NOZAWA 65 km 2026
Also known as: 4100D · S-Mountain · S-Mountain - 65kmSOLO · 65kmSOLO
Run inside the national park around Nozawa Onsen village, Nagano, starting and finishing at the Olympic Sports Park. The course passes the venue and Yamabiko Station atop the Nagasaka Gondola twice each, with chain sections at Nakataki and Akataki falls and a loose scree slope.
The course tops out at 1,646 m (low point 508 m). There are 3 big climbs: 1,025 m around 0–13 km; 506 m around 26–30 km; 899 m around 33–47 km. Only about 30% is gentle (under 5% grade); most of it is climbing or descending. In 2026, 72% of starters finished. The median finish was about 13 h.
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- Date
- Sun, 19 Jul 2026
- Start
- 07:00
- Location
- Nagano, Japan
- Distance
- 65 km
- Elevation gain
- 4,100 m
- Time limit
- 17h
- ITRA
- 50M
- Official website
- s-mountain.com/nozawa/about
Elevation profile
Aid stations and cutoffs
| # | Distance | Aid station | Segment | Cutoff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 km | Aid 1A1 長坂ゴンドラ山頂やまびこ駅（1回目） | 15 km | Day 1 11:004h |
| 2 | 22 km | Aid 2A2 オリンピックスポーツパーク（1回目・セクション1終了） | 7 km | Day 1 13:006h |
| 3 | 26.3 km | Aid 3WS 北竜湖売店（水・約） | 4.3 km | — |
| 4 | 30.5 km | Aid 4CP 小菅神社（チェックポイント・約） | 4.2 km | — |
| 5 | 36 km | Aid 5A3 オリンピックスポーツパーク（2回目・セクション2終了） | 5.5 km | Day 1 16:009h |
| 6 | 48 km | Aid 6A4 長坂ゴンドラ山頂やまびこ駅（2回目） | 12 km | Day 1 22:0015h |
| 7 | 55.1 km | Aid 7CP 灯篭木峠（チェックポイント・約） | 7.1 km | — |
| F | 65 km | FinishFINISH オリンピックスポーツパーク | 9.9 km | Day 2 00:0017h |
The small figure under each cutoff is the time from the start. Day 1 is the day of the start.
2026 results
369 starters, 266 finishers (72.1% finish rate). Finish times of those who finished:
- Fastest
- 7h 11m
- Top 10%
- 9h 55m
- Top 25%
- 11h 18m
- Median
- 12h 49m
- Top 75%
- 14h 29m
- Top 90%
- 15h 32m
- Last finisher
- 16h 44m
"Top 25%" means one in four finishers had crossed the line by this time.
Years with a different course or different cutoffs are not directly comparable.
Practice courses
See the course on the Runnable map ↗
Runnable has practice courses on this race's trails, split into sections to run and sections to walk (pages in Japanese).
- Runnable practice course (67.3 km)
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