Protecting champion Viktoria Brown of Whitby, Ont., has damaged the entire 48-hour Canadian report on the International Group of Multi-day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-hour Global Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with an astounding 405.025 km, surpassing her personal earlier Canadian ladies’s report of 363.928 km set closing yr, in addition to the former report Canadian males’s/general report of 368.036 set via Jerry Hughes in 2022. Brown is the primary Canadian ever to run farther than 400 km in 48 hours; she took 3rd position within the ladies’s tournament.
GOMU was once inaugurated in 2022 and the 48-hour and 6-day international championships happen yearly; Brown received the primary two editions, however says a fuelling error within the ultimate 10 hours price her the victory this yr. Brown holds twin Canadian-Hungarian citizenship, and her success (a 40-km non-public perfect) may be a Hungarian report. The development was once received via Stine Rex of Denmark, with 435.564 km. Irina Masanova of Russia was once 3rd, with 434.912 km. (Rex broke U.S. ultrarunner Camille Herron’s international report of 435.336 km, however consistent with iRunFar, the report isn’t ratifiable, because the tournament isn’t sanctioned via the World Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU), which maintains international report books in ultrarunning.
“I’m extraordinarily pleased with my effects, even supposing 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 machine gave out, so I couldn’t participate within the implausible ultimate push that the opposite girls fought out. I nonetheless had an unbelievable race, and completed a end result that I had by no means concept was once conceivable, however now in fact I’m considering how significantly better I may do with out that mistake.”
The development came about on a looped street route in Balatonfüred, 127 km from Budapest.
“[Brown] was once main from day one to the closing six hours, and she or he driven,” stated GOMU president Trishul Cherns after the development, “however the different ladies put the hammer down. It’s on account of Viktoria that Rex was once ready to set the arena report.” He added that Brown is “Canada’s Camille” (regarding Herron)–”however I choose to name her ‘Queen Viktoria.’” Cherns is Canadian and races for Canada, even though he lives within the U.S. There have been no different Canadians competing at this yr’s tournament.
The EMU 6-day international championships are set to happen from Sept. 5-11, additionally in Hungary.
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