Within the area of a few weeks in September 2024, each the lads’s and ladies’s world information for six days of operating have been damaged, by Matthieu Bonne of Belgium and Denmark’s Stine Rex, respectively.
Multisport endurance athlete Bonne ran 650.138 miles (1,046.296 kilometers) on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships in Hungary, to interrupt Yiannis Kouros’s historic document, whereas multiday specialist Rex notched up 567.688 miles (913.606k) on the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro race in Denmark, to topple Camille Herron’s 2024 document.
Word that the six-day mark is taken into account by the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners as a world-best efficiency.
World information for this self-discipline are thus at present tracked by the nonprofit International Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU).
As per regular, the information are pending ratification.
Stine Rex Units Ladies’s Six-Day World Document on the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro
Denmark’s Stine Rex has as soon as once more entered the document books, besting the ladies’s six-day world document by some seven miles, operating 567.688 miles or 913.606k on the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro race in her residence nation.
Stine Rex on the best way to setting a brand new six-day document on the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro. Photograph: Simon Haugaard
She bested the ladies’s document of 560.330 miles (901.764 kilometers) set by Camille Herron in March on the 2024 lululemon FURTHER occasion in La Quinta, California. Previous to Herron’s 2024 document, the ladies’s six-day document had been untouched for 34 years.
Rex accomplished the space by operating 0.87-mile (1.4k) loops round a lake in Åbybro, Denmark. She averaged 94.62 miles (152.27k) per day, ending at midday native time on September 1.
This comes simply three months after Rex set an as-yet-unratified ladies’s 48-hour world document on the 2024 GOMU 48-Hour World Championships, held at Balatonfüred, Hungary, in June. Rex totaled 270.646 miles (435.564k) on that event to surpass Camille Herron’s document of 435.336k by simply 228 meters.
Crowds have fun with Stine Rex after she finishes the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro, setting a brand new world document. Photograph: Simon Haugaard
Matthieu Bonne Units Males’s Six-Day World Document on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships
With an hour to go within the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships in Hungary, Belgium’s Matthieu Bonne entered the ultrarunning historical past books, when he surpassed Yiannis Kouros’s 19-year-old males’s six-day world document, finally racking up 650.138 miles (1,046.296k) by the point the race concluded on September 11.
Matthieu Bonne on his option to setting a six-day world document on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships. Photograph: GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships
The earlier document, held by Kouros, measured 644.23 miles (1,036.80k), set in the course of the 2005 Cliff Younger Australian Six Day race at Colac, Victoria, Australia.
Bonne accomplished the document by operating simply over 1,164 loops measuring 2,949 ft, or 898.88 meters. He paced the hassle prudently and was behind Kouros’s document till the final day. Alongside the best way, he additionally celebrated the quickest recorded 600-mile cut up, which he coated in 5 days, 12 hours, 27 minutes, and 12 seconds. See the reside tracker for splits.
The occasion was run on a flat paved floor, and situations have been combined, with heavy rain on day 4 giving option to blue skies and solar for the ultimate push.
Bonne, who describes himself as an “excessive sporter,” has beforehand accomplished the Marathon des Sables, and in addition has accolades in open water swimming — together with swimming the English Channel, and navigating the coast of Belgium — and ultra-distance biking.
Matthieu Bonne hugs feminine winner Zsuzsanna Maràz on the 2024 GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships. Photograph: GOMU-EMU 6-Day World Championships