 2026 at Les Contamines-Montjoie.
The Fan Zone des Contas, based at the biathlon stadium, will open from 3pm on Friday 28 August and remain operating until the final runner has passed through.
The free spectator area will feature a giant screen showing live race coverage, alongside music, activities and food and refreshment stands run by local associations.
Created with the municipality and tourist office, with activities supported by HOKA and Näak, the zone is intended to provide a secure, supervised place for spectators of all ages to watch runners pass through while respecting the surrounding environment.
For anyone wanting the atmosphere of UTMB rather than merely the pictures, this is likely to be one of the more obvious gathering points.
Follow HOKA UTMB Mont-Blanc across social media
The week’s highlights, behind-the-scenes material and programme updates will also appear across Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Strava and TikTok.
Official UTMB World Series accounts will provide additional coverage of OCC, CCC and UTMB, including highlights from UTMB Live.
The sensible approach is to mix the platforms rather than choose one: UTMB Live for the racing, LiveTrail for individual runners, social media for the colour around the event and the Fan Experience or Les Contamines if you are there in person.
The athletes still have to cross the mountains. Following them, thankfully, requires rather less climbing.
Discover the week’s programme here.
