Defending champion Viktoria Brown of Whitby, Ont., has damaged the general 48-hour Canadian document on the International Group of Multi-day Ultramarathoners (GOMU) 48-hour World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with an astounding 405.025 km, surpassing her personal earlier Canadian ladies’s document of 363.928 km set final 12 months, in addition to the earlier document Canadian males’s/general document 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 ladies’s occasion.
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 12 months. Brown holds twin Canadian-Hungarian citizenship, and her achievement (a 40-km private finest) can also be a Hungarian document. The occasion was gained by Stine Rex of Denmark, with 435.564 km. Irina Masanova of Russia was third, with 434.912 km. (Rex broke U.S. ultrarunner Camille Herron’s world document of 435.336 km, however based on iRunFar, the document shouldn’t be ratifiable, for the reason that occasion shouldn’t be sanctioned by the Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU), which maintains world document books in ultrarunning.
Viktoria Brown smashes her personal 6-day document
“I’m extraordinarily proud of my outcomes, though I didn’t have an ideal race,” Brown instructed Canadian Working 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 unimaginable remaining push that the opposite girls fought out. I nonetheless had a improbable race, and achieved a consequence that I had by no means thought was attainable, however now after all I’m considering how a lot better I might do with out that mistake.”
The occasion passed off on a looped street course in Balatonfüred, 127 km from Budapest.
“[Brown] was main from day one to the final six hours, and she or he pushed,” stated GOMU president Trishul Cherns after the occasion, “however the different ladies put the hammer down. It’s due to Viktoria that Rex was in a position to set the world document.” He added that Brown is “Canada’s Camille” (referring to Herron)–”however I choose 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 12 months’s occasion.
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.
