American ultrarunner Camille Herron has demolished but some other document, this time in Greece on the fortieth version of the long-lasting Spartathlon match. Herron completed 3rd total at the 153-mile route, besting the route document (24:48:18 set through Patrycja Bereznowska in 2018) through greater than two hours to complete in 22 hours, 35 mins and 30 seconds.
Herron, who used to be 3rd total, used to be adopted through Finnish runner Noora Honkala in 23:23:02 as 2nd lady, and Satu Lipiäinen, additionally of Finland, rounding out the rostrum in 23:48:36.
2023 Spartathlon Champion and new route document of twenty-two:35:30 for 153 miles! Earlier girls’s document used to be 24:48:18 through Patrycja Bereznowska in 2017. %.twitter.com/csw2qowGUC
— Camille Herron 🦸♀️ (@runcamille) October 1, 2023
Spartathlon used to be created to practice the traditional adventure of Pheidippides, a courier stated to have run the gap between Athens and Sparta to hunt reinforcements all over a combat. The route traverses roads and trails, with 1,200 metres elevation acquire.
This yr’s race additionally noticed a route document at the males’s aspect, with Fotis Zisimopoulos profitable in 19:55:09–the primary particular person to finish the race underneath 20 hours. Zisimopoulos beat ultrarunning nice Yiannis Kouros‘s longstanding document of 20:25:00, set in 1984. Zisimopoulous win used to be his 3rd consecutive, and he used to be adopted through Norway’s Simen Holvik in 22:17:23 and Uruguay’s Fernando Andres Roman Martinez in 23:32:59.
Fotis Zisimopoulos of Greece #spartathlon for the 3rd yr in a row. He completed in about 19:54:29, which broke the route document set in 1984 through Yiannis Kouros of 20:25:00 %.twitter.com/84Mq8Hg1oq
— UltraRunningHistory (@UltraRunningHis) October 1, 2023
Herron provides this success to her really extensive ultrarunning accomplishments and international information, and previous in 2023 set a couple of masters international information and American information on the Raven 24-Hour race in South Carolina, operating 150.43K in 12 hours, after which crossing the 100-mile mark in 12:52:50. She adopted that efficiency through beating her personal 48-hour document in March, operating a mind-boggling 435.336K on the Sri Chinmoy 48-Hour Pageant in Canberra, Australia.
“An epic adventure within the footsteps of Pheidippides,” Camille captioned a put up of her race information on X. At 41, Herron is the youngest lady to be inducted into the 100,000 Lifetime Miles Membership (which she used to be in 2022). The prolific runner has now surpassed 107,000 miles.
For entire result of the 2023 Spartathlon, head right here.