319.614 kilometers. That’s 198.599 miles. In one day. Running.
That’s just what Lithuania’s Aleksandr Sorokin (ultrarunner_aleksandr_sorokin) did in setting a new 24-hour world record of 319.614 kilometers/198.599 miles at the 24-Hour European Championships in Verona, Italy on September 17-18, 2022. That’s 7:15 per mile or 4:30 per kilometer for 24-straight hours.
Previously, on August 28-29, 2021, Sorokin broke Yiannis Kouros’s “unbreakable” 24-hour world record of 188.590 miles/303.506 kilometers by nearly six kilometers with a distance of 192.251 miles/309.399 kilometers. (Post-2021 24-hour world record interview) Just over a year later, he broke his own record by more than 10 kilometers this weekend, running 198.599 miles (319.614 kilometers).
Photos: Marius Antanaitis screen capture from race video.
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