Defending champion Viktoria Brown of Whitby, Ont., has damaged the general 48-hour Canadian report on the World Group of Multi-day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-hour World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with an astounding 405.025 km (251 miles), surpassing her personal earlier Canadian girls’s report of 363.928 km (226 miles) set final yr, in addition to the earlier report Canadian males’s/total report of 368.036 set by Jerry Hughes in 2022. Brown is the primary Canadian ever to run farther than 400 km in 48 hours; she took third place within the girls’s occasion on Sunday.
GOMU was inaugurated in 2022 and the 48-hour and 6-day world championships happen yearly; Brown gained the primary two editions, however says a fuelling error within the remaining 10 hours value her the victory this yr. Brown holds twin Canadian-Hungarian citizenship, and her achievement (a 40-km private finest) can also be a Hungarian report. The ladies’s race was gained by Stine Rex of Denmark, with 435.564 km (270 miles); Rex was additionally third total. Irina Masanova of Russia was third (fourth total), with 434.912 km. (Rex broke U.S. ultrarunner Camille Herron’s world report of 435.336 km, however in accordance with iRunFar, the report will not be ratifiable, because the occasion will not be sanctioned by the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU), which maintains world report books in ultrarunning.
“I’m extraordinarily proud of my outcomes, though I didn’t have an ideal race,” Brown advised Canadian Operating on Monday. “As much as 38 hours, all of it went magically, however then, sadly, I made a dietary mistake and my digestive system gave out, so I couldn’t participate within the unbelievable remaining push that the opposite girls fought out. I nonetheless had a incredible race, and achieved a outcome that I had by no means thought was doable, however now in fact I’m considering how significantly better I may do with out that mistake.”
The occasion happened on a looped street course in Balatonfüred, 127 km from Budapest.
“[Brown] was main from day one to the final six hours, and he or she pushed,” mentioned GOMU president Trishul Cherns after the occasion, “however the different girls put the hammer down. It’s due to Viktoria that Rex was in a position to set the world report.” He added that Brown is “Canada’s Camille” (referring to Herron)–”however I favor to name her ‘Queen Viktoria.’” Cherns is Canadian and races for Canada, although he lives within the U.S. There have been no different Canadians competing at this yr’s occasion.
Males’s outcomes
Bartosz Fudali of Poland gained the boys’s occasion, with 447.293 km (278 miles); Nicolás de las Heras Monforte of Spain was second, with 441.343 km (274 miles), and Beda Szabolcs of Hungary was third, with 433.869 km (269 miles).
The EMU 6-day world championships are set to happen from Sept. 5-11, additionally in Hungary.
For full outcomes of the GOMU 48-hour world championships, click on right here.
