Lithuanian ultra-marathon runner Aleksandr Sorokin shattered his own world record at the IAU 24-hour European championships with a distance of 319.614 kilometres – just 10km less than it would have taken him to run the length of his home country from top to bottom.
Sorokin averaged a pace of 4:30 per km at the event in Verona, Italy to eclipse his previous mark of 303.506 km, set in August last year.
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”I’m very tired, however, I’m double excited,” the 40-year-old wrote in a post on Instagram. ”Very, very thankful for your support, I really felt it.”
Second place in the event, which took place on Sept. 17-18, went to Poland’s Andrzej Piotrowski (301.858 km) while Italy’s Marco Visiniti finished third (288.437 km).
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In the women’s event, Poland’s Patrycja Bereznowska ran 256.250 km to finish ahead of Frenchwoman Stephanie Gicquele and compatriot Malgorzata Pazda-Pozorska.
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