Ida Sophie
2025-11-04
TRAIL RUNNER
IDA SOPHIE
Born in Duderstadt, Germany in 1997, the young runner spent her weekends racing the 3-10k state championships and training at the Olympic base in Hanover. She soon moved from track to trail and fell in love with pushing her limits in the mountains.
Ida puts her name to many firsts. Alongside winning all the major Alpine races, including the Zugspitz Ultra trail, Transalpine Run, the Mont Blanc Marathon (U23) and many more, she’s the first woman to finish the Stubai High Trail in under 24 hours, completing it in 19 hours, 16 minutes, 11 seconds.
In a year of big highs, Ida ran and won her first ultra K110 at Innsbruck Alpine Trail Festival in 2022. She finished first place overall in a 60k Swiss trail race and won another ultra at the 100k UTMB World Series in Nice. In the same year she won the Transalpine Run as first runner for the third time in a row, including all eight grueling stages of each race (2019-2022).
Ida lives and works on her master’s thesis in architecture in Innsbruck where she’s training to achieve her next set of ambitious goals—defending her titles and running the UTMB. She is driven by her dream of winning the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc one day.
Accomplishments:
- Zugspitz Ultra Trail (Marathon), 2018, Champion
- 4-Trails Stage Race 2019, Champion
- Mont Blanc Marathon (U23), 2019, Champion
- 3x Transalpine Run Champion, 2019-2022
- FKT Stubaier Höhenweg, 2020
- Oetztal Glacier Trail, 2021, Champion
- Pitztal Glacier Trail, 2022, Champion
- Innsbruck Alpine Trail Festival K110, 2022, Champion
- Nice by UTMB World Series, 2022, Champion