Top Hard Enduro Races
A hand-picked collection of the most important hard enduro races, from legendary classics to modern championship rounds. Each race page carries the latest results, the winners by year, the format, how to enter and how to watch.
What makes each race different
Red Bull Erzbergrodeo
- Eisenerz, Austria
- 4 days long
Raced in an Austrian iron ore mine. Up to 1,500 riders race a prologue on the mine road, and the fastest 500 start Sunday's Hare Scramble. They get four hours to clear 27 checkpoints. In 2026 only 15 made it.
Red Bull Romaniacs
- Sibiu, Romania
- 5 days long
A five-day rally in the Carpathians. A prologue in the streets of Sibiu is followed by four long days navigated by GPS, and the lowest total time wins. It draws a big amateur field: 581 entries across nine classes in 2026.
The Roof of Africa
- Maseru, Lesotho
- 3 days long
The oldest race on this page, first run in 1967 in Lesotho. It is raced at altitude, from 1,400 m to above 3,000 m, over three days of time trial and mountain loops. Wade Young and Alfie Cox have won it nine times each.
Sea to Sky
- Kemer, Antalya, Turkey
- 3 days long
In Turkey, it goes from a beach race on the Mediterranean to a forest race to a mountain race that finishes on the 2,365 m summit of Tahtalı. Amateurs earn Iron, Bronze, Silver or Gold medals by how far up the mountain they get.
The 24MX GetzenRodeo
- Grießbach (Drebach), Saxony, Germany
- 2 days long
The short one, in Germany: laps of a steep forest course, a two-hour race and an 80-minute final on the same day, with more than 10,000 fans close to the track. Manuel Lettenbichler has won the last five.
The big five hard enduro races in 2026
These are the races every hard enduro rider knows by name. Two of them left the FIM world championship in 2025 and now head the new Hard Enduro World Ranking. Two are FIM world championship rounds in 2026. The fifth takes 2026 off and returns in October 2027.
| Race | Where | 2026 dates | Series in 2026 | 2026 winner | Next edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Bull Erzbergrodeo | Eisenerz, Austria | 4–7 June | Hard Enduro World Ranking (Supreme) | Manuel Lettenbichler | 27–30 May 2027 |
| Red Bull Romaniacs | Sibiu, Romania | 28 July – 1 August | Hard Enduro World Ranking (Supreme) | Manuel Lettenbichler | 27–31 July 2027 |
| Roof of Africa | Maseru, Lesotho | 24–26 September | FIM Hard Enduro World Championship, round 6 | Teodor Kabakchiev | 2027 date not yet announced |
| Sea to Sky | Kemer, Turkey | 8–10 October | FIM Hard Enduro World Championship, round 7 | Manuel Lettenbichler | 2027 date not yet announced |
| 24MX GetzenRodeo | Drebach, Germany | Not held in 2026 | No race in 2026 | No race in 2026 | 22–23 October 2027 |
2026 FIM Hard Enduro World Championship calendar
The FIM championship runs eight rounds in 2026. The original calendar had nine; the Wildwoods Extreme round in Italy was dropped in April and Abestone moved to September. Hixpania, at Aguilar de Campoo in Spain on 23–25 October, is the finale. After Sea to Sky, round 7, Manuel Lettenbichler led Mitch Brightmore by 197 points to 165 (standings updated 14 October 2026).
| Round | Event | Country | 2026 dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24MX Alestrem Hard Enduro | France | 17–19 April |
| 2 | Extreme XL Lagares | Portugal | 1–3 May |
| 3 | Silver Kings Hard Enduro | USA | 18–20 June |
| 4 | Forza Orza | Sweden | 20–22 August |
| 5 | Abestone Hard Enduro | Italy | 4–6 September |
| 6 | Roof of Africa | Lesotho | 24–26 September |
| 7 | Sea to Sky | Turkey | 8–10 October |
| 8 | 24MX Hixpania Hard Enduro (finale) | Spain | 23–25 October |
FIM world championship or Hard Enduro World Ranking?
Hard enduro has two systems in 2026, and the biggest races are split between them.
The FIM Hard Enduro World Championship ran from 2021 to 2024 with the Erzbergrodeo and Romaniacs on its calendar. Early in 2025 its promoter, WESS, stepped back after KTM withdrew its sponsorship, and a new promoter took over. In April 2025 the Erzbergrodeo and Romaniacs organizers said they would not be part of the 2025 championship. They awarded their own titles that year instead.
In October 2025 the two events announced the Hard Enduro World Ranking, which launched on 1 February 2026. It is a year-round points ranking modelled on tennis. Events are graded into four tiers. A win at a Supreme event (the Erzbergrodeo and Romaniacs) is worth 2,000 points; Premium events pay 1,200, Master events 500 and Challenger events 250. Each rider's best eight results count. All eight FIM championship rounds are in the ranking too, and US$100,000 goes to the top ten at the cut-off on 1 February 2027. The organizers call it a supplement to the FIM championship, not a rival.
So a rider chasing the 2026 world title races the FIM rounds, and the Erzbergrodeo and Romaniacs still count for the ranking. Manuel Lettenbichler, who won both of those in 2026, led the ranking at the end of September 2026.
Most wins at the big five
Wins at the five races on this page, from the records on each race page. Graham Jarvis's Erzbergrodeo total includes the four-way shared win of 2015.
| Rider | Erzberg | Romaniacs | Roof of Africa | Sea to Sky | GetzenRodeo | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graham Jarvis | 5 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 25 |
| Manuel Lettenbichler | 5 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 20 |
| Wade Young | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Alfie Cox | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Jonny Walker | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Taddy Błażusiak | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Cyril Despres | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |