Within the house of a pair weeks in September of 2024, each the boys’s and ladies’s global information for 6 days of working had been damaged, by means of Matthieu Bonne of Belgium and Denmark’s Stine Rex, respectively.
Multisport staying power athlete Bonne ran 650.138 miles (1046.296 kilometers) on the 2024 GOMU-EMU Six Day Global Championships in Hungary, to wreck Yiannis Kouros’s ancient document, whilst 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.
Observe that the six-day mark is regarded as by means of the World Affiliation of Ultrarunners as an international easiest efficiency.
Global information for this self-discipline are thus these days tracked by means of the nonprofit International Group of Multi-Day Ultramarathoners (GOMU).
As in keeping with same old, the information are pending ratification.
Stine Rex Units Girls’s Six-Day Global File 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 global document by means of some seven miles, working 567.688 miles or 913.606k on the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro race in her house nation.
Stine Rex on how to atmosphere 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 means of Camille Herron in March on the 2024 lululemon FURTHER tournament in L. a. Quinta, California. Previous to Herron’s 2024 document, the ladies’s six-day document have been untouched for 34 years.
Rex finished the space by means of working 0.87-mile (1.4k) loops round a lake in Åbybro, Denmark. She averaged 94.62 miles (152.27k) in keeping with day, completing at midday native time on September 1.
This comes simply 3 months after Rex set an as but unratified ladies’s 48-hour global document on the 2024 GOMU 48-Hour Global Championships, held at Balatonfüred, Hungary, in June. Rex totaled 270.646 miles (435.564k) on that instance, to surpass Camille Herron’s document of 435.336k by means of simply 228 meters.
Crowds rejoice with Stine Rex after she finishes the 2024 6 dagsløb i Åbybro, atmosphere a brand new global document. Photograph: Simon Haugaard
Matthieu Bonne Units Males’s Six-Day Global File on the 2024 GOMU-EMU Six Day Global Championships
With an hour to move within the 2024 GOMU-EMU Six Day Global 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 global document, in the long run racking up 650.138 miles (1,046.296k) by the point the race concluded on Sep 11.
Matthieu Bonne on his approach to atmosphere a six-day global document on the 2024 GOMU-EMU Six Day Global Championships. Photograph: GOMU-EMU Six Day Global Championships
The former document, held by means of Kouros, measured 644.23 miles (1,036.80k), set all through the 2005 Cliff Younger Australian Six Day race at Colac, Victoria, Australia.
Bonne finished the document by means of working simply over 1,164 loops measuring 2,949 toes, or 898.88 meters. He paced the trouble prudently and was once at the back of Kouros’s document till the remaining day. Alongside the best way, he additionally celebrated the quickest recorded 600-mile break up, which he coated in 5 days, 12 hours, 27 mins, and 12 seconds. See the reside tracker for splits.
The development was once run on a flat paved floor, and stipulations had been combined, with heavy rain on day 4 giving approach to blue skies and solar for the general push.
Bonne, who describes himself as an “excessive sporter,” has prior to now finished the Marathon des Sables, and likewise 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 Six Day Global Championships. Photograph: GOMU-EMU Six Day Global Championships