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270 km of
MARATHON DES SABLES · 40TH LEGENDARY EDITION
270 km of
Sahara.
Total Time
32:31:27
Scratch Rank
61 / 1350
Men's Rank
57 / 1009
Category Rank
6 / 127
Cumulative scratch rank at the end of each stage. Lower = better. Started #89, finished #61. Held position through the 100.9 km night stage, then kept climbing.
up = better rank · cumulative general classification · 1,350–1,429 finishers
Photos by Eric Montgobertand, Florent Fournier, Georges Ganemtore, Gwen Marche, MMIROphoto — MDS 2026
MDS is semi self-supported — water and camp are provided, everything else comes with you. The pack started at over 10 kg in early training and came in at 8.3 kg on race day after eight weeks of methodical cuts.
Nutrition: MX3 vegetarian freeze-dried meals (28 pouches, 14,088 kcal) plus MelTonic nut butter purées as the primary snack (6.3 kcal/g — the best caloric density in the kit). Caffeine reserved for Stage 4. Every item weighed on a kitchen scale. Nothing packed twice.
The marathon PR window. Everything builds toward one number.
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